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MartinSagadin

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Yugoslavian-born director Martin Sagadin has created music videos for some major names in New Zealand music, including Marlon Williams, Aldous Harding and Tiny Ruins. Co-directed with Harding, the moody and mystifying The Barrel was nominated for Best Video at the 2019 NZ Music Awards; it has had more than three million YouTube views. The Christchurch-based director is no stranger to longer projects; following poetic documentary Oko na Roki (2018), which was shot in Slovenia and New Zealand, they wrote and directed Christchurch-set romance Spring Interlude. Both films premiered at the NZ International Film Festival. 

Screenography

Something
2022 Director, Producer, Editor Music video
Old Peel
2021 Producer, Performer Music video
Waratah
2021 Director, Editor Music video
Ouija Board
2021 Director, Editor Music video
Songs in the Hills with Archer
2021 Director, Cinematographer, Editor Short film

Awards

2019 New Zealand Music Awards
Nominated for Best Video: The Barrel

“I think if you pull something off perfectly in film, you've failed actually. Because you've missed the point. Because you've missed life.”

— Martin Sagadin on welcoming the unexpected, in a ScreenTalk interview for NZ On Screen