Martha Colburn

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

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.

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

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

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

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

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

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.

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

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

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

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

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

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. The book is in the collection of Artis Zoo in Amsterdam. For this film Martha Colburn animated these drawings and married it with music by McCloud ZICMUSE on a re-make of an early harpsichord.

This is a film exploiting inventive techniques of animation in an attempt to realize the world that may await us after death. Using found pornography as part of the film and literally scratching skeletons over the footage frame-by-frame.

A number of historical perverts in a pool together…

Animated video for the Netherlands-based band 'Dusty Stray'.

"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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A film about smoking.

Short based on the magazine Gandalf.

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

Short film.

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

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’

‘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.

Short by Martha Colburn.

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Short film.

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

Short film.

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

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

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 "what’s 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 Zealand’s 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.

Short by Martha Colburn.

Short by Martha Colburn.

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.

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

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'.

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.

"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