Amor Fati
For the love of fate, a lullaby as a stream of unconsciousness.
ANGST
Fulldome musicvideo to 'Angst', from the Album 'Ich schwöre ich hab Angst' (I swear, I'm afraid') by GAŁGAŁ
Tote Tiere Maarten scanned all kinds of objects to create a potpourri of association and randomness.
To accompany GAŁGAŁ's work, which is based on both composition and improvisation with a singular approach to modular synthesis.
GAŁGAŁ – Ich schwöre ich hab Angst
- Special Jury Award, SATFEST, Montreal, 2026
- COSMOCENO, Brasil, 2025
- SATFEST, Montreal, 2026
- Fulldome Festival Montevideo, 2026
- Fulldome Festival Jena, 2026
- Porto/Post/Doc, Porto, 2026
Dancing with Dead Animals
Over the course of six months, animation artist Tote Tiere Maarten collected all the animals that died in his direct environment. Together with other dead organic materials, he 3D scanned the corpses and revived them in his personal conception of paradise, which goes beyond good and evil; simply illustrating the same biology that governs us all.
A celebration of life that walks the line between tableaux vivant and danse macabre.
- Innovation Award, Best of Earth Awards, 2025
- Best Experimental, Immersphere, Brazil, 2024
- Best Experimental, Field of View 360, Texas, 2024
- Innovation Award, SAT Fest, Montreal, 2024
- Excellence Award, SAT Fest, Montreal, 2024
- Excellence Award, International Festival for Science Visualization, Japan, 2024
- Honorable Mention, FICMA Fest, Mexico, 2023
- Best Art and Experimental, Fulldome UK, 2023
- Honorable Mention, Fulldome Festival Jena, 2023
- Winner, Filmfund DocLab Interactive Grant, NL, 2022
- Speculum Artium, Digital Big Screen, Slovenia, 2024
- Inconvenient Filmfestival, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2023
- Sheffield DocFest, Alternate Realities, 2023
- IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam, 2022
- Immersphere, Brazil, 2024
- Field of View 360 Filmfestival, Texas, 2024
- Interfilm, Berlin, 2024
- SHoRTs IFF, Italy, 2024
- SAT Fest, Montreal, 2024
- IFSV, Japan, 2024
- Dome Under Festival, Melbourne, 2024
- VASTLAB, LA, 2024
- FICMA, Mexico, 2024
- Filmfestival Cottbus, 2023
- TIAF, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2023
- FAB Dimensional, Berlin, 2023
- Animatex, Egypt, 2023
- Horsetooth Filmfestival, 2023
- Macon Filmfestival, 2023
- Fulldome Festival Jena, 2023
SWARM
Swarming is a behavioral phenomenon to survive, but more than often, it is a prelude for extinction.
Fly with the flock as they travel from Germany, over the Alps, to the Mediterranean Sea. Small birds migrating over exhausted and exploited landscapes. Robins, tits and sparrows do not usually migrate this far, but in a near future, they might.
Swarm offers a bird's eye's view over landscapes of three-dimensional photocollages that show a part of Europe after climate change.
- Nominated, Best of Earth Award, 2023
- Audience Award, Best VR, Anima Brussels, 2023
- Best Art and Experimental, Fulldome UK, 2022
- Best of VR, KABOOM Animation Festival, Amsterdam, 2022
- Prix d’originalité, SAT Fest, Montreal, 2022
- New Images Festival, Paris, 2023
- IDFA DocLab, Artis Planetarium, Amsterdam, 2022
- Fulldome UK, 2022
- Dome Fest West, LA, 2022
- FAB Dimensional, Berlin, 2022
- Siberia Fulldome Festival, 2022
- Macon Film Festival, 2022
- Fulldome Festival Jena, 2022
- SAT Fest, Montreal, 2022
- Field of View 360 Filmfestival, Texas, 2024
- Laval Virtual, 2024
- Suburbinale, Austria, 2023
- Intervalli Festival Cinema, Padua, 2023
- Anima Brussels, 2023
- Kortfilmfest Leuven, 2022
- Animateka, Ljubljana, 2022
- FICMA, Mexico, 2022
- VASTLAB, LA, 2022
- TIAF, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022
- Anim’est, Bucharest, Romania, 2022
- Animatex, 2022
- Animafest Zagreb, 2022
- River Film Festival, Italy, 2022
- KABOOM Animation Festival, Amsterdam, 2022
- “Migrations”, Virtual Museum of the Anthropocene, 2022
FEBRUAR
This 360° panoramic handdrawn animation shows the relationship between man and nature in a barren, wintry landscape. The landscape painting breaks out of the flat rectangle of the movie screen and forms an infinite world, meticulously animated. The spectator is outside in the drizzle, surrounded by trees. From a short distance, sounds of revelry can be heard, but it is constantly drowned out by the ghusts of wind and rain in an icy storm.
- Best Soundtrack, Immersive Filmfestival, Espinho, 2015
- Honourable Mention, Fulldome Festival Jena, 2015
- VRHAM!, 2018
- Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, 2017
- Animafest Zagreb, 2017
- Cannes Next, 2017
- Houston Cinema Arts Festival, 2016
- Fulldome UK, 2016
- Filmtage Lübeck, 2016
- CURRENTS New Media, Santa Fe
- IPS Fulldome Festival, Brno
- Immersive Festival, Madrid, 2016
- European Media Art Festival, 2016
- Kaleidoscope VR, Amsterdam
- IMERSA Summit, 2016
- Immersive Filmfestival, Espinho, 2015
- IFSV, Japan, 2015
- B3 Biennale, Frankfurt, 2015
- KLIK Animation Festival, Amsterdam, 2015
- FANTOCHE, Baden, 2015
- Holland Animation Film Festival, 2015
We Are Dead Animals
We Are Dead Animals is a casually transcendental VR game.
Bring animals back to life in the virtual paradise created by Tote Tiere Maarten He collected all the animals he found in his direct surroundings and placed their corpses in paradise — from a deer shot by hunters to a hedgehog run over by a car — for you to explore, collect and create new animals.
… and don't forget to eat, or you will die!
- Reanimation
- Tote Tiere Maarten
- Programming
- Frank Bosma
- Music and sound
- Michał Krajczok
- Voice-over
- Prof. Dr. Hendrikus Berkhof (1914–1995), voice clone
- Production
- Valk Productions (NL), Menetekel Film (DE)
- Support
- Netherlands Film Fund and Creative Industries Fund NL, Immerse/Interact Grant Scheme
Purchase the game on Meta Store: launch All Souls Day, 2nd nov 2026
www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/we-are-dead-animals/10047159875412437
- Awarded Avant-Garde Animation, Kremfest VR, Seattle, 2026
- Nomination, A Maze, Games & Playful Media, Berlin, 2026
- CINEKID, Amsterdam, 2026
- Even our Oddkin, Towson University Center for the Arts Gallery, USA, 2026
- New Images, Paris, 2026: French Premiere
- WIHH Gallery, Amsterdam, 2025
- IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam, 2025: Worldpremiere Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction
- Kaboom, Utrecht, 2026
- Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy, 2026: Italian Premiere
- A Maze, Games & Playful Media, Berlin, 2026: German Premiere
- One World Prague: Czech Premiere
- Aesthetica Filmfestival, York, 2026: UK Premiere
- FIVARS, Montreal, 2026: Canadian Premiere
- Art*VR, Prague, 2026
- Kremfest VR, Seattle, 2026
- Open World Animation Fest, Northampton, PA, 2026
- MixBrasil, Sao Paolo, 2026
- FICMA, Mexico, 2026: South-American premiere
- Animator’s Guild India Fest, 2026: Asian Premiere
SWARM
Swarming is a behavioral phenomenon to survive, but more than often, it is a prelude for extinction.
Fly with the flock as they travel from Germany, over the Alps, to the Mediterranean Sea. Small birds migrating over exhausted and exploited landscapes. Robins, tits and sparrows do not usually migrate this far, but in a near future, they might.
Swarm offers a bird's eye's view over landscapes of three-dimensional photocollages that show a part of Europe after climate change.
