Name: Thorsten Hary
Companies: zeit:raum Group (Owner & CEO) & TH Holding GmbH (Owner & CEO)
Profession: CEO/Filmmaker/TechNerd
 

What I´m doing:
I´m the owner and head creative of zeit:raum Group, encompassing six companies and offering an exceptional one stop shop for cutting edge, integrated marketing and software services at the intersection of art and technology. 

With work experience in the US and Germany, my work has spanned everything from working for J.J. Abrams on Hollywood blockbusters at Bad Robot in LA to directing close to 500 national & international TV ads. When It comes to film, storytelling, CGI and adverstising - I have truly seen it all and can therefore lead and advice with great confidence. Highly interested in culture as well as tech, I am always in touch with visual trends and the latest technological breakthroughs.

As a co-founder of hololux GmbH (now zeit:raum XR), I´m a metaverse OG and have been immersed in spatial computing and realtime content creation since 2016. I am also head of serviceavatar.ai, an AI software venture.

I am advising the government on the needs of the creative industry as member of the „Mittelstandsausschuss“, was awarded the honour of being a „Kultur- und Kreativpilot Deutschlands“ as well as winning multitudes of creative competitions like the German Design Award, German Brand Award, IF Design Award or Red Dot Design Award and the German Innovation Award.

As a father of two, I never work on weekends.

 

zeit:raum Group:

zeit:raum film GmbH: Commercial Production Company, CGI & Post Production 

zeit:raum studios GmbH: Feature Films, TV-Series & Streaming Content

zeit:raum digital GmbH: Creative Digital Agency

zeit:raum development GmbH: Software Development Company

zeit:raum performance GmbH: Performance Marketing Agency

zeit:raum spatial (formerly hololux GmbH): Metaverse / Spatial Computing

zeit:raum ai: AI Software Development (Product: www.serviceavatar.ai)

 

How I got here:
Created pixel-art in DPaint on the Amiga way back in the day. Founded Internet startup while studying Informationswissenschaften at the University of Saarland, became interested in 3D graphics with work subsequently featured in numerous publications as well as Maxon Cinema4D marketing materials. Worked as freelancer at various agencies. Founding member of med4you interactive devision in 2001, moved on to build and lead the Haus & Gross TV/Motion Devision in creating and directing over 150 national and international commercials as well as award-winning music videos and virals (Crew United Profile). Worked for J.J. Abrams at Bad Robot (IMDB-Profile). Advising the government on the needs of the creative industry after being appointent to the "Mittelstandsausschuss". Founder and CEO of bildpiloten - Agentur für Film GmbH (now called zeit:raum film GmbH). 

 

Awards & Honors:

 

  • 2000 MAXON Cineversity Award
  • 2011 2x  Staatspreis für Design Winner
  • 2012 Bandsalat Music Video Award & Public Choice Award
  • 2013 Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Nominee
  • 2013 2x Saarländischer Staatspreis für Design
  • 2013 Oscar Nomination Best VFX "Star Trek Into Darkness"
  • 2015 2x German Design Award" Nominee
  • 2015 Kreativsonar 2015 Gewinner
  • 2016 German Design Award 2016 Nominee
  • 2017 3x Staatspreis für Design Winner
  • 2019 2x German Design Award Winner & Special
  • 2019 IF Design Award Winner
  • 2019 Fibo Innovation Award
  • 2019 3x Staatspreis für Design Winner
  • 2020 Red Dot Communication Design Award Winner
  • 2021 2x German Design Award Special
  • 2021 2x Staatspreis für Design Winner
  • 2021 2x German Brand Award Winner
  • 2021 IF Design Award Winner
  • 2023 Staatspreis für Design - Anerkennung
  • 2023 2x German Design Award Winner
  • 2023 Marketing Club Award Winner
  • 2024 4x German Brand Award Winner inkl. „Brand Of The Year“
  • 2024 German Innovation Award Winner
  • 2024 2x ADC Talent Award - 2x Goldenen Nägel

 

Tea: 
Earl Grey, hot.

Been there, done that:
Screendesign, Usability Engineering, HTML/CSS/Flash, CI, Illustration, Print-Design, CGI/3D Graphics, music sequencing, Editing, VFX, Compositing, Writing, Photography, Directing, Robot at Bad Robot, Founder, Investor, Head Geek,...

I enjoy:
Painting, playing guitar, cooking, ananmorphic lenses, good food, great wine and single malt whiskey.

Things of timeless beauty:
Falling Water, Le Corbusier, Sunflower iMac, Barcelona, Helvetica, Fender Stratocaster,...


I live by this:

"How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time," - David Fincher

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw