- 2005
Collision
Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colours and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection.
Awards
- Vimeo Staff Pick, 2011
- Jury Award, Marin Short Film Festival, San Rafael, CA, USA, 2010
- Best Film of the Festival, 700IS, Egilsstaðir, Iceland, 2008
- Prädikat “wertvoll”, Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW), Germany, 2008
- Gate Competition Winner, Bermuda Shorts, London, UK, 2007
- LUX Award Best Experimental Film, London SFF, London, 2006
- Third Prize of the Jury, Videologia Festival, Russia, 2006
- Honourable Mention, Darklight FF, Dublin, 2006
- Special Mention, San Gio Festival, Italy, 2006
Credits
| Director | Max Hattler |
| Production | Royal College of Art |
| Additional Animation | Ian Mackinnon |
| Sound Design | Max Hattler |
| Sound Mix | Christopher Wilson |
| 35mm Recording | Andreas Schellenberg, Pictorion das werk |
| Available formats | 35mm, QT HD, Beta SP, DVD |
| Length | 2’30” |
| Year | 2005 |
Screenings & Exhibitions
2024-2019
- RCA Animation Symposium, Royal College of Art, London, 15 Nov 2024
- University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 26 Apr 2022 (guest lecture in Dr. Maike Sarah Reinerth’s course “Animation|Politik: Propaganda und Protest, Information und Transformation” for MA Medienkulturwissenschaft)
- Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK, 2-30 Nov 2021 (9/11 20th anniversary screening curated by Rachel Pronger)
- Nuit de l’Image, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Tue 24 Aug 2021 (curated by Gabriel Soucheyre / Videoformes)
- Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia, 29 Oct – 9 Nov 2020
- London Short Film Festival, London, GB, 10-19 Jan 2020
- Taichung International Animation Festival, Taichung, Taiwan, 11-20 Oct 2019 (Director in Focus 1)
- Under the Radar, Vienna, Austria, 1-5 Jul 2019 (Identity Construction in Abstract Animation special programme curated by Noel Palazzo)
- Anifilm, Trebon, Czech Republic, 7-12 May 2019 (Max Hattler Retrospective)
- 26th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Metropol 3, Stuttgart, Germany, 17:00 Fri 3 May 2019 (In Persona: Max Hattler screening)
2018
- CREATE! MakerSpace, CityU Library, City University of Hong Kong, 3 Dec 2018 (Guest Lecture 5.0: Max Hattler: Audio-Visual Abstraction: Animation as Fine Art Practice)
- Punto y Raya Festival, CeTA, Wroclaw, Poland, 25-28 Oct 2018 (British Abstract Short Film programme curated by Nag Vladermersky)
- Museum of Digital Art (MuDA), Zurich, Switzerland, Thu 5 Jul 2018 (Metaz series Max Hattler artist talk)
- Animation x Experimental: International Experimental Animation Exhibition 2018, Fuzhong 15, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2 Jun 2018 (lecture: ‘Animation Between Visual Music and Narrative Abstraction’)
2017
- Abstract Heterotopias, Melbourne Planetarium, Melbourne, Australia, 29 Nov (fulldome 4K version, screening curated by Dirk de Bruyn and Paul Fletcher)
- Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27 Nov (Oblique Narrative and Synaesthetic Experience – The Abstract Animations of Max Hattler)
- KLEX: Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival, Checkmate Creative, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 26 Nov (featured artist talk)
- KLEX, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25 Nov (Max Hattler Retrospective)
- VisMatters, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington (Sydney), Australia, 21 Nov – 5 Dec (ON|OFF 100101010 curated by June Kim and Ina Conradi)
- 56 Moon Animation Festival, Chengdu, China, 11 Nov (Max Hattler solo screening)
- Memoires de guerre, Ciclic Animation, Vendome, France, 10 Oct
- Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 7-11 Sep (Max Hattler: In Persona screening)
- Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 7-11 Sep (Deep Space 8K: Max Hattler: Expanded Abstractions)
- London Animation Club, London, 1 Aug (Max Hattler Returns to…)
- Expo 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan, 14 Jul (Max Hattler Retrospective presented by Visual Music Award and German Pavilion)
- RIDCH Conference on Digital Art, Design and Advertising, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2 Jun (presentation of paper ‘Narrative-Abstraction: Abstraction as Narrative in Time-Based Media’)
- Stuttgart Media University, Stuttgart, Germany, 13 Apr (guest lecture)
- Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany, 4-9 Apr (Animated: Max Hattler Retrospective)
2016
- Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, 24
- Punto y Raya Festival, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 23 Oct (masterclass)
- Beyond Noumenon, International Experimental Animation Exhibition and Forum, New Media Art Center, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China, 18 Oct – 1 Nov
- Directors Lounge: Wahlprogramm, BAIZ, Berlin, Germany, 9 Sep
- School of Arts, Renmin University, Beijing, China, 3 Sep (guest lecture)
- Animator Festival, Poznan, Poland, 9 Jul (Royal College of Art screening introduced by Andrzej Klimowski)
- Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, 30 Jun (guest lecture)
- School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 15 Jun (Brown Bag Research presents Reflections on Abstractions by Max Hattler)
- SCAD Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 10 May (New Media Art and Animation lecture)
- KISKAKAS Animation Celebration, Tesla, Budapest, Hungary, 29-30 Apr 2016 (organised by MOME Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design)
- Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia, 2 Apr (30 years of animation Royal College of Art screening)
- Tiny Animation Festival, Teiva, Sderot Yerushalayim 19, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, 25 Feb (30 years of animation Royal College of Art screening)
- California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA, 10 Feb (lecture)
- California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 9 Feb (lecture)
2015
- Summit At Sea, Miami and International Waters, 13-16 Nov
- Indie-Anifest, Seoul, Korea, 17-21 Sep (Max Hattler screening)
- MIAF, Melbourne, Australia, 24 Jun (Max Hattler screening+Q&A)
- UEL Shorts, Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London, UK, 7 Jun
- Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna, Austria, 26-31 May
- Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, 19 May (lecture)
- Open Source Art Forum, WCO Korea, Seoul, Korea, 17 May (lecture)
- ITFS, Stuttgart, Germany, 7 May (‘Best of Animation’ screening curated by Mari-Liis Rebane)
- Resonate, Belgrade, Serbia, 17 Apr (lecture)
- Monstra Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 17 Mar (masterclass)
- Monstra Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 16-22 Mar (jury retrospective)
- Tehran International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran, 12 Mar (masterclass)
- School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, 12 Jan (lecture)
2014
- Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, 15 Dec (masterclass)
- Institut für Musik und Medien, Düsseldorf, Germany, 11 Dec (lecture)
- Cologne Game Lab, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, 10 Dec (lecture)
- Goldsmiths, University of London, London, 9 Dec (lecture)
- University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 3 Dec (lecture)
- Middlesex University, London, 2 Dec (lecture)
- Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 21 Nov (retrospective)
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 19 Nov (lecture)
- CalArts, Valencia, California, USA, 17 Nov (lecture)
- Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK, 7 Nov (lecture)
- London International Animation Festival, London, 1 Nov (masterclass)
- London College of Communication, London, UK, 30 Oct (lecture)
- Dresden Audiovisual Experience (DAVE), Dresden, Germany, 23 Oct (‘Animation-disc-o’ screening)
- Royal College of Art, London, 22 + 23 Oct (artist talks)
- Medialogy, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 Oct (lecture)
- London Animation Club, Green Man, Fitzrovia, London, 7 Oct (artist talk)
- National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, UK, 29 Sep (lecture)
- CASS, London Metropolitan University, London, 24 Sep (artist talk)
- ANtIMATION, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 21 Jul – 8 Aug (exhibition curated by Rachael Parsons and Lubi Thomas)
- ASIFA-SF 3rd Annual Spring Show, Randall Jr. Museum, San Francisco, 22 Jun
- Fest Anca, Zilina, Slovakia, 18-22 Jun (Profile: Max Hattler)
- 40. Open Ohr Festival, Mainz, Germany, 6-9 Jun
- Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia, 3-8 Jun (Royal College of Art screening)
- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela, 14 May (lecture)
- Northwest Animation Festival, Portland, Oregon, 12-18 May
