MAISON SONORE

Animated short film, directed and animated by Jonatan Schwenk

Year:		2011
Running time:		4:25 min.
Language:		no dialogue
Technique:		stop motion

"The weary residents of a large residential complex want to get away from it all, until a young man with a musical instrument moves into the building. Jonatan Schwenk‘s Maison Sonore is an engimatic piece with a simple concept and loads of atmosphere. The stop motion puppets successfully blend realism and caricature, and the wide- angle compositions and eerie calm heighten the film’s tension."

(Amid Amidi, Cartoon Brew)

FILMSTILLS

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France) 
KLIK! (Netherlands) 
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Germany) 
int. European Media Art Festival (Germany) 
up-and-coming Int. Film Festival (Germany) 
goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film  (Germany) 
FILMZ Festival des deutschen Kinos (Germany) 
visionale (Germany) 
Manifestation Internationale “VIDEOFORMES” (France) 
Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International (Germany) 
Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany) 
Festival International au FILM de l’Etudiant  (Marocco) 
FISH Festival (Germany) 
Independent Days 12/Filmfest (Germany) 
SHORT FILM NIGHT at The Little Modern Theatre  (USA) 
Short & Sweet Toronto (Canada) 
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt (Germany) 
Vilnius Film Shorts (Lithuania) 
Notfall Filmfestival (Netherlands) 
Primanima (Hungary) 
Int. Animated Film Festival TINDIRINDIS  (Lithuania) 
Festival Cinéma Int. Abitibi-Témiscamingue  (Canada)

FILMSTILLS

CREDITS:

writer, director, animator, DOP, editor: Jonatan Schwenk  
clothes & sets: TERESA RINN
music & sounddesign: NILS WILDEGANS
 faces & hair: COSIMA PETH
 assistent director: LILIANE BUCKLER
 technical advisor: MARC RÜHL 
best boy: MAXIMILIAN REIMANN 
animation assistance: MERLIN FLÜGEL
 music played by NILS WILDEGANS and NIKLAS SPRENGER
 sound mix: BERND ZIMMERMANN
 mentoring: Prof. ROTRAUT PAPE
 student film at HfG Offenbach, 2011