Laika & Nemo - poster

Laika & Nemo

2022 | 15' | stop motion animation | color

STUDENT-ACADEMY-AWARD WINNER 2022

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Laika & Nemo is a Student Academy Award winning Stop Motion Animation Film. 

LAIKA & NEMO (2022) - Trailer from Johannes Schubert on Vimeo.

SYNOPSIS

With his diving suit and his huge helmet Nemo looks different. But then he meets Laika, an astronaut, and his life takes an unexpected turn.
A Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONTAD WOLF production in cooperation with RBB and Medienboard Brandenburg.

AWARDS

Student Academy Award 2022 (Student Oscar)

SOUNDTRACK

THE SOUNDTRACK IS AVAILABLE ON

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CREW

author: Jan Gadermann
director: Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Grutza
producer: Johannes E. Schubert
cinematographer: Georg Meyer, Vincent Engel
editor: Martin Herold, Jan Gadermann
composer: Jens Heuler
production design: Sebastian Gadow, Max-Josef Schoenborn
production management: Joshua Domnick
assistant director, production coordinator: Lukas Koll
art department, model maker: Holger Delfs, Jörg Herbst, Felicitas Müller
sound and re-recording: Azadeh Zandieh, Sebastian Alejandro Sanchez Jordan
puppet modeller: Martin Molke
vfx producer: Barbara Flügel
costume design: Svea Pøstges

MUSICIANS

orchestra: Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
guitars: Freya Arde
piano & synths: Jens Heuler 

Jens Heuler

VITA

 

Jens Heuler is an award-winning composer and electronic music artist from Germany. He composes music for films and media, instrumental music, electronic music and songs. His work includes, among others, the original music for Jan Gadermann's stop-motion animated short film "Laika & Nemo", which won a Student Academy Award 2022, Liisa Zielke's documentary "Sexploration - How Do I Really Want It?", Melanie Lischker's "Life On Tape", a collaboration with Freya Arde, as well as the music for several short films such as Pola Rader's "Beromut," Sonja Rohleder's award-winning animated shorts "Nest" and "Somni," both of which premiered at the Berlinale, and Lukas Olszewski's "Remember Me," awarded for Best Original Score at the 2024 New Bedford Film Festival. His work ranges from orchestral compositions and intimate piano music to electronic music and Pop songs.

In addition to his work in films, Jens Heuler composes and publishes his own instrumental and electronic music. His first solo EP "Rising" was released in 2022, followed by "Siren's Wake" in 2024. He combines acoustic and electronic elements to creates organic music and soundscapes, fusing classical, generative and experimental composition approaches while mainly focusing on analogue and modular synthesis.

His work also includes teaching as a lecturer in music production at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, composing additional music for films as well as working as an assistant composer, arranger and music editor and so he is involved in the music for the Oscar-nominated documentary "Of Fathers and Sons", the German television series "Die Dasslers", "Behringer und die Toten" and "Nächste Ausfahrt Glück", the documentaries "Rabbi Wolff" and "The Corridors of Power" and many other films.

Jens Heuler studied Keyboards & Music Production at the University of Münster and film music at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolff and was part of the Berlinale Talents 2025.

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