SFMOMA | Exhibitions + Events | Calendar | Martha Colburn Residency

November 05 - November 12, 2009
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.

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Buy tickets Power to the Puppets: Films by Martha Colburn

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…

Buy tickets Martha Colburn Selects . . . Composition in blue Oscar Fischinger, 1935 3 min., 16mm, color Breathdeath Stan Vanderbeek. 1964 15 min., 16mm, b/w Leda und der Schwan (Materialaktion: Otto Muehl) (Leda and the Swan: An Otto Muehl Happening) Kurt Kren, 1964 3 min., 16mm, color Breakaway Bruce Connor, 1966 5 min., 16mm, b/w Straight and Narrow Tony Conrad, 1970 10 min., 16mm, b/w Robot Movie Jim Sharpe, 1986 3 min., 16mm, color Evolution of the Red Star Adam K. Beckett, 1973 7 min., 16mm Soul City Henry Jones, 1979 2min., 16mm, color Joe Dimaggio Anne Mcguire, 1991 4 min., video Spirit Jem Cohen, With Patti Smith, 2009 7 min., video And more TBA

Colburn presents an afternoon of special screenings focusing on works by friends and collaborators.

Buy tickets Puppets of the Apocalypse, or Martha Colburn: Live Cinema

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…

Live Art

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