Biography
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 Cine…
Directed
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Personal Growth (2019) — Director
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…at large under the sun… (2021) — Director
- Light / Sound — Director
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The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase (2011) — Director
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Everybody's Favourite Disease (2010) — Director
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Soldeck Cycle (2010) — Director
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Untitled (2020) — Director
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Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1) (2012) — Director
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Forbidden Symmetries (2014) — Director
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Blissed (2022) — Director
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Solitaire (2023) — Director
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Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie (2013) — Director
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Self Decapitation (2017) — Director
- Inside (2017) — Director
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Cloud of Skin (2015) — Director
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Scorpion's Stone (2018) — Director
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Whale Skull (2020) — Director
- Half Way Back (2024) — Director
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Solo For Water (2021) — Director
- Dirt (2012) — Director
Also appeared in
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TRAILERS (2016)
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HE (2012)
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Animal Kingdom (2017)
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Personal Growth (2019)
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni — Self
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Luminous Void: Docudrama (2019)
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Self Decapitation (2017)
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Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1) (2012)
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Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021) (2021)
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Forbidden Symmetries (2014)
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Ten Years In The Sun (2015) — Boris Remy
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Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie (2013)
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HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind (2013)
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Homo Sapiens Project (100) (2013)
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Abel Ferrara in Lucca (2012)