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


AANAATT
The ever-shifting shape of Analogue Futurism. 100% digital-effects free!

The above is a 1-minute excerpt (original length: 4'45").

AWARDS
- Special Mention Animation Avantgarde, Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria, 2010
- Special Mention German Competition, Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany, 2010
- Award for Best Design, Eksjö Animation Festival, Eksjö, Sweden, 2009
- Host Award, Videofestival, Bochum, Germany, 2009
- Special Mention For The Art Form, No-Festival, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2009

SCREENINGS 2010
- MGFest: Motion Graphics Festival, 30 venues across USA, throughout 2010
- 8th Animac Mobile Spanish tour, throughout 2010
- onedotzero_adventures in motion world tour 2009-2010
- Videoformes On Tour, AluCine Festival, Toronto, Canada, 11-28 Nov
- INVIDEO, Milan, Italy, 10-14 Nov
- Fantoche Int'l Animation Film Festival, Baden, Switzerland, 7-12 Sep
- MUMIA, Brazil, Betim & Nova Lima, 6-12 Sep; Belo Horizonte, 13-19 Sep
- Abstracta, Rome, Italy, Thu 26 Aug
- Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany, 12-16 Aug
- Dreaming with Open Eyes, ROJO®nova, MIS, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thu 5 Aug
- Hiroshima Int'l Animation Festival, Japan, 7-11 Aug
- Fest Anca, Zilina, Slovakia, 30 Jul - 1 Aug
- San Gio Video Festival, Verona, Italy, 23-27 Jul
- Gimli Film Festival, Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, 21-25 Jul
- Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival, London, UK , Sat 10 Jul
- Rooftop Films Summer Series, New York City, NY, USA, Fri 2 Jul
- Videoformes On Tour, De la magie de l'Art, Eurosites Liège, Paris, 1 Jul
- Marl Video Art Award Show, Sculpture Museum, Marl, Germany, 20 Jun - 8 Aug
- MOCAmpus, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan, Sat 19 Jun
- Videofestival, Bochum, Germany, 10-12 Jun ('Best of' screening)
- International Short Film Festival Detmold, Detmold, Germany, 9-13 Jun
- Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia, 1-6 Jun
- Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 1-6 Jun
- Ursula Blickle Videolounge, Vienna, Austria, Mon 31 May
- Videoformes On Tour, Loop Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain, Sun 30 May
- Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna, Austria, 27 May - 2 Jun
- Exploding Cinema, London, Fri 28 May
- WIZ-ART Festival, Lviv, Ukraine, 20-23 May
- AniFest Int'l Festival of Animated Films, Teplice, Czech Republic, 18-23 May

- Jornada de Comunicación, Universidad Marista, Mexico City, Fri 30 Apr
- Neuer deutscher Film, Babylon, Berlin, Germany, Thu 29 Apr
- Habitacion del Ruido, UCSJ, Mexico City, Wed 28 Apr
- Kinofilm European Short Film Festival, Manchester, UK, 27 Apr - 2 May
- Videoformes On Tour, EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany, 21-25 Apr
- Animation Film Season, Ciné Lumière, Institut Français, London, Sun 18 Apr
- Videoformes On Tour, SCAM, Paris, France, Tue 6 Apr
- Ferienakademie 2010, Kloster Roggenburg, Germany, Tue 6 Apr
- Animated Worlds: Avant-Garde Animation, Cinephilia West, London, Sun 21 Mar
- 700IS Experimental Film and Video Festival, Egilsstadir, Iceland, 20-27 Mar
- Regensburg Short Film Week, Regensburg, Germany, 17-24 Mar
- Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Landshut, Germany, 17-21 Mar
- Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Norway, 12-14 Mar
- Videoformes On Tour, Exposition de Vidéo à Baoshan, Shanghai, China, 12 Mar
- MONSTRA Lisboa Animated Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-21 Mar
- Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 10-13 Mar
- University of Westminster, London, UK, Mon 8 Mar
- Byron Bay Film Festival, Australia, 5-13 Mar
- Videoformes On Tour, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Fri 26 Feb
- ANIMAC, Lleida, Spain, 22-28 Feb
- Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Sat 20 Feb
- Videoformes On Tour, Espace Beaujon, Paris, Fri 19 Feb
- Ravensbourne College of Design, London, UK, Wed 17 Feb
- Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, 11-21 Feb
- The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark, Tue 9 Feb
- British Animation Awards, Public Choice Programme UK Tour to 27 venues, Feb
- La Enana Marron, Madrid, Spain, weekly during Jan + Feb
- Rythmetic Int'l Experimental Animated Film Festival, Bègles, France, 28-31 Jan
- Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany, 21-24 Jan
- London Short Film Festival, London, UK, 8-17 Jan

