Maximilian Le Cain

Born: 1978-01-01

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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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

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A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the...

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Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)

as uncredited
Released: 2021-08-01

Homo Sapiens Project (201) was completed in 2021 as part of re-envisioning and restructuring...

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Animal Kingdom

as uncredited
Released: 2017-02-25

Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. Sacrifice. In Animal Kingdom a ritual carves a dimension that melds...

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Abel Ferrara in Lucca

as uncredited
Released: 2012-02-24

A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010,...

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Forbidden Symmetries

as uncredited
Released: 2014-01-01

Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there...

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TRAILERS

as uncredited
Released: 2016-11-13

TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a...

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HE

as uncredited
Released: 2012-01-01

HE, the third work in the ongoing collaboration between Rouzbeh Rashidi and actor James...

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Personal Growth

as uncredited
Released: 2019-11-09

"Personal Growth" is a Super-8 film work, an enigmatic, fragmented piece that could have been...

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Homo Sapiens Project (100)

as uncredited
Released: 2013-12-31

HSP 100 is a portrait of experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain. As Le Cain discusses his...

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Ten Years In The Sun

as Boris Remy
Released: 2015-03-27

An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge...

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HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind

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Released: 2013-10-05

There is no escape… From one side of the globe to the other, there is no escaping the faces, the...

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Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie

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Released: 2013-01-01

Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie is the second collaborative feature film between...

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Self Decapitation

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Released: 2017-04-25

Self Decapitation is a Janus-headed self-portrait by Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain in...

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Luminous Void: Docudrama

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Released: 2019-09-21

A documentary like no other. Starting with the bizarre practices and fantasies of a group of...

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Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

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Released: 2012-06-15

“Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days”, is a four hour feature film by Maximilian Le Cain and...

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