by Max Tohline
2019
7 minutes
A collection of my favorite light of the past ten years. To be played loud.
Music: the finale of Anton Bruckner's 4th Symphony
by Max Tohline
2019
2 minutes
for Dylan, who brought every color into the world.
by Max Tohline
1 February, 2019
7 minutes
A little experimental film that I made on the spur of the moment one night in about two hours. Contains a hidden mini-supercut partway through, just because. A rumination on what is beautiful in the age of the spectacle.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/314974827
by Max Tohline
2015
2 minutes
An algorithmic film (score given at the end). To be played loud.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/122322782
See also Felipe Rivera’s application of the same image-sorting algorithm to another object: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL77jK5PLk
by Max Tohline
2011
3 minutes
explicit content
A very personal, very painful event led me led me to make this found-footage structural film. Now that it’s been a decade, I don’t mind more people seeing it. As I remember, the found footage allowed me to hide behind the abstraction of borrowed iconography, and the austere structure offered me the illusion of control or containment. A friend who saw it suggested I use a bit of Harmony Korine for the soundtrack, so I added it.
Here’s the score for the image track:
by Max Tohline
2016
3 minutes
a rocket ride to 3500 feet and back
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/184005770
by Max Tohline
2013
endless loop
A loop of loops.
An ambient digital motion painting.
An unbroken line which only turns left, marking out a square grid.
A series of disconnected oversized pixels simulating an unbroken line.
A way of interrogating space in Euclidean terms (a grid), topological terms (a single line looping through itself), and algorithmic terms (I mark out the grids according to an discovered set of rules).
A mixture of multiple disciplines of mathematics into a simple visual design.
A rational therapeutic doodle digitized into rote mechanistic ritual.
A postmodern labyrinth of mystery and contemplation, pure and straightforward, yet still requiring discovery.
A follow-up to these studies.
by Max Tohline
2012-2015
various running times
A seven-part experimental video / ambient video series based on the idea of subdividing the screen into quadrants, putting a static long take into each, and allowing the audience to “edit” the video by choosing where to look. The name of the series, The Sharply Interrupted Sky, is meant to encapsulate both the aesthetics of the project as well as an interest in exploring the collisions or interfaces between the environment and the manmade.
by Max Tohline
2011
17 minutes
Official selection of the Athens International Film and Video Festival, 2012. Editing and audio mix by Cody Vandenburg.
To be played in a darkened room at the loudest volume possible.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/86043133
