"partizan lab and partizan darkroom are pleased to report that we are now representing max hattler worldwide. find out more about max in the darkroom or at his new partizan lab page."

JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2010
for three months this summer, max hattler and noriko okaku are artists in residence at the open workshop department at the animation workshop in viborg, denmark.

JULY 2010
max hattler's video your highness premiered on zeit online, with an interview (in german) discussing the work in relation to soccer. it received some very angry comments from fans of the beautiful game, and lead to follow-up interviews by deutsche welle and weekend argus, cape town (both in english). it was also featured by arte tv, on video static, directors notes and others.

JULY 2010
out now: big max hattler interview in the july/august double issue of pig mag, as well as online (in italian). photographer: retts wood.

UNTIL 30 JULY 2010
spin is screening in the official animation competition at rushes soho shorts festival in london (12-30 july).

FRI 30 JULY 2010, 7-8PM
work by max hattler included in mgfest san francisco, usa.

30 JUL TO 1 AUG 2010
fest anca in zilina, slovakia, is showing aanaatt (in competition), collision, 1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell.

UNTIL 31 JULY 2010
1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell are screening in a month-long max hattler solo exhibition at broadway in nottingham, uk (1-31 july).

UNTIL 1 AUGUST 2010
spin is in competition at anima mundi in rio de janeiro (16-25 july) + sao paulo (28 july - 1 aug).

THU 5 AUGUST 2010
aanaatt is screening at dreaming with open eyes at nova at mis in sao paulo, brazil.

UNTIL 7 AUGUST 2010
1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell are in the darkroom, an exhibition part of adfest 2010 at the center for creative communications in shizuoka, japan. also showing are saam farahmand, chris cairns, poppy de villeneuve + timothy saccenti (3 july - 7 august).

7 TO 11 AUGUST 2010
aanaatt is screening at hiroshima international animation festival in japan (best of the world programme).

UNTIL 8 AUGUST 2010
aanaatt is included in the 14th marl video art award exhibition running at the sculpture museum in marl, germany (20 june - 8 august).

8 TO 15 AUGUST 2010
max is attending nova at mis in sao paulo, brazil, with noriko okaku: audiovisual workshop metrópoles sinfonia de a/v (9-11 aug) + live cinema performance (fri 13 aug). other attending artists include chicks on speed, robert seidel, ryoichi kurokawa, objeto amarelo, jeffers egan, fuck buttons + many more.

12 TO 16 AUGUST 2010
aanaatt at open-air filmfest weiterstadt in germany on sun 15 aug, 17:38!

23 TO 28 AUGUST 2010
spin is screening at odense international film festival in denmark.

TUE 24 AUGUST 2010
spin at curtocircuito na rua in parque bonaval, santiago de compostela, spain.

25 TO 28 AUGUST 2010
world premiere of time, what makes us tick? at noorderzon performing arts festival in groningen, holland. twmut is a video installation by filmmakers max hattler + nelleke koop + scientists prof. martha merrow + prof. eric bergshoeff, produced by pavlov e-lab, and supported by the open workshop at the animation workshop in viborg, denmark.

THU 26 AUGUST 2010
aanaatt, where's your head at and nachtmaschine are screening abstracta: international exhibition of abstract cinema in rome, italy.

1 TO 4 SEPTEMBER 2010
together with ace norton, saam farahmand, geraldine gomez + ries straver, max is on the jury at circuito off on san servolo island, venice, italy. the festival is showing 1923, 1925 and spin in a focus on partizan on 2 + 3 september. max will also play live on lido beach with noriko okaku + pig radio dj team at the circuito off closing party on sat 4 sep.

2 TO 11 SEPTEMBER 2010
spin is screening at ars electronica in linz, austria.

6 TO 8 SEPTEMBER 2010
the max hattler experience: an animated music clips workshop in baden, switzerland, organized by fantoche + focal. includes special two-hour guest presentation by swedish über-animator jonas odell.

