BIOGRAPHY

Jonatan Schwenk, born in Germany in 1987, is an independent animation filmmaker and sound designer currently based in Berlin.
As a graduate from University of Art and Design in Offenbach and former guest student from Kunsthochschule Kassel, he focuses on combining various animation techniques into hybrid forms.
His graduation film “Zoon” premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and is currently traveling around the world. His animated short “Sog“ received nearly 40 awards and mentions (including the Annecy Cristal for a graduation film) and has been screened at renowned film festivals around the world, including Animafest Zagreb, SXSW, Palm Springs ShortFest, Annecy, Ottawa and Flickerfest, where it qualified for the Academy Awards.
As an animator and sound designer, his work has already been selected twice for the Berlinale, where he was chosen as a “Berlinale Talent” in 2020. Schwenk also contributed the sound design for “Cops & Robbers”, directed by Florian Maubach, which won the German Short Film Award in 2018, as well as for “Rules of Play” by Merlin Flügel, which received a Cristal at Annecy in 2019. In April 2022, Schwenk participated in the prestigious NEF International Residency for Animated Films in Fontevraud, France. He is currently working on a script for a new short film.

CONTACT

email jonatan.schwenk@gmail.com
Instagram: jonatanschwenk
Vimeo: vimeo.com/jonatanschwenk

FILMOGRAPHY

as director and animator
-SISYPHOS BLUES (animated short, 2009, 04:49 min)
-MAISON SONORE (animated short, 2011, 04:44 min)
-EINUNDZWANZIGZWÖLFZWÖLF (animation, 2012, 01:00 min)
-SOG (animated short, 2017, 10:14 min)
-ZOON (animated short, 2022, 04:25 min)

as animator
-THE OLD MAN AND THE BIRD (short film by Dennis Stein-Schomburg, 2015)

as sound designer
-HOW TO DISAPPEAR (animated short by Merlin Flügel, 2011)
-ECHO (animated short by Merlin Flügel, 2013)
-A PLACE TO FIGHT (documentary by Matthias Lawetzky, 2015)
-RÄUBER UND GENDARM (animated short by Florian Maubach, 2017)
-SÄEN (animated short by Maryna Miliushchanka, 2018)
-RULES OF PLAY (animated short by Merlin Flügel, 2018)