Martha Colburn
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• Martha Colburn - Screens her latest film, COSMETIC EMERGENCY, at Seattle's NWFF on Saturday June 11th at 8pm - one-show-only. Ticket Info

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As self-taught filmmaker, Martha Colburn has completed over 40 films since 1994. She has toured the US and Europe with her "Helmo" projector and was featured in the New York Museum of Modern Art / San Francisco Cinematheque's Big As Life 8mm retrospective. Her work has appeared in numerous festivals including The Sundance Film Festival and The Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her work is largely hand colored, corrupted collage animation and features musical and spoken-word scores by The Dramatics, The Jaunties, Jad Fair, Jason Willett 99 Hooker and others.

Martha currently lives in Amsterdam where she has been a participant artist at the Rijksakademie. A video compilation of her films can be obtained here.

When asked how she supports herself while making films, Martha replies: "By working retarded non-committed jobs like putting together christmas trees, painting on construction sites with guys who smoke PCP on their lunch breaks, counting bikers and traffic for the State of Maryland, cleaning houses for old men that tell me their war stories and make me get them drunk, doing props and sets at parties for cheezy rich people. Basically, anything for a fast buck and most of them end with being groped -- inciting nervous breakdowns or getting sick physically and mentally."

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