MAX HATTLER / jemapur: aanaatt

WHAT OTHERS SAID ABOUT AANAATT

"A seductive world of rapidly moving brightly colored shapes sets a tone of attractive alienation." Rooftop Films

"a mesmerising stop-motion film"
Promo News

"intricate and eye-catching" Televisual

"Award winning animation film-maker Max Hattler presents a world transformed by brightly coloured geometric shapes that are in a constant state of movement." London Short Film Festival

"an endlessly mobile sequence of animated Bauhaus-style shapes and compositions." Eleanor McKeown, Electric Sheep

"Design, colour, movement, rythm, light and shadows in absolute harmony. Told in two and three dimensions." Eksjö Animation Festival 2009, Award for Best Design

"very successful at festivals over the last year ... weird non-digital cut-out animation"
BBC Film Network

"a fascinating 3D collage affair where you spend most of the time trying to work out what possible angle it was filmed from" Spank The Monkey

"Award-winning abstract stop-motion film commissioned by W+K Tokyo Lab for the Japanese hip-hop/electronica artist Jemapur [creator of this years onedotzero festival trailer audio]. Hattler uses found geometric objects to create an arresting vision of analogue futurism." onedotzero_adventures in motion 2009

"Stop motion animation of three-dimensional objects against an evolving background of windows, mirrors, and geometric shapes mutates one corner of a room into a labyrinth of color and movement." Cucalorus Film Festival

"This amazing film is made by one of my favourite animators at this time. Max Hattler really does magic with this film. Suprisingly simple!" Tanja Koning, O.K. Blog

"Moholy-Nagy and the early constructivism inspire this film. Through mirroring, dislocations and projections, Max Hattler parses the possibilities of manual-analogue creation of space on the surface." Backup Festival

"Hattler's elegantly choreographed object animation tilts the camera so that the mirrored table surface seems to be the ceiling. In smooth stop-motion replacements, he explores the abstract logic of tubes, discs, cylinders and other shapes as they grow, shrink, slide, and change to the ethereal murmur of ambient music." Tony Reveaux, Cine Source Magazine

"a stop-motion masterpiece." ByDesign09

"visually arresting ... innovative stop-motion film featuring upside-down, random geometry." InMotion

"Shifting between three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional surfaces, the illusion of space is folded through the use of mirrors and sound." Melbourne International Film Festival

"Mirrored surfaces and tricks of light lend an unsettling quality to this abstract stop motion." Melbourne International Animation Festival

"another banger piece ... Max's work is some of the most progressive and visually stimulating works created time and time again." TouchExplode

"One of four music videos commissioned by W+K Tokyo Lab for the release of 21-year-old Japanese producer Jemapur's latest album, 'Aanaatt' is as mystifying as its title. The track is of the sparse, bloopy variety one might associate with graphic designers in oppressively-rimmed glasses and Max Hattler's stop-motion, fixed camera video is accordingly abstract. 'Aanaatt' might've been overly academic in another director's hands, but the German helmer gives the song a curiously hypnotic warmth by deftly shifting colors, shapes, unrecognizable household objects, and lighting across an ever-changing, multi-layered surface." Boards Magazine

"the best use of stop-motion we’ve ever seen! ... It’s nice to see people still taking the time to do things the old fashioned way, even if it does take forever." LimitedHype

"Max Hattler turns his talents for abstract animation to stop motion and comes up with this intriguing exercise." FEED (Stash)

"a mesmerising and beautiful stop-motion film" BUG - the evolution of music video

"Director Max Hattler teams up with Japanese electronica artist Jemapur to create Aanaatt, a stop-motion experiment in analog futurism." Motionographer

"Jemapur are at it again with the crazy stop-motion vid for AANAATT. They can’t release a bad video lately. Especially with masterminds like German director Max Hattler in charge." shape + colour

"A stop-motion animation film from the up and coming German creator Max Hattler. The high-quality animation is fixed-film, shot through a fixed point camera, bringing a fresh new dimension to Jemapur’s musical world." W+K Tokyo Lab

"Stunning stop-motion geometrics."
AND Festival

"Im realen Raum verwoben und gleichzeitig abstrakt losgelöst, nicht verortbar: Dieser musikalische Kurzfilm lässt durch seine warmen Farbkonstellationen, den haptischen Konstruktionen und den überraschenden Ideen eine heitere, geborgene und kontinuierlich metamorphotische Komposition entstehen. Kunsthistorische Rückbezüge einbettend überzeugt AANAATT durch eine frische, die Moderne ganz neu sehende, einzigartige Dingwelt." Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2010, Lobende Erwähnung / Special Mention

"... wunderbar dahingleitende, Op-art-nahe Experimente über die Illusionsmaschine Film ..." Mittelbayerische Zeitung

"... da vollführen knallbunte Plastikteile ein Bilderballett, schweben scheinbar schwerelos vor Betonpfeilern und Fensterrahmen, ändern Farben, Formen und Position. Ein wunderbar leichter Film zum Bauklötzestaunen." Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung

"ein genussvolles Verwirrspiel zwischen Abstraktion und Realismus, zwischen konstruktivistischem Design und manuell-analoger Raumerzeugung. Ein retro-futuristisches Kunstwerk, geerdet durch die Musik des japanischen Elektronikers Jemapur." Vienna Independent Shorts