Maximilian Le Cain
Biography
Maximilian Le Cain is a filmmaker, curator and writer based in Cork, Ireland, and one of the central figures of Experimental Film Society. He has created a prolific and acclaimed body of moving-image work — features, shorts, installations and film-related performances — in which accepted visual and narrative codes collapse into a more personal system, and cinema is approached as a site of haunting: an experiential construct open to possession by multiple claims of memory and interpretation.
His long collaboration with Vicky Langan built an intimate and unsettling universe across more than a decade of film and performance. He is co-creator and co-curator of CineSalon and co-director of the CineSalon Experimental Film Festival, and was the Arts Council / UCC Film Artist in Residence in 2023. With Rouzbeh Rashidi and Atoosa Pour Hosseini he co-edited Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society.
Writing in The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne described his films as work that “takes you to a place of such interiority that it is unsettling, even disturbing, but also very rewarding.”