Max Sänger is a director, cinematographer and editor based in Hamburg, Germany.
Max studied documentary film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. His bachelor’s film Spineless
Kingdom about a British naturalist was awarded several prizes and his master’s project Kayu Besi
about a group of Indonesian loggers premiered in the German Competition at DOK Leipzig and has since
been shown at numerous film festivals.
His films are sensitive observations that do not
simply make the lives of their protagonists visible, but trace their rhythm, their physicality and
their specific view of the world. As such they do not impose any logic of narration and
representation on their main characters, but conversely, make the encounter itself the starting
point of a cinematic form, a documentary gaze. At the center of his creative interest are human
relationships to their natural environment, habitats, animals and other non-human life forms.
With friends and colleagues Max co-founded the Gorgofilm collective.