YouTube (since 2021, on-going, in German)
Somewhat surprisingly, my ‘film focus’ shifted to YouTube in 2025. After completing my first feature length documentary, I thought I would work on the next big film. But then I began posting more frequently on YouTube (in German) — about the need for economic systems change. The response has been surprising and very positive. There seems to be an audience in Germany that not only appreciates an unflinching look at the devastation that our economic system causes, but that is also willing to do something about it. Over the course of 2025, a project to develop a political organisation in Germany grew out of this.
You can find the channel here: youtube.com/@MartinOetting.
Documentary Feature Film ‘Purpose’ (2018–2024, English)
My first feature film is the documentary “Purpose”, about creating wellbeing economies. It had its premiere on June 11th 2024 at the Wellbeing Economy Forum in Iceland. Since then, we have been organising screenings around the world, including a number of environmentally-themed film festivals. An overview of screenings past, present and future is on the film’s website: purpose.film/screenings/
If you want to organise your own screening, please get in touch. The film is available in its original English version, and in adaptations in German and Italian.
Further & past projects
I also have an experimental YouTube channel called MOPALAB which is all about hand-drawn animation. I am posting fairly irregularly there, and I am not promoting the channel.
Past film projects and experiments are listed on the ‘Past Projects‘ page.
Updates about my film projects:
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‘Purpose’ in italiano!
Over the summer, we created an Italian version of our documentary feature film ‘Purpose’. Here is the Italian trailer.
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Sleepless
After a year, I have finally managed to create a new hand-drawn animation film for my tiny animation channel MOPALAB on YouTube.
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A Miracle: One Year & 100 Screenings
The most important lesson we took from producing our film ‘Purpose’ was this: Only because you manage to make a film doesn’t mean it will be seen by anyone. When…
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A Scandinavian Expedition
A few weeks ago, I managed to put together a proper piece about our journey to Scotland, where we showed our documentary ‘Purpose’. For our Nordics Tour — which we…
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A Video Essay on How We Need to Change
Here is the latest video on my German-language YouTube channel and a short English summary of its main points: Three key lessons that I learned from my last seven years…
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Bringing ‘Purpose’ (Back) to Scotland
Scotland has a special place in my heart. Decades ago, when I went there on my first visit, a large advertising banner greeted me at Glasgow Airport: “Welcome to the…
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When Journalists Fail at Their Job
On November 27th, the German public broadcaster ARD published a blatantly biased segment on ‘economic growth’. It ended with a sequence that was completely unvarnished election advertising for the German…
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They Caught Me Off Guard
A few months ago, I watched stand-up comedian John Mulaney on YouTube making fun of the show ‘Law & Order – Special Victims Unit‘. It made me curious, so I…
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Our Second Official ‘Purpose’ Trailer
We made a second trailer for our film ‘Purpose’ in autumn of 2024, but only posted it on LinkedIn — where it got some nice traction. Now it’s on YouTube,…
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Mixing Sound & Making Subtitles. Or: How A Film Project Seems To Never End
During the first half of 2024, I kept a somewhat steady publishing rhythm on this site. But then, over the summer, that ended. That’s because finishing the film ‘Purpose‘ became…