MAX HATTLER:
Live and Direct
As an extension of his film work - and as an antidote to it - Max Hattler performs live audio-visual works at festivals, in art spaces, and sometimes in clubs. Max often collaborates live with other artist filmmakers like Noriko Okaku and Robert Seidel. Max also creates concert visuals or works live with bands including Basement Jaxx, The Egg, Economy Wolf, Dollskabeat and Ladyscraper.

2009 (MADE TO MEASURE)
Basement Jaxx and The Egg concerts in the UK and elsewhere featuring non-live, custom-made Max Hattler visuals:


Basement Jaxx: 'Where's Your Head At'
Tour visuals, premiered on Basement Jaxx April/May 2009 UK tour.
Dimensions: 7x2 m LED screen / 1080x288 px / 15:4
Directed by Max Hattler. Animation by Max Hattler, Milad Firoozian (3D), Noriko Okaku, Rodrigo Vives and Papaya Gonzales. "Basement Jaxx asked media artist Max Hattler to create stage visuals for their current tour..." (Creative Review) "... an arena abstraction for Basement Jaxx ... Old school video games and '80s video walls inspired Max Hattler's visuals for Where's Your Head At." ('boards) "phenomenal ... an electric arcade of crazy kinetics." (The Animation Show) "awesome visuals" (Creamfields.com) "Hattler keeps things ambient and kinetic, a wise choice..." (Video Static) "madness ... we love it, it looks great!" (Basement Jaxx) "Für die aktuelle Tour des britischen Danceprojekts Basement Jaxx hat VJ-Künstler Max Hattler unübersehbar alte Videospiele als Referenz für seine LED-Visuals hergenommen" (PAGE)




The Egg: 'Catch' & 'Nothing', Pour House, Charleston, SC, USA, 12 Mar 2009
Visuals directed and animated by Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku; triggered live via midi by keyboarder / frontman Ned Scott. At this concert the single-screen visuals were projected on two overlapping screens, adding a doubling effect which is sometimes very nice, but doesn't work so well at other times due to the imprecise overlap of the two screens. "... it looked really great. Definitely a composed level up. Getting my fingers into new and weird configurations was quite hectic at first, but now, oh so natural." (Ned Scott, The Egg)

2009 (LIVE A/V PERFORMANCES)
- Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Fredrikstad, Norway, 11-15 Nov
- Optica Festival, Madrid, Spain, 15-18 Oct
- Muuuvi ISFF, Lazar Castle, Romania, 1-4 Aug ('Oh Yes' w/ Noriko Okaku)
- Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal, Thu 9 Jul ('Oh Yes' w/ Noriko Okaku)
- Glastonbury Festival, UK, 24-28 Jun (special screening of 'Oh Yes' )
- Birobox Workshops, Nottingham, Thu 21 May ('Oh Yes' w/ Noriko Okaku)


- Moves09, Manchester, UK, Sat 25 Apr ('Oh Yes' w/ Noriko Okaku)
Abandon Normal Devices-commissioned found-footage a/v performance. "audiovisual experimentalists Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku present a playful performance with Oh Yes, a YouTube infused set offering a witty 2.0 take on bodies, movement and pop culture." (Abandon Normal Devices) "Festival debuts for innovative strands included Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku’s laptop-enabled live performance of intertwined electronic audio and fleeting, fragmented visuals." (RealTime Arts Magazine)


2008 (LIVE A/V PERFORMANCES)
- Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia, 22 Nov (w/ Noriko Okaku)
- Good and Evil Night 7, Solfa, Tokyo, 4 Nov (w/ Noriko Okaku)
- Digital Dreams, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, 1 Nov (w/ Nao Tokui)
- Exground Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany, 14 Nov ('Remixing the Past')
- Curtocircuito Festival, Santiago, Spain, 23 Oct ('Remixing the Past')
- Animae Caribe, Trinidad, 23 Sep ('Remixing the Past')
- AnimationVolda Festival, Norway, 12 Sep (w/ Volda Viny)
- The Egg @ Haselstock, Northamptonshire, UK, 15 Aug
- The Egg @ Camp Bisco, Mariaville, New York, USA, 19 Jul
- Seco Lounge, Tokyo, 25 May ('Hattler vs. Seidel' w/ Nick Luscombe)
- Planet Studyo, Osaka, 24 May ('Hattler vs. Seidel')
- Roots, Gastro Pub Spark, Kobe, Japan, 23 May ('Hattler vs. Seidel')
- UrBANGUILD, Kyoto, Japan, 18 May ('Hattler vs. Seidel' w/ dubmarronics)
- K.D Japon, Nagoya, Japan, 16 May ('Hattler vs. Seidel' w/ dubmarronics)
- Liquid Loft, Tokyo, 10 May ('Hattler vs. Seidel' w/ Salmon)
- Snack Nagako, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Japan, 9 May ('Hattler vs. Seidel')
- Apple Store Ginza, Tokyo, 5 May ('Hattler vs. Seidel')
- Le Baron, Tokyo, 23 Apr ('Hattler vs. Seidel')
- Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 15-20 Apr ('Filmfest Dresden vs. Hattler.Seidel')
Dresden ISFF-commissioned special 20th anniversary performance.
- Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 15 Mar ('Untitled')



London Short Film Festival, 13 Jan 2008 (Headline a/v performance w/ Economy Wolf, feat. Enist + Johannes 'Your Highness' Ender)



London Short Film Festival, 10 Jan 2008 (w/ Ladyscraper)
LSFF-commissioned, Animate Projects-supported found-footage headline a/v performance at the ICA, London.

