Max Freeman

Max Freeman holds a master’s degree in English literature from Harvard University, where he was writing a doctoral dissertation on English and Italian Renaissance lyric poetry before deciding to become a filmmaker. He was also a writer for the Task Force on the Arts at Harvard in 2007. In 2008, he was awarded a readership in renaissance studies from Villa I Tatti in Florence. His poems have appeared in several literary journals. He was born and raised in Utah, spent two years as a Mormon missionary in the Philippines before leaving Mormonism cold, and put himself through college by working as a machine operator at Barney’s Canyon mine. 

 

Max’s film work with Margaret Singer includes a video/poetry project, ThreePoems.org; a web series, The 3 Bits; and Zoetrope, an experimental film inspired by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.