Martha Colburn

Directing·Pennsylvania, USA

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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’.

Film	Credit
Messages 52021 · Director	Director
Messages 42021 · Director	Director
Messages 32021 · Director	Director
Messages 22021 · Director	Director
Messages2020 · Director	Director
Western Wild... or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand2018 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Wonders of Nature2017 · Director	Director
Pug Adventures: A Journey into the Reproductive System2017 · Director	Director
DDay of the Dutch2015 · Director	Director
Metamorfoza2013 · Director	Director
Anti-Fracking Film2011 · Director	Director
OOne and One is life2009 · Director	Director
Triumph of the Wild2009 · Director	Director
MMyth Labs2008 · Director	Director
LLie Lie Lie2007 · Director	Director
DDon't Kill The Weatherman2007 · Director	Director
Destiny Manifesto2006 · Director	Director
Meet Me in Wichita2006 · Director	Director
Friendly Fire2006 · Director	Director
Cosmetic Emergency2005 · Director	Director
XXXX Amsterdam2005 · Director	Director
Wrong Time Capsule2005 · Director	Director
Secrets of Mexuality2003 · Director	Director
SSkelehellavision2003 · Director	Director
Big Bug Attack2002 · Director	Director
Cats Amore2000 · Director	Director
Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical1999 · Director	Director
Lift Off1998 · Director	Director
There's a Pervert in Our Pool!1998 · Director	Director
PPersecution in Paradise1997 · Director	Director
WWhat's On1997 · Director	Director
I Can't Keep Up1997 · Director	Director
Evil of Dracula1997 · Director	Director
UUberfall: PeePoo and Flies1996 · Director	Director
My Secret Shame1996 · Director	Director
HHey Tiger1996 · Director	Director
Cholesterol1996 · Director	Director
ZZig Zag1995 · Director	Director
Asthma1995 · Director	Director
Jaunties1995 · Director	Director
Feature Presentation1994 · Director	Director
WWaschdrang MamaDirector	Director
AA Little Dutch ThrillDirector	Director
Drowning HorsesDirector	Director