"partizan lab and partizan darkroom are pleased to report that we are now representing max hattler worldwide. find out more about max in the darkroom or at his new partizan lab page."

JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2010
for three months this summer, max hattler and noriko okaku are artists in residence at the open workshop department at the animation workshop in viborg, denmark.

SEPTEMBER 2010
private preview of new work sync is now online on vimeo. please email for password.

UNTIL 2 SEPTEMBER 2010
collision is playing at fact in liverpool, uk, in a an outdoor screening programme entitled 'i-dent: identity and media contortion' as part of media facades festival (28 aug - 2 sep).

UNTIL 4 SEPTEMBER 2010
together with ace norton, kaleem aftab, geraldine gomez + ries straver, max is on the jury at circuito off, venice, italy (1-4 sep). the festival is showing 1923, 1925 and spin in a focus on partizan on 2 + 3 september. max will also play (O) with noriko okaku at the festival on sat 4 sep.

3 TO 4 SEPTEMBER 2010
1923 aka heaven is screening at migz festival in moscow, russia.

3 TO 9 SEPTEMBER 2010
aanaatt is screening at best of isff detmold in datca, turkey.

UNTIL 11 SEPTEMBER 2010
spin is screening at ars electronica in linz, austria (2-11 sep).

6 TO 19 SEPTEMBER 2010
mumia underground world animation festival in brazil is showing a retrospective of max's films. 6-12 september in betim + nova lima; 13-19 september in belo horizonte.

7 TO 12 SEPTEMBER 2010
aanaatt is screening at fantoche international animation film festival.

14 SEP TO 1 NOV 2010
spin is screening in lithuania at touring film festival tinklai in vilnius, kaunas, klaipeda, siauliai and panevezys.

15 TO 19 SEPTEMBER 2010
spin is competing for political animation award + international animated short at klik! amsterdam animation festival.

SEPTEMBER 2010
1923 aka heaven and 1925 aka hell are screening at floating world animation festival in portland, oregon, usa.

SEPTEMBER 2010
coming mid-september: max hattler interview in schön! magazine.

18 TO 26 SEPTEMBER 2010
spin and collision are screening at anti design festival in london, uk.

23 TO 26 SEP 2010
spin is screening at branchage film festival, jersey, channel islands.

23 SEP TO 1 OCT 2010
spin is screening in competition at animadrid in madrid, spain.

FRI 24 SEPTEMBER 2010
where's your head at and 1925 aka hell are part of a presentation of abstract animation at the municipal cultural centre in myslowice, poland, curated by alicja grabarczyk.

24 SEP TO 3 OCT 2010
spin is screening at calgary international film festival in calgary, canada.

8 TO 17 OCTOBER 2010
spin is in competition at anim'est international animation film festival in bucharest, romania.

TUE 12 OCT 2010, 20:00
max hattler is performing live improvisation audio-visual concert asure with turkish composer mehmet can ozer at goethe-institut, ankara, turkey.

WED 13 OCT 2010, 18:30
max hattler lecture + screening at goethe-institut, ankara, turkey.

13 TO 17 OCT 2010
where's your head at + spin + aanaatt are screening at international animation film festival golden kuker in sofia, bulgaria.

14 TO 17 OCT 2010
spin + aanaatt at bunter hund int'l short film festival, munich, germany.

15 TO 17 OCT 2010
spin + aanaatt at mercado 3d wire in segovia, spain.

18 TO 24 OCTOBER 2010
1923 aka heaven is screening in the international competition at dok leipzig in leipzig, germany.

TUE 19 OCT 2010, 20:00
max hattler + mehmet can ozer are performing asure at goethe-institut, ankara, turkey.

20 TO 24 OCT 2010
max hattler + mehmet can ozer are playing an asure a/v mini tour in denmark. details to be confirmed.

23 OCT TO 1 NOV 2010
1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell are screening at the 8th int'l festival of visionary art chimeria in sedan, france.

28 TO 31 OCTOBER 2010
where's your head at + 1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell are screening at the 5th international festival of contemporary animation and media art linoleum in moscow, russia.

