Michele Sambin

Musician, painter and director, he conducts research focused on the relationship between image and sound. Since the early 1970s he has directed his interest toward the intersection of various arts: cinema, music, video, painting. Later he would use theatre as a place of synthesis. In an initial phase, marked by the exploration of the cinematographic medium (1968–1975), he created several experimental films with which he took part in international events including: Film Studio, Rome; Knokke Heist, Belgium; La Rochelle and Beaubourg, France. After graduating in electronic music in Venice in 1978, alongside his research with the computer he began his first experiences with videotape, which soon became the primary instrument of his works. His stage creations find space both in theatre and in music, seeking, through the encounter between different fields, new possibilities of stage composition, through a personal form of “total theatre”. Internationally, his works with TAM have been presented in Bourges, Le Printemps; Granada, “International Theatre Festival”; Vienna, “Wiener Fest Wochen”; Hannover, “Klang & Körper”; Paris, “Festival d’Automne”; Zagreb, “Festival Eurocatz”; Jerusalem, “Italian Theatre Festival”, and also in Tunis, Copenhagen, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw... Among the productions in the field of musical theatre, he staged Repertoire by Mauricio Kagel (1981), Children’s Corner by Claude Debussy for Teatro alla Scala (1986), Ages by Bruno Maderna for RAI Milano (1989). In 1994 he curated the artistic project Meditazioni, whose protagonists were the detainees of the Padua prison. His artistic work has been the subject of numerous university theses written, among others, at La Sapienza University of Rome, the Universities of Ferrara, Venice and Padua.