- School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, 28 Apr (lecture)
- Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 15-20 Apr (‘Animation-disc-o’ screening)
- Where are we now? – Videokunstinterventionen für eine neue Welt, Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart, Germany, 18 Dec 2013 – 15 Mar 2014 (Stefan Möckel, Max Hattler, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay 3-person exhibition)
- KASKcinema, Ghent, Belgium, 20 Feb (lecture)
- Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, 19 Feb (lecture)
- Sint-Lucas, Ghent, Belgium, 18 Feb (talk at Digital Design International Day)
- Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK, 12 Feb (Max Hattler masterclass organized by Animate Projects as part of Animex)
2013
- Middlesex University (Animation Dept), London, 9 Dec (lecture)
- University of East London, London, UK, 22 Nov (artist talk)
- Royal College of Art, London, 20 Nov (artist talk)
- International Festival of Fulldome Arts ‘Dimension’, Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia, 14-17 Nov
- International Festival of Fulldome Arts ‘Dimension’, Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia, 16 Nov (artist talk)
- Animatou Festival, Geneva, Switzerland, 11 Oct (masterclass)
- Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, 9 Oct (lecture)
- TOFUZI Animation Festival, Batumi, Georgia, 4 Oct (masterclass)
- Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria, 4 Aug (artist talk)
- Nozstock Festival, Herefordshire, 26 Jul (Max Hattler Retrospective)
- BAFICI Animado, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 24-28 Jul (25 Years at the RCA)
- East End Film Festival, London, 3 Jul (Emerge talk)
- Schaustelle, Munich, Germany, 15+16 Jun (Max Hattler: Selected Works)
- Schaustelle, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 15 Jun (artist talk)
- Science Friction, Copenhagen, Denmark, 28 May (artist talk)
- Platform4, Aalborg, Denmark, 16 May (workshop)
- Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 May (artist talk)
- AniFest, Teplice, Czech Republic, 27 Apr (lecture)
- London College of Communication, London, UK,
- Frenz: Art in April, Strongroom, London, UK, 17 Apr (screening/talk)
- Reset Festival Special: Licht & Schatten, Münster, Germany, 5 Apr
- Aubagne Int’l Film Festival, France, 18-23 Mar (Anima Carte Blanche)
- 6 Million Ways of Getting into the Arts: Animation, University of Salford, MediaCityUK, 16 Mar (talk/panel)
- Go Short, Nijmegen, NL, 13-17 Mar
- Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK, 8 Mar (lecture)
- Exploring Your Future, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK, 13 Feb (lecture)
- University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK, 8 Feb (lecture)
- Royal College of Art, London, 31 Jan (talk)
2012
- Digital Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco, 6-8 Dec
- Conversation21, Middle East Centre, LSE, London, UK, 23 Nov
- HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland, 22 Nov (talk)
- Fulldome UK, National Space Centre, Leicester, UK, 16-17 Nov (finalist)
- Freie Kunstakademie, Fellbach, Germany, 15 Nov (artist talk)
- Reset Festival, Münster, Germany, 12 Nov
- Petersburg Computer Animation Studio, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2 Nov (presentation at Theories of Modern Animation seminar, hosted by Konstantin Bronzit and Anatoly Prokhorov)
- Multivision Festival, Pro Arte, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1 Nov (artist talk)
- Collab, Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia, 13-17 Oct
- Voll aufs Auge: Filme mit Fantasie, Shorts Attack Tour, Germany, Sep
- Zeitguised, Max Hattler, Android Jones & PES, San Francisco State University, CA, USA, 21 Sep, 19:30 (ASIFA Lecture by Ben Ridgway)
- The Factory, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK, 27 Aug (lecture)
- Max Hattler Presents…, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK, 23 Aug, 18:30
- Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago, Italy, 20-28 Jul (Max Hattler retrospective)
- Political Video Art, Mindpirates, Berlin, 18 Jul (curated by Pauline Doutreluingne and Cynthia Iurinic)
- Golden Kuker Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, 12 Jun (Max Hattler Panorama)
- ISFF Detmold, Germany, 8 Jun (Max Hattler Retrospective)
- Royal College of Art, London, 30 May (presentation/workshop)
- FMX, Stuttgart, Germany, 11 May (lecture)
