The Scrapman - poster

THE SCRAPMAN

2012 | 10' | live action and animation | HD | color

EUROPEAN TALENT AWARD 2010

- best collaboration work between music & sound design -

by Soundtrack Cologne
(Jens Heuler: sound design)

SYNOPSIS

While playing on the scrapman's site, the three friends Marit, Felix and Britta find themselves in a world of old films. A gangster chase ensues, with Felix getting lost in the film. In order to free him and lock the scrapman up in his film forever, Britta and Marit go in search of Felix.

AWARDS

EUROPEAN TALENT AWARD by Soundtrack Cologne - best collaboration work between composer (Dominic Campus) und sound designer (Jens Heuler)

CAST

Britta Klinge
Felix Schlüter
Winfried Schwarz
Marit Wierleuker

CREW

author & director: Fabian Driehorst
cinematography: Enno Endlicher
animation: Frédéric Schuld & Kaya Erdal
music: Martin Batchelar
sound design: Jens Heuler
mixing: Ingo Baier
production design: Marie-Luise Rogmans
producer: Fabian Driehorst
production: KHM Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln

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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