Maximilian Le Cain (b. 1978)

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Birthplace:
Ireland

Born:
January 1, 1978

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.

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Director:
2010  Everybody's Favourite Disease
2010  Soldeck Cycle
2011  The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
2012  Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
2013  Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
2014  Forbidden Symmetries
2015  Cloud of Skin
2017  Inside
2017  Self Decapitation
2018  Scorpion's Stone
2019  Personal Growth
2020  Untitled
2020  Whale Skull
2021  …at large under the sun…
2022  Blissed
2023  Solitaire
????  Light / Sound

Director of Photography:
2010  Everybody's Favourite Disease
2010  Soldeck Cycle
2011  The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
2012  Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
2013  Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
2014  Forbidden Symmetries
2015  Cloud of Skin
2017  Inside
2017  Self Decapitation
2018  Scorpion's Stone
2019  Personal Growth
2020  Untitled
2020  Whale Skull
2021  …at large under the sun…
2022  Blissed
2023  Solitaire
????  Light / Sound

Idea:
2010  Everybody's Favourite Disease
2010  Soldeck Cycle
2011  The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
2012  Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
2013  Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
2014  Forbidden Symmetries
2015  Cloud of Skin
2017  Inside
2017  Self Decapitation
2018  Scorpion's Stone
2019  Personal Growth
2020  Untitled
2020  Whale Skull
2021  …at large under the sun…
2022  Blissed
2023  Solitaire
????  Light / Sound

Producer:
2010  Everybody's Favourite Disease
2010  Soldeck Cycle
2011  The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
2012  Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
2013  Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
2014  Forbidden Symmetries
2015  Cloud of Skin
2017  Inside
2017  Self Decapitation
2018  Phantom Islands
2018  Scorpion's Stone
2019  Personal Growth
2020  Untitled
2020  Whale Skull
2021  …at large under the sun…
2022  Blissed
2023  Solitaire
????  Light / Sound

Sound:
2010  Everybody's Favourite Disease
2010  Soldeck Cycle
2011  The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
2012  Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
2013  Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
2014  Forbidden Symmetries
2015  Cloud of Skin
2017  Inside
2017  Self Decapitation
2018  Phantom Islands
2018  Scorpion's Stone
2019  Personal Growth
2020  Untitled
2020  Whale Skull
2021  …at large under the sun…
2022  Blissed
2023  Solitaire
????  Light / Sound

Sound Designer:
2010  Everybody's Favourite Disease
2010  Soldeck Cycle
2011  The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
2012  Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
2013  Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
2014  Forbidden Symmetries
2015  Cloud of Skin
2017  Inside
2017  Self Decapitation
2018  Phantom Islands
2018  Scorpion's Stone
2019  Personal Growth
2020  Untitled
2020  Whale Skull
2021  …at large under the sun…
2022  Blissed
2023  Solitaire
????  Light / Sound

Writer:
2010  Everybody's Favourite Disease
2010  Soldeck Cycle
2011  The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
2012  Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
2013  Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
2014  Forbidden Symmetries
2015  Cloud of Skin
2017  Inside
2017  Self Decapitation
2018  Phantom Islands
2018  Scorpion's Stone
2019  Luminous Void: Docudrama
2019  Personal Growth
2020  Untitled
2020  Whale Skull
2021  …at large under the sun…
2022  Blissed
2023  Solitaire
????  Light / Sound

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