- Crossing Europe, Linz, Austria, Fri 27 Apr, 21:00
- Fumetto Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland, 29 Mar – 1 Apr (curated by Frank Braun / Fantoche)
- Vilnius Art Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania, 27 Mar
- Go Short, Nijmegen, NL, 18 Mar (Max Hattler Special Screening)
- Animac, Lleida, Spain, 1-4 Mar (Max Hattler Special Screening)
- Royal College of Art, London, 23 Feb (presentation/workshop)
- Royal College of Art, London, 16 Feb (presentation/workshop)
2011
- University of the Arts Bremen, Germany, 2 Dec (lecture)
- Festival Animacam, Spain, 1-18 Dec
- Max Hattler Screening, Off and Free Film Festival, Seoul, Korea, 17-23 Nov
- Reggio Film Festival, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 13 Nov
- Pictotition, Stuttgart, Germany, Sat 22 Oct (by ITFS)
- East Pop Red, Red Gallery, London, 12-18 Oct
- Ulm Szenen – Szene Ulm, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany, 11 Oct
- East Pop West, London, 30 Sep – 2 Oct (Max Hattler solo screen)
- CAMP Festival for Visual Music, ZKM/HfG, Karlsruhe, Germany, 22 Sep
- New Screen New-Castle, Newcastle, UK, Sat 10 Sep
- Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria, 5-12 Aug
- CinemadaMare, Italy, 1 July – 25 August
- Exploding Cinema, The Others, London, Sat 9 Jul
- Fest Anca, Zilina, Slovakia, 1-3 Jul
- Wiener Kunstschule, Vienna, Austria, 11 May
- Donaufestival, Filmgalerie, Krems, Austria, 30 Apr
- NOVA Contemporary Culture, EAV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 Apr
- Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 15 Apr
- Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, 29 Mar
- Middlesex University, London, 28 Mar
- AA School of Architecture, London, 14 Mar
- Max Hattler Masterclass, Anima Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 11 Mar
- Animation is 25, 2Annas Projector, Riga, Latvia, 8 + 21 Mar
- University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, 7 Mar
- 25 Years at the RCA, Animated Exeter, Exeter, UK, 18 Feb
- University of East London, London, 8 Feb
- Structuring Strategies: Max Hattler, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA, 25 Jan
- Sound & Stories Amplified: Hattler & Odell, Solothurn Film Festival, 22 Jan
- Max Hattler FOCAL masterclass, Solothurn, Switzerland, 21 Jan
- Max Hattler: Relations & Abstrations (curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr), Directors Lounge, Berlin, 8 Jan
2010
- Motion Graphics Festival, 30 venues across USA, incl. Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington DC
- Videomedeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, 17-19 Dec
- Yota Space, St. Petersburg, Russia, 11 Dec
- Festival du film de Vendome, Vendôme, France, 8 Dec
- Royal College of Art 25!, Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia, 19 Nov
- Met Film School, Ealing Studios, London, UK, 15 Nov
- Musikhuset, Aarhus, Denmark, 20 Oct
- Emmentaler Filmtage, Rüttihubelbad Walkringen, Switzerland, 16-17 Oct
- Goethe-Institut, Ankara, Turkey, 13 Oct
- Anti Design Festival, London, UK, 18-26 Sep
- The Great Exhibition of Schön!8, German Embassy, London, 15 Sep
- MUMIA, Brazil, Betim & Nova Lima, 6-12 Sep; Belo Horizonte, 13-19 Sep
- I-Dent: Identity and Media Contortion (curated by Omar Kholeif), Media Facades Festival, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, 6 Sep
- I-Dent: Identity and Media Contortion (curated by Omar Kholeif), Media Facades Festival, FACT, Liverpool, UK, 4-5 Sep
- Secret Cinema, Alexandra Palace, London, UK, 3-5 Sep
- Short Films in Shorts, Dalston Rooftop Park, London, 18 Aug
- Fest Anca, Zilina, Slovakia, 30 Jul – 1 Aug
- contemporary art ruhr 2010, Essen, Germany, 2-4 Jul
- Marin Festival of Short Film and Video, San Rafael, CA, USA, 1-5 Jul
- MOCAmpus, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan, 19 Jun
- Dreaming with Open Eyes, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, 15 Jun – 18 Jul
- Signal and Noise Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 28 May
- Jornada de Comunicación, Universidad Marista, Mexico City, 30 Apr
- Habitacion del Ruido, UCSJ, Mexico City, 28 Apr
- Ciné Lumière, Institut Français, London, 18 Apr
- Ferienakademie 2010, Kloster Roggenburg, Germany, 6 Apr
- Freie Kunstakademie Nürtingen, Nürtingen, Germany, 17 Mar
- Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, 16 Mar
- AV Festival, Middlesbrough, UK, 5 Mar + 10 Mar
