FILM AND VIDEO
“Painter, printmaker, photographer, and filmmaker, Katy Martin’s work moves between mediums with a grace and ease that few artists are able to command. Her work has long centered on the body and choreography, a fascination that one can trace back to her earliest Super 8 movies. Almost all of her films and videos are rooted in tracing an action, whether it be artisans pulling the prints for an edition by Jasper Johns, the movement of a dancer, or the painted skin of the artist herself. Subtle yet distinctive, her films have an elegance and intuitive internal rhythm that will stick with you long after the screening has ended.”
— Anthology Film Archives, program notes
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2024 release
NEWLY CREATED from previously unseen footage
ALTERNATE TAKE / Jasper Johns Making Prints
1979-2024, 30 minutes - narrated by the filmmaker
RED OCHRE AND BLUE
2019, 6 minutes
UNDERBRUSH
2019, 16 minutes
— with original music by Matthew Shipp
BY NIGHT - NO STILLNESS
by Katy Martin and Miriam Parker
2008, 10 minutes
— with original music by Hamid Drake
BREATHING TWICE
2009, 7 minutes
— commissioned by the Museum of Chinese in America
SWAN’S ISLAND
by Katy Martin and Bill Brand
2005, 5 minutes
— official selection, Tribeca Film Festival
SKINSIDE OUT
by Katy Martin and Bill Brand
2002, 11 minutes
HANAFUDA / JASPER JOHNS
1979-81, 35 minutes
— with Jasper Johns talking about his work
— included in MoMA’s “Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films”
SILKSCREENS
1978, 20 minutes
— with original music by Richard Teitelbaum
— film preservation by Anthology Film Archives
APPLE BUTTER BOIL
1979-2013, 8 minutes, silent
BILL’S FILM SHOOT
1978-2013, 7 minutes, silent
SWIMMING AROUND WITH THE CONTINENTS
1977-2015, 10 minutes, silent
DAFFODILS
1977, 3 minutes, silent
— included in MoMA’s “Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films”
TYRONE, PA
1977, 14 minutes, silent
AUTOGRAPH
1976, 2 minutes, silent