Maximilian Le Cain (Born 1978)
Maximilian Le Cain (born 1978) has made more than sixty short and medium-length films and videos over the past decade. He is also a film critic whose writings have appeared in a broad range of international film journals, most notably Senses of Cinema, and in several books. He is editor of Cork Film Centre’s online experimental film magazine Experimental Conversations. He regularly programmes experimental film for the Cork-based weirdo/outer limits music/film event Black Sun and has presented avant-garde film events in collaboration with, amongst others, Cork Film Centre and Cork Film Festival.
He has written of his always formally experimental work:
My culture is cinema, including experimental film. There is cinema and what is called ‘reality’. There is the body, mine in this instance, and then there is the night. There are limits, failures and overwhelming sensations. Sound, image, silence: oblivion. It is at the obscure intersection of all these that I jot down my audio-visual sketches. Perhaps a bid to reconcile these elements? More likely, simply a place to exist with accuracy. Movement on the cusp of exhaustion and decay, creation in a time when every film has been made. But the energy persists and the images keep moving, moving in darkness, ceaselessly linking the body and the night in a multitude of shifting rhythms.
He collaborates with Esperanza Collado as The Consecutive Impostors in the online video project Operation Rewrite, which has more recently expanded into a wider, multi-disciplinary art project. He is currently working in creative partnership with sound/performance artist Vicky Langan.
