WHOM DAVID CRONENBERG REFERRED TO AS °A FULL PRODUCTION DESIGNER AT HEART° AFTER WORKING TOGETHER ON *A DANGEROUS METHOD* (2010), FOCUSES — IN THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND HIS PROFESSORSHIP FOR PRODUCTION DESIGN — ON A CRITICAL AND STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO THE POWERFUL LANGUAGE AND MANIFESTATION OF IMAGES.

THE CULTURAL RELEVANCE OF THOSE IMAGES, THE INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE, AS WELL AS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUSTAINABILITY OF BOTH CONTENT AND CUSTOM, ARE BECOMING KEY INFLUENCES IN HIS RECENT ENGAGEMENTS. HE IS RESEARCHING HOW THIS COULD GIVE RISE TO NEW IMAGINARIES FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

HE HAS COLLABORATED WITH ACCLAIMED FEMALE DIRECTORS SUCH AS JORDAN SCOTT ON *A SACRIFICE* (2022), JULIE DELPY ON *MY ZOE* (2018), AND LULU WANG ON *POSTHUMOUS* (2012), AS WELL AS WITH INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PIONEERS SUCH AS VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF ON *HEIMSUCHUNG // VISITATION* (2026) AND *RETURN TO MONTAUK* (2016), LARRY CHARLES ON *ARMY OF ONE* (2015), AND ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS AND DIRECTORS, WIM WENDERS, ON *ANSELM* (2023) AND *PALERMO SHOOTING* (2007).

HE RECEIVED NOMINATIONS FOR BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN AT THE GERMAN FILM ACADEMY AWARDS IN 2023 FOR *DER VERMESSENE MENSCH // THE MEASURES OF MEN*, DIRECTED BY LARS KRAUME, AND IN 2020 FOR *NARZISS & GOLDMUND*, DIRECTED BY STEFAN RUZOWITZKY. HIS STORYBOARDS FOR *PALERMO SHOOTING* WERE SHOWCASED IN THE EXHIBITION "BETWEEN FILM AND ART: STORYBOARDS FROM HITCHCOCK TO SPIELBERG" AT THE MUSEUM FOR FILM AND TELEVISION – DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK – BERLIN, IN 2011.

HE TAUGHT AT BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR, THE UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART, THE FILM ACADEMY BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, LUDWIGSBURG, AND THE FILM UNIVERSITY POTSDAM, BABELSBERG. SINCE 2023, HE HAS HELD A PROFESSORSHIP FOR PRODUCTION DESIGN AT THE INTERNATIONAL FILM SCHOOL COLOGNE, GERMANY, AND FROM AUGUST 2027 ONWARD AT THE ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, SWITZERLAND.

SEBASTIAN SOUKUP IS THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE PRODUCTION DESIGN CHAIR AT THE EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY AND LIVES IN BERLIN AND PARIS.