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 2009
 - Southampton Solent University, UK, 17 Feb + 23 Apr + 7 Dec
- Pantheon Int'l Xperimental Film Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, 20 Nov
- Ravensbourne College of Design, London, UK, 28 Jan + 20 Nov
- Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway, Sat 14 Nov
- Kinofest, Bucharest, Romania, Sat 24 Oct
- Optica Festival, Madrid, Spain, Fri 16 Oct
- Branchage Jersey International Film Festival, Jersey, UK, 3 Oct
- Animae Caribe Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 30 Sep - 3 Oct
- Square Eyes: Made in Arnhem, Arnhem, Holland, 26 Sep
- Best of Videofestival Bochum at Juicy Beats, Dortmund, Germany, 1 Aug
- Muuuvi Tent, Peninsula Festival, Romania, 24 Jul
- ArtsFest, Wellington College, Berkshire, UK, 23 Jun
- Videofestival, Bochum, Germany, 18-20 Jun
- Kecskemét Animation Film Festival, Kecskemét, Hungary, 17-21 Jun
- Napoli Film Festival, Naples, Italy, 10-15 Jun
- Art Video International Film Festival, Cannes, France, 19-23 May
- RiverRun Int'l Film Festival, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, 22-29 Apr
- Kunst (er)schöpft, Kloster Roggenburg, Germany, 11 Mar - 17 Apr
- RAF Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 29 Mar - 4 Apr
- Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 10-14 Mar
- Refresco! / Tratado de Integracion, Neuquen, Argentina, 26-28 Feb
- Videoformes screening at MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris, 24 Feb
- artbelowzero, Westbourne Studios, London, 18 Feb
- Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, Germany, 22 Jan

2008
 - ISFF Leuven, Belgium, 29 Nov - 6 Dec
- Anilogue IAF, Budapest, 27-30 Nov + Vienna, 1-3 Dec
- Ne1co's AV Social, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 27 Nov
- L'Alternativa Festival + Tour, Barcelona, Spain, 14-22 Nov
- Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia, 21 Nov
- Audioscope, Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford, UK, 16 Nov
- Max Hattler: Future Abstraction, Someone's Garden, Tokyo, 2-15 Nov
- Royal College of Art, London, UK, Thu 6 Nov
- Digital Dreams, Superdeluxe, Tokyo, Japan, 1 Nov
- FIA, Stockholm, Sweden, 31 Oct - 2 Nov
- Future Shorts tour in Spain incl. Madrid, Barcelona, Canarias, Cuenca, Sevilla, Granada, Cordoba, Murcia, throughout October
- BIAF, Brisbane, Australia, 30 Oct
- Filmini ISFF, Sofia, Bulgaria, 22-26 Oct
- Curtocircuito Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 17-24 Oct
- The Film Diary, Leicester, UK, 24 Oct
- AIAF, Sydney, Australia, 17-18 Oct
- Ourense IFF, Ourense, Spain, 11-18 Oct
- Anim’est IAFF, Bucharest, Romania, 3-12 Oct
- Premio Simona Gesmundo, Italy, 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
- San Francisco IFF, 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
- Nemo 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, Chelyabinsk, 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 SFF, London, UK, 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

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ETC.
- Souvenirs from Earth TV, Germany and France, from Apr 2009
- Animation Blog, Jan 2009
- Max Hattler vs. Robert Seidel DVD, Japan, Dec 2008
- Re-Imagining Animation by Paul Wells & Johnny Hardstaff, Oct 2008
- middle mind project, Oct 2008 (now defunct)
- Specialten DVD magazine, issue 22, UK, Sep 2008
- Nominated for NPS New Arrivals, June 2008
- Featured on Directors Notes, Feb 2008
- Supported and promoted by the British Council, 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
Assistant Animation: 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

"Drift sees the body as a metaphorical landscape. Eerie and sometimes too close for comfort, the film aims to transform the familiar and mundane into something poetic and mysterious in order to create distance from closeness, and reflection from immersion ... hair floats through the landscape and creates an oblique narrative, while three layers of sound unfold concurrently, creating an evolving wave of harp and viola sounds interspersed with granulated electronic frequencies." Re-imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image, Paul Wells and Johnny Hardstaff

"The mood is at the heart of this piece. One part horror film and one part nature study certainly makes for a compelling mix." Media Art Friesland

"engrossing ... Max is definitely one of the most original, startling animators around." Ian Lumsden, animationblog.org

"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

"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

"étonnant." Fous d'Anim