DOTA 2 SHORT FILM CONTEST 2021 FINALIST
To participate in the worlds most generously endowed esport event, the post-covid hero has to take one final step.
The International is the highest-paying e-sports tournament in the world, most recently raising a $40 million prize pool. Not only are we happy to have made it under the top ten finalists, but also to have our short film shown during the main event, which can reach over a million viewers from all over the world at peak times.
3D ARTIST Valentin Plattner
WRITTEN BY Lasse Herm
COMEDY SHORT 2020
Shot in one flat during the isolation, THE FOLEY pays ironic hommage to film noir while revealing the absurdity of no-budget filmmaking.
STARRING Frederike Rüland
CADRAGE, MONTAGE & ALLUMAGE Lasse Herm
ANIMATION SHORT (coming soon)
The near Future. The Artifical Intelligence that his deceased father created has become the operating system that now runs the world. To maintain it, the son has to venture into the depths of the machine. When confronted with the simulation of madness, sanity might slip. But for humanity's sake we must never give up our own.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Lasse Herm
3D ARTIST Lasse Herm
Get a sneak peak into pages 8-13 of the screeplay:
SHORT STORY 2020
When a writer moves into an old garret, he feels haunted by an unknown presence. How would you feel when someone entered your home without permission?
Read or download the full horror story below (German only) .
COMING SOON
"Forget Errol Morris, he can go eat his shoe! This documentary short about an average life that ended with the most extraordinary death."
A really dark mockumentary about a really, really unfortunate tennis match that really happened.
STARRING Frederike Rüland
WRITTEN BY Tim Niereisel & Lasse Herm
DIRECTED BY Lasse Herm
Opener 18th Skandinavische Filmtage 2017
This intro short was commissioned by the Skandinavische Filmtage, a scandinavian film festival in 2017. Because the festival is voluntarily run by students this was a zero-budget production.
Special thanks to Robert Haase and Saunacentrum Wonneberger.
STARRING Ole Haas
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Lasse Herm
MUSIC BY Tim Breuer
EVERYTHING ELSE Lasse Herm
Live Radioplay 2017
For the christmas party of the Kunsthistorisches Institut Bonn i wrote this parody of a popular detective series. Thanks to everyone who lend their voices!
15.12.2017
STARRING The students and professors of the KHI
MUSIC, SOUND, WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Lasse Herm
HERM FILM is an independent studio crafting original films by auteur director Lasse Herm. In his current project he incorporates recent technology to explore the means of digital filmmaking, blurring the lines between cinema and virtual aesthetics.
While still being a student, in may of 2017 he was commissioned to create the festival trailer for Skandinavische Filmtage. In december of that year he directed a live radio play for the annual christmas event of the Kunsthistorisches Institut (University Bonn).
He studied art history and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, Germany and graduated in 2020 with his thesis about heightened reality in Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER (1979). Lasse Herm is based in Leipzig.