| Basic Info | Online |
|---|---|
| Born: 27/03/1992 in Oklahoma City, OK | Ultra Dogme |
| Resides in Berlin, Germany | Vimeo |
| Nationality: French & American | UD Twitter |
| Contact | UD Instagram |
| maxwolf333 [AT] gmail [DOT] com |
Languages
- English (native)
- German (excellent)
- French (very good)
- Italian (good)
Education
- University of Oklahoma – Bachelor of Arts in Film & Media Studies, minor in German, graduated with honors (2010 – 2014) – One year of study abroad at Heidelberg University (Germany) (2012-2013)
- Classen School of Advanced Studies – completed International Baccalaureate with honors (2006 – 2010)
Honors
- Photogénie Young Critics Workshop – 1 of 5 selected participants (October 2015, Film Fest Ghent, Belgium)
- C. Clay Withrow Writing Award (2014)
- Ned Hockman Filmmaking Award (2014)
- Eagle Scout (2010)
- National Merit Scholar (2010)
Work Experience
- Ultra Dogme – Founder, Editor-in-Chief (Jan. 2019 – present)
- Art on the Run Filmschool – Teacher, ‘Intro to Avant-garde and Experimental Film’ & ‘Avant-garde Part II: Painting with the Camera’ (Oct 2020 – Present)
- Fracto Experimental Film Encounter – Curator & Social Media Manager (Sept. 2019 – present)
- Photogénie – Contributing Editor (Sept. 2019 – present), Contributing Writer (2016 – Sept. 2019)
- Visionaer Film Festival – Press Relations (March – July 2020)
- Film Daft – Contributing Writer (June 2019 – Jan. 2020)
- Misc. Film Work – Director, B-Camera, Editor, 2nd Assistant Camera, Assistant Gaffer (2014 – present, Berlin)
- Linnen Café & Hotel – Barista, Cook, Server, Concierge, Assistant Manager (May 2017 – present, Berlin)
- Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut – English teacher for kids’ camp as well as one-on-one tutoring (2016, Heidelberg)
- Peppa Jane Californian Bakery & Café – Front of house operations (2015-2016, Heidelberg)
- O’Reilly’s Irish Pub – Karaoke Host & DJ, Open Mic Night Host & DJ (2014-2016, Heidelberg)
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Quartz Mountain – Camp counselor, Film & Video Teaching Assistant (June 2014, OK)
- Soonervision – Broadcast cameraman at basketball & soccer games at OU (2011-2012, Norman, OK)
Selected Filmography
as director, cinematographer, writer & editor
- Fragments of a Memory of Another Film (2021) – 95 min. HD. (teaser clip)(IMDb link, MUBI link) available to view on request. The opening scene was screened in-person in Philmont, NY while the audio was simultaneously broadcast on the radio.
- Winter for Rose (2021) – 38 sec. 4K, created in homage to Rose Lowder for Women’s Day
- Neko (2021) – 5 min. 4K & Super 8, created for ‘Refractions‘ anthology film.
- Mo(u)rning Mo(u)ld (2020) – 2 min. 4K, screened in the window at Maysles Documentary Center February-March 2021
- Monstera for Bernard (2020) – 25 sec. 4K, an ode to Joseph Bernard, inspired by his film Variant Chants.
- Sweet Green Sunlight (2020) – 9 min. 4K
- Autumn Emma (2020) – 2 min. 4K
- SCRUMBLED (2020) – 3 min. 4K
- Another Saturday (2020) – 5 min. HD
- Saturday Morning Sketch (2020) – 6 min. HD
- Sunday Afternoon (2020) – 6 min. Super 8
- Hazel Eye (2020) – 7 min. HD. In memory of Eli Hayes
- True Blue (2020) – 4 min. Super 8, screened in Ute Aurand’s Bolex workshop
- Momentary Stretch (2020) – 1 min. in ‘collaboration’ with Ken Jacobs, based on his short work ‘DeKooning Passed.’
- A Loft Again (2020) – 42 seconds. Based on Ken Jacobs’ ‘A Loft’.
- SLEEPWALKER (2020) – 1 min. Official selection, Long Distance Film Fest 2020; Dhaka International Youth Film Festival 2020.
- Moonsong (2020) – 5 min. Official selection, Long Distance Film Fest 2020.
“Love both titles, [SLEEPWALKER & Moonsong] with Moonsong the way that you break up the white light of the moon into the prismatic colors of the rainbow and then settle us back to the tree and moon giving a grounding after we have flown thru the colors.”
–Dominic Angerame (filmmaker and former executive director of Canyon Cinema)
- Nuages, une lettre à ma mere (2020) – 3 min. Premiered on Festivalists, Feb 2020
- LIBRA (2019) – 9 min.
- THESSALONIKI (2019) – 6 min. An excerpt of this film screened in a gallery context alongside work by Su Friedrich and many others in the fall of 2019. It also screened in Fuerstenwald for ‘Park Flimmern’ festival (August 2019), and twice at WOLF Kino open mic nights June & August 2019 (second screening of which was the ‘winners screening’)
- as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief glitches of beauty (2019) – 4 min. screened as part of ‘Presents for Jonas’ at microgallery in NYC, 2019
- VMP (2018) – 1 min, 37 sec. featured on Vinyl Me Please website
- ORANGE (2017) – 1 min. Official selection at Winnepeg Underground Film Festival (90 seconds or less division), Mister Vorky (Serbia), The Short Nights of Berlin, Alt Film Festival, and Life Screenings One Minute
- Fragments of a Memory of a Film (2016) – 72 min, Semi-finalist at Los Angeles Cine-Fest, official selection Hazel Eye Film Festival
Speaking Engagements
- Visiting artist in Professor David Parry’s Videography course, Temple University – March 2021
- Film Alumni Q&A in Dr. Man fung Yip’s Global Art Cinema course, University of Oklahoma – February 2021
Selected Music Videos
- Taking Stock – music by Plain Speak
- i dreamed u – music by gibberish
- Degrees of Freedom – music by Sam Regan
- Live at Opolis – live performance by Open/Honest, completed December 2019
- GARLIC MOON: Self-Titled – music by Garlic Moon, completed November 2019, premiered at Berlin Film Club, December 2019
- Glitch Gazing – music by Open/Honest, completed October 2019, premiered at Squat Betty Avant Garde Night, London in January 2020
- Spring Song – music by Good Fuck, completed May 2019
Film Set Experience
- Fields of Neutrality – 2nd assistant camera, B-camera (shooting Betamax tape), teleprompter operator. Berlin 2019
- Insomnia – Sleepless Night in Berlin – Oberbeleuchter/Lighting Assistant. Berlin 2019
- Virtue Signal – 2nd assistant camera, Berlin 2018
- Split Series #1 – Assistant Camera, Berlin 2017
Recent Writing
- Covid the flow? – Photogénie, April 2021
- Winter for Rose – Ultra Dogme, March 2021
- Returning to the Canvas. On Amit Dutta and ‘Modernism by Other Means’ – Photogénie, February 2021
- photogénie #7 — Show and Tell – February 2021
- UDVFF: Special Screening #2 – ‘Driftwood’ – Ultra Dogme, February 2021
- In Memoriam: Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) – Photogénie, December 2020
- Film Books Round-up #1 – Ultra Dogme, December 2020
- DVD Review: ‘The Angel Cycle: Selected Works’ by Maria Klonaris + Katerina Thomadaki (Re:Voir Video) – Ultra Dogme, November 2020
- A Simple, Poignant Melody: The Cinema of Angela Schanelec – Photogénie, November 2020
- Dog Star Man – In Review Online, October 2020
- Arboretum Cycle – Cinema Year Zero, August 2020
- INTO:OUT1 – Umbra #10: ‘Madness,’ July 2020
- ‘Growing Away from Home, into the Unknown — Three Short Films by Markopoulos, Brakhage and Straub-Huillet‘ for Photogenie #3 – July 2020
- UDVFF 11: Agitated Meditation, Ultra Dogme – June 2020
- Perpetual Motion‘ and ‘The UDVFF‘ for Frameland – May 2020
- ‘Cruising’ for In Review Online’s ‘Kicking the Canon’ – Apr 2020
- “There is magic to be found in everything” – looking at films by Nathaniel Dorsky – Apr 2020
- Berlinale Reports for Photogenie – Mar 2020
– Under Construction – ‘The Woman Who Ran’ and ‘Maggie’s Farm’
– Brief Glimpses of Beauty – Avant-gardist Elements in the 70th Berlinale Competition - Photogenie #1: The Eye of Time (as Editor + intro text) – Feb 2020
A full list of publications is available on Contently.
Media Mentions
- Quote from my review of Modernism by Other Means in the Criterion Daily – March 1, 2021
- Photogénie #7 in the Criterion Daily – February 19, 2021
- Ultra Dogme Lynne Sachs Interview in MUBI Notebook’s Rushes – July 8, 2020
- Nathaniel Dorsky Interview on Peter Blum Gallery – July 7, 2020
- UDVFF #12, curated by Dominic Angerame in the Criterion Daily – July 3, 2020
- Photogenie #3 & Ultra Dogme Lynne Sachs Interview in the Criterion Daily – July 2, 2020
- Lynne Sachs interview linked on her personal website – July 2, 2020
- Ultra Dogme VFF #4 on BarbaraHammer.com – April 2020
- Nathaniel Dorsky Interview in MUBI Notebook’s Rushes – April 15, 2020
- Nathaniel Dorsky Interview in the Criterion Daily – April 10, 2020
- Ultra Dogme Virtual Film Festival in the Criterion Daily – March 23, 2020
- Ultra Dogme Virtual Film Festival on Sabzian – March 18, 2020
- Photogenie #1 in the Criterion Daily – February 14, 2020
- Ultra Dogme’s Best Films of the Decade in the Criterion Daily – January 6, 2020
- James Benning Interview in the Criterion Daily – April 20, 2018
- Young Critics Workshop on Festivalists – 2015
Published Short Fiction
- The Short Story About the Blocks – FU Review #6, Berlin, 2019
- HD – Anthology: A Tale of Four Cities, Poems and Stories from Four UNESCO Cities of Literature, Heidelberg, 2016
- Sand Streams – The Finger magazine, New York, Spring 2014
Podcast Appearances
Discography
- For Bobocop & Calypso by Two Nice Catholic Boys
- “Milky” by Surf Minus Surf
- “A Kinder & Gentler Nation” by ZEN.death
- “My Whole Life” by ZEN.death
- Narrative Drama by ZEN.death
- Skrambient by Surf Minus Surf
- summercycles by Architexture