- Nominated, Best of Earth Award, 2023
- Audience Award, Best VR, Anima Brussels, 2023
- Best Art and Experimental, Fulldome UK, 2022
- Best of VR, KABOOM Animation Festival, Amsterdam, 2022
- Prix d’originalité, SAT Fest, Montreal, 2022
- New Images Festival, Paris, 2023
- IDFA DocLab, Artis Planetarium, Amsterdam, 2022
- Fulldome UK, 2022
- Dome Fest West, LA, 2022
- FAB Dimensional, Berlin, 2022
- Siberia Fulldome Festival, 2022
- Macon Film Festival, 2022
- Fulldome Festival Jena, 2022
- SAT Fest, Montreal, 2022
- Field of View 360 Filmfestival, Texas, 2024
- Laval Virtual, 2024
- Suburbinale, Austria, 2023
- Intervalli Festival Cinema, Padua, 2023
- Anima Brussels, 2023
- Kortfilmfest Leuven, 2022
- Animateka, Ljubljana, 2022
- FICMA, Mexico, 2022
- VASTLAB, LA, 2022
- TIAF, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022
- Anim’est, Bucharest, Romania, 2022
- Animatex, 2022
- Animafest Zagreb, 2022
- River Film Festival, Italy, 2022
- KABOOM Animation Festival, Amsterdam, 2022
- “Migrations”, Virtual Museum of the Anthropocene, 2022
FEBRUAR
This 360° panoramic handdrawn animation shows the relationship between man and nature in a barren, wintry landscape. The landscape painting breaks out of the flat rectangle of the movie screen and forms an infinite world, meticulously animated. The spectator is outside in the drizzle, surrounded by trees. From a short distance, sounds of revelry can be heard, but it is constantly drowned out by the ghusts of wind and rain in an icy storm.
- Best Soundtrack, Immersive Filmfestival, Espinho, 2015
- Honourable Mention, Fulldome Festival Jena, 2015
- VRHAM!, 2018
- Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, 2017
- Animafest Zagreb, 2017
- Cannes Next, 2017
- Houston Cinema Arts Festival, 2016
- Fulldome UK, 2016
- Filmtage Lübeck, 2016
- CURRENTS New Media, Santa Fe
- IPS Fulldome Festival, Brno
- Immersive Festival, Madrid, 2016
- European Media Art Festival, 2016
- Kaleidoscope VR, Amsterdam
- IMERSA Summit, 2016
- Immersive Filmfestival, Espinho, 2015
- IFSV, Japan, 2015
- B3 Biennale, Frankfurt, 2015
- KLIK Animation Festival, Amsterdam, 2015
- FANTOCHE, Baden, 2015
- Holland Animation Film Festival, 2015
QUOTES
Celebrities preaching wisdom and speaking in tongues while posing in or in front of their cars.
- Punch Gallery, Washington, 2025
- Digital Darkroom, NFF, Utrecht, 2026
BIOSCOPE
A small town by the sea. While fields reach out into the scenic horizon, brutal events are unfolding in the town center, on the market place, and inside the buildings. A horde of gnomes has invaded the place, maltreating the animal inhabitants of the town in a cruel manner. Plants that have grown as big as houses create a rather dystopian and dark ambience, contrasting the bright and vivid images.
With „Bioscope“, Maarten Isaäk de Heer has crafted an intense and lively scene full of little details and interactions. The scene is drawn in the style of ancient dutch painters such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525 – 1569) and Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1450 – 1516) who are well known for their large paintings of busy scenes. While moving around the painting, the depicted scenes set in motion as well. Flames burst out of a burning house, maggots creep on the floor and the gnomes carry on with their demonic game. The illusion of movement is created via the technique chosen by the artist to transfer his painting from the digital to the analogue world: lenticular printing. In this printing technique, a raster of tiny and almost invisible lenticular lenses is applied onto an image. In this case, the image consists of animation frames that are split and separated into very thin lines. Depending on the viewer’s perspective, you´ll see another frame of the animation.
„Bioscope“ is a unique artwork following the tradition of the paintings of Old Dutch Masters. In order to confirm this, the only digital copy of the printing master was destroyed by the artist during the first presentation of the work in the summer of 2017 at Animafest Zagreb. Using a hydraulic press, the harddrive was broken into pieces. Only the animated painting remains. Or would it be more fitting to call it a painted animation? This question reveals the artist‘s passion for interdisciplinary work, for discovering the boundaries of classic animated filmmaking which is the focal point throughout all his artistic work.