6 TO 19 SEPTEMBER 2010
mumia underground world animation festival in brazil is showing a retrospective of max's films. 6-12 september in betim + nova lima; 13-19 september in belo horizonte.

7 TO 12 SEPTEMBER 2010
aanaatt is screening at fantoche international animation film festival.

SEPTEMBER 2010
coming mid-september: max hattler interview in schön! magazine.

24 SEP TO 3 OCT 2010
spin is screening at calgary international film festival in calgary, canada.

12 AND 19 OCTOBER 2010
max hattler is performing live improvisation audio-visual concert asure with turkish composer mehmet can ozer at goethe-institut ankara, turkey.

23 OCT TO 1 NOV 2010
1923 aka heaven and 1925 aka hell are screening at the 8th int'l festival of visionary art chimeria in sedan, france.

NOVEMBER 2010
coming nov 2010: the end, an electric sheep anthology of specially commissioned essays, including contributions from the brothers quay, max hattler and jack sargeant, published by strange attractor press!

TUE 9 NOVEMBER 2010
max hattler is performing asure with mehmet can ozer at goethe-institut ankara, turkey.

10 TO 14 NOVEMBER 2010
aanaatt at invideo, milan, italy.

11 TO 28 NOVEMBER 2010
aanaatt is screening at alucine festival in toronto, canada, in a special programme curated by videoformes.

THU 18 NOVEMBER 2010
everything turns is screening at the colour of sound at lee rosy's tea room in nottingham, uk.

