Max Disgrace

Directing

Max Disgrace

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

Max Disgrace is an award-winning film director, a film programmer and trans man of Chinese descent, living in London. Max’s body of work has focused on the politics of queer sexual intimacies between marginalised bodies. Dismantle Me builds on this - focussing on nuanced experiences of romantic pleasure and desire between trans characters in narrative fiction. Max also desires to make work about the current crisis facing trans people in the UK. His previous short film Ruptured premiered on underground film platform 4:3 Boiler Room, for which he was awarded the Wahala Film Fund grant – for Queer, Transgender and Intersex People of Colour filmmakers. Last year Max also collaborated with Trans+…

Known for

Behind the camera

Dismantle Me poster
NR

A trans man half-seriously asks his new trans femme neighbor for help moving, and gets an achingly-hot power play.

Dismantle Me

2023

Ruptured poster
10.0

Erotic hallucinations start to haunt Lina after a night out. As her world starts to morph, a mysterious latex-gloved, masked figure joins her in a wet and slimy power play of pleasure. Ruptured re-envisions erotically charged moments from mainstream horror through a queer pornographic lens. Centering queer sexuality, and POC female and non-binary characters, the film subverts what would usually remain hidden, absent or cast as deviant within the genre.

Ruptured

2021

Ruptured poster
10.0

Erotic hallucinations start to haunt Lina after a night out. As her world starts to morph, a mysterious latex-gloved, masked figure joins her in a wet and slimy power play of pleasure. Ruptured re-envisions erotically charged moments from mainstream horror through a queer pornographic lens. Centering queer sexuality, and POC female and non-binary characters, the film subverts what would usually remain hidden, absent or cast as deviant within the genre.

Ruptured

2021

Girls on Film 2: Before Dawn poster
5.2

An electric collection of the latest, award-winning lesbian and feminist short films exploring fantasies, dreams, desires, love and transgression. Featuring chance encounters, teenage lust, girl fighters, self-conscious dolls and rampant zombies alongside journeys of self-discovery, the fight for equality and a playful take on stereotypes. GIRLS ON FILM 2: BEFORE DAWN takes you on an incredible adventure from America to Australia through Iceland, the UK and Algeria into worlds beyond.

Girls on Film 2: Before Dawn

2017

Tribute poster
NR

A re-imagination of a lesbian cruising ground, in direct response to Annette Kennerley’s Sex Lies Religion.

Tribute

2017

Crystal Clear poster
NR

An erotic narration of a lesbian date unfolds packed with fantasy, expectations and unnecessary emotional baggage, whilst we watch from a face-sitting, boob smothering point-of-view.

Crystal Clear

2017