| MAX HATTLER: Live and Direct As an extension of his film and video 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. 2010 (LIVE A/V PERFORMANCES) - Fonoteca Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico, Fri 30 Apr w/ live audio by Pablo Gav - Circuito Electrovisiones, Mexico City, 29 Apr or 1 May (Remixing the Past) - Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, Sun 14 Feb (Untitled) - VIS: KurzFilmZimmer, Vienna, Austria, Sun 31 Jan (Oh Yes) - Electrovision, London, UK, Sat 23 Jan (/\/\/\) with live audio by Rich Keyworth - London Short Film Festival, London, UK, Sun 17 Jan ((O)) world premiere '(O)' (w/ Noriko Okaku, live audio by Max Hattler) "With (O), Max returns to his teenage roots in sound/music-making and makes a first foray into live audio performance, complemented by Noriko’s surreal animated visuals." (London Short Film Festival 2010) 2009 (LIVE A/V PERFORMANCES) - Jackbox NYE, Sucasa, Ulm, Germany, Thu 31 Dec (3-screen VJ set) - Ex Mercedes Benz, Neu-Ulm, Germany Wed 23 Dec (3-screen VJ set) - International Short Film Festival Leuven, Belgium, Mon 30 Nov (Oh Yes) - Cimatics Festival, Brussels, Belgium, Sat 28 Nov (Oh Yes) - Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway, Thu 12 Nov (/\/\/\) - Optica Festival, Madrid, Spain, Fri 16 Oct (Remixing the Past) - Square Eyes: Hertz & Lux / Made in Arnhem, Holland, Sat 26 Sep (Oh Yes) - Discovery 09, Amsterdam, Holland, Fri 25 Sep (w/ Enist + TU Delft + C-Mon & Kypski) Headline live visuals set, using 3D laser scanners + 3D range camera - Muuuvi ISFF, Lazar Castle, Romania, Sat 1 Aug (Oh Yes) - Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal, Thu 9 Jul (Oh Yes) - Glastonbury Festival, UK, 24-28 Jun (special screening of Oh Yes ) - Birobox Workshops, Nottingham, Thu 21 May (Oh Yes) - Moves09, Manchester, UK, Sat 25 Apr (Oh Yes) '/\/\/\' (w/ Noriko Okaku, soundtrack by Rich Keyworth) 3-screen live animation performance commissioned by, and premiered at Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2009. "/\/\/\ ... was an amazing experience. As I watched the images flow across the trio of screens and listened to the interesting soundtrack especially commissioned for the piece, I became part of the experience. I talked to several festivalgoers who had the same experience. I urge any of you who have the opportunity to see Noriko and Max not to miss the experience." (Nancy Denney-Phelps, Sprockets: Nancy's Animated World) "Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku really explore new fields of narration in animation with their /\/\/\ performance, which combines real-time presentation with 3-screen projection. Interacting with Rich Keyworth’s soundtrack, almost symphonic in its structure, Hattler and Okaku gently improvise using repetitive sequences of animated figures and objects, ranging from simple drawings to more complex abstract structures. Just their subtle response to the audience reactions reminds you that it’s not a fixed film, it’s a live performance. Combining a sensitive beauty with discrete comic elements, /\/\/\ is an astonishing piece of work, and it was one of the highlights of Fredrikstad Animation Festival 09." (Trond Ola Mevassvik, Fredrikstad Animation Festival Director) "Attending a performance by this duo of animators who have two such different visual perspectives is stimulating to both the mind and the soul. Add to that an interesting direction in sound design, and you have a brilliant evening." (Nik Phelps, Composer and Musician, trumpet player for Tom Waits) "this was the first such performance I’ve seen which I will call an audiovisual animated piece of art in its own right – standing out not as an illustration of music but as an independent piece of audiovisual art in itself. My associations went to the films of Oskar Fischinger, but performed live in a modern visual language in front of a live audience." (Gunnar Strom, Professor of Animation, Volda University College, Norway) "seamless and unique projection on each of the three screens." (Electrovision) "great work!" (The Light Surgeons) 'Oh Yes' (w/ Noriko Okaku, soundtrack by dubmarronics) YouTube-found footage a/v performance by Max Hattler + Noriko Okaku, commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices in 2009, and premiered at Moves09 Festival in Manchester, UK. "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) "playful ... witty ..." (Abandon Normal Devices) "The most interesting audiovisual mix was the experiment of Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku, which delighted the public with Japanese influences and very well combined visuals." (Ana Argatu, Videofil) "A YouTube infused a/v performance offering a multi-coloured meditation on bodies, movement and pop culture." (Cimatics Festival). "YouTube-infected array of Olympian athletes and roller coasters." (Electric Sheep) "much-praised audiovisual performance ... one of the highlights of the evening ... visuell-meditativer Bilderrausch." (VIS Vienna Independent Shorts: KurzFilmZimmer) 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' (single-screen version here) Concert visuals, premiered on Basement Jaxx 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 Concert visuals directed by Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku in 2009, triggered live via midi by keyboarder / frontman Ned Scott. At this particular 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 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) 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, Germany, 14 Nov (Remixing the Past) Festival Opening Performance - 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) - Haselstock, Northamptonshire, UK, 15 Aug (w/ The Egg) - Camp Bisco, Mariaville, New York, USA, 19 Jul (w/ The Egg) - 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 live a/v performance by Max Hattler + Robert Seidel, remixing award-winning films from the festivals 20-year history. - Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 15 Mar (Untitled) - London Short Film Festival, 13 Jan (w/ Economy Wolf) - London Short Film Festival, ICA, London, 