28 TO 31 OCTOBER 2010
1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell are screening at darklight festival, dublin.

NOVEMBER 2010
coming nov 2010: the end, an electric sheep anthology, includes max's essay sync - circular adventures in animation as well as specially commissioned contributions from the brothers quay, jack sargeant and others!

TUE 9 NOVEMBER 2010
max hattler + mehmet can ozer are performing asure at goethe-institut ankara, turkey.

10 TO 14 NOVEMBER 2010
1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell are screening at onedotzero_adventures in motion festival 2010 in london, uk.

10 TO 14 NOVEMBER 2010
aanaatt at invideo, milan, italy.

11 TO 28 NOVEMBER 2010
aanaatt is screening at alucine festival in toronto, canada, in a special programme curated by videoformes.

THU 18 NOVEMBER 2010
everything turns is screening at the colour of sound at lee rosy's tea room in nottingham, uk.

FRI 19 NOVEMBER 2010
aanaatt is screening at pantheon international xperimental film and animation festival in nicosia, cyprus.

DURING 20 TO 27 JAN 2011
max is holding a 1-day masterclass in switzerland at solothurn film festival. details to be confirmed.

for recent screenings please see individual films' sections. in august, max premiered new animation loop sync at time, what makes us tick? (noorderzon, groningen, holland), a collaborative installation by artists max hattler + nelleke koop with scientists prof. martha merrow + prof. eric bergshoeff, produced by pavlov e-lab + supported by open workshop. max also took part in rojo nova at the museum of image and sound in sao paulo, brazil, performing /\/\/\ + holding an a/v workshop with noriko okaku. jul/aug issue of italian magazine pig included an interview with max (pdf | online). in july, during the fifa world cup 2010, max's your highness premiered on zeit online with an interview discussing the work in relation to soccer. it got follow-up interviews by deutsche welle + cape town's weekend argus, was featured on arte tv, video static, directors notes + others. collision won a jury award at marin festival of short film + video. heaven + hell screened in a month-long max hattler solo exhibition at broadway in nottingham, uk, and in the darkroom, a 5-person exhibition at ccc, shizuoka, japan. max + noriko started their 3-month artist residency at the animation workshop in viborg, denmark. and thanks to goethe-institut ankara max met mehmet can özer in ankara, turkey, to prepare live a/v collaboration asure, premiering in october. in june, thanks to goethe-institut taipei, max hattler, robert seidel + daniel burkhardt were in taiwan for their 3-person show tripolar at moca taipei (exhibition 15 june - 18 july). max + robert also did an artist talk at moca's mocampus. listen to an interview with robert and max by the german division of radio taiwan international. also in june, max presented work in the doctorate in fine art end of year show at the university of east london. spin screened on austrian tv orf2. max initiated this year's videoformes exquisite corpse hd video collaboration project. max + noriko performed (O) at animafest zagreb and at vis - vienna independent shorts. max also premiered rescore 192010 at vis, and aanaatt was awarded a special mention in their animation avantgarde competition. /\/\/\ (by max hattler + noriko okaku) won the contest for audiovisual performances at videofestival in bochum, germany (/\/\/\ was performed by noriko with diane karner of decollage.tv covering for max who was away in taiwan). varoom magazine issue 12 came out, including darrly clifton's article animation's brave new worlds, discussing the work of max, quayola + richard fenwick. film & festivals magazine issue 22 included pooja pottenkulam's article the short of it featuring animators tony comley, ian gouldstone, max hattler, martin pickles, tim webb + more. in may, austrian tv channel okto screened a max hattler portrait in vis festivalfernsehen. franziska