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Born 1978 (age 48) · Ireland
Appears in 31 titles

Maximilian Le Cain (born 1978) has made more than ninety short, medium and feature length experimental films and videos over the past decade. He is affiliated with Experimental Film Society. He is currently working in creative partnership with sound/performance artist Vicky Langan. He collaborates with artist Esperanza Collado in the multi-disciplinary art project Operation Rewrite and with composer Karen Power on the sound / film / performance project Gorging Limpet. He is a contributor to the Cinema Cyanide noise project. He is also a film critic. He founded and edited Cork Film Centre’s online experimental film magazine Experimental Conversations. He regularly programmed experimental film for the Cork-based experimental music/film event Black Sun and has presented avant-garde film events in collaboration with, amongst others, Cork Film Centre and Cork Film Festival, involving filmmakers such as Peter Tscherkassky, Vivienne Dick, Pip Chodorov, James Fotopoulos, Abigail Child and Christoph Girardet. As a film critic, his writings have appeared in a broad range of international film journals, including La Furia Umana and Senses of Cinema, and in several books, including The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World (Wallflower Press, 2006). He is based in Cork City, Ireland.

Filmography

Personal Growth
4.5
Personal Growth
2019
Director
…at large under the sun…
…at large under the sun…
2021
Director
Light / Sound
Director
The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
Everybody's Favourite Disease
Soldeck Cycle
Soldeck Cycle
2010
Director
Untitled
Untitled
2020
Director
Forbidden Symmetries
Forbidden Symmetries
2014
Director
Blissed
Blissed
2022
Director
Solitaire
Solitaire
2023
Director
Self Decapitation
Self Decapitation
2017
Director
Inside
2017
Director
Cloud of Skin
Cloud of Skin
2015
Director
Scorpion's Stone
Scorpion's Stone
2018
Director
Whale Skull
Whale Skull
2020
Director
Half Way Back
2024
Director
Solo For Water
Solo For Water
2021
Director
Dirt
2012
Director