1923 aka Heaven – Max Hattler

‘1923 aka Heaven’ which was ‘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 the same year.

In this film loop the viewer is taken on a trajectory through a seemingly infinite architecture of moving pillars, sliding steps and shifting façades, each adorned with glowing primitive shapes – circles and squares. The experience seems to be a well worked out exercise in the geometric resonance of nested complexity, the end result is a building that is a machine – a chapter of Tron occurring in Ancient Egypt. The bilateral symmetry, often also favoured by outsider artists, is employed to yield illusions of totemic forms in a way that those who have a fondness for Rorschach ink blots will appreciate.

Sync – Max Hattler

Be sure to check out Max’s related video ‘1925 aka Hell’ for a darker journey into a dystopian mechanized landscape. Also not to missed is ‘Sync’ featured at Instantcinema. Sync is another exercise in periodic movement and relationships between circulating abstract geometric forms.

‘There is an underlying unchanging sync at the centre of everything. All constituent parts are locked into it as the gigantic zoetrope disc’s constant rotation creates all movement’