(An)Other Irish Cinema: Maximilian Le Cain

The third and final filmmaker of (An)Other Irish Cinema, and the most prolific, is Maximilian Le Cain....

Maximilian Le Cain (born 1978) has made more than forty 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 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.

For more information, please visit

 

www.lecain.blogspot.com
http://www.expcinema.com/wikien/Maximilian_Le_Cain

For a full filmography, see:

(An)Other Irish Cinema: Rouzbeh Rashidi

 

Here's the second part of our look at the 3 filmmakers who make up (An)Other Irish Cinema....

 

Rouzbeh Rashidi (born in Tehran, 1980) is an Iranian independent filmmaker. He has been making films since 2000 when he founded the Experimental Film Society in Tehran. Since then, he has worked completely apart from any mainstream conceptions of filmmaking. He strives to escape the stereotypes of conventional storytelling and instead roots his cinematic style in a poetic interaction of image and sound. He intentionally rejects scriptwriting, or any other form of written pre-planning.

His films are inspired by and constructed around images, locations, characters and their immediate situations. The stylistic elements that make up his distinctively personal film language include the use of natural light, non-professional actors, slow paced rhythms, abstract plots, static shots and minimal dialogue. He employs a wide range of different formats and devices to make his films, including video, Super-8mm, webcam and mobile phone cameras. His consistently low-budget work is entirely self-funded and made with complete creative freedom.

Rouzbeh Rashidi has directed and produced forty short films. Since 2008, he has focused on feature projects, making six full length films:
Light & Quiet (2008), Only Human (2009), Bipedality (2010), Reminiscences of Yearning (2011), Zoetrope (2011) and Closure of Catharsis (2011).

Rashidi's films have been screened in film festivals nationally and internationally in Iran, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, UAE, USA, Hungary, India, Italy, Greece, France, England and Brazil.

He moved to Ireland in 2004 and currently lives and works in Dublin.
Affiliations : Experimental Film Society, (An)Other Irish Cinema, Remodernist Film

 

For more information, please visit www.rouzbehrashidi.com