Martha Colburn

Biography

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 J…

Directed

1. What's On (1997) — Director
2. Big Bug Attack (2002) — Director
3. Triumph of the Wild (2009) — Director
4. Destiny Manifesto (2006) — Director
5. Evil of Dracula (1997) — Director
6. Skelehellavision (2003) — Director
7. Asthma (1995) — Director
8. Lift Off (1998) — Director
9. Lie Lie Lie (2007) — Director
10. Persecution in Paradise (1997) — Director
11. Messages (2020) — Director
12. Messages 2 (2021) — Director
13. Messages 3 (2021) — Director
14. Messages 4 (2021) — Director
15. Messages 5 (2021) — Director
16. Anti-Fracking Film (2011) — Director
17. Cats Amore (2000) — Director
18. One and One is life (2009) — Director
19. Meet Me in Wichita (2006) — Director
20. Cosmetic Emergency (2005) — Director
21. Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical (1999) — Director
22. Secrets of Mexuality (2003) — Director
23. Metamorfoza (2013) — Director
24. Waschdrang Mama — Director
25. Don't Kill The Weatherman (2007) — Director
26. Day of the Dutch (2015) — Director
27. Friendly Fire (2006) — Director
28. Wrong Time Capsule (2005) — Director
29. XXX Amsterdam (2005) — Director
30. A Little Dutch Thrill — Director
31. My Secret Shame (1996) — Director
32. There's a Pervert in Our Pool! (1998) — Director
33. Myth Labs (2008) — Director
34. Western Wild... or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand (2018) — Director
35. Pug Adventures: A Journey into the Reproductive System (2017) — Director
36. Cholesterol (1996) — Director
37. Hey Tiger (1996) — Director
38. I Can't Keep Up (1997) — Director
39. Zig Zag (1995) — Director
40. Uberfall: PeePoo and Flies (1996) — Director