Synopsis

Shot entirely from an apartment on the 36th floor of a high-rise building, the images in this experimental animation survey large parts of Hong Kong’s cityscape, drawing attention to the individual lives hidden inside its buildings - together alone, collectively sequestered. Initially recorded in 2020 and completed in 2023 with the advantage of critical distance, TWENTYTИƎWT (“Twenty-Twenty”) attempts to encapsulate the darkness, confinement, and uncertainty of 2020 – the year of the global pandemic and the introduction of Hong Kong’s national security law.

PROFILE

Max HATTLER

Max HATTLER is a German-born experimental animator and audiovisual artist interested in the space between abstraction and representation, where storytelling is freed from the constraints of traditional narrative. Max HATTLER is a tenured Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. His work has been shown worldwide and has received prizes from Annecy Animation Festival, Prix Ars Electronica, and London International Animation Festival, among many others.