Jonathan Wuest

Animator, Character Designer, Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Re-Recording Mixer, Screenwriter, Producer, Director, Editor

Website
www.jotha.org

Born in 1986 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He grew up most of his first 16 years in Japan and regards both Switzerland and Japan his home. 2007-14 Attends HSLU (Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst). 2011 BA in Animation from HSLU. 2014 MA in Design Animage from HSLU. Besides his artistic work he also occasionally works as a Japanese-German-English interpreter and translater. He had the opportunity to work with Youichirou Kakitani and Hirokazu Koreeda. He currently lives in Zurich.

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2018
50:50 by Loretta Arnold, Fela Bellotto, William Crook, Jochen Ehmann, Moritz Engi, Robi Engler, Yves Gutjahr, Gerd Gockell, Raphaël Haab, Tom Hänni, Delia Hess, Marcel Hobi, Aline Höchli, Joel Hofmann, Justine Klaiber, Sophie Laskar-Haller, Séverine Leibundgut, Manuela Leuenberger, Vladislav Lukyantsev, Elena Madrid, Franziska Meyer, Gabriel Möhring, Veronica L. Montaño, Camille Müller, Marjolaine Perreten, Jonas Raeber, Dustin Rees, Claudia Röthlin, Georges Schwizgebel, Anja Sidler, Alessia Tamagni, Basil Vogt, Charlotte Waltert, Jonathan Wuest
2011
Trichotomie 465 by Jonathan Wuest
2010
Machu & Picchu by Christian Indermaur, Anja Sidler, Jonathan Wuest

Screenwriter

2018
Black Icicles by Franziska Meyer

Editor

2018
50:50 by Loretta Arnold, Fela Bellotto, William Crook, Jochen Ehmann, Moritz Engi, Robi Engler, Yves Gutjahr, Gerd Gockell, Raphaël Haab, Tom Hänni, Delia Hess, Marcel Hobi, Aline Höchli, Joel Hofmann, Justine Klaiber, Sophie Laskar-Haller, Séverine Leibundgut, Manuela Leuenberger, Vladislav Lukyantsev, Elena Madrid, Franziska Meyer, Gabriel Möhring, Veronica L. Montaño, Camille Müller, Marjolaine Perreten, Jonas Raeber, Dustin Rees, Claudia Röthlin, Georges Schwizgebel, Anja Sidler, Alessia Tamagni, Basil Vogt, Charlotte Waltert, Jonathan Wuest

Producer

2018
50:50 by Loretta Arnold, Fela Bellotto, William Crook, Jochen Ehmann, Moritz Engi, Robi Engler, Yves Gutjahr, Gerd Gockell, Raphaël Haab, Tom Hänni, Delia Hess, Marcel Hobi, Aline Höchli, Joel Hofmann, Justine Klaiber, Sophie Laskar-Haller, Séverine Leibundgut, Manuela Leuenberger, Vladislav Lukyantsev, Elena Madrid, Franziska Meyer, Gabriel Möhring, Veronica L. Montaño, Camille Müller, Marjolaine Perreten, Jonas Raeber, Dustin Rees, Claudia Röthlin, Georges Schwizgebel, Anja Sidler, Alessia Tamagni, Basil Vogt, Charlotte Waltert, Jonathan Wuest

Animator

2023
Amine – Held auf Bewährung by Dani Heusser
2020
Signs by Dustin Rees
2020
Catch the Topper by Dominique Birrer
2019
Duodrom by Basil Vogt
2018
Drachenhöhle by Lynn Gerlach
2018
Immer diese Zwinglis! by Kati Rickenbach, Franziska Meyer

Re-Recording Mixer

2014
AAA by Andreas Hummel

Character Designer

2013
Collectors by Marcel Hobi

Sound Editor

2014
AAA by Andreas Hummel

Sound Designer

2014
AAA by Andreas Hummel
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