WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT 1923 AKA HEAVEN

"guaranteed to unhinge your worst creative block: 1923 and 1925 from Max Hattler and a hard-driving student crew from the The Animation Workshop in Viborg Denmark." Stash

"In 1923, Max has refashioned the Lesage painting as a stunning, futuristic metropolis, composed of countless separate moving elements. It is beautiful and hypnotic, and as one reviewer has already noted, like Las Vegas would be if it was pretty…" Promo News

"addictively hypnotic ... updating Lesage’s vision into a futuristic metropolis." ... "killer animation loop" The Animation Show

"strangely enticing" Televisual

"enigmatic" Motionographer

"hypnotic" Boards

"mesmerizing" BOOOOOOOM!

"Awesome" Beautiful/Decay

"Beautiful" Shift_4ward

"brilliant" The Curious Brain

"Loving this ... amazing ..." Ventilate

"I was floored by this piece … 1923 truly harnesses the spiritual nature of the original work which it was based on, for me it was like two great discoveries in one. Just google image search 'Augustin Lesage' and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about." David Montgomery, Silverfish Closet

"It’s nice to see someone bring a painting to life like Hattler does here, especially an older work." Living Proof Magazine

"... a stunning example of an animation loop that offers up something new through every cycle." Doodlescreen

"A looping masterpiece."
Tom Judd, Animade

"Amazingly trippy..." DoseNation

"Las Vegas if it was pretty..." Reel Aesthete

"Trippy Tech Take on Lesage" Dangerous Minds

"An interwoven, rhythmically aligned, neon world unfurls" Worldwide Short Film Festival

"i'm so taken by this new animation loop by max hattler… whereas this new piece has a special magic that is not quite rivaled by his previous works and colaborations, after watching 1923 for the first time yesterday, i started looking at his other videos and got sucked into nearly all of them. it was an afternoon well spent." the celluloid index

"... one of the most profound motion-graphics, vimeo clips I have witnessed this year. The elements displayed remind me of glimpses of the hidden and unseen worlds of psychedelic experiences, near death experiences & deep meditation." Prana Genius

"Animated Heaven" sleek magazine

"Really trippy stuff" Light Sound Dimension

"Um mix daqueles antigos livros da coleção 'Olho Mágico', caledoscópios e um grande e iluminado cassino." smellycat.com.br

"Heute schon LSD gehabt? Nein? Nicht nötig. Augen- und hirnfordernde Animation, die mich erst hypnotisiert und dann eingesogen hat." Das Kraftfuttermischwerk

"Animations-Wizard Max Hattler kommt diesmal psychedelisch daher: Letzten Monat erstellte er mit Filmstudenten beim The Animation Workshop im dänischen Viborg einen Motion Graphics-Clip in Andenken an den französischen Künstler Augustin Lesage." Page online