Hugo Max is a filmmaker, painter and musician.

Premieres of Hugo’s films have been hosted by Modern Art Oxford, Close-Up Film Centre and the Sheldonian Theatre and have been screened at film festivals in the United Kingdom, Germany and South Korea. He has collaborated on documentaries with the V&A, University of Vienna Archive and Korean Culture Centre UK.

Solo exhibitions of Hugo’s paintings have been held at London’s Phoenix Cinema and Oxford’s Dolphin Gallery. He has co-curated and displayed work in group exhibitions at Fusion Arts, the Holywell Music Room and The Ruskin School of Art.

Hugo regularly accompanies silent films with live improvisation on viola and piano at Leicester Square’s Prince Charles Cinema and in collaboration with Picturehouse Cinemas. He is a visiting lecturer on silent film improvisation and multidisciplinary practice at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and has presented musical improvisation performances and workshops at the Ashmolean Museum, Little Theatre Bath and Magdalen College, Oxford where he was an Instrumental Music Scholar. He has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles at the Barbican Centre, Royal Festival Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room and was concertmaster of Oxford Baroque Players and Oxford University Philharmonic Orchestra. Hugo graduated from Magdalen College in 2023 with a degree in Fine Art.

Hugo is the author of two books, The Dissonance Book and The Stanley Series.