2009
- onedotzero_adventures in motion world tour 2009-2010
- Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia, 11-13 Dec
- Southampton Solent University, Southampton, UK, 23 Apr + 7 Dec
- Design Overtime: Sparkle the Dark Up, Design Museum, London, Fri 4 Dec
- Red Hot Shorts, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia, Fri 4 Dec
- International Short Film Festival Leuven, Belgium, 28 Nov - 5 Dec
- Cream, International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Japan, 23 + 29 Nov
- Ravensbourne College of Design, London, UK, Fri 20 Nov
- L'Alternativa Festival, Barcelona, Spain, 19 Nov
- Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol, UK, 17-22 Nov
- Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway, Sat 14 Nov
- FIMAC, Noordelijk Film Festival, Leeuwarden, Holland, Sat 14 Nov
- Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany, 13-22 Nov
- Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, USA, 11-15 Nov
- Museek Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 6-13 Nov
- No‑Festival of Video Art and Animation, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 6-8 Nov
- Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland, 4-8 Nov
- DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 26 Oct - 1 Nov
- Premio Simona Gesmundo, Italy, 26-28 Oct
- Tindirindis Int'l Animation Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania, 21-25 Oct
- Kinofest, Bucharest, Romania, Fri 23 Oct
- 7inch Cinema & Electric Sheep, Roxy Bar and Screen, London, Mon 19 Oct
- FIA, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 Oct
- Optica Festival, Madrid, Spain, Fri 16 Oct
- Curtocircuito Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 10-17 Oct
- Darklight Festival, Dublin, Ireland, 8-11 Oct
- Anim’est International Animation Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania, 2-11 Oct
- Branchage Jersey International Film Festival, Jersey, Channel Islands, Sat 3 Oct
- video_dumbo, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Sat 26 Sep
- Made in Arnhem, Arnhem, Holland, Sat 26 Sep
- Eksjö Animation Festival, Eksjö, Sweden, 24-26 Sep
- Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Liverpool, UK, 23-27 Sep
- onedotzero_adventures in motion, London, 9-13 Sep
- London International Animation Festival, London, UK, 28 Aug - 6 Sep
- Curtocircuito screening, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 25 Aug, 22:30h
- 90+Min, Der Strand 22, Jena, Germany, 21 Aug, 22h
- Best of Videofestival Bochum at Juicy Beats Festival, Dortmund, Germany, 1 Aug
- Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 24 Jul - 9 Aug
- BUG 14, BFI Southbank, London, UK, 24 and 31 Jul
- Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro (10-19 Jul) and Sao Paulo (22-26 Jul), Brazil
- Curtas Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal, 4-12 Jul
- Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia, 22-28 Jun
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK, 17-28 Jun
- ArtsFest, Wellington College, Berkshire, UK, 23 Jun
- Message To Man Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 15-22 Jun
- Videofestival, Bochum, Germany, 18-20 Jun
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, France, 8-13 Jun
- XXIV Dni Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Bialystok, Poland, 26 May
- Backup Festival, Weimar, Germany, 21-24 May
- Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece, 14-17 May
- Acting for Animation Symposium, Volda University College, Volda, Norway, 7 May
- 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, USA, 23 Apr - 7 May
- REC Festival Internacional de Cine de Tarragona, Spain, 25 Apr - 2 May
- Image Forum Festival, Japan, 29 Apr + 4 May
- East End Film Festival, London, UK, 23-30 Apr
- European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 22-26 Apr
- Glimmer: 7th Hull International Short Film Festival, Hull, UK, 21-26 Apr
- Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 14-19 Apr
- Un Festival c'est trop court, Nice, France, 14-19 Apr
- Video Festival Imperia, Imperia, Italy, 14-18 Apr
- Kunst (er)schöpft, Kloster Roggenburg, Germany, 11 Mar - 17 Apr
- Nemo Festival, Paris, France, 1-11 Apr
- RAF Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 29 Mar - 4 Apr
- BYDESIGN 09, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, USA, 6-12 Mar
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, Holland, 21 Jan - 1 Feb

2008
- Max Hattler: Future Abstraction, Someone's Garden Gallery, Tokyo, 2-15 Nov


PUBLICATIONS AND MORE
- Phase 3 – Galerie für Sehen und Hören, BR-alpha TV, Germany, from April 2010
- XTVL TV, Spain, Feb 2010
- InMotion, UK, Apr 2009
- Repérages 64 + Expérience[s] 05 DVD, France, Apr 2009
- Featured on Directors Notes, Jan 2009
- Supported and promoted by the British Council, 2009
- Supported by Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund, 2009
- Published on Jemapur 'Evacuation' CD+DVD, Nov 2008


aanaatt

CREDITS

Directed and produced by Max Hattler
Animation: Max Hattler, Noriko Okaku
Music: Jemapur
Creative Director: +cruz
Assistant Animation: Philip Serfaty, Rodrigo Vives
Commissioned by: W+K Tokyo Lab
Thanks to: Nick Roericht
Available formats: HD, Blu-ray, Beta SP, DVD
Length: 4'45"
Year: 2008

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