Martha Colburn
spidersinlove @ hotmail.com
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."
Filmology:
Title
|
Year
|
Time
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Secrets of Mexuality
|
2003
|
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Skelahellavision
|
2002
|
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Groscher Lansangriff: Big Bug Attack
|
2002
|
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Cats Amore
|
2002
|
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Spiders
in Love: an Arachnogasmic Musical
|
1999
|
5:00
|
There's
a Pervert in Our Pool
|
1998
|
3:00
|
A Toetally
Solefull Feeture Pedsination
|
1998
|
6:00
|
Lift
Off
|
1998
|
3:00
|
Ode to
a Busdriver
|
1997
|
5:32
|
Evil
of Dracula
|
1997
|
1:59
|
J&J
Live
|
1997
|
6:00
|
What's
On?
|
1997
|
1:45
|
Persecution
in Paradise
|
1997
|
6:17
|
I Can't
Keep Up
|
1997
|
3:26
|
Kiwi
and Wally
|
1996
|
3:00
|
Dog Chow
|
1996
|
7:00
|
Live
Go!
|
1996
|
3:00
|
Killer
Tunes
|
1996
|
10:00
|
Cholesterol
|
1996
|
1:11
|
Who Knows?
|
1996
|
2:27
|
My Secret
Shame
|
1996
|
2:31
|
I'm Gonna
|
1996
|
2:02
|
Uberfall:
PeePoo and Flies
|
1996
|
2:30
|
Hey Tiger!
|
1996
|
2:36
|
Caroline
Kaabel Solo
|
1995
|
12:00
|
Alchohol
|
1995
|
N/A
|
Caffine
Jam
|
1995
|
4:50
|
Asthma
|
1995
|
2:23
|
Zig Zag
|
1995
|
2:29
|
Live
Freaks
|
1995
|
N/A
|
Improv.
Spazz
|
1995
|
2:30
|
Drivers
Ed
|
1994
|
5:46
|
Acrophobic
Babies
|
1994
|
5:00
|
Feature
Presentation
|
1994
|
6:00
|
First
Film in X-tro
|
1994
|
5:23
|
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