- University of Westminster, London, UK, 8 Mar
- Ravensbourne College of Design, London, UK, 17 Feb
- 6th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, 14 Feb
- The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark, 9 Feb
- Video Dada, University Art Gallery, Irvine, USA, 8 Jan – 6 Feb
2009
- Southampton Solent University, UK, 17 Feb + 23 Apr + 7 Dec
- Altered States, Video Vortex V, Cimatics Festival, Brussels, 20 + 28 Nov
- Ravensbourne College of Design, London, UK, 28 Jan + 20 Nov
- Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway, 14 Nov
- Tomorrow City Open Theater, Incheon, Korea, Nov
- Optica Festival, Madrid, Spain, 16 Oct
- Branchage Film Festival, Jersey, Channel Islands, 3 Oct
- Imagine (curated by Stoffel Debuysere and Maria Palacios Cruz), CASZuidas Urban Screen Festival, Amsterdam, Holland, 4-5 Sep
- SICAF, Seoul, Korea, 12-16 Aug
- Derapage, Paysages Éphémères, Montreal, Canada, 9 Jul
- ArtsFest, Wellington College, Berkshire, UK, 23 Jun
- Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 16-21 Jun
- Edge of Arabia opening night, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 6 Jun
- Greenfest, Brisbane, Australia, 5 Jun
- Animation Symposium, Volda University College, Norway, 7 May
- Synaesthesia: Science & Art, Grenada, Spain, 26-29 Apr
- Kunst (er)schöpft, Kloster Roggenburg, Germany, 11 Mar – 17 Apr
- Abstracta screening at Montévidéo, Marseille, France, 10 Apr
- RAF Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 29 Mar – 4 Apr
- Stomper at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London, UK, 5 Mar
- Refresco! / TDI: Legion, Neuquen, Argentina, 26-28 Feb
- Stomper at Fluc, Vienna, Austria, 7 Feb
- Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, Germany, 22 Jan
2008
- ISFF Leuven, Belgium, 29 Nov – 6 Dec
- E-Magiciens, Valenciennes, France, 27 Nov
- Collision rescored by Guillemots, Assembly Rooms, Derby, UK, 24 Nov
- Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia, 21 Nov
– tank.tv Fresh Moves at Guangzhou Triennial, China, 6 Sep – 16 Nov - Royal College of Art, London, UK, 6 Nov
- Fairecourt theatrical screenings tour, France, 8 Oct – 6 Nov
- 700IS Tour at Örebro Int’l Video Art Festival, Sweden, 26 Oct
- The Film Diary, Leicester, UK, 24 Oct
- 700IS Tour at Arizona State University, Arizona, USA, 6 Oct
- Abstracta, Rome, Italy, 24 Sep
- Animae Caribe Festival, Trinidad, 23 Sep
- 700IS Tour at Alsager Gallery, Manchester, UK, 22 Sep
- We The People, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, USA, 15-17 Sep
- AnimationVolda Festival, Volda, Norway, 13 Sep
- The Magic Piano, London, 9 Aug
- Tenderpixel Gallery, London, 30 Jul
- Era New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw, Poland, 26 + 27 Jul
- Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka + Yokohama, Japan, Apr-Jul
- Design SFF, AIGA SF, San Francisco, USA, 18 Jun
- Nuit de la vidéo LESYEUXLANUIT, Nancy, France, 13 Jun
- Cross Currents, Royal College of Art, London, 10 Jun
- Apple Store Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, 26 May
- Planet Studyo Plus One, Osaka, Japan, 24 + 25 May
- Kyoto Saga University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 20 May
- Osaka Electro-Communication University, Osaka, Japan, 15 May
- Artprojx Space, London, UK, 15 May
- Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, 14 May
- Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 12 May
- Dohjidai Gallery of Art, Kyoto, Japan, 29 April – 11 May
- Snack Nagako, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Japan, 9 May
- Uplink Factory, Tokyo, Japan, 7 + 8 May
- FFIAK, Yokohama, Japan, 6 May
- Apple Store Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, 5 May
- Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden, 17 Apr – 4 May
- Pecha Kucha Night, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Japan, 24 Apr
- Hattler/Seidel Japan Tour Launch, Le Baron, Tokyo, Japan, 23 Apr
- Notte Bianca in Università, University of Pisa, Italy, 24 Apr
- Bristol School of Animation, UWE, Bristol, UK, 16 Apr
- Resfest 2008, Turkey: Eskisehir, Istanbul, Izmir, 19 Mar – 13 Apr
- Creative Futures, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 9 Apr
- 700IS, Egilsstaðir, Iceland, 29 Mar – 5 Apr
- artbelowzero, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 21 Mar
- Animar 3, Solar, Vila do Conde, Portugal, 12 Jan – 16 Mar
- artbelowzero, Westbourne Studios, London, 12 Mar
- Byron Bay FF, Australia, 29 Feb – 8 Mar
