DRIFT
A blue planet and some 'air.

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AWARDS
- Best Digital Film, London Int'l Animation Festival, UK, 2008
- Best Experimental Film, Muuuvi ISFF, Romania, 2008

SCREENINGS 2008
 - ISFF Leuven, Belgium, 29 Nov - 6 Dec
- L'Alternativa, Barcelona, Spain, 14-22 Nov
- Future Shorts tour in Spain incl. Madrid, Barcelona, Canarias, Cuenca, Sevilla, Granada, Cordoba, Murcia, throughout October
- Filmini ISFF, Sofia, Bulgaria, 22-26 Oct
- The Film Diary, Leicester, UK, 24 Oct
- Ourense IFF, Ourense, Spain, 11-18 Oct
- anim’est IAF, Bucharest, Romania, 3-12 Oct
- Animae Caribe Festival, Trinidad, 23 Sep
 - Abstracta, Rome, Italy, 24 Sep
- AnimationVolda Festival, Volda, Norway, 13 Sep
- LIAF, London, UK, 2-7 Sep
- Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Groningen, Holland, 21-31 Aug
- Portable Film Festival, Australia, 1-31 Aug
- Aeon Festival, Shobrooke Park, Devon, UK, 23 Aug
- Dislocation Festival, Luton, UK, 14-16 Aug
- Muuuvi ISFF, Lazar Castle, Romania, 1-3 Aug
- Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka + Yokohama, Japan, Apr-Jul
- Anima Mundi Gallery, Rio de Janeiro + Sao Paulo, Brasil, July
- AURORA Tour at Animator Festival, Poznan, Poland, Wed 9 Jul
- AIAF, Bendigo, Australia, 27-28 Jun
- MIAF, Melbourne, Australia, 20 and 22 Jun
- Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia 31 May - 5 Jun
- Apple Store Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, 26 May
- Planet Studyo Plus One, Osaka, Japan, 24 and 25 May
- Kyoto Saga University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 20 May
- Osaka Electro-Communication University, Osaka, Japan, 15 May
- Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, 14 May
- Elektra Festival (Némo screening), Montreal, Canada, 9-13 May
- Dohjidai Gallery of Art, Kyoto, Japan, 29 April - 11 May
- Uplink Factory, Tokyo, Japan, 7 and 8 May
- FFIAK International Animation Festival, Yokohama, Japan, 6 May
- Apple Store Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, 5 May
- Britspotting FF and Tour, Berlin, Stuttgart + Cologne, Germany, Apr-May
- 51st San Francisco International Film Festival, USA, 24 April - 8 May
- Notte Bianca in Università, University of Pisa, Italy, 24 Apr
- Hattler/Seidel Japan Tour Launch, Le Baron, Tokyo, Japan, 23 April
- East End Film Festival, London, 17-24 April
- Némo Festival, Paris, France, 10-20 April
- Bristol School of Animation, University of West of England, UK, 16 Apr
- AURORA Tour at Belfast Film Festival, Northern Ireland, Sun 13 Apr, 20h
- Creative Futures, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 9 Apr
- 'Bugs for Teeth', Lumen Eclipse, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1-30 Apr
- AURORA Tour at Pushkin Cinema, Cheliabinsk, Russia, 22 and 29 Mar
- BYDESIGN 08, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, USA, 6-13 Mar
- FDMX, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK, 6 Mar
- Newport School of Art, University of Wales, Newport, UK, 4 Mar
- London Animation Studio, Central St. Martin's College, London, UK, 25 Feb
- Southwark Playhouse, London, 21 Feb
- 24/7 DIY Video Summit, USC, LA, USA, 8-10 Feb
- University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK, 7 Feb
- FLAMIN Special Screening, Bloomberg Space, London, 6 Feb
- AURORA Tour, Rodina Cinema, St. Petersburg, Russia, 25 Jan + 1 Feb
- FDMX, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 23 Jan
- London Short Film Festival, London, 4-13 Jan

Drift

2007
 - Istanbul Int'l Animation Festival, Turkey
- Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
- Amiens IFF, France
- Videologia Festival, Volgograd, Russia
- AURORA Festival, Norwich, UK
- Braunschweig IFF, Germany
- Tindirindis Int'l Animation Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Ferdinand-von-Steinbeiß Schule für Grafikdesign, Ulm, Germany
- Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Gymnasium, Weissenhorn, Germany
- Media Art Friesland Festival, Leeuwarden, Holland - presentation
- Media Art Friesland Festival, Leeuwarden, Holland - solo exhibition
- Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
- Faster Than Sound Festival, Suffolk, UK
- Max Hattler Retrospective, Roxy, London
- Max Hattler: Drift, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany

MORE
- Specialten DVD magazine, issue 22, UK, Sep 2008
- Supported and promoted by the British Council, 2008
- Nominated for NPS New Arrivals, June 2008
- Featured on Directors Notes, Feb 2008
- Hear and Now, BBC Radio 3, UK, 8 Sep 2007
- for press coverage see PRESS

CREDITS
Directed and produced by Max Hattler © 2007
Music: Mark Bowden
Photography: Maja Flink
Animation: Max Hattler and Andrew Denton
Cast: Cindy Tippett
Supported by Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany
Conceived during an Aldeburgh Music Residency with the Camberwell Composers Collective
Available formats: 35mm, Beta SP, DVD
Length: 3'33"
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WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT DRIFT

"Drift is a collaboration with music composer Mark Bowden, devised during an Aldeburgh Music residency. Drift considers the body as landscape through close-up images of skin. The music likewise takes a close-up view of a series of harp chords and viola harmonics. Using real photography in extreme close-up creates a foreign yet familiar world, removed from reality, yet sometimes almost too close. In the music, this tension is mirrored. Original samples are exploded into a multitude of tiny elements before being reconstructed into a tight arrangement based on the Fibonacci series." Specialten

"A haunting travel log of our most intimate inner space." The Animation Show

"A fascinating voyage in the ordinary seen from a non ordinary point of view. Epidermic, and still deep..." No Fat Clips

"An intricately constructed, ultra close-up look focusing on a part of our bodies we all barely see and take for granted." Melbourne International Animation Festival

"Eerie and sometimes too close for comfort, the film manages to transform the familiar and mundane into something poetic and mysterious." Lars Kavli

"This film ... once again shows very clearly the trademark of the young artist [Max Hattler]: an enjoyment of the experimental."
Stefan Loeffler, Südwest Presse

“It's great to see abstraction at this level.” Jan Otto Ertesvåg