Maximilian is a prolific experimental filmmaker whose work spans features, shorts, installations & performance. Based in Cork, he co-founded and curates CineSalon & co-directs its Experimental Film Festival. His films reject conventional narrative, treating cinema as a haunted, deeply personal space shaped by memory & perception. He was UCC Film Artist in Residence in 2023, is linked to the Experimental Film Society, and has long collaborated with Vicky Langan on intimate, evocative works.
Seamas McSwiney reports from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris where experimental filmmakers Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain ended their residency with a screening of some of their films.
The modern Irish landscape of filmmakers on the cutting edge of exploration.
Maximilian Le Cain finds a hypnotic ritual of cinema itself in ‘Sugar’.