- FDMX, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK, 6 Mar
- Newport School of Art, University of Wales, Newport, UK, 4 Mar
- The Winterfestival, Kramfors, Sweden, 27-28 Feb
- London Animation Studio, Central St. Martin’s College, London, UK, 25 Feb
- Kulturmagasinet, Sundsvall, Sweden, 22-23 Feb
- tank.tv Fresh Moves, Phoenix Arts, Leicester, UK, 12 Feb
- University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK, 7 Feb
- FDMX, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 23 Jan
- London SFF, London, 4-13 Jan (Dazzle Films screening)
2007
- Imagina Awards, Monte Carlo, Monaco
- Clermont-Ferrand SFF, France (Autour de Minuit screening)
- Platform IAF, Portland, Oregon, USA
- The Animation Show 3, festival tour across USA and Canada
- Resfest 2007, Korea (Best of By Design: Seminal Films From 01-06)
- Norwegian SFF, Grimstad, Norway
- San Francisco IFF, USA
- Dresden ISFF, Germany (Animation Exchange Forum screening)
- St. Louis IFF, St. Louis, USA
- Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Premio Simona Gesmundo, Italy
- Arcipelago SFF, Rome, Italy
- Istanbul IAF, Turkey
- Trunk – The Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, Sweden
- Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, Flensburg, Germany
- Fredrikstad AF, Fredrikstad, Norway
- Anim’est IAFF, Bucharest, Romania
- Media Art Friesland Festival, Leeuwarden, Holland (artist talk)
- AirVideo, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, March
- Showcomotion FF, Sheffield, UK
- Family Friendly FF, Manchester, UK
- Muuuvi ISFF, Lazar Castle, Romania
- Xinacittà, Barcelona, Spain
- Animayo, Las Palmas, Gran Canari
- UK Brutal – Mostra de Cinema de Arte Inglês, Brasília, Brazil
- Zlinsky Pes, Zlin, Czech Republic
- Phoenix Cinema at East Finchley Community Festival, London
- The Emperor’s New Shorts, Cockpit Theatre, London
- Casa da Animação, Porto, Portugal
- Popcorn, Envy Post, London
- Happy Hour 2, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles
- Collisions’ at Soho House, London
- Dime Novel Screen, Sassoon Gallery, London
- Signals Shorts .07, Colchester, UK
- Epic Shorts at Real Institute, Betws-y-Coed, Wales
- Battle of Ideas, Royal College of Art, London
- Visiones de la animación, CAAC, Seville, Spain
- Transvizualia, Gdynia, Poland
- Projektor at Cafe Gallery Projects, London
- Pleinbioscoop, Rotterdam, Holland
- Linoleum Festival, Moscow, Russia
- Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
- Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
- Ferdinand-von-Steinbeiß Schule für Grafikdesign, Ulm, Germany
- Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Gymnasium, Weissenhorn, Germany
- Max Hattler Retrospective, Roxy, London
- Max Hattler: Filme & Videos 2003-2007, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany
2006
- Annecy IAF, France
- Edinburgh IFF, UK
- Sydney FF, Australia
- Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland
- Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, London
- Amiens IFF, France
- Sarajevo FF, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Hull ISFF, UK
- Split FF, Split, Croatia
- Bradford AF, UK
- Videomedeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Videologia Festival, Russia
- Némo, Paris
- Darklight Festival, Dublin
- PISAF, Puchon, South Korea
- EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
- Worldwide SFF, Toronto, Canada
- Anima, Brussels
- Encounters SFF, Bristol, UK
- Badalona ISFF, Spain
- Tindirindis IAFF, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Rencontres cinématographiques de la Seine-Saint-Denis, France
- Festival Temps d’Images, la Ferme du buisson, France
- MIAF, Melbourne, Australia
- LIAF, London
- Unimovie, Pescara, Italy
- Detmold ISFF, Germany
- Media Art Friesland, Holland
- Fairecourt theatrical screenings tour, France
- Animac, Lleida, Spain
- Square Eyes Festival, Arnhem, Holland
- Canarias Mediafest, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
- Balchik ISFF, Bulgaria
- 4 Film Festival – No Words, Bolzano, Italy
- Digital City, London
- D-NEFF Experimental Exhibition, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- BYDESIGN 06, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, USA
- The Animation Show at Comic Con, San Diego, USA
- Courtisane Festival, Gent, Belgium
- Kinofilm, Manchester, UK
- NPS New Arrivals, Holland
- Future FF, Bologna, Italy
- Future Cinema at Fabric, London
