Max Hattler

@Relentless_Melt No. 46: A World Of Sublime Abstraction, Melbourne International Animation Festival @animationfest , 21 May 2026 Curated and introduced by @Max_Hattler [link in bio] Great Day Today BIAN Ning, WANG Yuchen, XING Xiangyi, ZHOU Xuanfu Hong Kong, 2026, 1’00 _ImEdge Huang Xiaowen Hong Kong, 2018, 4’13 Where’s My Stress Ball Or Chun Yiu Hong Kong, 2020, 1’15 Invade Wong Man-sze Hong Kong, 2020, 5’33 Estrella Distante TANG Jingcheng, XING Xiangyi, ZHOU Xuanfu Hong Kong, 2026, 3’11 Fly Train Ria Zhang Riwen Hong Kong, 2025, 3’42 Linear Bloom CHEN Wai Lam, NG Kwan Yi, WANG Lok Sze, WONG Sui Kei Hong Kong, 2026, 3’57 Squint Your Eyes To Get A Better Picture Jonathan Kan Hong Kong, 2025, 4’24 Elements Wing Yi Quinn WONG Hong Kong, 2026, 3’17 The Interval Between CHEN Wai Lam, NG Kwan Yi, WANG Lok Sze, WONG Sui Kei Hong Kong, 2026, 1’00 Time Was Wasted BIAN Ning, WANG Yuchen Hong Kong, 2026, 3’04 #abstractanimation #experimentalanimation #hongkong #visualmusic #animation

[오늘의 작품 이야기 #04] 반복되는 이미지, 빠져드는 ‘카오스’ 시간, 공간, 움직임이 새롭게 인식됩니다. 이 모든 반복이 진짜 우연일까요, 아니면 이미 정해진 질서일까요? 맥스 하틀러 작가(@max_hattler ) 작품의 전체 이야기는 뮤지엄 원(@museum1_official )에서 만나보세요 ✨ - 다시, 낭만의 시대 Again, Übermensch 📅2025. 11. 15(토) – 2026. 10. 11(일) 📍부산 해운대구 센텀서로 20, 뮤지엄 원 📞 051-731-3393

Relentless Melt No. 45: Digital Analogues and Analogue Digitals 🕖 7pm 30 April 2026 (Thu) 📍Nock Art Project Space｜16A, Kwai Bo Industrial Building, Wong Chuk Hang, HK Island. Free Admission on a first-come, first-served basis. ✍️This event is by invitation only. Pre-registration is required. Please see link in bio for registration. New short films from the Abstract and Experimental Animation classes at City University of Hong Kong complicate the smoothness of the digital image by folding in analogue and lens-based interventions: scanning, projection, refilming, prisms, optical distortion, and more. Digital Analogues and Analogue Digitals names this double movement, as digital tools imitate the tactility of analogue media while analogue materials are sampled, layered, sonified, and transformed within digital workflows. Structured around visual music and optical sound, these works treat abstraction as a way of re-encountering the world: dirt becomes rhythm, architecture becomes pulse, and the screen becomes a textured surface to be re-photographed and remixed into a restless, expanded field of experimental animation. Curated by @max_hattler and @yat._.yat . Films preview, artist sharing, drinks reception, and, for the first time, the Relentless Melt Awards 🏆, presented by an all-female jury of extraordinary Hong Kong animators: Sophie Colfer @sphancy , Louise Pau @loulou_pau and Florence Yuk-ki Lee @florence____l . Organised by: @relentless_melt Venue Partner: @nockartgallery Supported by: @schoolofcreativemedia Drinks Sponsor: @nockiespalette

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

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DL at the @contemporaryartruhr.de the Photo / Media Art Fair at Zeche Zollverein, March 20 – 22, 2026 Friday, March 20, 7 pm – 10 pm Saturday, March 21, 11 am – 7 pm Sunday, March 22, 11 am – 7 pm Relentless Melt No. 44 C.A.R. Video Lounge [Hall A 12 | S4] Selected video art and experimental animation films by the @relentless_melt Project from Hong Hong. Relentless Melt No. 44: Hong Kong Experimental Animation brings together sixteen recent works that approach animation as a space of rhythm, texture, memory and transformation. Across charcoal, wax, pastel, photographic re-animation, AI-generated and hand-drawn abstraction, the films move through trams and trains, tower blocks and temple roofs, street details and shifting faces, turning Hong Kong into a field of pulse, pattern and sensation. Urban observation meets tactile experimentation as sound, light and movement continually dissolve and re-form. The Relentless Melt collective champions abstract and experimental animation as a site of formal inquiry and sensory exploration. Bringing together artists working across a wide range of techniques and sensibilities, it creates a platform for moving-image practices that are playful, critical and formally adventurous. In this compact one-hour programme, Relentless Melt offers a vivid encounter with Hong Kong animation at its most restless, inventive and alive. Read more:

