Besides documentaries, video-clips and experimental films, Menno Otten directed many video-installations commissioned by companies like Samsung, Sikkens, Philips, The Dutch Royal Concert Hall, the Eye Film Museum and Kinkorn.

In his renowned video paintings Menno Otten explores the deeper meaning of using cinema and moving light within the work of old Dutch Master painters such as Johannes Vermeer. His video-art work Girl Reading Letter at an Open Window was exhibited at the Museum Prinsenhof in Delft and at the Pushkin Museum of Arts in Moscow.

For his latest video painting Moving Mesdag, Menno Otten teamed up with technical partner Samsung and marketing agency ConspiracySinc to bring to life the famous Dutch masterpiece Panorama Mesdag. This ambitious video-installation was completed in 2016 and was shown on 14 enormous curved screens displayed in front of the famous Rijksmuseum among other key locations in the Netherlands. Moving Mesdag attracted more then 65.000 visitors.

March 2017, Menno Otten brings his multi-media installation City Faces to the Triumph Gallery in Moscow. Showcasing both old and new video-art works, the exhibition also covers more then fifty painting-like portraits of everyday commuters photographed at one and the same Amsterdam tram stop over a period of more then six years. With this exhibition, Menno Otten explores his deeper fascination for the cinematic and photographic power of the close-up.

Besides filming, Menno teaches classes both at the Open Studio school for digital media as well as the Dutch Film Academy in the Directing department.