Lives in Melbourne, Australia
email: sabina.maselli@gmail.com
Sabina Maselli is an artist and filmmaker whose multilayered works are presented as films and photographs, and in site specific contexts such as installations and live performances.
She uses both analogue and digital processing through a very physical and alchemical engagement with her materials. She sees her works as sites for transformation between body, nature, memory and technology, and how they manifest in the physical, material, mystical, and mythological realms.
Sabina also directs music videos, and creates/designs visuals and expanded cinema works for musicians, theatre, online content, and live performances. She is core member of the film collective Artist Film Workshop (AFW) based in Melbourne.
Her works have been presented at: Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Sydney Contemporary, Channels Festival, Melbourne, Mons European Capital of Culture festival, Belgium, Mona Foma Festival Hobart, Oberhausen short film festival, (lab series) Germany, NES Artist Residency, Iceland, JARF festival Indonesia. She has worked with companies such as Australian Art Orchestra, Chamber Made Opera, Punctum, and Speak Percussion. She has collaborated with musicians such as Tetema (Anthony Pateras and Mike Patton), Erkki Veltheim, Natasha Anderson and Judith Hamann. She has received support from various funding bodies (such as Australia Council, Creative Victoria, the Japan Foundation Sydney, Punctum). Sabina completed a Masters in Creative Media (Film and Television Production) from RMIT University, Melbourne, 2014. Her works have been screened with AFW at places such as Austrian Film Museum, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) Melbourne, Close-up Cinema, London, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).
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I acknowledge that I work and live on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation whose sovereignty was never ceded. I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.
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upcoming + past events
ACMI presents
ART+FILM: Artist Film Workshop
Screening + in conversation
March 15th 2022
My film 'a clearing' will be presented with a live score by Kaylie Melville and Tilman Robinson.
Very excited to finally see this performed/screened, after a year long collaboration with these amazing musicians.
As our culture and environment race to evolve to the encroachment of humanity, unadaptable aspects are frequently erased, leaving almost imperceptible traces on landscapes and psyches. A clearing explores this imperceptibility through the mediums of analogue film and electro-acoustic music.
Supported by Speak Percussion
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March 2021
Film Is Ritual: hand processed films from Australia. no2.
Curated by artist/filmmaker Sabina Maselli
Now showing at Bunjil Place
for more details see link below
bunjilplace
Our Lab, Our Labour: Recent Films from Artist Film Workshop @ Cinema Borealis, Chicago
Presented by Giles Fielke
Sunday, February 16 – 7pm
Cinema Borealis (1550 N. Milwaukee Ave, 4th Floor), Chicago
More info here
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My short film 'Landing' will be screening at the 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) in the experimental shorts next week.
Tuesday 6th and Monday 12th
MIFF program
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Independent Film Show 19th edition, at the Museo Nitsch, Naples
Festival curated by Raffaella Morra
29 June- Film is ritual: hand processed films from Australia curated by Sabina Maselli
A 16mm film program that samples a small selection of shorts from Australian filmmakers working in the experimental form and using hand processed techniques. Film is ritual suggests the very hands on approach to making films (layering, masking, repetition) seeps into the film itself, leaving a personal and physical mark on each of them. An alchemical solution - a merging of chemicals and spirit.
Venerdì 28 giugno Belvedere Museo Nitsch ore 9.30pm
For more info
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Artist Film Workshop: selected works 2009-2019
A survey of recent 16mm work made in Melbourne
showing my film satellite at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
https://www.acmi.net.au/events/artist-film-workshop/
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My film 'satellite' showing at the Austrian Film Archive as part of
A Collected Gaze – Australian Handmade Experimental Film 1967-2018, with Artist Film Workshop
February 2019
FilmArchive
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Light as a feather group show is being presented at Cool Change Contemporary in Perth.
27th October- 17th November 2018
Featuring the work of Soda_Jerk, Oliver Hull & Celeste Njoo, Lyndon Blue, Jack Caddy, Emma Buswell, Grace Connors, Sabina Maselli, and Eliza Gauger.
Light as a Feather… is an exhibition curated by Moana Project Space and was originally exhibited at Domain House, Hobart in November 2017 for HOBINENNALE.
Light as a Feather
Cool Change Contemporary
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Solo installation work 'mask of hysteria' is showing at SEVENTH gallery, Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2 August – 24th August, 2018
SEVENTH
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Interval and Channels present Documents of the Future: Invitation to edit, a collaborative performance-document. An international group of artists will convene and present research-led performances on the unstable and transformative nature of documents.
Curated by Anita Spooner.
Hosted by Sabina Maselli.
With performances by Caitlin Cummane, Jane Frances Dunlop, Aurelia Guo and Caroline Sinders. The Performance Document Working Group includes Kristina Bengtsson, Paolo Cirio, Frances Fleetwood, Joe Hamilton, Nikki Lam, Katie Paine and Max Stolkin
Channels festival 2017
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Artist Film Workshop at CCP (Contemporary Centre for Photography).
