Claas Ortmann
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
At the age of 15, Claas Ortmann was inspired to become a
writer/director, by watching Tarantinos "Pulp Fiction" (1994) and
several groundbreaking music-videos, including Spike Jonze's "Sabotage"
for the Beastie Boys (1994). The first short films he shot and
directed, were done using a Hi8 Videocamera and very basic editing
system. They were gangster movies inspired by the works of Tarantino,
Rodriguez, Jonze and others. Over the years, his work processed into
music-videos and dramatic shorts using elaborate production and
directing techniques. After Claas finished high school in 1998 he
immediately started working as a production assistant at a local music
video production company. This career step followed his still growing
admiration for music clips and visual storytelling. During the first
week at the production office, he started to write treatments and
concepts for several music-videos, some of them were even produced by
the company. In 2000 Claas switched companies and continued working as
a production assistant and production manager at a commercial film
production company in Hamburg - producing national and international
adverts. In 2003 Claas turned the production office his back and moved
to Munich to study film directing at the "Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und
Film Muenchen" - the Munich film school. The film "Natuerliche Auslese
- Natural Selection" is his movie during his first year.
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