Thomas Meyer-Hermann

Damn It!

The ancient struggle between good and evil.

Altötting

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

Benztown

A town is driven mad. The city of Stuttgart fights back with heavy action against its traffic chaos. With far-reaching consequences. Other cities might follow the signal...

Giraffe

The little giraffe wants some leaves from the trees, but she can't reach and the big giraffes won't share.

Sheep

The sheep jumps in from risky adventure to another. The flock would never take such risk!

Penguin

A timid penguin waiter with a red bow tie goes out of his way to perform his job to perfection. But when a glacé cherry falls from the cake, it sets off a chain reaction of disastrous events. Before long, the frigid social gathering is transformed into a boisterous party.

Penguin

A timid penguin waiter with a red bow tie goes out of his way to perform his job to perfection. But when a glacé cherry falls from the cake, it sets off a chain reaction of disastrous events. Before long, the frigid social gathering is transformed into a boisterous party.

Anglerfish

The little anglerfish has to go to bed. But the deep waters are full of threatening creatures.

A Reindeer Carol

Did you know fireflies like Christmas songs? But be careful, they're very shy! This is what our friends discover when the clumsy reindeer tries to join the choir. The right rhythm has to be found to really make the fireflies dance.

Hippo Hop

Under the hot sun of Anran, a sweating hippo mother walked into the cooling water of the river. Her little hippo kid wanted to do the same, but he found out soon enough that he was too small to walk like his mother. At the bottom of the river he caught the attention of one little fish, and then another fish, and then two fish. Together they thought up a solution...

Crocodile

The crocodile has everything it needs for a comfortable evening in front of the TV: cushions, a stool, pretzel sticks and a TV magazine. But then the pretzel sticks ruins the fun.

Head Up!

An animated short tale of two goats and the lessons they learn from one another.

Tiger

A boy is setting the table. He places a plate with a picture of a tiger on the table. The tiger comes alive and jumps off the plate and starts to eat the boy's food and drink his juice.

Myself: Smoke

Myself tries to quit smoking.

Bat Time

When night dawns on the farm a little bat wakes up. The little bat wants somebody to keep its company. It doesn't want to be alone. It is looking for a friend.

Elephant Fever

It's so annoying to be sick! Especially if you're an elephant and have to sneeze all the time. But with good friends you will get better soon.

Whale

The whale swims proudly through the sea, but all the animals are afraid of his huge size and his broad grin. Will he find new friends to play funny games?

Love and Theft

An animated riff on Melies wherein an animated face keeps transforming into different homages.

The Runt

Hykade's third and final part of The Country Trilogy. The once dead father of "We Lived in Grass" returns. "I give you the runt," he says. "But you take care of it and you kill it next year."

Intolerance III: The Final Solution

Two thousand years into the future, the battlefleet from Earth is still searching for the Planet Zog. Those on board are irreconcilably divided between those that believe the Planet Zog exists, and those that don't. Caught between these warring factions Ade and Eva Hokum are determined to find happiness with each other. Will the Planet Zog be a paradise for them?

Great is the Mystery of Godliness

When an intergalactic space god shows up in the form of a German potato and turns your teeth into drunken, blathering idiots… it’s time to take the chicken and hit the fire escape. That is… unless you really dig having your domicile over run by dirty pots and pans.

Ecstazoo

This is about how drugs alter our perception and take the place of normal sensory input.

Everything Grows 2

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

Everything Grows

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

Mr. Chocolate Meets Miss Milk

A black-and-white film that takes an ironic look at alienation between the races and the sexes. It is a mix of cell animation, painting, live action and early Atari computer animation.

Flying Image

We swoop through action-filled rooms. Again and again, we fly past people and events without ever recognizing what is really going on. This film is a three-minute version of an endless-loop video originally designed as a project for exhibitions. It was shown at the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Künstlerhaus in Stuttgart and the Goethe Institut in Paris.

The Mole And The Earthworm

One day, a little mole discovers that all of the other animals have a friend of their same species to play with, but the mole is all alone and very sad. To make matters worse, all the food is starting to rebel. A fat earthworm escapes in a hurry, right under the mole's nose. The hunt inside the tunnels begins! Finally the earthworm is caught, but just as the mole is about to bite down, he realises that it's not an earthworm but another mole's tail. Now that they've found each other, there's a happy ending under the molehill.

Your Spotted Skin

While stressing out over her final exams, Antonia the Cow meets the night watchman, Kurt the Lion. They fall in love, but their relationship is met with great skepticism by the world around them. Antonia‘s farm animal roommates have little time for these predatory posers from the wild, while Kurt‘s pride still view themselves as the kings of the jungle and can‘t understand why he‘d choose a cow as a partner. When a sheep goes missing, suspicion falls on the carnivorous Kurt...

Frozen Fun

A snowball fight is fun for everyone! Because it's sooo cold outside, the penguin has to think of something special to get his friends to join in the game.

Everything Grows 3

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.