#hattler

Fola Dada

Hellmut Hattler

Fola Dada sings

Torsten, Oli & Fola

photography + © Christof Keßemeier

At Animated Exeter Max Hattler presented Shift in the SCREEN OUT LOUD competition.

He says about his works on his website: "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."

Honestly Shift wasn't my favorite film in the competition, and for sure it is not the one of his works I prefer. I think Hattler is one of the most interesting artist nowadays, he is able to explore digital universes as few others, especially in the way he blends visual languages and sound design. I think his work with Ocusonic, you can watch here, is a great example of what it means to explore the non-narrative, digital postmodernism.

In my personal opinion Shift seems too attached to a modern abstract narrative, it uses safety Middle Twenties aesthetics that didn't really tell anything new to the audience.

X (by Max Hattler) - KXFS Canal Commission