- Future Shorts in UK, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Latvia, Russia, Mexico
- Un festival c’est trop court, Nice, France
- Mostra de Curtmetratges de Sagunt, Spain
- London SFF (Halloween SFF), London
- Animex, Middlesbrough, UK
- UK Film Centre at Cannes Film Festival, France
- His Life is Full of Miracles at Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
- Somewhere Else at Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
- ‘Collisions’ at El Levante, Rosario, Argentina
- San Giò Video Festival, Verona, Italy
- Blink at Gasworks Gallery, London
- Blink at The Bigger Picture, Manchester
- Número-Projecta, Lisbon, Portugal
- International Days of Documentary Cinema, Lublin, Poland
- 4×4, 93 Feet East, London
- Courtivore, Rouen, France
- artbelowzero at Westbourne Studios, London
- Sonar FF, Florence, Italy
- Experience 5.0 at Le Cube, Issy, France
- Tortured in Paradise at Studio 27, San Francisco
- Politically Incorrect FF, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Australian IAF, Australia
- Unfurled: A Public Exhibition of Flags, Tallin, Estonia
- BUDA Arts Center, Kortrijk, Belgium
- Backup Festival (shortlisted for Backup Award), Germany
- Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia
2005
- Resfest 2005, global tour to 37 cities
- DOTMOV, Sapporo, Japan
- Animadrid, Spain
- NIAF, Norwich, UK
- LIAF, London
- Vendome FF, France
- KaraFilm Festival, Karachi, Pakistan
- Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia
- Unfurled: A Public Exhibition of Flags, Tartu, Estonia
- Imperial War Museum Student Film Festival, London
- Backup Festival (shortlisted for Werkleitz Award), Germany
- Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Avanto Festival, Helsinki, Finland
- Anifest, Budapest
- The Show, Royal College of Art, London
Selected Publications & More
- Animation, Andrew Selby, Laurence King Publishing, 2013
- Short Film of the Day, Film School Rejects, 19 Mar 2011
- Animation is Twenty Five, Royal College of Art, DVD, 2010
- Canal+ TV, Spain, 2010 (+ interview)
- Limited Language : rewriting design – Responding to a feedback culture, by Colin Davies & Monika Parrinder, pub. Birkhäuser, 2009
- BBC TV, Northern Ireland, UK, 2009
- Collision T-shirts published by Nano Universe, Japan, 2009
- Collision T-shirts published by Beams T, Japan, 2008
- Max Hattler vs. Robert Seidel DVD, Japan, 2008
- The Animation Show Vol. 3 DVD, USA, 2008
- Short of the Week, Wk 37, 10-16 Sep 2007
- Fresh Moves DVD, by tank.tv, UK, 2007
- Qoob TV, Italy, 2007
- Movieola, Canada, 2007
- Showcase TV, Canada, 2007
- Atomfilms, USA, 2007
- BBC Film Network, UK, since Dec 2006
- Cultura TV, Holland, Nov 2006
- ‘boards screening room, Canada, Oct 2006
- Mediakunst in beeld en context, Holland, Sep 2006
- Repérages issue 56 + DVD, France, Sep 2006
- Arte TV, 9/11 issue of Court Circuit / KurzSchluss, France/Germany, Sep 2006
- shots Adventures in Animation DVD, UK, Jun 2006
- Repérages issue 55 + DVD, France, Jun 2006
- The Reel DVD, UK, Mar 2006
- Specialten DVD, issue 13, UK, Feb 2006
- Canal+ TV, France + Africa, 2006
- RES magazine + DVD, USA, Sep 2005
– Supported and promoted by the British Council
What others have said
an ingenious visual spectacle in which the artist constructs and deconstructs, morphs and reproduces abstract patterns of American and Islamic connotations.
Kind of appropriate movie after war hawk Obama’s big week.
Totally Naked (7 May 2011, the week after Osama Bin Laden was officially killed by US Navy SEALs)
Max Hattler in MDR Thüringen Journal: ‘Backup Festival Weimar: Kurz und intensiv’, 13 May 2012
In light of recent news of the world the film remains relevant. And beautiful.
Bradford Shellhammer, Sundance Channel, 12 May 2011
Sia i colori che i suoni contribuiscono nel rendere l’effetto di uno caleidoscopio, e i movimenti di transizione verso forme differenti ricordano i corti di Oskar Fischinger. Il suono può essere quello di una collisione, tuttavia il video si conclude con l’ambiguo effetto sonoro dei giochi di fuoco, la cui interpretazione rimane dubbia, oscillando tra la celebrazione e la distruzione; sempre alla fine, i colori sembrano stridere l’un l’altro per diventare una ruota armonica del colore: ancora l’interpretazione rimane aperta a differenti punti di vista.
Cinema sperimentale, Nov 2013
a pulsating mash-up of stars and stripes and Islamic patterns.
Art Monthly, Nov 2007
“Explores Politics Through Shapes.
