Zoon
Jonatan Schwenk
Residing in a dark swamp at the bottom of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls pursue their lustful games. The creatures relish in nuzzling one another and nibbling their companions' limbs.
Screenplay : Jonatan Schwenk, Merlin Flügel
Image : Ferdinand Kowalke
Son, Music : David Kamp
Editing : Jonatan Schwenk
Image : Ferdinand Kowalke
Son, Music : David Kamp
Editing : Jonatan Schwenk
Production : Autoproduction
Distribution: Miyu Distribution
Distribution: Miyu Distribution
Jonatan Schwenk, born in Germany in 1987, is an independent filmmaker/animator, sound designer, and storyboard artist 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 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 SXSW, Palm Springs ShortFest, Annecy, Ottawa, Zagreb 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.