Projects
- 2016
Shapeshifter explores video glitches induced by digital signal processing compression artefacts, which have given rise to a whole genre of YouTube videos dedicated to exposing shapeshifting reptilians hiding behind the surface of the video screen. Shapeshifter was created as the Official Trailer for the 29th Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media.
- 2015
This video work, commissioned by MONSTRA 2015 to mark the 80th anniversary of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa's death, presents the viewer with four of Pessoa's many faces: his heteronyms Ricardo Reis and Alvaro de Campos, and his keen interest in astrology and spiritualism.
Constant Sky, a fulldome 360 film by Max Hattler, is inspired by the father of Russian cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
- 2013
Visual artist Max Hattler and advertising agency Contrapunto BBDO have collaborated to create abstract political short film Stop the Show (aka WAR). The film, commissioned by Amnesty International, is a reference to international relations and arms trade. The campaign was created in support of a United Nations treaty to regulate the arms trade between countries and reduce worldwide killings through firearms. Inspired by Collision .
Official Festival Trailer for VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2011. Bbbooommm-basss-tttick colour bar psychedelia.
Connect four on the dance floor: Light, liquid, shape and colour locked into a pixel playground.