Max Hattler is a German

video artist Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. ...

and

experimental filmmaker Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many experimental films, parti ...

. He created the kaleidoscopic political short films "Collision" (2005) and "Spin" (2010), abstract

stop motion Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames i ...

works "Shift" (2012) and "AANAATT" (2008), and psychedelic animation loops "Sync", "1923 aka Heaven" and "1925 aka Hell" (2010).

Biography

Max Hattler was born in

Ulm Ulm () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Danube on the border with Bavaria. The city, which has an estimated population of more than 126,000 (2018), forms an urban district of its own (german: link=no, ...

, Germany. He is the son of

Hellmut Hattler Hellmut Hattler (born 12 April 1952 in Ulm, West Germany) is a German jazz and rock bassist and composer. Hattler took much of his early influences from Jimi Hendrix. As a child, he received violin lessons, and in the 1960s, he played guitar. ...

, a German bass player mainly known for his

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band

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. Max Hattler holds a BA from

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(2001), a Master of Arts in Animation from the

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(2005) and a doctorate in fine art from the

University of East London , mottoeng = Knowledge and the fulfilment of vows , established = 1898 – West Ham Technical Institute1952 – West Ham College of Technology1970 – North East London Polytechnic1989 – Polytechnic of East London ...

(2014). He is an associate professor at th
School of Creative Media

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. Hattler's work has been described in the following terms: "Max Hattler works on the thin line between abstraction and figuration, being able sometimes to create powerful political statements while eschewing the traditional constraints of narrative, choosing a poetics of implication over the mere construction of a discourse." Hattler has exhibited internationally at museums and galleries including

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, Pinakothek der Moderne, Tenderpixel (London),

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(

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, Exploratorium,

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Art Below Ben Moore (born 25 May 1978)Nick Curtis''London Evening Standard'', 25 May 2010. is a British art curator, entrepreneur and artist. He is the founder and curator of Art Below, a contemporary art organisation that places art in public spaces and ...

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and Museumsquartier Vienna. Hattler also works in the field of audiovisual performance and has performed at

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, Punto y Raya Festival and

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Awards

* Off-Limits Award (for "Serial Parallels"),

Annecy International Animated Film Festival The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (french: Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of J ...

, Annecy, France, 2020. * Honorary Mention (Computer Animation) (for "Serial Parallels"),

Prix Ars Electronica The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) ...

, Linz, Austria, 2020. * Best Abstract / Non-Narrative Animation (for "Divisional Articulations"),

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, Trebon, Czech Republic, 2018. * Best Abstract Film for "All Rot" at Third Culture Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2016. * Best Commissioned Film for "Stop the Show" at Bradford Animation Festival, UK, 2014. * Visual Music Award (First Prize) for "A Very Large Increase in the Size, Amount, or Importance of Something Over a Very Short Period of Time", Gelnhausen, Germany, 2014. * Visual Music Award (Special Mention) for "

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: Stop the Show (a.k.a. WAR)", Gelnhausen, Germany, 2014. * Bronze Design Lion for "

: Stop the Show (a.k.a. WAR)" at

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, France, 2013. * First Prize for "Shift" at Premio Simona Gesmundo, Cetraro, Italy, 2012. * Award for Best Experimental Film for "Shift" at TOFUZI International Festival of Animated Films in

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, Georgia, 2012. * Visual Music Award (Special Prize) for "Sync", Frankfurt, Germany, 2011. * Visual Music Award (First Prize) for "AANAATT", Frankfurt, Germany, 2010. * Prädikat Wertvoll for "Collision" by Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden, Germany, 2008."Collision" Prädikat Wertvoll
Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden, Germany

Bibliography

Dan Torre, "Persistent Abstraction: the Animated Works of Max Hattler" In Senses of Cinema, issue 76, 2015

* ttp://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/12711/1/max-hattler-shift Bruna Volpi: "Max Hattler: Shift", in: ''Dazed Digital'', March 2012 (Interview)
"Profile: Max Hattler", in: ''Design Week'' 26 January 2011

(interview)
Kate Taylor: "Short Cuts: Max Hattler", in: ''Electric Sheep Magazine'', 1 December 2009

Andrew Selby: "Experimental Animation in a Post-Critical Age", in: ''International Journal of the Arts in Society'', 3.4, 2008, p. 1-6
(on Max Hattler, Robert Seidel, Semiconductor)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hattler, Max 1976 births Living people German experimental filmmakers British experimental filmmakers Mass media people from Brandenburg British animated film directors German animated film directors People from Ulm Alumni of the Royal College of Art Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London Alumni of the University of East London Visual music artists Stop motion animators Abstract animation New media artists German video artists German digital artists Hong Kong artists