Martha Colburn

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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’.

Most Popular Martha Colburn Trailers

Total trailers found: 45

My Secret Shame Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

Super 8mm black and white film about shameful behaviors, set to the poetry of 99 Hooker and Naval Cassidy on samples.

Join the Freedom Force Trailer (2009)

12 April 2009

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).

Triumph of the Wild Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

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.

Messages 4 Trailer (2021)

10 June 2021

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs made between 1965 & 1975 approx.

Pug Adventures: A Journey into the Reproductive System Trailer (2017)

01 January 2017

Animated video about the reproductive system for the website amaze.org.

Skelehellavision Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

A look beneath the surface of porn.

Zig Zag Trailer (1995)

05 May 1995

Black and white 16mm found footage film re-cutting dancing films, hand painted with color.

Myth Labs Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

‘Myth Labs’ interweaves Puritan visions, folk art, religious allegories and victims of the current Methamphetamine epidemic.

Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical Trailer (1999)

14 August 1999

"Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical," while containing stylistic affinities with older work, also presented more extended and inter-relational riffs, as well as a more nuanced pacing.

Day of the Dutch Trailer (2015)

01 May 2015

Short film.

Western Wild... or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand Trailer (2018)

26 January 2018

A filmmaker makes a film about the famed German author Karl May...

Messages Trailer (2020)

13 December 2020

Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.

Cosmetic Emergency Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

Cosmetic Emergency explores the idea of beauty through a collage of live action and lyrical animations.

Anti-Fracking Film Trailer (2011)

01 July 2011

A stop motion animated video against fracking mining technique, with music by Consortium Musicum, with support from Mondriaan Fonds (FVBK).

Hey Tiger Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

Super 8mm black and white film of Baltimore performer Joe Medusa. Set to the music of ‘the Dramatics’.

Don't Kill The Weatherman Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

Short film.

There's a Pervert in Our Pool! Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

A number of historical perverts in a pool together…

Persecution in Paradise Trailer (1997)

07 July 1997

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.

Messages 3 Trailer (2021)

18 February 2021

Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.

Destiny Manifesto Trailer (2006)

01 November 2006

An exploration of the visual and psychological parallels between the American western frontier and the conflict in the Middle East.

Metamorfoza Trailer (2013)

06 February 2013

Short by Martha Colburn.

Uberfall: PeePoo and Flies Trailer (1996)

06 June 1996

Clear 16mm leader and fly-tape and flies applied directly to the film plus whole punch images of var�

Messages 5 Trailer (2021)

08 July 2021

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

Secrets of Mexuality Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

A dense and highly detailed film exploring sexuality in the specific realms of Mexican wrestling and kitsch paintings through rapid-fire transformations.

Lie Lie Lie Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

Short by Martha Colburn.

Messages 2 Trailer (2021)

29 January 2021

Short film portrait using narration and artworks by Pat O’Neill and edited by Martha Colburn.

One and One is life Trailer (2009)

09 June 2009

One and One is Life’ 2009 (4:27 min.) A stop motion animated 16mm film starring wonder woman and a network of mirrors and automobiles with music by pianist Thollem McDonas.

Meet Me in Wichita Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

A stop motion animated 16mm film combining the Wizard of Oz and the hunt for Bin Laden, with music by V.

I Can't Keep Up Trailer (1997)

01 April 1997

Wild Tigers I Have Known Trailer (2006)

12 July 2006

A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 14-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.

Cats Amore Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

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.

Broken Dream Trailer (2012)

20 October 2012

In a time of universal manipulation, deceit and monopoly a failed attempt to strip our identity both individual and collective are transcended by our true in identity in Christ the Lamb.

Friendly Fire Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

Short by Martha Colburn.

Cholesterol Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

16mm color found footage film about the distasteful diets that lead to cholesterol through re-editing a film about Cholesterol.

Asthma Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

A film about smoking.

Evil of Dracula Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Super 8mm color stop motion animated film with hand painting of painted collages of vampires from throughout 1960’s and 70’s advertising.

The Wonders of Nature Trailer (2017)

06 May 2017

In the 17th century Jan Velten made a book of amateurish drawings of animals, plants and circus artists which he had in his personal 'zoo' in his backyard in Amsterdam.

Feature Presentation Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

Hand painted found footage film splicing a re-mix of the movie 'Old Yeller'.

Wrong Time Capsule Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

Super 8mm color stop motion animated film (music video for Deerhoof).

Big Bug Attack Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

An experimental short-film set to a frantic soundtrack by Felix Kubin depicting abstract bug animations.

XXX Amsterdam Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

Super 8mm color stop motion animated film about the chaos and lifestyle of Amsterdammers, set to the music of Hilary Jeffery.

What's On Trailer (1997)

11 June 1997

"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.

Jaunties Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Elaborate film cut up by Martha Colburn. Music by The Jaunties (Jason Willett & Benb Gallaghar duo).

Time Travelers Overture Trailer (2024)

01 September 2024

Short film by Martha Colburn. Music by Brian Marsella

Lift Off Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

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.