for recent screenings please see individual films' sections. in july, thanks to goethe-institut ankara, max hattler and mehmet can özer met in ankara, turkey, to prepare live audiovisual collaboration asure, premiering in october. collision won a jury award at marin festival of short film + video. in june, thanks to goethe-institut taipei, max hattler, robert seidel + daniel burkhardt were in taiwan for their 3-person show tripolar at moca taipei (exhibition open 15 june - 18 july). max + robert also did an artist talk at moca's mocampus. listen to an interview with robert and max by the german division of radio taiwan international. also in june, max presented work in the doctorate in fine art end of year show at the university of east london. spin screened on austrian tv orf2. max initiated this year's videoformes exquisite corpse hd video collaboration project. max + noriko okaku performed (O) at animafest zagreb and at vis - vienna independent shorts. max also premiered rescore 192010 and aanaatt was awarded a special mention in their animation avantgarde competition. /\/\/\ (by max hattler + noriko okaku) won the contest for audiovisual performances at videofestival in bochum, germany (/\/\/\ was performed by noriko with diane karner of decollage.tv covering for max who was away in taiwan). varoom magazine issue 12 came out, including darrly clifton's article animation's brave new worlds, discussing the work of max, quayola + richard fenwick. film & festivals magazine issue 22 included pooja pottenkulam's article the short of it featuring animators tony comley, ian gouldstone, max hattler, martin pickles, tim webb + more. in may, austrian tv channel okto screened a max hattler portrait in vis festivalfernsehen. franziska bruckner of vienna university hosted 'max hattler: director's talk' at ursula blickle videolounge at kunsthalle wien, and franziska's students wrote reviews of spin and of aanaatt. max was q+a'd by adam buxton at bug 19 at the nft in london, and by claire spencer cook at cryptic nights - onedotzero craftwork screening at cca glasgow. oh yes featured on court-circuit / kurzschluss on franco-german tv channel arte. max held a 3-day workshop at école régionale des beaux-arts de valence, france, which is culminating in a new animation film co-directed by max and erba lecturer nicolas flory, out in october. max also started work on time, what makes us tick?, an open mind collaborative sci-art installation with pavlov e-lab in groningen, holland. in april, max signed to partizan for worldwide commercial representation. a max hattler solo exhibition opened at lumen eclipse in cambridge, massachusetts, usa (apr-june). thanks to goethe-institut mexiko and in collaboration with circuito electrovisiones, max presented his work in mexico city: a lecture at habitacion del ruido; live a/v set remixing the past at centro cultural de españa; and live set inchoate m3x/c(-) with pablo gav at jornada de comunicacion at universidad marista. max also acted as jury for the 1st annual universidad del claustro de sor juana audiovisual competition. in germany, max ran an experimental animation workshop at ferienakademie roggenburg (read about it in südwest presse), where he also showed four works in the group show kunst ist versuchung (with martin durham + eva-maria kollischan, feb-june); max played 3-screen live visuals to lexy's dj set at sucasa in ulm; he presented work in progress of his defa-award funded, japan-inspired film project bipolar (with robert seidel) at the animation exchange forum at filmfest dresden; jackmode agency in berlin started representing max for live visuals bookings; and aanaatt started screening on phase 3, a new visual music programme on german tv br-alpha, running weekly on fridays at 23:00. in london, max introduced collision + aanaatt at the animation film season at ciné lumière, and onedotzero acquired 1923 aka heaven, 1925 aka hell, drift + striper v0.1 for non-exclusive distribution and exhibitions representation. /\/\/\ featured in blanca regina's article in mcd – musiques et cultures digitales special edition 04. 1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell were featured in stash dvd magazine issue 67, in televisual (and on their blog) on apengine, motionographer, promo news, and countless blogs. in march, aanaatt received a special mention at regensburg short film week, and max presented a screening of avant garde animation at animated worlds at cinephilia west in london. max also gave a mini-workshop and showed his work to animation students at university of westminster. in february, max directed two animation loops based on paintings by french outsider artist augustin lesage - 1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell - during a 5-day film jam with students at the animation workshop in viborg, denmark. the other directors who ran film jams were alexei alexeev, amy winfrey, jamie caliri, tod polson and priit tender. max also presented audiovisual abstractions at the 6th berlin int'l directors lounge, and he lectured at ravensbourne college in london. lrv_magazine came out, feat. max hattler, light surgeons, d-fuse, ne1co, shantell martin, actop, raquel meyers, and others. aanaatt was selected for animac mobile, a spain-wide touring programme curated by animac festival. aanaatt also toured the uk in the british animation awards public choice programme. during jan + feb, aanaatt screened weekly at la ennana marron in madrid. in january, spin premiered on canal+ in france, while max + noriko performed (O) at the 7th london short film festival, and /\/\/\ at electrovision, london. they also played oh yes at vis: kurzfilm(z)immer in vienna, austria. drift was shown in a videoformes special on souvenirs from earth tv on 22+23 jan, repeating monthly thru 2010.

