A selection of films for which I made sound and/or music.

Trailer for the Animator Festival in Poznań.

Michał Krajczok, musician and sound designer of Talking Animals was approached by Drushba Pankow to write a song for this animation.

An unanswered telephone, an attempt to dance, a knife in a drawer. I know you - do you know whom you are dealing with?

Music Video for Marwell "Lied 12".

CG elements created and animated by Michael Herm and Stephan Sacher. VFX by Dennis Rettkowski  

Directed and animated by Sonja Rohleder
Cocoon Child is a poetic film about the imaginary world of an autistic child and shows a moment when her inner and outer worlds connect.

sound design and music for "interactive europe"
a campaign by CBS Outdoor, London

Directed and animated by Sonja Rohleder & Veronika Samartseva Columbus wakes up surrounded by rising waters and decides that instead of viewing this shock as a catastrophe he'll take it as an opportunity to set a course for his dreams. Faced with numerous hurdles and challenges en route to his goals, Columbus discovers that learning to appreciate the beauty in the journey and the unexpected is just as important as reaching your destination.  

Itsy bitsy spider went down the sounding board.  Down came the hammer and striked the spider's chord.

Directed and animated by Sonja Rohleder
Inbetween is an animated painting created for the LED ceiling at the Bertelsmann headquarter in Berlin.

Directed and animated by Sonja Rohleder Let's create something out of nowhere and see where it leads. Tanto Tanto is a movie about the alchemy of paintings.

Directed and animated by Pauline Kortmann and Sonja Rohleder It's the intro for an image film made by Stories Unlimited for the Handwerkskammer Potsdam (HWK). Follow the apprentice boy Sandro on his HKW organised trip to itlay, where he's learning to make Ciabatta.

Showreel of Marian Mentrup created in December 2011  

Soundtrack for the short film "Wandernd Haus voll Vogelwasser" by Veronika Samartseva 

directed by Tomer Eshed

Flamingo Pride directed by Tomer Eshed
Trailer Concept/Editing Jens Prausnitz

Thursday   directed in 2010 by Matthias Hoegg as a graduation film for the Royal College of Arts in London sound design and music by Marian Mentrup (Talking Animals) mixed at the Talking Animals Sound Department
 

directed by Stephan Sacher and Michael Herm Chump and Clump meet at a bus station. Unfortunately, they have just missed their bus, which arrives only once a week. While waiting for the next bus, a bizarre and wonderfully raucous friendship develops, which still manages to prevail when all odds turn against our little heroes.

Directed and animated by Annette Jung Ed hates the disgusting eye of his father and so he made up his mind to take the life of the old man to rid himself of the eye forever. Based upon the novel „The Tell-Tale Heart“ by Edgar Allan Poe.

Directed and animated by Annette Jung Michael is doing the Lego dance.

Directed and animated by Annette Jung The Penguin is bugging an Eskimo couple, it all ends up in a massive splatter scenario.
Based upon the comic „Der Pinguin“ by Walter Moers.

Directed by Gregor Dashuber A Fly, an Alcohol Problem and the Apocalypse

Directed by Jan Koester A famous rockstar dies accidently during a concert and awakes in nirvana. There he has to face his wishes and deeds.

Directed by Pauline Kortmann It’s hot. The weather frog is alarmed: if what the kids say is true, terrible things could happen to the climate! What exactly, the poor frog learns the hard way.

Directed and animated by Pauline Kortmann A Cowgirl and a Werewolf travelling the Wild West find a chicken. A fight about its appropriate use makes them forget the danger around.

All dogs chase their tails. A dog once succeeds in catching his own tail. That changes his life as he finds his best friend in it.

Rising Hope, who used to be the fastest horse in the world, suddenly turns into a loser. With the help of a new friend − a jack-of-all-trades hound − he finds hope and himself again.

Directed  and animated by GREGOR DASHUBER The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano.Music leads him from his run down existence out into the city life.There he plays a last funeral march to all the deadbeats on the sidewalk.  

Directed  by Tino Schaedler VFX by Alexander Pohl
The energy flow generated through yoga asanas becomes spatially & visually manifest in increasing scale, from molecular level blood cells to the distinctive surrounding architecture, in this Nike spec commercial.  

Realized by Alexander Pohl The Protagonist, the Auguste, projected onto a huge screen of a pitoresque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience undergoes an existantial development dreaming of his counterpart the whiteface clown and finally finding his true identity the immortal archetype of the Trickster.
 

Directed  and animated by SAMUEL WEIKOPF
The old one awakens alone in the dark and confounds the TV set for his long awaited children...  

This is a trailer for the animated infotainment series LOOKING BEHIND THE SCENES OF DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES.

Written, directed and designed by Samuel Weikopf    

music for "Behind the Scenes of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories" a 2D animation series by Talking Animals
composed and recorded by Marian Mentrup
at the Talking Animals Sound Studio

Written and directed  by Frank Gessner VFX realisation by Alexander Pohl
VFX sequence for the art videoinstalation QU´ EST-CE QUE MONSIEUR TESTE?  

Susie Asado sings and a small heroin waits for her spaghetti. Directed and animated by Veronika Samartseva and Anna Bergmann (SAMO-SAMA)

About the Royal Family, Chocolate, many airplanes and a big exposion. Directed and animated by Veronika Samartseva and Anna Bergmann (SAMO-SAMA)

Trailer for the Interfilm Festival Berlin 2008 Directed and animated by Veronika Samartseva and Anna Bergmann (SAMO-SAMA)

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      ingredients:
apple, banana, blackberries, blueberry, butternut pumpkin, carrot, cauliflower, celery, chicory, chili, corn, cucumber, eggplant, fig, grapefruit, green beans, kiwi, orange, paprika, pear, physalis, pineapple, pitahaya, pomegranate, potato, radish, raspberry, red cabbage, red currant, savoy cabbage, star fruit, strawberry, sweet potato, white mushroom, zucchini

this is a short film that I made in 2008 during a one week workshop with my former prophessor Gil Alkabetz

It's all about porridge and love and what they have in common. Based on a poem by Igor Irtenjev.
This is one of my first films I made during the studies... Veronika Samartseva

Veronika Samartseva's first film made as a birthday present for my step-dad...
2004

music video for SEEED - "Beautiful" Directed by Jan Koester