Max Hattler is a German-born animator and audiovisual artist. He has been active in the field of abstract and experimental for over twenty years. After studying at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art in London, and for one semester at Escuela de Cine de Madrid in Spain, he completed a doctorate in fine art at the University of East London. Since ten years, Max Hattler is based in Hong Kong, where he 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, Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Punto y Raya Festival, Cannes Lions and London International Animation Festival, among many others. He is the co-founder and chairman of Relentless Melt, a Hong Kong-based society which regularly presents abstract and experimental animation screenings in Hong Kong and internationally.