Martha Colburn
Nascimento : , Pennsylvania, USA
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Born in rural Pennsylvania, Martha Colburn is an artist filmmaker based in Pennsylvania, USA and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She travels extensively exhibiting and lecturing on her work. She has a B.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art and MA equivalent from Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunst in the Netherlands.
In the 2007 Sundance Film Festival she was invited to initiate the ‘New Frontiers’ film and video installation program, with ‘Meet Me In Wichita” and in 2008 to opened the Museum of Art and Design (NY) with a live performance of films and music. In 2010 two of her films joined the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
In 2013 her film ‘Metamorfoza’ was invited to participate in the series ‘Visual Arts’ by curator of the Collection de Bruin‐Heijn and performed by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a 2015 recipient of the Creative Capital Award for film for the production of ‘Western Wild’. Recipient of the Mondriaan Foundations Working Artist Grant in 2016, she also did a number of performances including Amsterdam Art Week (with singer/ songwriter Rita Braga and Into the Great Wide Open Festival-with musician Jacco Gardner and cellist Helena Espvall. She also had a film retrospective screening in the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, Spain.
In 2017 her film ‘Metamorfoza’ was included in the B3 Biennale of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany and participated in the Mondriaan Foundations’ Delta Workers Art Residency in New Orleans, LA, USA. Her films are included in a number of exhibitions and films premiering in Sundance Film Festival (a collaboration with the performance artist ‘Narcissister’ and she is included in the Rotterdam International Film Festival with a live performance with composer Jeroen Kimmans’ musical group ‘Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido’ and her newest film, created with a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation Award for film ‘Western Wild…or how I found Wanderlust and met Old Shatterhand’.
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Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.
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Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.
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Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs made between 1965 & 1975 approx.
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Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs made between 1965 & 1975 approx.
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Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
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Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
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Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
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Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
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Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
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Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.
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A filmmaker makes a film about the famed German author Karl May...
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A filmmaker makes a film about the famed German author Karl May...
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A filmmaker makes a film about the famed German author Karl May...
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A filmmaker makes a film about the famed German author Karl May...
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Animated video about the reproductive system for the website amaze.org.
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Short by Martha Colburn.
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An exploration of the impulses that prompt hunting and the resiliency of people and animals in times of battle during 300 years of American history.
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A stop motion animated 16mm film bringing together protestors from all over the world (music video for Knalpot and funded by TAX video clip Fonds).
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‘Myth Labs’ interweaves Puritan visions, folk art, religious allegories and victims of the current Methamphetamine epidemic. This is a film about fear, paranoia, faith and loss of faith and salvation. ‘Myth labs’ takes place in the American frontier and wilderness. Similarly to Meth addicts in rural America, for the Puritans the wilderness represented a place of their damnation and their ultimate resurrection synonymously. Through blending these two times in American history, I attempt to illuminate the idea that the lure of this drug for contemporary rural inhabitants is rooted in our earliest consciousness-forming experiences as settlers in a state of spiritual and physical emergency. Overly fervent faith and addiction alike, can change one from mere mortal to Superman to scarecrow. Just as a ‘wolf in sheeps clothing’ these two vices (or devices) of salvation can have devastating consequences.
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Short by Martha Colburn.
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An exploration of the visual and psychological parallels between the American western frontier and the conflict in the Middle East.
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A história do amadurecimento de um garoto de 13 anos que aprende a lidar com sua sexualidade e seu amor não-correspondido por um colega de sala.
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A stop motion animated 16mm film combining the Wizard of Oz and the hunt for Bin Laden, with music by V. Vale and Jad Fair.
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Short by Martha Colburn.
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Short by Martha Colburn.
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Cosmetic Emergency explores the idea of beauty through a collage of live action and lyrical animations. Afree-form take on the current trend of cosmetic obsession and the immortal quality of painting, the film searches for "whats on the inside". Topical news stories (such as the US military offering free cosmetic surgery) and musical film sequences are created with paint-on-glass animation, found footage and documentary techniques. The music was commissioned for the film. Selected musicians, including New Zealands Hip-Hop artist, "Coco Solid" and "Half Japanese" founder Jad Fair, wrote and recorded humorously cynical songs about the cosmetic craze. Also included is a rare appearance by the Dutch Ambassador of Cosmetic Surgery, Marijke Helwegen.
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A look beneath the surface of porn.
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A dense and highly detailed film exploring sexuality in the specific realms of Mexican wrestling and kitsch paintings through rapid-fire transformations. Much of the film is hand scratched frame by frame, hand painted (over collage animation). This film was made as a commission by the Mexican Composer Felipe Waller and screened live in Europe and Mexico with live accompaniment by the Dutch group 'Martin Altena Ensemble'.
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A film revealing our animal instincts. Half naked/half furry cats shake their hips and transform into human-like manifestations with too much make-up and sexy clothes. This film uses flat collage animated puppets and hand coloring of the film.
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Animation short.
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A number of historical perverts in a pool together…
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An interstellar Sex Capade of Astro-Porno-O-Naughts strobing and sucking through the Outer Limits. NASA Nymphets float through the Galaxies insinuating rocket blow jobs and releasing their Planetary Pleasures, ending in the dispersion of a capsule/parachute. Originally a double-projection of 16mm color space footage and animated, hand-colored collage animation Super 8.
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Super8mm color stop motion animated film about the adventures of two musicians taking them underground and to Hawaii, soundtrack by Jad Fair and Jason Willett.
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"This film is set to the chaos-poetry of New York poet “99 Hooker”. It is a hyper-speed rant on the evils and absurdities of American television. An over-the-top tumble in a TV mindscape in which there are attacking baboons, a mutating Michael Jackson, gameshows based on body parts and more. “What’s On?” is a flat puppet-collage-paint and hand colored-animated film." - Martha Colburn
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Clear 16mm leader and fly-tape and flies applied directly to the film plus whole punch images of various ideals of beauty in women, set to the music of ‘the Dramatics’
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Super 8mm black and white film of Baltimore performer Joe Medusa. Set to the music of ‘the Dramatics’.
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16mm color found footage film about the distasteful diets that lead to cholesterol through re-editing a film about Cholesterol.
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Shameful behaviours…
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Black and white 16mm found footage film re-cutting dancing films, hand painted with color.
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A film about smoking.
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Short based on the magazine Gandalf.
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Short about Amsterdam.
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An experimental short-film set to a frantic soundtrack by Felix Kubin depicting abstract bug animations.