Max Hattler

17/04/2026

Unfinished project from 12 years ago found on my hard drive while looking for something else

17/03/2026

Contemporary Art Ruhr 2026: Directors Lounge presents experimental animation films by the Relentless Melt Project from Hong Hong.

17/03/2026

[DL] at the C.A.R. - contemporary art ruhr, the Photo / Media Art Fair at Zeche Zollverein, March 20 – 22, 2026

The C.A.R. Video Lounge 2026 [Hall A 12 | S4] presents two themed programs: 'Relentless Melt', featuring new video art from Hong Kong, and 'Dani Mystery Zone x Lüüls Lab', a collaborative project that blends the music of Lutz Graf-Ulbrich (aka Lüül) with the video art of Dani Mystery Zone.

Heldenhalden & Schaltkreismythologien (1989 | 2026) at the DL Booth [Halle 12 | 17], an artistic research project at the intersection of human and machine by Rainer Görß and André Werner, demonstrates how eight drawings evolve into approximately 33,333 variations...

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pictured: Still from 'Faces'(2026) by Sabrina An, Natalie Kiu Tung Ng, Quinn Wing Yi Wong, Jennifier Ching Yu Yu.

14/02/2026

01/02/2026

Yay our abstract optical sound film O/S won Best Experimental Film at Diogenes Festival 🙌🏻

13/01/2026

Looking for musics!

Hi friends, we're collecting sound and music pieces for our Soundtrack Library, which students use in the Abstract and Experimental Animation course at SCM/CityUHK for their final projects. The course is run by us, experimental animators Max Hattler and Ria Zhang Riwen. We've been doing this for a f...

23/11/2025

Board of Juries:
Nobuaki Doi 土居伸彰, Nienke Deutz, Jian Liu 刘健, Max Hattler, Dian 静电场朔, Jasmine Cai 小简

10/11/2025

From Alex Fields substack review of : “Max Hattler’s Norm is the first film to screen at the festival and another of its strongest entries. I previously knew Hattler for his stereoscopic work, which this technically isn’t, but it does trade in optical illusions of a sort that make patterns of black and white line seem to emerge spatially from the screen, generating depth and motion and even color that isn’t “there” in the sense of being visible in any single frame. It’s all composed, or animated if you will, from lens and monitor test charts, and the images do double duty as the source of a very effective optical soundtrack. You could consider this part of the “visual music” tradition that goes back to Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye, and so on.”

15/10/2025

Norm (2025) is opening Light Matter Film Festival
https://www.lightmatterfilmfestival.com/program-1-2025

01/10/2025

Our 16-minute hardcore hallucinatory abstract graphical sound film “Norm” (2025, ) received an Honorary Mention from MuVi7 Visual Music! It will be presented at their upcoming exhibition this month. Norm premiered at in July. The film has had a number of screenings since then, with a few more upcoming☺️☺️:

, 2-13 July 2025, Perth, WA, Australia (world premiere)
No. 38, , London, 2 + 16 July 2025lounge.berlin presents: : Abstract Articulations, Berlin, 27 July 2025
Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 Oct 2025
MuVi7 International Exhibition of Visual Music, Alcalá la Real, Spain, 23-25 October 2025
Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, 24 Oct – 5 Nov 2025
, Alfred, NY, USA, 7-9 Nov 2025
Tindirindis International Animation Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania, 23 Nov - 14 Dec 2025

25/07/2025

Another Julien Mier - Spark (Official Music Video) made by my students at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong:

Taken from my new album Gradually, ‘Spark ’ is a hybrid music video that blends hand-drawn animation with key-framed cut-out elements. Driven by the music de...

23/07/2025

We are delighted that Max Hattler will be presenting his films in person and will be available for questions and answers. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Directors Lounge Screening
Max Hattler – Abstract Articulations
20 Years of Audiovisual Experiments
Sunday, 27 July 2025, 5 p.m.

Z-Bar Berlin
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Max Hattler is a German artist, filmmaker and animator who currently lives and teaches in Hong Kong. His animation work is best described as experimental film or experimental animation, in strong contrast to traditional animation practice. You won’t find cartoon characters or even traditional narrative elements in his films. In fact, the term ‘animation’ is not entirely appropriate for his work, and neither is the German term ‘Trickfilm’, as both terms derive from mainstream narrative. Hattler often works with abstract shapes and forms that multiply and occupy the screen, turning it into a macrocosm...

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