Or is it sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Animator and artist Martha Colburn, currently dividing her time between Amsterdam, New York, and Los Angeles, returns to the Bay Area to share a program of her wild and energizing films. Assembled from a plethora of popular and underground culture–found footage, TV shows, pornography, and magazine ads-as well as her own flat puppets, drawings, and hand–painting directly on film, Colburn's dizzying animations are outrageous and obsessive, and pure pleasure. Self–taught, she began working ten years ago with found footage and Super–8mm, and today has completed over forty labor–intensive films that have been screened in festivals, cinematheques, bars, and clubs around the world. Inspired by both music and poetry, her scores feature The Dramatics, The Jaunties, Jad Fair, and others. "Her visual spew of punk rock poetry and corrupt collage, rendered in scabrous animation that's a perfect marriage of Monty Python and Hieronymus Bosch, is proof that nobody mixes playfulness and dangerous vision better than a low–tech and virulent underground" (Patrick Macias, S.F. Bay Guardian).
Cosmetic Emergency (2005, 8 mins, 35mm). XXX Amsterdam (2004, 3.5 mins, DVD). A Little Dutch Thrill (2004, 2 mins, DVD). Secrets of Mexuality (2003, 6 mins). Skelahellavision (2002, 8.5 mins). Groscher Lansangriff: Big Bug Attack (2002, 3.5 mins). Cats Amore (2002, 2.5 mins). Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical (1999, 2.5 mins). There's a Pervert in Our Pool! (1998, 3.5 mins). Lift Off (1998, 3.5 mins). Evil of Dracula (1997, 2.5 mins). What's On? (1997, 1.5 mins). Persecution in Paradise (1997, 6 mins). I Can't Keep Up (1997, 3.5 mins). Asthma (1995, 2.5 mins).