Expose Your Sound
Entrant: Postmen
Country: Ukraine
Section/Contest/Category: A. FILM & AUDIO / A05. CRAFT - DIRECTION, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING
Award: Shortlist
Advertiser/Brand: Jagermeister, H2D
Year: 2026
Creative Team:
Director & Creative Producer — Olga Mykhalets, Postmen DOP — Ilya Rieznikov Art Director — Nastia Andreeva Gaffer — Tymofii Gerashchenko 1AC — Nazar Khoptynets Editor — Yegor Kadomtsev, Postmen Sound Designer — Igor Bondarenko, Postmen Colour — Ilya Rieznikov Music — SI Process Creative Copywriter — Darka Titova, Postmen Account Manager — Sofiia Liahotska, Postmen Production Assistant — Vitalina Oleshchenko Musicians — Igor Bondarenko, Anastasiia Zuzyk VO - Mykhailo Vedmid Alex Perera – Brand Manager Jägermeister, Bayadera Group Yevheniya Stryzhevska – Program Director, Jager Music Awards Dmytro Lebedynskyi – Lead Manager, H2D CA
Creative idea:
The idea: If a darkroom is where photographs come to life, a recording studio is where sound reveals itself. The execution: We transformed a recording studio into a darkroom laboratory. Red-orange safe light floods the space. Developing trays sit atop amplifiers, but instead of water, they hold a Jägermeister liqueur. The magic: The liquid responds to sound. Waves ripple across its surface, blooming into hypnotic cymatic patterns: music made visible, sound made physical. The soundtrack: Scored with a track by SI Process, an independent Ukrainian electronic artist, whose raw, atmospheric sound amplifies the vision and gives the manifesto its pulse. The reveal: In the final frame, the wave pattern appears as if printed on photographic paper, resonating with the brand's key visual. The metaphor closes its loop: the sound is exposed.