- November 05 - November 12, 2009
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Martha Colburn Residency
Phyllis Wattis Theater
In Martha Colburn's animated films, collages, paintings, and installations, textbook histories and heroic figures undergo lurid transformations. In her recent work Myth Labs (2008), the Mayflower's pilgrims meet a Midwestern America strewn with meth addicts, while devils in the apocalyptic Don't Kill the Weatherman! (2007) fill SUVs at the gas pump, hastening our own global warming-induced flood.
In this weeklong residency, Colburn screens new and past works with multiple projectors and musical accomplices. Highlights include an SFMOMA/Performa co-commissioned new work, Thollem Mcdonas on piano, indie legend Jad Fair on guitar, and a matinee of favorites selected by the artist.
Past
- Buy tickets Power to the Puppets: Films by Martha Colburn
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The result of a painstakingly slow and hand-driven production process, Colburn's animated films nonetheless teem with speed, their paper puppet stars running, tumbling, and falling…
Read moreThursday, November 05, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
- Buy tickets Martha Colburn Selects . . .
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Colburn presents an afternoon of special screenings focusing on works by friends and collaborators. Titles to be announced.
Read moreSaturday, November 7, 2009
1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.Phyllis Wattis Theater
- Buy tickets Puppets of the Apocalypse, or Martha Colburn: Live Cinema
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Long involved in experimental music scenes as both a musician and a filmmaker, Colburn has honed a live practice of multiprojector, manipulated film and music shows. As she…
Read moreThursday, November 12, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
Image: Martha Colburn, Join the Freedom Force, (2009); courtesy the artist; © Martha Colburn
