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RE:AX aka Peace Starts With Me 

(2011) 

by Max Hattler explores mirroring and feedback through abstract shapes, RE:AX takes us on a journey of action and reaction.

RE:AX aka Peace Starts With Me is a film about mirroring and feedback—abstract patterns and shapes interact with each other, taking us on a journey from disharmony to peace. Conceptually, it's about how violence breeds violence, and love breeds love. Only by turning the other cheek can we bring about change, understanding and peace.

Music production and sound design: Noia Schreus
Commissioned by PUMA.Peace for the project peace starts with me in partnership with World Peace Festival.
Project curated by PUMA.Creative Chief Curator, Mark Coetzee
Produced by Shooting People

 

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Although only under a minute and a half long, Max Hattler’s film titled RE:AX aka Peace Starts With Me manages to encompass deep reaching themes like love, peace, war and violence. But with previous work referencing French artist Augustin Lesage, another named Sync and termed a circular looping animation projection installation, Max Hattler’s work has always explored extraordinary topics. With abstract patterns, skulls, explosions that morph into stars and psychedelic colours, the film bursts from the screen at you. Confusing, beautiful and symbolic, Peace Starts With Me is a little bit philosophical, a little bit Space Invaders and a lot of amazing.

 

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Hans Richter - Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde (2000) edited by Stephen C. Foster. Few artists spanned the movements of early twentieth-century art as completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a major force in the developments of expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and a few others, he is one of the artists crucial to an understanding of the role of the arts in the reconstruction era following World War I. (MIT Press)

Notations 21 (2009) by Theresa Sauer features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. Notations 21 is a celebration of innovations in musical notation, employing an appreciative aesthetic for both the aural and visual beauty of these creations. The musical scores in this edition were created by composers whose creativity could not be confined by the staff and clef of traditional western notation, but whose musical language can communicate with the contemporary audience in a uniquely powerful way. (Notations 21 Project)

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