Sheerly Avni, Open Culture, 2011
Short Film of the Day: Collision. Why Watch? Sometimes it’s important to forget about actors or a narrative and just go with some incredible visuals that happen to have an underlying socio-political subtext. Say what? Exactly. It’s abstract that’s actually watchable with symbols that don’t pull punches. Your childhood kaleidoscope meets American quilting and Islamic religious icons with explosive consequences. What Will It Cost? Just 2 minutes of your time. Does it get better any better than that? Check out Collision for yourself.
Abaius, Film School Rejects, 2011
Max Hattler puts America and Islam in the blender. Beautiful smoothie.
Fanfarlo, 2011
Max Hattler creates kaleidoscopic animations which are more than mere visual titillations; in Collision he takes Islamic patterns and American quilts and morphs them, with interesting results.
KINO 10, 2011
Limited edition Japanese Collision t-shirt’s a pussy magnet.
絕佳萬花向圖案設計動畫影片，保證精彩！真是充滿想像力！喜歡這支影片
Yufu Lin, Taiwan, 2011
Max Hattler, un artista audiovisual que persigue nuevos horizontes de expresión en movimiento, es el autor de estas fascinante pieza. ‘Collision’ es un interesante clip, de crítica política, en la que los patrones de estética islámica confluyen con la cromaticidad de la bandera americana. Un combinación de elementos geométricos y sonoros que contextualiza una historia narrada desde otra perspectiva.
0 Por Ciento, 2011
… Change comes through action. If we look to visual culture then it is posters and placards which give visual presence to protesting voices in the public domain (even if they can’t change things in themselves). Art, like film, mediates the (violent) world, extracting its fragments and splicing them back together as meta-comment; reflection, for the long run. We can see this quite well in Collision, a short animation by Max Hattler. Here, Islamic patterns and American quilts, the vernacular of two different cultures, kaleidoscope into the geometry of flags to the rhythm of artillery fire, fireworks and the muezzin’s call to prayer. Although the film draws on the everyday, and is downloaded back into it via the personal desktop, it doesn’t become dissipated by ‘use’. …
Monika Parrinder & Colin Davies, Limited Language: rewriting design – responding to a feedback culture (Birkhauser), 2009
To note the five long years that the Iraq campaign has chalked up this month, what better way to mark the occasion than with Max Hattler’s protean, prize-laden and thought-provoking animated artwork. This abstract reflection on the clash of cultures forcibly merges American quilts and Islamic patterns into beautiful, yet unsettling kaleidoscopic scenes. Make sure to launch this in the stand-alone player option and listen with headphones on, to see how Christopher Wilson’s subtly ominous sound mix transforms these whirling, warring images, as a muezzin’s call and the crack of artillery fire fracture Hattler’s primary- coloured mandalas like shrapnel.
guardian.co.uk, 2008
Collision by Max Hattler is a joyful mash-up of Islamic patterns, American quilts, kaleidoscopic op-art that adds up to a fresh, Sesame Street quality.
Adam Lee Davies, Little White Lies
Collision deploys a deft arsenal of shapes on paths, stars-and-kaleidoscope-striping geometry, with textures and forms culled from the ensigns of Americana and Islamism … The sound design is slick and significant, and this crackle-crisp sound imbues extrasensory depth, while punctuating the graphic … true innovation … great work
DINCA.org
Few works so elegantly capture the tensions between America and the Islamic world as Max Hattler’s Collision.
shortoftheweek.com
Collision is no different than a feature film like Babel, only speaks a different filmic language in expressing the same ideas.
Rick’s Flicks Picks
tank.tv interviewed Max Hattler in 2007, after Collision was included on their first DVD, ‘Fresh Moves: New Moving Images from the UK’.
an explosion of nationalist icons
Signal & Noise
an original depiction of aesthetics into politics
bbc.co.uk
an abstract satire based on the geometry of flags
Time Out London, 2006
a disturbing yet potent piece of abstract political filmmaking
RES Magazine, 2005
an abstract take on the War on Terror
Promo News
It’s like watching a fireworks display while on acid.
scifidimensions.com
Max Hattler’s unusual political short. Islam and America battle in a kaleidoscope of colours and patterns.
BoreMe
A cacophonous stoner delight.
LAS Magazine
brief but spectacular
Montreal Mirror
utter genius
ThickOnline
Clever as hell”
The Curious Brain
Other Projects
- 2023
Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image in O/S functions as an optical soundtrack. Abstract motion becomes sound. What you hear is what you see.
- 2017
A visualisation of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5, created with student animators at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
- 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.