Maximiliano Battaglia is an Uruguayan-Italian filmmaker, photographer and educator. He holds an MFA in Photography and Image-making from the Paris College of Art and a BA in Mandarin Chinese from the Beijing Language and Culture University. His documentary work embraces conjecture through hybrid practices that privilege imagination, subjective experience, and a polycentric approach to image-making.

His video work a has been selected to film festivals such as Festival de Cine Nuevo Uruguay, Cambodia International Film Festival, Fall for Dance North International Dance Festival, Fashion Film Festival Amsterdan, and Dock of the Bay Music Documentary Film Festival.

In 2023 he founded the artist collective Abrazo de Gol with PhD. Gaby David and as a duo they recieved the 2024 research-creation grant of the Institut pour la photographie Hauts-de-France.

He´s also one of the founders of the film collective TRACHEA films alongside artists Helena Ernst and Ponita Keo.

Selected clients: Vogue India; Saint Laurent; Chanel Beauty; System Magazine (Balenciaga, Chanel, Saint Laurent, Schiaparelli, Paco Rabanne, Fecal Matter); Camilla and Marc; Royal Tenun Pahang Foundation; Documentation Center of Cambodia; Mudhita Foundation; Mamonahi Teatre Company; The Beijing Centre

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Education

2021-2023 MFA: Photography and Image-Making - Paris, France
2014-2018 BA: Chinese Language, Minor in Economics - Beijing, China

Official Selections & Screenings

2025

-Official Selection 13# Festival de Cine Nuevo for “Le bal du Château Rouge”, Uruguay.
-Screening of “Le bal du Château Rouge”, Médiathèque Ulysse & Médiathèque Aimé Césaire, France.
-Screening of “Susurra”, commisioned by Art Pavilion in Zagreb, Atelier 11, Paris, France

2024

- Shortlisted for Prix ROUTE ONE/DOC Cinema Du Réel for Silence Please... It’s all that’s left (Director), Paris, France.
- Official Selection Fall for Dance North for “Foujita Foujita” (DOP, Editor), Toronto, Canada.
- Official Selection Fashion Film Festival Amsterdam for “A Certain Song: Yes Sir I Can Boogie” (DOP), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2023

- Official Selection Motion State Film Festival for “Foujita Foujita”, Rhode Island, USA.
- Official Selection Dock of the Bay Music Documentary Film Festival for “A Certain Song: Yes Sir I Can Boogie”, San Sebastián, Spain.

2022

- Official Selection Cambodian International Film Festival for “People Grow Wings” (Co- Director, DOP, Editor), Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
-Official Selection Montevideo World Film Festival for “GREY”.

2021

-Official Selection Beijing Indie Short Film Festival for “GREY” (cinematographer, editor, sound).

Grants

2024

-Grant recipient Institut pour la photographie Hauts-de-France, Lille.

Exhibitions

2025

- “MUDA”, duo exhibition, L’AiR Arts, Atelier 11, Paris, France.

2023

- ”150 Years of Living Heritage” , Group exhibition, L’AiR Arts Atelier 11, Paris, France.
- “Light Upon Arrival”, Group exhibition, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France.

2022

- ”Unbodied Parties”, Group Exhibition, Paris College of Art, Paris, France.

Residencies

2023

- L’AiR Arts Self-directed residency.

Talks

2025

- Lecture “Urban Identities on Display”, École nationale supérieure de la photographie, Arles, France.

2024

- “Murs d’images (Image Walls)” Artist Talk, École National Beaux-Arts de Paris, France.
- Artist Talk& Workshop, Centre d’Arts Plastiques et Visuels, Lille, France.

2023

- Round table “The challenges of documentary film”, Echo Musée, Paris, France.