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Serial Parallels

film type experimental film, animated film, documentary film Production Country Germany, Hong Kong production year 2019 runtime 9'00 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo

This experimental film 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 architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: SERIAL PARALLELS.

http://www.maxhattler.com/serialparallels/

Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/maxhattler/serialtrailer

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director Max Hattler Animation Iresa Cho, Riwen Zhang Original-Filmmusik / Original Score David Kamp Tongestaltung / Sound Design David Kamp Schnitt / Editing Max Hattler Bildgestaltung / DOP Max Hattler Produktion / Production Max Hattler Drehbuch / Script Max Hattler
Festivals
2019 BANJALUKA International Animated Film Festival, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019 Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2019 Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS), Germany
2019 San Gio Video Festival, Verona, Italy (Best Editing)
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Max Hattler

Is an artist and academic who works with abstract animation, video installation and audiovisual performance;
lives in Hong Kong where he is an assistant professor at the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong

Filmography
2005 Nachtmaschine
2005 Collision
2008 AANAATT
2010 1923 aka Heaven
2010 1925 aka Hell
2010 Spin
2010 Sync
2012 Shift
2012 X
2013 A Very Large Increase in the Size, Amount, or Importance of Something Over a Very Short Period of Time
2015 All Rot
2017 Divisional Articulations