Film · Munich

What is really
happening
in your organisation.

Through film, what has not yet been seen becomes visible. Not recording — recognition. For organisations and individuals ready to look at themselves honestly — and to be seen.

Get in touch Who it's for
25+
Years experience
100%
Discretion
"Organisations are not machines. They are organisms — living processes that reconstitute themselves in every moment."

Alfred North Whitehead showed us: reality consists not of states but of events. Of becoming, not of being. An organisation is not an object that can be described from outside — it is a process that must be lived from within. Imagination is not fantasy. It is the forward movement of reality itself.

Film does not record what is visible — through film, it becomes visible. Not through analysis. Through resonance — like impedance in a circuit, receiving the frequency of an organisation and returning it as image.

Who it's for

For organisations
where something is happening.

Not for every organisation. For those willing to go deeper than image management. Those who understand that real film requires the courage to be truthful.

Family Businesses

Generational transitions. Founder identities. Values that were never written down. I help make visible what holds a family together across decades — before it is forgotten.

Clinics & Health Organisations

People under pressure. Meaning within systems. What lies between medicine and humanity. I film the quiet dignity that is lived daily in your institutions.

Insurance & Finance

Trust as core product — and the difficulty of showing it. I work with organisations that understand culture is their true capital.

Foundations & NGOs

Convictions that act. Purposes larger than structures. I film what your organisation stands for — in a way that genuinely reaches people.

Associations & Public Sector

Complex interests that need language. I help turn positions into stories — without smoothing them over, with genuine stance.

Organisations in Transition

Transformation that is more than restructuring. When an organisation is ready to ask what it truly is — that is the right moment for film.

Work

Film as a tool
for strategic communication.

Whether internal change, leadership communication or external positioning — I develop films that say what texts cannot.

01

Internal Communication & Change

When organisations change, people need more than presentations. I film what transformation really means — from the perspective of those who live it.

02

Leadership Communication

Messages that land. I work directly with boards and managing directors — discreetly, as an equal, with the aim of genuine impact rather than polished surface.

03

Organisational Portrait & Employer Branding

What makes your organisation what it is — beyond the glossy brochure? I find the stories that genuinely convince applicants, partners and the public. Because they are true.

04

Strategic Film Consulting

Which stories should be told? How does film become part of a larger communication strategy? I consult — before anything is filmed. Sometimes that is the most important work.

05

Corporate Film & Brand Communication

A corporate film does not show how an organisation sees itself. It works out how it wants to be seen — and establishes that image within the organisation itself. So that self-image and external presentation become coherent. This is not a film. It is a development process.

06

Advertising Film & Campaign

Advertising that works needs truth at its core. I develop advertising films and campaigns with the artistic vision of a video artist — precise, impact-oriented, unmistakable. No generic stock footage. No interchangeable format.

07

Imagination Work & Mythobiography

Imagination is not fantasy — it is the forward movement of reality. Every person and every organisation lives within a process of archetypal patterns: tasks that repeat, thresholds that are not crossed, forces that drive without knowing where.

Alfred Adler's teleanalysis is a central tool here: a person is not only driven by their past — they are drawn towards their goal. The final determines action more than the causal. Not where someone comes from, but where they are going — consciously or unconsciously. This forward perspective connects Adler directly with Whitehead's process philosophy: reality as becoming, imagination as what does not yet exist — but wants to.

I work with individuals, founding families and leaders. Not as therapy. As work of recognition.

08

Work with Individuals

For people who want to understand themselves better. Who sense that something in their life is calling for attention — without knowing exactly what.

Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler and C.G. Jung founded depth psychology together — and fell into deep conflict doing so. Freud saw the human being as driven: instinct, repression, the unconscious as abyss. Adler saw the human being as striving: community, courage, the overcoming of inferiority. Jung saw the human being as seeking: individuation, archetypes, the Self as lifelong goal. This conflict was not a weakness — it was a strength. Three different answers to the same question: what truly moves a person?

I work with all three lenses — without dogma, with genuine curiosity. No programme, no fixed goal. Simply the shared willingness to look more closely — at what is, and at what wants to become.

Method

How I work.

No script that I bring with me. No images I search for because they look good. I always begin by listening.

01

Listen

I arrive without a camera. I speak with people at every level. I learn what the organisation is really concerned with — not what it wants to show the outside world.

02

Understand

What lies beneath the surface? What is not said, but felt? Only when I understand this does the work of film begin.

03

Film

I film close, honestly, respectfully. People in front of the camera can sense whether someone is truly listening. That is the difference between a film that works and one that does not.

04

Impact

The result is not a corporate film in the classical sense. It is a document that creates trust — because it is true.

Approach

Honest.
Discreet. Precise.

I have worked with organisations for over two decades. What drives me has not changed: a sincere interest in what is really happening in a living system.

The foundation of my work is the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Organism rather than machine. Event rather than state. Imagination as what drives reality forward — not explaining it backwards. Built upon this: the depth psychology of C.G. Jung, the individual psychology of Alfred Adler, the imagination research of Joseph Campbell. Not as templates. As lenses of recognition.

I do not search for the good image. I search for the true image. These are usually the same — but the path there is different.

  • Absolute confidentiality — sensitive internal matters are safe
  • No standard productions — every project begins from zero
  • Direct collaboration with decision-makers
  • Depth-psychological attunement to what lies between the lines
  • References available on request with client consent
The person
Martin
Otter
Filmmaker · Psychological Counselor
Martin Otter
"I am notNo staging. No performance. What reveals itself is made visible in image and sound — precise and powerful.

Martin Otter is a trained photographer, TV journalist and moderator — and for over 25 years an independent filmmaker and video artist. His artistic works have been shown in international institutions: Tate Modern London, Centre Pompidou Paris, Haus der Kunst Munich, Whitechapel Gallery London. Numerous prizes and nominations. In 2024 he completed his in-depth training as Individual Psychology Consultant and Supervisor at the Alfred Adler Institute Munich — not as a new beginning, but as a deepening of what had already been lived across 25 years of practice.

The philosophical foundation of his work is Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy: organism rather than machine, event rather than state, imagination as the forward-driving force of reality. An organisation is not an object — it is a living process. To understand it, one must enter its frequency. Like impedance in a circuit: not resistance, but resonance.

Built upon this: longstanding work with the archetypes of C.G. Jung, the individual psychology of Alfred Adler and the imagination research of Joseph Campbell. As supervisor he accompanies people in their professional role — in decisions, in transitions, in what lies between the lines of a leadership position.

Craft
Photographer · TV Journalist · Moderator · Filmmaker · Video Artist
Psychology
Individual Psychology Consultant & Supervisor
Alfred Adler Institute Munich, 2024
Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie
Exhibitions
Tate Modern · Centre Pompidou · Haus der Kunst · Whitechapel Gallery
Independent since
25+ years · Prizes & nominations
Confidentiality

Discretion
is standard.

Corporate film often touches the interior of an organisation — questions of leadership, cultural change, internal conflict, unresolved identities. Everything entrusted to me is treated with absolute confidentiality. References are only named with the explicit consent of my clients. What is said in conversation stays there.

Contact

Let us
talk.

Describe briefly what you have in mind. I will respond personally — usually within 24 hours.

Location Munich · Tyrol · Berlin
Germany-wide & international
Email [email protected]
First call Free & without obligation