Maximilian Le Cain
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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0588 |
| Birthday | 1978-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | 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 greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and in...
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Luminous Void: Docudrama
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A documentary like no other. Starting with the bizarre practices and fantasies of a group of filmmakers working under the label Experimental Film Soci...
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Luminous Void: Docudrama
2017
Self Decapitation
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Self Decapitation
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Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
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“Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days”, is a four hour feature film by Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi. Structured in two sections or ‘takes’...
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Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
2021
Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
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Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
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Forbidden Symmetries
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Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen and hear...
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Forbidden Symmetries
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Ten Years In The Sun
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An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disas...
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2013
Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
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Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
2016
TRAILERS
5.5/2
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TRAILERS
2012
HE
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HE, the third work in the ongoing collaboration between Rouzbeh Rashidi and actor James Devereaux, is a troubling and mysterious portrait of a suicida...
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HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind
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There is no escape… From one side of the globe to the other, there is no escaping the faces, the visions, the ever-watchful camera. There is no escapi...
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Homo Sapiens Project (100)
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Animal Kingdom
6/2
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Animal Kingdom
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Abel Ferrara in Lucca
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Personal Growth
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