Directors Lounge at the @contemporaryartruhr.de Photo / Media Art Fair, March 20 – 22, 2026 Friday, March 20, 7 pm – 10 pm Saturday, March 21, 11 am – 7 pm Sunday, March 22, 11 am – 7 pm The C.A.R. Video Lounge [Hall A 12 | S4] presents two themed programs: “Relentless Melt No. 44,” featuring new abstract and experimental animation films from Hong Kong, and “Dani Mystery Zone x Lüüls Lab,” a collaborative project by Lutz Graf-Ulbrich (aka Lüül) and Dani Mystery Zone. Relentless Melt No.44 @relentless_melt with Jonathan Chan Pok Him, Wu Zeyang, Wong Man-sze, Sabrina An, Natalie Kiu Tung Ng, Quinn Wing Yi Wong, Jennifier Ching Yu Yu,Ria Zhang Riwen, Max Hattler, Florence Yuk-ki Lee, Hong Yina, Zhou Yiwei, Hong Shengtao, Gao Joyce, Hung Wan Yin, Lau Sum Yee, Yu Ching Yin, Jiin Chung, Lizzy Bovee, Yuna Tang, Nathan Yeom, Marvin Hauck, Chen Yibing, Cao Yifei, Deng Qi, Li Junqing, Wang Ziqi, Ou Lan, Sit Sin Wun, Tmoi Zhang, Klee Cao, Wong Sui Kei, Ng Kwan Yi, Wang Lok Sze, Chen Wai Lam 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.  DL Booth [Hall A 12 | Booth 17] Heldenhalden & Schaltkreismythologien 1989 /2026 - 8 drawings in approximately 33,333 variations An artistic research project at the intersection of human and machine by Rainer Görß and André Werner. Read more: 

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

Deadline extended to 28 Feb 2026! — We are collecting tracks for our *Soundtrack Library* used in the **Abstract & Experimental Animation** course at SCM/CityUHK. Students will make 3–4 min experimental films based on their selected music (think: abstract music videos). By sharing your tracks, you allow students to use it for their film and screenings (festivals, online, etc.). In return, you can use their final films as visuals or MV if you like them. **Looking for:** 2-4mins / no vocals / electronic / experimental / noise / ambience / sound-art vibe / other weird stuff? **Please share!** LINK IN BIO

Relentless Melt No. 43: Hong Kong Experiments. Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, China, 16-18 Dec 2025. Curated by Max Hattler and presented by Max Boden, Relentless Melt No. 43 comprises a selection of new abstract and experimental animation films from Hong Kong. Founded in 2017, Relentless Melt is a Hong Kong-based society dedicated to abstract and experimental animation and has since held screenings at festivals and events worldwide. @max_hattler is an abstract animator and professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. @maxb0den is a Motion Designer based in Hamburg and a Part-Time Teacher at Zhejiang Wanli University. List of artists and films: 1. Tram, Jonathan Chan Pok Him, Wu Zeyang, 2025, 1 min 2. Soil, Hong Yina, Zhou Yiwei, Hong Shengtao, Gao Joyce, 2025, 3’47 min 3. No Man’s Land, Wu Zeyang, Tmoi Zhang, Klee Cao, Jonathan Chan Pok Him, 2025, 3’19 min 4. Bubble, Sun Xuqin, 2025, 2’29 min 5. States of Matter, Marvin Hauck, 2024, 7 min 6. Gods’ Path, Destania Linaura, Irene Nathaly, KK Wong Long Yuet, Lyra Lam Sze Wa, 2025, 3’38 min 7. Spark, Yang Qingqing, 2025, 3’50 min 8. Fly Train, Ria Zhang Riwen, 2025, 3’42 min 9. Textura Vitae, Li Junqing, Wang Ziqi, Ou Lan, Sit Sin Wun, 2025, 4’55 min 10. Squint Your Eyes To Get A Better Picture, Jonathan Kan, 2025, 4’24 min 11. Wanderers, Muhammad Mustefa Bukhari, 2025, 3’46 min 12. Illumination, Jonathan Kan, Esme Chuyi Wang, Samson Pak Hang Wong, 2024, 1 min

Coming up today! 18:30 - Are you OK? + Screentalk @thehorsehospital This very awesome programme of heart-felt films is also available to watch online 21:00 - 40 Years of RCA Animation Selected from an archive of over 1000 timeless films Also at The Horse Hospital and online Ticket links in bio 👆

Experience “EXTENDED ECLECTICS”, a live audiovisual collaboration between Max Hattler and Sune Petersen, where geometric choreography, generative visuals, and real-time manipulation create a constantly evolving universe. The performance invites the audience into a dynamic interplay of motion, sound, and abstraction, offering a hypnotic journey through contemporary visual music. 🗓 Dec 6 - 21:30h 📍 Cinema House, Sofia 🎟 Tickets apply --- Насладете се на „EXTENDED ECLECTICS” — аудио-визуален спектакъл на Макс Хатлер и Суне Петерсен, в който геометрична хореография, генеративни визуализации и манипулации в реално време създават постоянно еволюираща вселена. Пърформънсът потапя публиката в динамичната игра на движение, звук и абстракция, предлагайки хипнотично пътешествие през съвременната визуална музика. 🗓 6 декември - 21:30 ч. 📍 Дом на киното 🎟 Вход с билети #PuntoyRayaFestival #PyR2025 #PyRformance #AbstractArtInMotion