Hugo Max is a filmmaker, painter and musician based in London. His films have been programmed by the Austrian Filmmuseum, TIFF Cinematheque and Modern Art Oxford and are distributed by sixpackfilm.
Max performs live scores to silent films on solo viola, regularly soundtracking screenings at London’s Prince Charles Cinema, Picturehouse Cinemas and arts venues across the UK and Europe. He has presented nationwide tours focussing on expressionist horror, the films of F. W. Murnau and Alfred Hitchcock and has premiered his scores at London’s BFI Southbank.
Working at the intersection between expanded performance and moving image, Max has devised interdisciplinary events at the Holywell Music Room, Close-Up Cinema and the Locarno Film Festival. Passionate about collective musicmaking, he has been concertmaster of Echo Ensemble and the Oxford Baroque Players, appearing with chamber ensembles at venues including the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. He has lectured on improvisation and interdisciplinary practice at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Publications in conjunction with screenings and exhibitions include Bound (2026), TAKE ME HOME (with Bora Rex, 2026), Kosher Giraffe Trilogy (2024), The Dissonance Book (2023) and The Stanley Series (2020).
Max read Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford and Film at the Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film, Vienna.