bruckner of vienna university hosted 'max hattler: director's talk' at ursula blickle videolounge at kunsthalle wien, and franziska's students wrote reviews of spin and of aanaatt. max was q+a'd by adam buxton at bug 19 at the nft in london, and by claire spencer cook at cryptic nights - onedotzero craftwork screening at cca glasgow. oh yes featured on court-circuit / kurzschluss on franco-german tv channel arte. max held a 3-day workshop at école régionale des beaux-arts de valence, france, which is culminating in a new animation film co-directed by max and erba lecturer nicolas flory, out in october. max also started work on time, what makes us tick? with pavlov e-lab in groningen, holland. in april, max signed to partizan for worldwide commercial representation. a max hattler solo exhibition opened at lumen eclipse in cambridge, massachusetts, usa (apr-june). thanks to goethe-institut mexiko and in collaboration with circuito electrovisiones, max presented his work in mexico city: a lecture at habitacion del ruido; live a/v set remixing the past at centro cultural de españa; and live set inchoate m3x/c(-) with pablo gav at jornada de comunicacion at universidad marista. max also acted as jury for the 1st annual universidad del claustro de sor juana audiovisual competition. in germany, max ran an experimental animation workshop at ferienakademie roggenburg (read about it in südwest presse), where he also showed four works in the group show kunst ist versuchung (with martin durham + eva-maria kollischan, feb-june); max played 3-screen live visuals to lexy's dj set at sucasa in ulm; he presented work in progress of his defa-award funded, japan-inspired film project bipolar (with robert seidel) at the animation exchange forum at filmfest dresden; jackmode agency in berlin started representing max for live visuals bookings; and aanaatt started screening on phase 3, a new visual music programme on german tv br-alpha, running weekly on fridays at 23:00. in london, max introduced collision + aanaatt at the animation film season at ciné lumière, and onedotzero acquired 1923 aka heaven, 1925 aka hell, drift + striper v0.1 for non-exclusive distribution and exhibitions representation. /\/\/\ featured in blanca regina's article in mcd – musiques et cultures digitales special edition 04. 1923 + 1925 were featured in stash dvd magazine issue 67, in televisual (and on their blog) on apengine, motionographer, promo news, and countless blogs. in march, aanaatt received a special mention at regensburg short film week, and max presented a screening of avant garde animation at animated worlds at cinephilia west in london. max also gave a mini-workshop and showed his work to animation students at university of westminster. in february, max directed two animation loops based on paintings by french outsider artist augustin lesage - 1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell - during a 5-day film jam with students at the animation workshop in viborg, denmark. the other directors who ran film jams were alexei alexeev, amy winfrey, jamie caliri, tod polson and priit tender. max also presented audiovisual abstractions at the 6th berlin int'l directors lounge, and he lectured at ravensbourne college in london. lrv_magazine came out, feat. max hattler, light surgeons, d-fuse, ne1co, shantell martin, actop, raquel meyers, and others. aanaatt was selected for animac mobile, a spain-wide touring programme curated by animac festival. aanaatt also toured the uk in the british animation awards public choice programme. during jan + feb, aanaatt screened weekly at la ennana marron in madrid. in january, spin premiered on canal+ in france, while max + noriko performed (O) at the 7th london short film festival, and /\/\/\ at electrovision, london. they also played oh yes at vis: kurzfilm(z)immer in vienna, austria. drift was shown in a videoformes special on souvenirs from earth tv on 22+23 jan, repeating monthly thru 2010.