MORE IN 2008
Dollskabeat concerts across the UK featuring prefab Max Hattler visuals.


2007

AURORA, Norwich, UK, 10 Nov 2007 ('Hattler vs. Seidel')
Collaborative live AV set by Max Hattler and Robert Seidel. "The piece has an unexpected sense of drama and energy, with Max Hattler’s structural, graphic forms intervening spikily in Robert Seidel’s treated video work - harmony and dissonance, form and chaos... quite the opposite of most conventional VJ sets, which often seem to function as stylish but lazy wallpaper." (Adam Pugh, AURORA Festival Director)


Beck's Fusions at ICA, London, 6 Sep 2007 (w/ Economy Wolf)
Experimental Max Hattler / Economy Wolf live AV set feat. Enist and Johannes 'Your Highness' Ender. Other AV collaborations on the night: Matthew Herbert + Woof Wan-Bau, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) + Brian Degraw (Gang Gang Dance). "Max Hattler's films, played in the background of Economy Wolf's set, were a joy to watch, finished spectacularly by the star of Max's films doing a hair striptease, most disturbing." (InterventTech) "amazing and surreal visuals" (Trial and Error Recordings)



anim’est, Bucharest, Romania, 13 Oct 2007 ('Remixing the Past')
"Max looks to his parents 1970’s communal lifestyle in Germany and particularly at his father’s success in Krautrock band Kraan. Kraan will also provide the prog rock and free jazz soundtrack to this super-8 journey into a hippie ideal for living as we’re taken on a sun-speckled journey into the fields and woods of a rural commune." (bigchill.net)

The 'Remixing the Past' live set was also performed at
- Media Art Friesland Festival, Holland, 28 Sep 2007
- The Big Chill, UK, 3 Aug 2007
- Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, UK, 23 Feb 2007
- Halloween Short Film Festival, London, UK, 6 Jan 2007

MORE IN 2007
- London Jazz Festival, Luminaire, London, 23 Nov (w/ Led Bib)
- anim’est, Bucharest, Romania, 12 Oct (w/ DJ Eddy)
- Digital City, Corsica Studios, London, 28 Jul
- Whitechapel Art Gallery, 6 Jul (w/ Economy Wolf)
- Roxy Bar and Screen, London, 24 May (w/ Microtricks)
- Roxy, Ulm, Germany, 10 May (w/ Kraan)
- Röhre, Stuttgart, Germany, 9 May (w/ Kraan)
- Collisions, Soho House, London, 1 May
- 93 Feet East, Shoreditch, London, 25 Mar (w/ Economy Wolf)
- Digital City, Epicurean Lounge, London, 16 Mar (w/ Tentonatom)
- NottingHill2050, The Cobden, London, 10 Mar
- Animation Show, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 27 and 28 Jan
- Animation Show, California Theatre, San Jose, USA, 26 Jan
- Animation Show, Castro Theatre, San Francisco, USA, 25 Jan
- The Electricity Bill, Tate Britain, London, Fri 5 Jan


2003-2006
- bleepgeeks, NU Bahnhof, Neu-Ulm, Germany, 23 Dec 2006
- Rokken, Volda, Norway, 3 Nov 2006
- Short Film Summer School, London, 14 Jul 2006 (w/ Rowena True)
- Rio, Berlin, Germany, 8 Jul 2006
- Runsounds, Sub Club, London, 24 Jun 2006
- Cafe ZunZun, Vibe Bar, London, 3 Jun 2006
- Digital City, Corsica Studios, London, 2006 (w/ Liberation Jumpsuit)
- Notting Hill Arts Club, London, 2006 (w/ Lions and Tigers)
- Hoxton Square Bar, London, 2006 (w/ Lions and Tigers)
- Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA, London, 6 Jan 2006
- Acud, Berlin, Germany, 27 Nov 2005 (w/ Magma + Bento)
- Norwich International Animation Festival, UK, Oct 2005 (w/ Dan Tombs)
- Ginglik, London, 17 Sep 2005 (w/ Liberation Jumpsuit)
- Onedotzero, Sketch, London, 13 Mar 2005 (assisting Happy Hour)
 - Klangriffe Festival, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 17 May 2003 (non-live video projections for Patrick Sutardjo's 'SOLO für Tänzerin, Violoncello und Video')


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WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID

"Max Hattler, internationally renowned animation and experimental filmmaker ... fills places in Europe, the USA and Japan with his audiovisual live-performances." Exground Filmfest, Germany

"... killer VJ sets." The Animation Show, USA

"... DAMN GOOD." Dollskabeat

"... quite the opposite of most conventional VJ sets, which often seem to function as stylish but lazy wallpaper." Adam Pugh, AURORA Festival Director, UK

"Hattler vs Seidel ... two of Europe's most hotly tipped visual artists." Metropolis Magazine, Japan