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Max Bloching (b. 1994 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) is an artist filmmaker, sound recordist and composer based in Berlin.
Recent and upcoming:
Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) will screen at Berwick Media Arts Festival (March 30th 2025) and FuBen Film Club, Ji’nan China (April 26th 2025).
Don Karlos, sound design for theater play by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Christian Stückl at Münchner Volkstheater (premiere: March 2nd 2025)
Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens will be shown at ALTEFF Film Festival, India: 23.11. Museo Camera, Centre for the Photographic Arts, Gurgaon, 29.11. Courtyard Koota, Bangalore, 30.11. Earthbound, Goa, 03.11. Earth Day X Eseds School of Design, Kolkata, 01.12. Agora, The Space, Guwahati, 04.12. Media the Stage, Bengaluru, 08.12. Whistling Woods International, Mumbai, 08.12. Arthshila, Santiniketan.
Lichtspiel, video installation for the theater play by Christian Stückl at Münchner Volkstheater (premiere: October 31st 2024)
Polscher 4 - The Isfet Complex, concert at Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich (September 24th 2024, 8.30pm). With Florian Walter - double bass clarinet, Mark Polscher - soprano, Florian Zwißler - synthesizer, Max Bloching - upright bass.
Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) is showing at 321 Space in Beijing, China (June 28th 2024), at Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder, USA (August 14-18, 2024), Film Festival della Lessinia, Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy (August 23-September 1st 2024), International Shorts Screening organised by Dogme23 at Communication University of China (November 19, 2024)
Les mains négative by James Richards with sound design by Max Bloching will be shown as part of Workers in Song at KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (June 7-9, 2024)
Happy Fall Triology by James Richards for Preis der Nationalgalerie with sound design by Max Bloching will show at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (7th of June 2024 - 5th of January 2025)
Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) will have its world premiere on the 13th of April at Visions Du Réel, Nyon Switzerland (12–21.4.2024) ︎ trailer
Snow Depot 666 is showing at Goldsmiths post graduate degree show July 20-25, 2023, Laurie Grove Baths, South East London.
I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty) by Tolia Astakhishvili and James Richards with sound design by Max Bloching is showing at Bonner Kunstverein (March 25 – July 30, 2023) and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (June 23 – September 24, 2023)
Symposium on Unwritten Letters in HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory University of Chicago Press is out now ︎ read here
RAI Film Conference 2023, Panel: Envisioning planetary futures through ethnography and multiple media, Paper: The sky is on fire – reconsidering the Little Ice Age in sound and moving image, (March 8th 2023)
what current is under the sea (17mins, 2021) will be shown at “Above Land”, Electro Studios Project Space, St. Leonards-on-Sea (November 25th 2022)
**Unwritten Letters is now being distributed on DVD and Video on Demand by the Royal Anthropological Institute**
Unwritten Letters (59mins, 2021), co-directed with Abd Alrahman Dukmak, will be shown at RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (March 19-28 2021, recipient of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize), Ethnografilm Paris (April 13-18 2021), the Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology (April 28 to May 16 2021), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (May 18 2021), at the Archive of Migrant Memories, Rome (June 17-27 2021), at Mimesis Documentary Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado, USA (August 4-10 2021), the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, Baltimore, USA (November 12-22 2021), Ethnografilm Paris (April 19-23 2022) and Ethnografische Filmtage Bremen (January 24-26 2023)
what current is under the sea (17mins, 2021) will be shown at “The Second Body”, group show at APT Gallery, London (June 17-20 2021)
"Mediterranean Crossings: Refusal and Resistance in Uncertain Times", International Conference, University of Milan, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion (June 24-26 2021)
Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (August 30 2021)
Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, script writing workshop, (January 14 2022)
Bard College New York, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (March 15 2022)
Bard College Berlin and Bard College Palestine, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (March 17 2022)
Education:
MA Artist Film and Moving Image, Goldsmiths University of London (2023)
BA Social Anthropology, SOAS University of London (2020)
Work as sound recordist for clients such as Apple, Netflix, Al Jazeera, PBS, KBS, Birkenstock and Universal Music.
