8/8: Weekend Pop-Up Screening of films by Maximilian Le Cain & David Matthew Johnson

CineSalon & Octopus Marquee present a free online pop-up double screening - link to be posted here on the 8th. The weekend from Friday, August 8th to Sunday, August 10th you’ll be able to watch Maximilian Le Cain’s film Solo for Water and David Matthew Johnson’s film The Sixth Film of The Octopus; Filth. Watching both these films together is a unique and oddly disturbingly serene experience we strongly recommend.

SOLO FOR WATER by Maximilian Le Cain

The water level is rising. Emotions are detaching from both the past and future, and floating to the surface. Sink or glide through the new depths - things will never be the same again.

THE SIXTH FILM OF THE OCTOPUS; FILTH by David Matthew Johnson

A trial of temptations.

“Maximilian Le Cain’s films can feel very inward. Like driving past something and in your peripherals you briefly notice something that causes you to subconsciously recollect a feeling.”

- David Matthew Johnson

“David Matthew Johnson’s drastically minimal yet passionately and often unnervingly human filmmaking marks him as a hauntingly personal outsider auteur.”

- Maximilian Le Cain

Maximilian Le Cain has created a prolific and acclaimed body of moving image work including features, shorts, installations and film-related performances. He is currently completing Now & Forever (2025), a feature film made in collaboration with his partner Shells Le Cain and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. This psychedelic fantasia explores weddings as a form of gambling and bounces between equally mythical visions of ancient Ireland and modern Las Vegas. His most recent feature Solitaire premiered at Cork International Film Festival in 2023. Other recent works include Daughter of the Sun (2021), a short based on the Irish legend of the Cailleach Beara, and Blissed (2022) an erotic feature film heralded for pushing the envelope of Irish cinema. His filmmaking proposes a personal relationship with cinema as a site of haunting. Le Cain is affiliated with the influential Experimental Film Society (EFS), an autonomous entity designed for producing cinema through experimentation.

David Matthew Johnson, also known as The Octopus, is the award winning director of Ode to The Whale of Christ (2021) and The Sublime Hubris (2024). He is currently working on The Convulsive Beauty of Desire (2025), a short film loosely inspired by Lacanian Psychoanalysis in regards to the concepts of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real which was crowdfunded through Indiegogo. He is also the founder of the Octopus Marquee., a film festival that highlights and supports one-of-a-kind independent filmmakers. As a filmmaker, The Octopus focuses on creating unique passion projects that allegorically express himself and also cinematic meditations to contemplate on. The Octopus is striving towards his goal of strengthening the community of weird filmmakers to create a positive environment where new and old friends can have an emotional support system to express the films that only they can make.