The group — 002
Polymaths
Nobody here holds a single title for long. The group is built from people who compose and shoot, edit and build, translate and perform — and who are expected to cross divisions rather than defend them.
- 16 members
- 9 cities
- Founded 2006
- Portraits from the archive
Founder
Anton Lundin
CEO & Founder — Stockholm
Founded Maskerad Media Group as a single studio above a printing house and grew it into four divisions that refuse to stay in their lanes. Directs, scores, and edits — often on the same project — and signs every release personally.
- Direction
- Composition
- Editorial
The other fifteen
Ines Kavaliauskaitė
Creative Director, Art
Vilnius — Installation / Curation / Light
Builds rooms that behave like instruments. Twelve years of large-format installation work before joining the group.
Rafael Osei
Head of Film
Lisbon — Cinematography / Direction
Shoots on film out of stubbornness and conviction. Believes a camera should be heavy enough to make you think twice.
Marta Vellinga
Head of Music
Rotterdam — Composition / Modular Synthesis
Composes for tape, cathedral, and mine shaft. Runs Maskerad Tapes and its analogue mastering room.
Hallgrímur Sten
Editor-in-Chief, Words
Reykjavík — Editing / Essay / Translation
Edits fiction as if it were evidence. Translates from four languages and argues in all of them.
Yuki Aramaki
Sound Designer
Kyoto — Field Recording / Mixing
Carries two microphones everywhere. The group's archive of ambient recordings is largely her doing.
Delphine Roux
Production Designer
Marseille — Set / Sculpture
Constructs sets that survive the shoot and become sculpture afterwards.
Kwame Boateng
Director of Photography
Accra — Camera / Colour
Grades by candle reference. Insists that darkness has more detail than light.
Sofia Brenner
Head of Archive
Stockholm — Preservation / Research
Keeps the group's twenty-year record of tapes, negatives, and drafts in order — and occasionally releases one.
Tomás Iriarte
Composer
Buenos Aires — Orchestration / Score
Writes scores that begin with silence long enough to make audiences uncomfortable.
Nour Haddad
Photographer
Beirut — Photography / Printing
Prints everything by hand. The darkroom is the second half of the picture.
Elin Sjögren
Producer, Film
Malmö — Production / Finance
Turns impossible schedules into merely difficult ones.
Jonas Weber
Typographer
Leipzig — Type / Print
Draws the group's typefaces and defends every kerning decision at length.
Amara Nwosu
Poet in Residence
Lagos — Poetry / Performance
Writes for the voice first and the page second.
Petra Novák
Head of Technology
Prague — Systems / Interaction
Builds the instruments, sensors, and control rigs the other divisions ask for at short notice.
Léo Marchand
Editor, Film
Paris — Editing / Rhythm
Cuts to breath, not to beat.