Maximiliano Battaglia is an Uruguayan/Italian filmmaker, photographer, and educator. His practice of experimental documentary is aimed at conjecture rather than generating knowledge, for which he resorts to hybrid practices that favor imagination, manipulation and subjective experiences. His approach to image-making is layered and polycentric allowing for poetically intertwined realities to emerge.

Maximiliano holds a Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography and Image-making from the Paris College of Art

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.

Client work

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

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.

photo by Juliette Jacobs