One more piece I liked from MIAF 2015: Max Hattler’s Sync. They showed a mini-retrospective of Max’s work at MIAF with Max himself presenting it.
Anyone who can get me to stay interested in abstract shapes for more than a minute or two is pulling off an incredible trick, and Max’s abstract pieces achieved that more than once.
This is another piece I liked from MIAF 2015 – 1923 aka Heaven by Max Hattler. I love the sense of slowly drifting through a vast field of shapes that’s part Tron and part Enter the Void.
Another MIAF 2015 pick, this time a music video. Wasaru’s music video for Kaly Live Dub’s “Allaxis” features a driver lost in his memories taking a constantly metamorphosing passenger to who knows where. Wasaru was kind enough to post an informative making-of on his website.
When I saw it at the Aussie student showcase, I thought Catriona Drummond’s Pond Scum was a dead cert for the award. Alas, it was not to be, but I preferred this short tale of a cat-calling bogan biting off more than he could chew.
Kathryn Marshall’s Triveni was part of the Punto Y Raya abstract film showcase. The showcase started with a series of mostly sedate computer-rendered abstract pieces with clicky-pop electro-acoustic sound, all very reserved… and then suddenly we got hit with this explosion of colour and energy set to a rocking Spanish guitar tune by Gabriela Y
Rodrigo.
In the tradition of Len Lye and Norman McLaren, Triveni didn’t use a camera – the images were either painted directly onto a strip of 16mm film or scratched out of the leader.