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

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni — Self