A Little Dutch Thrill
Super 8mm color stop motion animated film using cartoon from Belgium magazines, set to the music of the Luana Flu Winks.
Triumph of the Wild Cine-Concert: Martha Colburn
80 minutes
Martha Colburn's work alternating with live music by CelloWercken. One film with live musical accompaniment.
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American filmmaker Martha Colburn does not shy away from making a loud statement. In her layered filmic collages, Colburn juxtaposes past and present, commenting on topics like war, violence, femininity or gentrification, mixed with personal experiences. Such as recent experiences with the devastating wildlife fires in Los Angeles. Her unpolished, intense animations are often fastly edited which results in a bombardment of images. Most of her work relates to America’s society and history, but several of her films are inspired by the Dutch way of life, and especially the city of Amsterdam, where she attended the artist residency at the Rijksakademie between 2001 and 2002. Colburn mixes found footage with animation, and works with various film formats, especially in her early years on small gauges such as 8mm and 16mm. This program includes new restorations and digitizations by Eye Filmmuseum.
Colburn regularly exhibits her visual art in a museum context. In the current exhibition Stop, Actie, Visie in Dat Bolwerck in Zutphen she offers a personal perspective on the confusion we often feel in a world overflowing with impressions, opinions, and emotions. A vital part of Colburn’s artistic practice is the collaboration with contemporary musicians and performance. During the screening four musicians will live perform music. This new music, inspired by Colburn’s artistic vision, is recently composed by international promising conservatory students during a research retreat organised by CelloWercken in Zutphen
This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2025
Showing in this program
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Cosmetic Emergency
Day of the Dutch
In this stop motion animated film 'Day of the Dutch' we follow a day in the life of a ‘living skeleton’ family in a Dutch home environment. The film shows events from the daily life of a modern (deceased) family. Like the Dutch genre paintings from the Golden Age, the film depicts the traditional values of family and standards...until an event changes a young girls life.
Dolls vs Dictators
Puppets use their powers to rid the world of the last remaining dictators. A LOUD statement.
Eaton Fire
Triumph of the Wild
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010, Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 2010, Ann Arbor Film Festival Michigan 2010, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2010
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Western Wild…Or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand
Een rijk geanimeerde documentaire over een filmmaker die een film maakt over de beroemde Duitse schrijver Karl May. Alleen al de hoeveelheid stopmotion-animaties, found footage en interviews die subtiel met elkaar verweven zijn, is voldoende om ‘Wanderlust’ op te wekken.
XXX Amsterdam
A film that explodes with the energy of Amsterdam, national politics, overcrowding and the lifestyle of the Amsterdammers, set to electronic music of Hilar Jeffery. Bubbling with energetic editing and a cast of characters ranging from politicians to porn stars and a catastrophic pile-up of traffic, the film also takes a swipes at gentrification as brick fill canal boats. The film was made for the
