Martha Colburn

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’.

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Time Travelers Overture
Time Travelers Overture 2024
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Messages 5
Messages 5 2021
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Messages 4
Messages 4 2021
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Messages 3
Messages 3 2021
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Messages 2
Messages 2 2021
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Messages
Messages 2020
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Western Wild... or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand
Western Wild... or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand 2018
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The Wonders of Nature
The Wonders of Nature 2017
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Pug Adventures: A Journey into the Reproductive System
Pug Adventures: A Journey into the Reproductive System 2017
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Day of the Dutch 2015
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Metamorfoza
Metamorfoza 2013
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Anti-Fracking Film
Anti-Fracking Film 2011
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One and One is life 2009
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Join the Freedom Force
Join the Freedom Force 2009
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Triumph of the Wild
Triumph of the Wild 2009
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Myth Labs 2008
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Don't Kill The Weatherman 2007
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Lie Lie Lie 2007
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Destiny Manifesto
Destiny Manifesto 2006
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Meet Me in Wichita
Meet Me in Wichita 2006
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Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire 2006
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Cosmetic Emergency
Cosmetic Emergency 2005
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Wrong Time Capsule
Wrong Time Capsule 2005
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XXX Amsterdam 2005
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Secrets of Mexuality
Secrets of Mexuality 2003
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Skelehellavision 2003
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Big Bug Attack
Big Bug Attack 2002
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Cats Amore
Cats Amore 2000
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Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical
Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical 1999
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Lift Off
Lift Off 1998
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There's a Pervert in Our Pool!
There's a Pervert in Our Pool! 1998
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Persecution in Paradise 1997
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What's On 1997
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I Can't Keep Up
I Can't Keep Up 1997
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Evil of Dracula
Evil of Dracula 1997
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Uberfall: PeePoo and Flies 1996
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My Secret Shame
My Secret Shame 1996
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Cholesterol
Cholesterol 1996
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Hey Tiger 1996
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Zig Zag 1995
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Asthma
Asthma 1995
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Feature Presentation
Feature Presentation 1994
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Waschdrang Mama
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A Little Dutch Thrill
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Drowning Horses
Drowning Horses
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