Sync
A circular looping animation projection installation.
“There is an underlying unchanging sync at the center of everything.
A sync that was decided at the beginning of everything, and that rules everything.
Everything follows from that… all time, all physics, all life, all animation.”
Credits
Sync premiered on 25 August 2010 as part of ‘Time, What Makes Us Tick?’, an installation/exhibition at Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen, Holland.
‘Time, What Makes Us Tick?’ is a collaboration by artists Max Hattler and Nelleke Koop and scientists Prof. Dr. Eric Bergshoeff and Prof. Dr. Martha Merrow, conceptualised by Nathalie Beekman, produced by Pavlov E-Lab (Groningen, Holland) as part of their ‘Open Mind’ series of sci-art collaborations, and supported by the Open Workshop department of The Animation Workshop (Viborg, Denmark). Music by Dennis van Tilburg. Animation by Andreas Thomsen.
Spin
When conflict becomes a spectacle, the lines between destruction and entertainment get blurred…
Credits
Director: Max Hattler Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin Editing: Tony Fish, Max Hattler
Animation: Noriko Okaku, Albert Papaseit, Enrik Pavdeja, Tom Schwarz, Milad Firoozian, Max Hattler
Music and Sound: Eclectic Produced by Autour de Minuit Co-produced by Arcadi
With the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie (financial contribution)
With the participation of QOOB
Available formats: Full HD digital file, Beta SP, DigiBeta, DVD
Length: 4 min Year: 2010
1923 aka Heaven
1923 aka Heaven is an animation loop directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954).
1923 is based on Lesage’s painting A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World from 1923.
Credits
Director: Max Hattler Technical Director: David René Christensen
Sound: Blake Overgaard Previz/Layout: Thorvaldur Gunnarsson
Modelling: Thorvaldur Gunnarsson, Arnold Bagasha, Blake Overgaard
Animation: Casper Michelsen, Mikkel Vedel, Thorvaldur Gunnarsson, Blake Overgaard, Arnold Bagasha
Length: 1’50″ loop Year: 2010
1925 aka Hell
1925 aka Hell, is based on Lesage’s painting of the same name from 1925.
Credits
Director: Max Hattler Technical Director: Allan Lønskov
Sound: Adrian Dexter Previz/Layout: Adrian Dexter
Modelling: Adrian Dexter, Allan Lønskov, Casper Wermuth, David Otzen, Jakob Kousholt, Kristoffer Mikkelsen
Animation: Adrian Dexter, Allan Lønskov, Casper Wermuth, David Otzen, Ditte Frandsen
Lighting: David Otzen Rendering: Adrian Dexter, Allan Lønskov, David Otzen
Length: 1’36″ loop Year: 2010
AANAATT
The ever-shifting shape of Analogue Futurism. 100% digital-effects free.
Credits
Director: Max Hattler Music: Jemapur
Creative Director: + cruz Animation: Max Hattler, Noriko Okaku
Assistant Animation: Philip Serfaty, Rodrigo Vives
Commissioned by: W+K Tokyo Lab
Available formats: HD, Beta SP, DVD
Length: 4’45″ Year: 2008
Collision
Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colours and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection.
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
See also Max Hattler live audiovisual performances