| Destiny Manifesto |
| Animation | 16mm | color | 8'0'' | USA | 2006 |
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© Martha Colburn
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A paint-on-glass and collage animation, `Destiny Manifesto` fuses paintings of the American western frontier and contemporary images of the conflict in the Middle East into a work that explores the visual and psychological parallels between the representation of these two periods.
An indictment of America`s dangerous foreign-policy naivety, this film is a play between fact, fiction, politics, fantasy, terror and morality. Using colorful cutout animation this film features Osama Bin Laden (as several characters from the Wizard of Oz) and Dorothy in a battle of dark forces and faces of Evil.
Born in Pennsylvania (1971), Martha Colburn is an artist filmmaker based in New York.
A self-taught filmmaker, she began in 1994 with found footage and Super 8 cameras and has since completed over 40 films. She shows
her work in the art world and the film festival world. She has made music videos/ music-art films for bands such as Deerhoof, Friendly
Rich (Canada), Felix Kubin and the documentary ‘The Devil and Daniel Johnson’.
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