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Max Hattler

Experimental animator and media artist Max Hattler was educated at Goldsmiths, Escuela de Cine de Madrid, and the Royal College of Art, graduating with an MA (RCA) in Animation in 2005. He has had solo exhibitions at Tenderpixel, Lumen Eclipse, Media Art Friesland, and Someonesgarden Tokyo, and retrospectives at Image Forum Festival, Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Go Short, and Branchage Jersey Film Festival, among others. His works have been shown at hundreds of film festivals, as well as in museums and galleries such as MOCA Taipei, the Marl Video Art Award, Yota Space and Gasworks Gallery. Awards include St. Louis Film Festival, Visual Music Award, Animate OPEN Digitalis, London International Animation Festival, Videofestival Bochum, Videologia, Skepto Festival, San Gio Festival and 700IS Art Film Festival. Max Hattler's films have been included in the touring programmes of EMAF, Videoformes, onedotzero, Resfest, The Animation Show, L'Alternativa, Animac, AURORA, and the British Animation Awards. Max has collaborated with several music acts including Basement Jaxx, Jovanotti, The Egg and Ladyscraper, and he has shown his audiovisual live performances around the world, including the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo, Electrovisiones Mexico City, Cimatics Festival, Filmfest Dresden, SuperDeluxe Tokyo, The Big Chill Festival and London's ICA. Max teaches at Goldsmiths, and is studying towards a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art (DFA) at the University of East London.

"I am interested in the space between abstraction and figuration, where storytelling is freed from the constraints of traditional narrative. My work contemplates microcosms, moments, atmospheres: Close-ups as reflections on the big picture. While my films tend to be without dialogue, they explore the relationship between sound, music and the moving image." Max Hattler

www.maxhattler.com