Contact:
maximilian.bloching(at)gmail.com
Max Bloching (b. 1994 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) is an artist filmmaker, sound recordist and composer based in Berlin.
Recent and upcoming:
Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) will screen at Berwick Media Arts Festival (March 30th 2025) and FuBen Film Club, Ji’nan China (April 26th 2025).
Don Karlos, sound design for theater play by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Christian Stückl at Münchner Volkstheater (premiere: March 2nd 2025)
Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens will be shown at ALTEFF Film Festival, India: 23.11. Museo Camera, Centre for the Photographic Arts, Gurgaon, 29.11. Courtyard Koota, Bangalore, 30.11. Earthbound, Goa, 03.11. Earth Day X Eseds School of Design, Kolkata, 01.12. Agora, The Space, Guwahati, 04.12. Media the Stage, Bengaluru, 08.12. Whistling Woods International, Mumbai, 08.12. Arthshila, Santiniketan.
Lichtspiel, video installation for the theater play by Christian Stückl at Münchner Volkstheater (premiere: October 31st 2024)
Polscher 4 - The Isfet Complex, concert at Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich (September 24th 2024, 8.30pm). With Florian Walter - double bass clarinet, Mark Polscher - soprano, Florian Zwißler - synthesizer, Max Bloching - upright bass.
Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) is showing at 321 Space in Beijing, China (June 28th 2024), at Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder, USA (August 14-18, 2024), Film Festival della Lessinia, Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy (August 23-September 1st 2024), International Shorts Screening organised by Dogme23 at Communication University of China (November 19, 2024)
Les mains négative by James Richards with sound design by Max Bloching will be shown as part of Workers in Song at KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (June 7-9, 2024)
Happy Fall Triology by James Richards for Preis der Nationalgalerie with sound design by Max Bloching will show at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (7th of June 2024 - 5th of January 2025)
Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) will have its world premiere on the 13th of April at Visions Du Réel, Nyon Switzerland (12–21.4.2024) ︎ trailer
Snow Depot 666 is showing at Goldsmiths post graduate degree show July 20-25, 2023, Laurie Grove Baths, South East London.
I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty) by Tolia Astakhishvili and James Richards with sound design by Max Bloching is showing at Bonner Kunstverein (March 25 – July 30, 2023) and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (June 23 – September 24, 2023)
Symposium on Unwritten Letters in HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory University of Chicago Press is out now ︎ read here
RAI Film Conference 2023, Panel: Envisioning planetary futures through ethnography and multiple media, Paper: The sky is on fire – reconsidering the Little Ice Age in sound and moving image, (March 8th 2023)
what current is under the sea (17mins, 2021) will be shown at “Above Land”, Electro Studios Project Space, St. Leonards-on-Sea (November 25th 2022)
**Unwritten Letters is now being distributed on DVD and Video on Demand by the Royal Anthropological Institute**
Unwritten Letters (59mins, 2021), co-directed with Abd Alrahman Dukmak, will be shown at RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (March 19-28 2021, recipient of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize), Ethnografilm Paris (April 13-18 2021), the Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology (April 28 to May 16 2021), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (May 18 2021), at the Archive of Migrant Memories, Rome (June 17-27 2021), at Mimesis Documentary Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado, USA (August 4-10 2021), the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, Baltimore, USA (November 12-22 2021), Ethnografilm Paris (April 19-23 2022) and Ethnografische Filmtage Bremen (January 24-26 2023)
what current is under the sea (17mins, 2021) will be shown at “The Second Body”, group show at APT Gallery, London (June 17-20 2021)
"Mediterranean Crossings: Refusal and Resistance in Uncertain Times", International Conference, University of Milan, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion (June 24-26 2021)
Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (August 30 2021)
Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, script writing workshop, (January 14 2022)
Bard College New York, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (March 15 2022)
Bard College Berlin and Bard College Palestine, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (March 17 2022)
Education:
MA Artist Film and Moving Image, Goldsmiths University of London (2023)
BA Social Anthropology, SOAS University of London (2020)
Work as sound recordist for clients such as Apple, Netflix, Al Jazeera, PBS, KBS, Birkenstock and Universal Music.
Contact:
maximilian.bloching(at)gmail.com