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Vacuum

2015 | 25' | fiction, drama | color


Vacuum . 2015 . trailer from Michał Kuleba . Film Editing on Vimeo.


SYNOPSIS

Twelve-year-old Marcel doesn’t know where he belongs. In search of friendship and recognition, he believes that he has finally found the way to solve his problems. His plan works – but not in the way he expected.


AWARDS

Special Mention | 17th Landshut Short Film Festival | Germany
best short film | VGIK International Student Film Festival | Russia
Awarded the label "especially worthwhile" by the German Film Rating Commission


FESTIVALS

Deutscher Kamerapreis, beste Kamera, (nomination: V. Selmke)
Der Goldene Spatz Kinder-Medien-Festival | Germany
Filmfest Eberswalde | Germany
Wendland Shorts | Germany
Ruberoid Festival im Kunsthaus ACUD | Germany
Internationale Hofer Filmtage | Germany
Kinofest Lünen | Germany
Sehsüchte Studentenfilmfestival Potsdam | Germany
Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca | Spanien


CREW

author: Felix Ahrens & Lucas Flasch
director: Felix Ahrens
cinematographer: Valentin Selmke
editor: Michal Kuleba
sound: Erik Zaiser
sound postproduction: Erik Zaiser & Kalle Gerhardt
music: Jens Heuler
production design: Isabelle Schnabel
costume design: Doro Mines
production manager: David Nienhold & Leonhard Hollmann & Matthias Mayr
production: Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


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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