10 films from the Artist Film Workshop
Sunday 6 August, 6pm
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Turtles all the way down, group show, curated by Interval projects and Channels festival, Blindside gallery, Melbourne
https://www.blindside.org.au/play/
2 August - 12 September 2017
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Now Now night at Projects 107, Redfern, Sydney
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Three nights of electroacoustic, interdisciplinary, and audio-visual
sound performance at THE SUBSTATION
Dates:
Thu September 29
Fri September 30
Sat October 01
Over the last three nights of September, twelve Australian sound artists will present works mapping a confluence of exploratory streams, tracing a detailed image of contemporary sound practice in Australia today.
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The Alderman
134 Lygon St
Brunswick
Wednesday June 22
Entry $10 | 7pm for a 7:30pm start
Sonar Van Tenthly: Farfiza / Revox
Evil Kirk Theme: Electric Violin / Computer
DCE Error: Psychoacoustics / Bass
Single Hiss Menta: Vision / Voice
MARCH 13TH, ECOPLEX CINEMA, GOLDEN PLAINS
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Another Other is an audio visual show by by Erkki Veltheim, Sabina Maselli, Natasha Anderson and Anthony Pateras.
Fusing experimental opera, expanded cinema, sound art and installation, Another Other is based on a radical re-reading of Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona (which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016).
Another Other shakes the illusion of the self. It is an unsettling, darkly comical and visceral live performance work.
Presented at the Meat Market (Arts House) North Melbourne 18th February- 21st.
More details: https://www.chambermadeopera.com/works/another-other/
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A collaboration between myself and Judith Hamann with Adele Wilkes will be performed at the Closing party 'two party state' at School House Studios
info: Channels Festival, liquidarchitecture
26th September, 2015
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A work of mine from the series the uncertainty of predicting one’s fate is showing at the Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks. The work is part of the Video Contemporary program curated by ACMI (Ulanda Blair and Jess Bram).
Details here: SydneyContemporary
10th-13th September, 2015
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Migratory Complex, ‘Ailleurs en Folie’ program – La Maison Folie – Mons, European Capital of Culture 2015 Opening 18th June- 28th, 2015 @ La Maison Folie, Mons, Belgium
If you are in Europe...
For more details see punctum website
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a sensation of a strange recognition
a new work of mine, featuring doppelgänger Rose Nolan,
presented at the Goodtimes studio,
746 Swanston st, Carlton
Thursday 19th March, 6-9pm
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Another Other a performance by Erkki Veltheim, Sabina Maselli, Natasha Anderson and Anthony Pateras.
Commissioned by Chamber Made Opera and presented in collaboration with Punctum and the New Music Network.
Preview Season: 5 - 7 December 2014 at Punctum's ICU, Castlemaine
For more details see: chamber made opera website
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melting point a performance between Judith Hamann and I, as part of Judith's recital in the BIFEM program.
5th September, Old Fire Station, Bendigo
https://www.bifem.com.au/
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A temporary monument to the outsider is an expanded cinema piece, exploring the condition of the outsider in an unknown territory, a sublime terra incognita, the performance unravels into a mini-opera told through a series of audiovisual performative scenes. Performed by Sabina Maselli, Rose Nolan and Erkki Veltheim.
The 2014 Expat Expo: A Showcase of Wahlberliner, Berlin. Thursday, June 12th
https://www.etberlin.de/production/a-temporary-monument-to-the-outsider/
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I'm curating an expanded cinema night as part of Next Wave festival club.
fear of the future will trespass forgotten lands where celluloid spills into dark spaces, dark spaces become spoken words, and the chatter of ghosts waltzes with amplified machines.
A night of expanded cinema & performance with Sabina Maselli, Magic Steven & Artist Film Workshop."
Sunday 4th May, 7-9pm at Shebeen, 36 Manchester Lane, Melbourne
2014.nextwave.org.au/events/festival-club-shebeen
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13th February MCA Sydney
Artist Film Workshop have been invited to interpret Yoko Ono’s film score #6 Omnibus Film at the MCA, as part of OtherFilm's Experimental Universe program.
Details below:
https://www.mca.com.au/news/2014/02/11/interpreting-yoko-onos-film-scores-part-3/
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Wed Jan 15th 2014, 6pm, Theatre Royal, Hobart
Australian Art Orchestra
Struttin' with Some Barbeque — Louis Armstrong the Man and his Music.
Composed by Eugene Ball, with special guest Ngaiire and with projected illustrations (Linzee R. Nold) and video installation (Sabina Maselli).
$35-$65
Buy Tickets
https://mofo.net.au/events/
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Mon 28 Oct 2013
Lunchtime Concert Series: Erkki Veltheim and Sabina Maselli at Lasalle, College of the Arts, Singapore
https://www.lasalle.edu.sg
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Sabina is currently undertaking a residency (August, September 2013) at NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland as part of the Summer We Go Public program.
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EQUINOX
The official launch of Artist Film Workshop Melbourne
Friday 10th of May at Goodtime Studios*. Starting at 7pm
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Recent recipient of the Toyota Highly Commended Award
https://www.watcharts.com.au/travelaward.html
Artists selected as finalists for this years award are: Santina Amato, Mimi Dennett, Erika Gofton, Melanie Irwin and Sabina Maselli