- Animafest Zagreb, 2017: unveiling and action-performance, Grič Tunnel
- DOK Leipzig, 2017
- Kortfilmfestival Leuven, 2017
- FAB Animation Expanded, Berlin, 2020
Mu:sterman – a Flood Story
a cityscape in which Western-European Animals inhabit an eco-social housing estate.
When the rising tide is flowing in and floods their homes completely, they do not act surprised or scared:
They just go with the flow, for it is an endlessly repeated story.
- Third Prize, Linoleum, Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art, Moscow, 2013
- Nominated, Grand Prize for Dutch Animation, HAFF, 2013
- Special Jury Award, Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival, 2014
- Animpact Choice Best of Best, 2013
- Houston Cinema Arts Festival, 2016
- Filmzeit Kaufbeuren, 2016
- CINANIMA, 2016
- BURONALE, 2016
- Animateka, 2015
- ANIMA, 2015
- VAFI 05, Croatia
- Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
- Anima Mundi Gallery, 2013
- WRO Media Art Biennale
- Panorama Annecy, 2013
- KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival
- CINANIMA.PL
- KUKI, Berlin
Handelingen
From a distant point of view, we become spectators of all the activity and we hear snippets of sounds which are carried upwards by the breeze. In this high resolution video installation, De Heer shows us a typically Dutch suburban area in which emergency situations slowly reveal themselves.
- Dutch Pavilion, World Expo Shanghai
- Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, NL
- Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht
- ANIMA, Brussels, 2015: part of 4K projection demonstrations by CineGrid.org
INFLUENZA
There can be some strange birds among influencers on social media, but Influenza takes the crown. Through her Instagram account, this digital cormorant, brought back to life, gives tips and tricks on how to look human.
The undisputed star of this satire on social media culture is Influenza. Found as a dead cormorant in Vlieland's marina, now revived on Instagram through a 3D scan. Her nearly ten thousand followers (or 'dearies', as Influenza calls them) come for her advice that is quintessentially human. Your interaction with Influenza on Instagram determines the continuation of the series. As a matter of fact, a number of followers worry about Influenza's loss of identity due to her constant transformations. Will she be afforded the perfect beauty ideal, or will she die in anonymity due to drop-out fans?
- Director, camera, montage, sound
- Tote Tiere Maarten
- Producer
- Evelyn Brancard
- Production
- Menetekel Film
- Selection
- Golden Calf for Best Digital Culture Production 2025
WAMPUI
Experimental wildlifedocumentary about the life of a huge pike in a small pond.
Wampui is a merge between Slow TV, wildlifedocumentary and animation.
The spoken language is fictional and the subtitles are made by a 4 year old.
Wampui is based on a short story by Dutch author/ director Anton Koolhaas.
- Best Animated Documentary, Tbilisi International Animation Festival, 2021
- Best Mockumentary, Rising of Lusitania, Gdansk, 2021
- Anima Brussels, 2021
- ITFS Stuttgart, 2021
- Monstra, Lisbon, 2021
- Semi-finalist, ALTFF Summer, 2021
- Insomnia, Moscow, 2021
- Flipbook Festival, Skopje, 2021
- FAB Berlin, 2021
- Rising of Lusitania, Gdansk, 2021
- Tindirindis International Animation Festival, Vilnius, 2021
- Tbilisi International Animation Festival, 2021
- ICONA, Greece, 2021
WATERLANDERS
ALL THINGS NEW
Tote Tiere Maarten (Maarten Isaäk de Heer) is a Dutch animation artist based in Berlin. Working across animation, installation art, fulldome, and XR, he explores themes of nature, life, and death through immersive and experimental media.
After starting in traditional hand-drawn animation, he expanded into immersive projects such as FEBRUAR (2015) and SWARM (2022). His ongoing “Dead Animals” series marked a turning point in his practice, using 3D scans of animals found dead in everyday surroundings to create new digital environments. This approach led to works including Dancing with Dead Animals (2022), We Are Dead Animals (2025)—a casually transcendental VR game nominated for the A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 Awards—and Influenza, an Instagram series featuring a digitally reconstructed dead cormorant influencer.
Across his work,Tote Tiere Maarten combines animation and technology, using digital tools to express a blunt, minimalistic and biological view on existence.