2009 SELECTED
in december, max lectured at southampton solent university. he vj'ed at ex mercedes benz in neu-ulm and at jackbox nye at sucasa in ulm, germany. kate taylor wrote about max and his upcoming film spin on electric sheep. the book artist in residencies around the world came out, with two pages about max. in november, aanaatt received a special mention 'for the art form' at no-festival in chelyabinsk, russia. max was interviewed for apengine. max + noriko performed oh yes in belgium at int'l short film festival leuven and at cimatics festival in brussels. max was on the jury at fredrikstad animation festival in norway. the festival also presented a max hattler & noriko okaku retrospective, and the premiere of max + noriko's 3-screen live animation performance /\/\/\. also in nov, max attended exground filmfest with aanaatt; he lectured at ravensbourne college; and he presented his work - including a short preview of spin - at pecha kucha night london. the book limited language: rewriting design - responding to a feedback culture by colin davies + monika parrinder came out, featuring collision. in oct, andrew selby's book animation in process came out, featuring max in-depth with striper v0.1. max started teaching animation at goldsmiths again. and he embarked on a professional doctorate in fine art – supervised by john smith + michael o'pray – at his second teaching place, the university of east london. max attended dok leipzig with aanaatt; he presented a screening of his films, followed by live a/v set remixing the past at optica festival in madrid; and he had a retrospective with q+a at branchage jersey int'l film festival. branchage also presented a 'max hattler case study' as part of the short sighted panel discussion by bafta + shooting people. in september, aanaatt won the award for best design at eksjö animation festival in eksjö, sweden. max was at discovery 09 in amsterdam, where he played an experimental [3D camera + 3D laser scanner data] headline VJ set with help from enist + alex bucksch of TU delft. max also attended square eyes: hertz & lux / made in arnhem in arnhem, holland, presenting films and performing oh yes with noriko okaku. in august, max was on the jury at muuuvi festival in transylvania, also playing oh yes with noriko. in july, max + noriko performed oh yes at curtas vila do conde in portugal. in june, max attended annecy animation festival thanks to support from the british council. he also did a screening + talk at wellington college. and glastonbury festival showed a full-length recording of oh yes. max's where's your head at concert visuals for basement jaxx were featured on promo news, animation show, 'boards, creative review, netribution, videostatic, directors notes, page, and more. max was interviewed for jotta magazine, film london and videopark. aanaatt won the host award at videofestival bochum and it was featured in inmotion. in may, max gave a lecture on abstract animation at volda university college in norway. he presented a programme of german experimental films at image forum festival in tokyo with robert seidel. nano universe released max's limited edition collision t-shirts in japan - you can read about it in the may 2009 paper issue of someone's garden (in japanese). max also played oh yes live with noriko okaku at birobox workshops in nottingham, uk. in april, max + noriko premiered oh yes at moves09 in manchester. max also held a 5-day filmmaking masterclass at ferienakademie roggenburg in germany, and the accompanying exhibition kunst (er)schöpft showed four of his films. revija amaterskog filma in zagreb presented a screening of six of max's works, and max lectured at southampton solent university. aanaatt was featured in repérages magazine. since april 2009, drift is screening on german-french video art tv channel souvenirs from earth. in march, max made concert visuals for the egg. in feb, max was one of five featured artists at tratado de integracion: legion.02: refresco! in neuquen, argentina. he did a talk at southampton solent university and started teaching on the moving image + animation degrees at the university of east london. in january, max did talks at khm / academy of media arts in cologne and at ravensbourne college of design in london. he also attended int'l film festival rotterdam with aanaatt thanks to a film london film-makers festival fund travel award. ian lumsden featured drift on his animation blog and directors notes published an interview with max about aanaatt.

2008 SELECTED
in december, the max hattler vs. robert seidel dvd was released in japan by uplink. in november, jemapur's evacuation cd+dvd was released by w+k tokyo lab, it includes aanaatt. max spent oct+nov in paris, working on spin with autour de minuit. also in nov, max lectured and performed with noriko okaku at animated dreams festival in estonia; presented his work in tokyo; did a talk the royal college of art; and performed remixing the past at exground filmfest in germany. aanaatt featured in boards and max was interviewed by sprayblog and moonlinx.jp. in october, max was on the jury at curtocircuito festival in spain, and also performed remixing the past there. the book re-imagining animation - the changing face of the moving image by pauls wells + johnny hardstaff came out, featuring max's film drift. aanaatt was mentioned on countless blogs including motionographer and stash feed, with a nice interview on white-screen. and webdice.jp published an interview with max + robert seidel. japanese cg world, someone's garden magazine and quotation magazine all included sizeable articles about max's work. drift was featured in issue 22 of specialten dvd magazine, and it won awards for best digital film at london international animation festival and best experimental film at muuuvi festival in romania. storm studios in oslo signed max as a director for scandinavia (max left storm in 2010 when joining partizan). in september 2008, max was a guest at animae caribe in trinidad and animationvolda festival in norway, screening films and performing live visuals. in august and july, max played live visuals for the egg at camp bisco in new york state, usa, and at haselstock festival in england. finally, please click here for details of max hattler + robert seidel's 23-event 5-week japan tour in april + may 2008.

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