Martha Colburn is known for hand-made animations, which she creates through puppetry, collage, and paint-on-glass techniques. She also makes installations and performs her films, often with live musical performance. Colburn’s style of collage fuses pop culture and political imagery with an aesthetic that is simultaneously fantastical, painterly, and punk rock. Many of her appropriated images are painted over with a variety of different paints, which transforms her found material into textured drawings that are completely her own. Colburn’s method of animation sees her face the super-8 film camera directly downward at the collaged panels below. The tactile, non-technological quality that defines her process means her films retain a personal and intimate aspect.