KLABAUTERMANN is Oscar van Hoogevest designing sounds for moving images. Holding a Master's in Sound Design from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), I enjoy exploring multiple formats. My sound work has been screened at more than 140 festivals worldwide, earning for me and the films multiple awards and nominations -- among them a Swiss Movie Award nomination for Best Sound.
In my work, I approach each project with creativity, self-reflection, and a seriousness towards the material and its authors. I am particularly fascinated by the world created in the film and in helping shape it through my sound work. A work becomes truly valuable to me when it triggers an internal process within myself.
upcoming
projects:
>> SUNSETS DON'T MATTER (AT), feature documentary
in post-production, 2026
directors: Alexandra Rüegg, Lasse Linder
role: sound designer
>> EROSION, feature fiction
in post-production, 2026
director: Michael Koch
role: co-sound designer
Sound Design SHOWREEL

>> ZUMTHOR, feature documentary
in post-production, 2026
director: Wim Wenders
role: sound editor
Sound Designs by
KLABAUTERMANN

Eternity
by Susanne Regina Meures

role: co-sound designer
art film long form
2026
The Education of Jane Cumming

by Sophie Heldman
Fiction, 114 min.
2026
Heat

by Jacqueline Zünd
Documentary, 87 min.
2026
Safe Spaces

by Sarah Horst
Documentary, 143 min.
2026

Tristan Forever
by Tobias Nölle
Documentary, 90 min.
2026

Bedrooms Make
no Sense
by Franziska Meyer
Animation-Experimental, 9 min.
2026
The Roots
of Madness

by Edgar Hagen
Documentary, 100 min.
2026
Melodie
by Anka Schmid

ZFF official
Selection
Documentary, 86 min.
2025
Filmfestival
Max Ophüls Preis
by Jonas Ulrich
Fiction, 110 min.
2025
Vracht
Zürcher Filmpreis
by Max Carlo Kohal
Documentary, 80 min.
2024
Journey of
Shadows
Basler Filmpreis
by Yves Netzhammer

Animation, 87 min.
2024
Preparations for
a Miracle

by Tobias Nölle
Documentary, 88 min.
2024
Déjà nu
Zürcher Filmpreis
by Rolf Hellat
Fiction-Doc-Experimental, 14 min.
2024
99 Moons
Zürcher Filmpreis
by Jan Gassmann
Fiction, 110 min.
2022
Becoming Giulia
Filmfestival
Max Ophüls Preis
by Laura Kaehr
Documentary, 103 min.
2022
Soul of a Beast
Zürcher Filmpreis
by Lorenz Merz
Fiction, 110 min.
2021

The Game

by Roman Hodel
Documentary, 17 min.
2020
Pictures of True Love
by Marin Blülle
Theater Piece,
2020
Hand in Hand
by Ennio Ruschetti
Fiction, 4 min.
2019
Life is one
of the Simplest

by Marion Nyffenegger


















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