A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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.
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
2024 Half Way Back
???? 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
2024 Half Way Back
???? 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
2024 Half Way Back
???? 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
2024 Half Way Back
???? 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
2024 Half Way Back
???? 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
2024 Half Way Back
???? 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
2024 Half Way Back
???? Light / Sound
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