10 Jan (w/ Ladyscraper) London Short Film Festival, 13 Jan 2008 (w/ Economy Wolf) Badly-lit full-length recording of crappy-screen headline performance at the LSFF closing party, feat. Enist + Johannes 'Your Highness' Ender. "Economy Wolf comprises 5 musicians from London and Paris ... Award winning animator Max Hattler has created two MTV2-featured music videos for the band, introducing Johannes ‘Your Highness’ Ender as a Bez-esque honorary dancing member. For this London Short Film Festival performance Your Highness will be present in person. Daniel Berio aka Enist, a graphic designer and programmer from Florence, Italy, is supporting Max’s visuals with his custom-made graphics engine that renders Your Highness into a computer games character. Tonight’s performance will be the second of its kind, since the now-legendary gig for Beck’s Fusions at the ICA earlier in 2007." (London Short Film Festival) London Short Film Festival, ICA, London, 10 Jan 2008 (w/ Ladyscraper) Headline performance at Animate Projects-commissioned 'Soundtracks' night. Other a/v collaborations on the night: Ben Rivers + Blood Stereo, Sarah Wood + The Exploits of Elaine. "Award winning filmmakers Sarah Wood, Ben Rivers and Max Hattler are using archive and found footage to create short films and visuals sets to screen tonight, to be accompanied by live music from three of the most experimental avant-garde outfits around. The event is supported by Animate Projects who explore the relationship between the visual arts and animation." (London Short Film Festival) 2008 (MADE TO MEASURE) Dollskabeat concerts across the UK featuring non-live, custom-made visuals. 2007 (LIVE A/V PERFORMANCES) - London Jazz Festival, Luminaire, London, 23 Nov (w/ Led Bib) - AURORA, Norwich, UK, 10 Nov (Hattler vs. Seidel) - anim’est, Bucharest, Romania, 13 Oct (Remixing the Past) - anim’est, Bucharest, Romania, 12 Oct (VJ set w/ DJ Eddy) - Media Art Friesland Festival, Holland, 28 Sep (Remixing the Past) - Beck's Fusions at the ICA, London, 6 Sep (w/ Economy Wolf) - The Big Chill, UK, 3 Aug 2007 (Remixing the Past) - 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 - Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, UK, 23 Feb (Remixing the Past) - Animation Show, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 27 + 28 Jan - Animation Show, California Theatre, San Jose, USA, 26 Jan - Animation Show, Castro Theatre, San Francisco, USA, 25 Jan - London Short Film Festival, London, UK, 6 Jan (Remixing the Past) - Late at the Tate: The Electricity Bill, Tate Britain, London, Fri 5 Jan 'Hattler vs. Seidel' (feat. soundtrack by The Springmine Disaster) AURORA-commissioned collaborative performance by Max Hattler and Robert Seidel, featuring a custom soundtrack by The Springmine Disaster / JeanGa. Max and Robert then developed this performance and took it on tour to 9 venues all over Japan in 2008. "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 the ICA, London, 6 Sep 2007 (w/ Economy Wolf) Experimental Max Hattler + Economy Wolf live performance featuring Enist and Johannes 'Your Highness' Ender. Commissioned by Beck's Fusions and London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. Other a/v collaborations on the night: Matthew Herbert + Woof Wan-Bau, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) + Brian Degraw (Gang Gang Dance). "Also on the bill is animator and film-maker Max Hattler ... Although relatively new to the commercial scene, his personal work is a revelation and Max has promised to pull out all the stops to rise to the occasion at the ICA. His already inspiring work with the band Economy Wolf (he has directed two promos for the band) will come to fruition as both parties perform together live." (ICA) "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) 'Remixing the Past' (feat. Krautrock music + movies by Kraan) Home movie a/v performance commissioned by London Short Film Festival (fka Halloween Short Film Festival) and Animate Projects (fka animate!) in 2007. Max subsequently played this performance at 8 festivals in Holland, Germany, Spain, Trinidad, Romania and the UK. "an animate! VJ night with guest filmmakers Run Wrake and Max Hattler creating live VJ sets from their own home movie footage" (Philip Ilson, London Short Film Festival Co-Director, writing in Vertigo Magazine)"rousing and poignant" (Kate Taylor, London Short Film Festival Co-Director) "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) 2003-2006 (VJ SETS) - 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) - London 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') [ home ] |
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID
"Max Hattler ... master of the live re-mix." APEngine, UK
"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
"one of the hottest new VJ's of the moment" Discovery 09, Amsterdam
"... 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
"Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku ... delighted the public with Japanese influences and very well combined visuals." Videofil, Romania
"Very seldom after having enjoyed an artistic performance these days do I really feel that I have experienced something new and unique. Hattler and Okaku's performance of /\/\/\ in Fredrikstad on November 12th 2009 was such a rare experience." Gunnar Strøm, Professor of Animation, Volda University College, Norway
"Combining a sensitive beauty with discrete comic elements, /\/\/\ is an astonishing piece of work, and it was one of the highlights of Fredrikstad Animation Festival 09." Trond Ola Mevassvik, Fredrikstad Animation Festival Director
"Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku are some of the hottest young audio-visual artist in the world at the moment." Fredrikstad Animation Festival
"Watching Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku perform is an electrifying experience. The audio-visual duo work so seamlessly together that I forgot I was watching a performance as I became part of the event." Nancy Denney-Phelps, Sprockets: Nancy's Animated World
"Artist's palette is now a laptop"
De Gelderlander, Holland