Massey University

Faculty Member, Institute Of Communication Design

Senior Lecturer Digital Media

College of Creative Arts

Thesis Title: Mobile-Mentary - Mobile Documentaries in the mediascape

About

Max is a mobile filmmaker who explores mobile devices as creative and educational tools. His portfolio includes various experimental and collaborative documentary projects, which are screened at film and new media festivals internationally. His mobile feature film Max with a Keitai is included in the public film archive in the Forum des Images in Paris.

Max conducted his PhD research entitled Mobile Mentary – Mobile Documentaries in the Mediascape in the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster, London. Before joining Massey University Max lectured at the University of East London and the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in London and Kuala Lumpur. Max organizes the international mobile creative network FILMOBILE and is reviewer for the Informing Science Press and member of the Informing Science Institute.

In the last few years Max worked on mobile media consultancy projects for Nokia and Frontier Strategy. He also conceptualised and conducted mobile filmmaking workshops with 21cc, the educational link of the BBC, local council authorities, community groups and film festivals in London.

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