Movies: Maximilian Le Cain

  • 1969
    I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

    I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni (1969)

    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 interviews....

    I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 2014
    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries (2014)

    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 heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate th...

    Forbidden Symmetries
  • 2012
    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1) (2012)

    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’ of two hours each, this dream-like, experimental project offers two complementary explorations of ci...

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
  • 2012
    Abel Ferrara in Lucca

    Abel Ferrara in Lucca (2012)

    Abel Ferrara in Lucca

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    A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010, with songs and speeches by Abel Ferrara: trace of the co-presence of two of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, dissident and true sons of Cesare Zavat...

    Abel Ferrara in Lucca
  • 2011
    The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase

    The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase (2011)

    The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase

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    One of only two surviving works by Humphrey Esterhase (1931-2012). Over fifty years ago, Esterhase’s entire filmography of seven underground movies was destroyed while he was travelling in South America. His luggage, containing the only copies of the...

    The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase
  • 2017
    Self Decapitation

    Self Decapitation (2017)

    Self Decapitation

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    Self Decapitation is a Janus-headed self-portrait by Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain in which death and desire each take possession of this film in two parts. The ambiguities of inhabiting a human body are conjured by way of film technology in...

    Self Decapitation
  • 2017
    Animal Kingdom

    Animal Kingdom (2017)

    Animal Kingdom

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    Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. Sacrifice. In Animal Kingdom a ritual carves a dimension that melds character, object, landscape and the very tactile makeup of the film itself into one mutating, symphonic mass of spell casting, storytelling, living and dyi...

    Animal Kingdom
  • 2013
    Homo Sapiens Project (100)

    Homo Sapiens Project (100) (2013)

    Homo Sapiens Project (100)

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    HSP 100 is a portrait of experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain. As Le Cain discusses his life, work and relationship with cinema, Rashidi envelops him in a hallucinatory audio-visual ambiance that ultimately results in a poetic dialogue with the ...

    Homo Sapiens Project (100)
  • 2013
    HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind

    HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind (2013)

    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 escaping the mask, there is no escaping the resonating echoes of images and sounds that cross each other o...

    HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind
  • 2013
    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie

    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie (2013)

    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie

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    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie is the second collaborative feature film between Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain. This hypnotic, visually and sonically immersive exploration of a haunted space unfolds in two parts. In the first, ...

    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
  • 2021
    …at large under the sun…

    …at large under the sun… (2021)

    …at large under the sun…

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    ..at large under the sun... is a new short film, a lyrical post-apocalyptic diary movie for 2020 imbued with an irrepressible chthonic joyfulness that erupts from broken stone and broken birds. The soundtrack boasts an atmospheric sonic contribution ...

    …at large under the sun…
  • 2018
    Phantom Islands

    Phantom Islands (2018)

    Phantom Islands

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    Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundary of documentary and fiction. It follows a couple adrift and disoriented in the stunning landscape of Ireland’s islands. Yet this deliberately melodramatic romance is constantly questi...

    Phantom Islands
  • 2022
    Blissed

    Blissed (2022)

    Blissed

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    Hovering in the sensuous haze where flesh and dream become one, it wordlessly explores the shared inner life of two people whose devotion to one another expresses itself in forms that still challenge convention....

    Blissed
  • 2016
    TRAILERS

    TRAILERS (2016)

    TRAILERS

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    TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic. Rashidi’s ongoing exploration into the nature of cinema sees a group of characters adrift in space...

    TRAILERS
  • 2020
    Whale Skull

    Whale Skull (2020)

    Whale Skull

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    Set in the near future, Whale Skull sifts the fragments of an imploded cinematic landscape in the search for clues to move forward. Shifting back and forth through flashbacks of impending cataclysm and its eerie aftermath, this broiling collage mixes...

    Whale Skull
  • 2017
    Inside

    Inside (2017)

    Inside

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    Experimental feature....

    Inside
  • 2015
    Ten Years In The Sun

    Ten Years In The Sun (2015)

    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 disaster in Rouzbeh Rashidi’s boldest film to date. This sensory onslaught combines a homage to the subve...

    Ten Years In The Sun
  • 1969
    Light / Sound

    Light / Sound (1969)

    Light / Sound

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    Light / Sound chronicles a ghostly, sonic encounter between performer / sound artist Vicky Langan, out hunting for sound with her recording apparatus, and an ancient 35mm projector....

    Light / Sound
  • 2018
    Scorpion's Stone

    Scorpion's Stone (2018)

    Scorpion's Stone

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    Scorpion's Stone
  • 2015
    Cloud of Skin

    Cloud of Skin (2015)

    Cloud of Skin

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    Haunted by the memory of a blind woman with visionary powers, a man revisits the sites of their love affair. Rather than unfolding as a traditional narrative, Le Cain’s first feature is an immersive and dreamlike exploration of memory and vision. Sho...

    Cloud of Skin