2007
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
Edition: 4/6
Archival: 16mm and DVD
Exhibition copy: mp4 digital file
Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Provenance: Galerie Anne De Villepoix
Additional artist works included: Collaged artist box with watercolors on the exterior and interior. Box contains 5 watercolor works on paper, signed by the artist.
"It started out with the idea of bin Laden: paralleling the search for Osama bin Laden and the demonization of one particular character with the witch trials, and kind of the fanatic idea of fear and evil. . . I placed Osama bin Laden into The Wizard of Oz. . .”
Martha Colburn is a filmmaker well-known for her animation films, which are created through puppetry, collage, and paint on glass techniques. She has made over forty films since 1994. Meet Me in Wichita, the artist said, “It started out with the idea of bin Laden: paralleling the search for Osama bin Laden and the demonization of one particular character with the witch trials, and kind of the fanatic idea of fear and evil. . . I placed Osama bin Laden into The Wizard of Oz. . . I mean, it's a documentary of something that people can write about but there's no way to film it, really, other than animation. The same way they used animation to illustrate things in outer space, or before they had microscopes ... And yeah, they're usually political, and not the softest-edged ideas, you know? They're challenging and they're not presented in some kind of a soft way.”
[1] Martha Colburn. https://www.nermanmuseum.org/exhibitions/2009-02-05-colburn-martha-meet-me-in-wichita.html (accessed October 8, 2020).
