Synopsis:
1923 aka Heaven is one of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. 1923 is based on Lesage's painting 'A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World' from 1923.
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A circular looping animation projection installation.
- Non-narrative
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Using the New Age idea of a 'dimensional shift' as inspiration, Shift combines science fiction themes through abstract, stop motion animation of objects and colour.
- Non-narrative
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When conflict becomes a spectacle, the lines between destruction and entertainment get blurred…
- Non-narrative
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This experimental animation by Max Hattler approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Overgrown is an emotional mood-piece asking an age-old question: What happens when love and hurt grows from the same place? When his garden, once a place of love and dedication, gets infected by bugs, a gardener finds himself faced with an impossible choice: to leave, and abandon all he’s been working for, or to stay, but at the cost of his own life.
- Fantasy
- Non-narrative
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A boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A visual journey that challenges us to think about a universal belonging that doesn’t confine itself to a city, region or national boundary in an age where xenophobia, nationalism and intolerance are ubiquitous.
- Documentary
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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In an entangled tango, the victim and victimiser dance, occupying the frame and the space between brushstrokes.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Tom is living in a world where he doesn’t feel that he belongs, torn between staying or searching for a better place. On his last day, Tom decides to give all of his plants away to the ones he loves, without knowing that they already have a secret plan for him.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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God is beta testing a new software called “Multiverse”.
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Hilarious musical film telling that in life there is always a place for a small miracle and a sudden joy. This joy can be caused by a simple thing as an empty tin can of condensed milk, forgotten by Soviet cosmonauts in orbit, that accidentally fell to Earth.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Musical
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The film shows a new life waking up as well as the anxiety that accompanies the transformation of a female body which loses its former shape responding to the internal force affecting it. Ab Ovo is an extremely visual animation that illustrates the power of fertility lying dormant in every woman.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative