Date of Birth: 18.08.1994, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Address: Erkstrasse 21, 12043 Berlin
Mobile: +44 7761 614494 / +49 176 25269239
E-Mail: maximilian.bloching@gmail.com
Web: www.maxbloching.com
Education:
2020 – 2022 Goldsmiths, University of London, MA Artists` Film and Moving Image, part-time
2017 – 2020 The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), BA (Hons) Social Anthropology, 1st Class
2014 – 2015 University for Film and Television Munich, visiting student
Film – directed work:
2022 Sleeping Glaciers Dreaming Slowly (pre-production)
2021 What current is under the sea?, 17 mins. Installation, ‘Second Body’ group show at ATP Gallery, London
2020 Unwritten Letters, 59 mins. Co-directed with Abd Alrahman Dukmak. Producer, camera, sound, montage.
Screenings among others at:
Creative Mentorship Program 2019 | Royal Anthropological Institute; Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon 2020; RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2021; Ethnografilm Paris 2021; Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology 2021; Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado, USA 2021; The Archive of Migrant Memories, Rome; Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, Baltimore, USA 2021, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Bard College, New York, VU Amsterdam, University of Bremen etc.
*Winner of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize
*Distributed by the Royal Anthropological Institute
2013 – present: direction of various music videos for artists like Me and Marie, Gise, Henning Sieverts etc.
Film – sound work:
Freelance sound recordist for clients such as Netflix, Al Jazeera, KBS, PBS, Visual Artists, Universal Music e.g.:
2023 James Richards at Bonner Kunstverein, sound design
2022 Birkenstock x Benedict Redgrove; Dir: Benedict Redgrove, sound recordist
The Other Mendelssohn; Dir.: Sheila Hayman, sound recordist
Innocence; Dir: Guy Davidi, sound recordist
2021 Women in newsrooms, Prod: Soo Jeong Kim for KBS, sound recordist
2020 Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, sound recordist
2019 The Devil Next Door, Dir. Jossi Bloch and Daniel Sivan, Netflix Documentary, sound recordist
2018 Printed Circuit, Dir: Dan Robert Lahiani, video installation, sound recordist
2017 The Astronaut, Prod: HFF Munich; Dir: Linda Schiwa Klinghammer, musician
The Orphan´s Gift, Dir: Dan Robert Lahiani, video installation, sound recordist
2016 Never Look Away, Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, add. assistant director
Battleship Approven, Dir: Marwah Tibi, Zainab Productions for Al Jazeera, sound recordist
For Medalia Productions, Israel & Palestine, sound recordist:
Sacred, Dir: Hilla Medalia
The Oslo Diaries, Dir: Daniel Sivan & Mor Loushy
Muhi - Generally Temporary, Dir: Tamir Elterman and Rina Castelnuovo
Kosher Beach, Dir: Karin Kainer
2015 My Art, USA, Prod: Andrew Fierberg, Dir: Laurie Simmons, 2nd assistant director
The Eremites, Italy, Prod: Zischlermann Filmproduktion, Dir: Ronny Trocker, ass. location manager
The Skin of Others, Germany, Prod: Loptafilm, Dir: Thomas Stiller, 2nd assistant director
Conferences & Workshops:
2023 RAI Film Conference 2023, ‘Envisioning planetary futures through ethnography and multiple media’, speaker
2022 HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, film symposium, writer
Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya; scriptwriting workshop with Bard College New York, tutor
Bard College New York, Bard College Palestine, Bard College Berlin; guest speaker
2021 HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, peer reviewer
Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya; filmmaking workshop with Bard College New York, tutor
‘Mediterranean Crossings. Refusal and Resistance in Uncertain Times’, anthropological conference, University of Milan, speaker
Royal Anthropological Institute Conference 2021, Panel Discussion: Chronotopes During Crisis, contributor
Open City Doc, participant at Archives in Non-Fiction Cinema workshop with Onyeka Igwe
2019 Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival (RAI), participant at Creative Mentorship
Locarno Film Festival, participant at Basecamp
Open City Doc, participant in Documentary Storytelling workshop with Catalin Brylla
Music:
Double bass (training with Henning Sieverts (HMTM Munich) and Wolfgang Lauppe (Bayerische Staatsoper)
2011-present: Session musician for artists like HMLTD, Xvoto, Gise, Martina Eisenreich, Tom Zimmer etc
2011 – present: Levantino; jazz trio. Release of debut album “Chapter One” (2014) @ GLM Music; 100+ concerts across Europe; 200+ engagements as live music band.
Awards: Nomination “European Young Artists´ Jazz Award Burghausen” 2014; “Creole“ world music award 2013; Award for Arts and Culture of Rosenheim 2012; Bavarian Youth Jazz Award Jugend Jazzt 2010
Theatre
2015 Volkstheater Munich; Siegfried by Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel Dir: Christian Stückl, music
2014 Volkstheater Munich; The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare; Dir: Christian Stückl, assistant composer
2013 Volkstheater Munich; Ghetto by Joshua Sobol Dir: Christian Stückl, music and supporting actor
Misc.: German (native), English (very good), French (good). Driver’s License. Mental Health First Aid responder.