MARTHA COLBURN

FILMS BY MARTHA COLBURN
SATURDAY OCTOBER 1, 7PM
Artist in Person! – Admission $6

For the final weekend of the group exhibition INDEPENDENCE RETURNS, we have invited artist Martha Colburn to screen a program of her radical animated films. Colburn will show a selection including her ‘off beat’ early films featuring Jad Fair and Boredoms Music as well as a selection of newer films. Included in the program will be sound Super 8 films made live of her friends playing a variety of music. Artists playing include Tony Conrad, Felix Kubin and Helena Espvall. Colburn also has a collage work and a video on view in the exhibition.
TRT: Approximately 45 minutes

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Martha Colburn is a filmmaker and artsit. She is best known for her animation films, which are created through puppetry, collage, and paint on glass techniques. She has made over forty films since 1994. Colburn has also been fervently involved in playing music. One out of numerous groups she has been a part of is The Dramatics, a band she formed in Baltimore with Jason Willett. Recently in her career, Colburn has made sculptural/video installation work and experimented with integrating her films with musical performance. Yet music and film have always shared a deep connection within Colburn’s work. She has made films for System of a Down singer Serj Tankian, Jad Fair of Half Japanese, contributed animation to the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnson, and VJs for the band Deerhoof. She has performed with live projections and bands at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009), The Rotterdam Film Festival (2010), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), New Museum (NY) and many others. In 2010 her film Triumph of the Wild was included in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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