Myth Labs: Martha Colburn

November 3rd, 2008 at 05:03pm kristen

We kicked off MIX: New Performance at MAD with Martha Colburn’s performance, Myth Labs. She began with a retrospective of short films dated from 1994-Present. These films included I’m Gonna (1997), There’s a Pervert in Our Pool! (1995), Meet Me in Wichita (1995) and others. The films portray Colburn’s cut-and-paste animation set to poetry,music and sound effects. Next she showed two short films, Don’t Kill the Weather Man and Myth Labs, which were both accompanied by live music. Instruments included the cello, foley, drums, violin, saw and moog. After this, the musicians were given a chance to do a group improvisation.

Martha working the projector

After intermission we went back to the action with the film Destiny Manifesto (2006). This piece was accompanied by Nathan Whipple on piano, and Haleh Abghari doing vocals. Though we were running ended a little late, the program was a great success. Martha’s films are haunting but hopeful in their display of contemporary political culture.

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