- 2016
Shapeshifter
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.
Summary
Official Trailer, 29. Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media.
Inspired by the festival’s 2016 motto Formwandler, Max Hattler’s trailer 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.
Credits
| Director | Max Hattler |
| Camera | Shihang Pan |
| Model | Riwen Zhang |
| Makeup | Xiao Mei |
| Assistant | Wing Nam Cheuk |
| Sound | Jean-Gabriel Becker |
| Commissioned by | Wand 5 e.V. |
| Available formats | DCP, 1080p HD h264, 24fps |
| Length | 0’40” (Filmwinter version) |
| Length | 0’30” (festival version) |
| Year | 2016 |
Screenings & Exhibitions
2023-2017
- Riom Prison, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France, 7 Jul 2023 (screening curated by Videoformes)
- Taichung International Animation Festival, Taichung, Taiwan, 11-20 Oct 2019 (Director in Focus 1)
- 15 Years of Athens Digital Arts Festival, FOKAS, Athens, Greece, 10-11 May 2019
- Now&After International Video Art Festival, Fabrika, Moscow, Russia, 28 Apr 2019, 15:00 and 19:00 (ADAF screening ‘Digital Collectives & Individualities’)
- Synthetic Mediart, Tapei Flower Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, 16-24 Mar 2019 (PostSynthetic Interactions through Digital Aesthetics programme curated by Eirini Olympiou)
- Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 14-17 Mar 2018
- Patchlab Digital Art Festival, Krakow, Poland, 28-29 Oct 2017 (Postfuture programme curated by Ilias Chatzichristodoulou)
- Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, 20 Oct 2017(ADAF Postfuture programme)
- OpenEyes Filmfest, Marburg, Germany, 20-23 Jul 2017
- Expo 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan, 14 Jul 2017 (Max Hattler Retrospective presented by Visual Music Award and German Pavilion)
- International Short Film Festival Detmold, Detmold, Germany, 30 Jun – 2 Jul 2017
- Splice Festival, London, UK, 26 May 2017
- Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 18-21 May 2017
- Stuttgart Media University, Stuttgart, Germany, 13 Apr 2017 (guest lecture)
- Filmfest Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 4-9 Apr 2017 (Animated: Max Hattler Retrospective)
- #PostFuture Journey, Athens International Airport, Greece, 8 Mar – 23 Jul 2017 (ADAF exhibition)
2016
- Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, 30 Jun 2016 (guest lecture)
- School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 15 Jun 2016 (Brown Bag Research presents Reflections on Abstractions by Max Hattler)
- SCAD Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 10 May 2016 (New Media Art and Animation lecture)
- California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA, 10 Feb 2016 (visiting artist lecture)
- Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany, 14-17 Jan 2016
Other Projects
- 2019
A symmetrical matrix of generative synthetic growth iterations of varying frequencies and intensities.
- 2018
Motion creation, energy transmission, kinetic combustion. Audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima, director Max Hattler, and a group of animators from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.