2009 SELECTED
in december, max lectured at southampton solent university. he vj'ed at ex mercedes benz in neu-ulm and at jackbox nye at sucasa in ulm, germany. kate taylor wrote about max and his upcoming film spin on electric sheep. the book artist in residencies around the world came out, with two pages about max. in november, aanaatt received a special mention 'for the art form' at no-festival in chelyabinsk, russia. max was interviewed for apengine. max + noriko performed oh yes in belgium at int'l short film festival leuven and at cimatics festival in brussels. max was on the jury at fredrikstad animation festival in norway. the festival also presented a max hattler & noriko okaku retrospective, and the premiere of max + noriko's 3-screen live animation performance /\/\/\. also in nov, max attended exground filmfest with aanaatt; he lectured at ravensbourne college; and he presented his work - including a short preview of spin - at pecha kucha night london. the book limited language: rewriting design - responding to a feedback culture by colin davies + monika parrinder came out, featuring collision. in oct, andrew selby's book animation in process came out, featuring max in-depth with striper v0.1. max started teaching animation at goldsmiths again. and he embarked on a professional doctorate in fine art – supervised by john smith + michael o'pray – at his second teaching place, the university of east london. max attended dok leipzig with aanaatt; he presented a screening of his films, followed by live a/v set remixing the past at optica festival in madrid; and he had a retrospective with q+a at branchage film festival. branchage also presented a 'max hattler case study' as part of the short sighted panel discussion by bafta + shooting people. in september, aanaatt won the award for best design at eksjö animation festival in eksjö, sweden. max was at discovery 09 in amsterdam, where he played an experimental [3D camera + 3D laser scanner data] headline VJ set with help from enist + alex bucksch of TU delft. max also attended square eyes: hertz & lux / made in arnhem in arnhem, holland, presenting films and performing oh yes with noriko okaku. in august, max was on the jury at muuuvi festival in transylvania, also playing oh yes with noriko. in july, max + noriko performed oh yes at curtas vila do conde in portugal. in june, max attended annecy animation festival thanks to support from the british council. he also did a screening + talk at wellington college. and glastonbury festival showed a full-length recording of oh yes. max's where's your head at concert visuals for basement jaxx were featured on promo news, animation show, 'boards, creative review, netribution, videostatic, directors notes, page, and more. max was interviewed for jotta magazine, film london and videopark. aanaatt won the host award at videofestival bochum and it was featured in inmotion. in may, max gave a lecture on abstract animation at volda university college in norway. he presented a programme of german experimental films at image forum festival in tokyo with robert seidel. nano universe released max's limited edition collision t-shirts in japan - you can read about it in the may 2009 paper issue of someone's garden (in japanese). max also played oh yes live with noriko okaku at birobox workshops in nottingham, uk. in april, max + noriko premiered oh yes at moves09 in manchester. max also held a 5-day filmmaking masterclass at ferienakademie roggenburg in germany, and the accompanying exhibition kunst (er)schöpft showed four of his films. revija amaterskog filma in zagreb presented a screening of six of max's works, and max lectured at southampton solent university. aanaatt was featured in repérages magazine. since april 2009, drift is screening on german-french video art tv channel souvenirs from earth. in march, max made concert visuals for the egg. in feb, max was one of five featured artists at tratado de integracion: legion.02: refresco! in neuquen, argentina. he did a talk at southampton solent university and started teaching on the moving image + animation degrees at the university of east london. in january, max did talks at khm / academy of media arts in cologne and at ravensbourne college of design in london. he also attended int'l film festival rotterdam with aanaatt thanks to a film london film-makers festival fund travel award. ian lumsden featured drift on his animation blog and directors notes published an interview with max about aanaatt.

2008 SELECTED
in december, the max hattler vs. robert seidel dvd was released in japan by uplink. in november, jemapur's evacuation cd+dvd was released by w+k tokyo lab, it includes aanaatt. max spent oct+nov in paris, working on spin with autour de minuit. also in nov, max lectured and performed with noriko okaku at animated dreams festival in estonia; presented his work in tokyo; did a talk the royal college of art; and performed remixing the past at exground filmfest in germany. aanaatt featured in boards and max was interviewed by sprayblog and moonlinx.jp. in october, max was on the jury at curtocircuito festival in spain, and also performed remixing the past there. the book re-imagining animation - the changing face of the moving image by pauls wells + johnny hardstaff came out, featuring max's film drift. aanaatt was mentioned on countless blogs including motionographer and stash feed, with a nice interview on white-screen. and webdice.jp published an interview with max + robert seidel. japanese cg world, someone's garden magazine and quotation magazine all included sizeable articles about max's work. drift was featured in issue 22 of specialten dvd magazine, and it won awards for best digital film at london international animation festival and best experimental film at muuuvi festival in romania. storm studios in oslo signed max as a director for scandinavia (max left storm in 2010 when joining partizan). in september 2008, max was a guest at animae caribe in trinidad and animationvolda festival in norway, screening films and performing live visuals. in august and july, max played live visuals for the egg at camp bisco in new york state, usa, and at haselstock festival in england. finally, please click here for details of max hattler + robert seidel's 23-event 5-week japan tour in april + may 2008.

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