E-mail : contact@johannesmalfatti.com
He has seen releases on labels such as 130701, FatCatRecords, One little Indian, LINE, Glacial Movements, Seikomart, WMF Records and Deco.
Since graduating from the Filmuniversity Babelsberg with a Tonmeister degree in Sound Design for Audio-Visual Media, he has composed soundtracks for dozens of international feature films and has worked with directors such as Laura Poitras, Yung Chang, Guy Édoin, Maxim Giroux, Robert Guédiguian, German Gutierrez, Carmen Garcia, Ciril Braem, Lixin Fan, Mo Asumang and Fabian Möhrke a.o.
His collaborations include artists, musicians and choreographers such as Yair Elazar Glotman, Nan Goldin, Soundwalk Collective, Björk, Octet, Cat Power, Boris Hauf, the Berlin Philharmonics, Rundfunk Chor Berlin, Emanuele Soavi´s ESincompany, The Farm, Christoph Winkler, Jeff Wood, Kate Strong, Laurie Young, Kodac Ko, Arno Coenen, Pfadfinderei, Benny Nemer, Candice Breitz, Jim Rakete, Gerhard Falkner among many others.
Awards and nominations
Film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) by Laura Poitras
-Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Film Festival
-Nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 2023 Oscars
Film Twice Colonized (2023) by Lin Alluna
-Winner “Best Documentary” at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards
-Nominated for “Best Documentary Music ” at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards
Film A time to Swim (2017) by Ashley Duong
-Awarded Best Canadian Feature at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2017
Sound design_The music for Linde’s Fascinating Gases
-Awarded the Red Dot: Grand Prix 2014
Film Millionen (2014) by Fabian Möhrke
-Best Fiction Film @ new berlin film award (Achtung Berlin) and received an Honorary Mention @ Hofer Filmtage
Film The Phantom Father (2012) by Lucian Georgescu
-Nominated for Best Original Music at the 13th Romanian Movie Awards
Film The Fruit Hunters (2012) by Yung Chang
-Awarded the Grand Prize at the 30th International Environmental Film Festival in Paris
Film Tipping Point: The Age of the OIl Sands (2011) by Tom Radford and Niobe Thompson
-Best director, Best screenwriter, Best editing at the 37th Annual Alberta Film and Television Awards.
Film Mein Prinz, mein König (2011) by Ciril Tscheligi
-Best sound design and music” at the Filmkunstfest Schwerin.
Film Up the Yangtze (2008) by Yung Chang
-Numerous awards and nominations at festivals such as Sundance, Vancouver, San Francisco, River Run, Amsterdam and Golden horse.
Film Roots Germania (2010) by Mo Asumang
-Nominated for the German television prize “Grimme Preis 2008“ in the category „Information and culture“
Album_ Chlorgeschlecht Unyoga
-Honorary Mention at Ars Elektronika Linz, Austria in 2004