Tess Martin

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EVENTS / PRESS:

January 15-22, 2025 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival of Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany

Oct 18-25, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Science New Wave Film Festival, New York, USA

Sept 27-29, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE installation & performance at Murf/Murw Art and Performance Festival, Tilburg, the Netherlands

Sept 26-Oct 26 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at RPM Festival, Boston, MA, USA

Sept 21-22, 2024 - HOW NOW, HOUSE? work-in-progress installation at FilmDak, Oranjeboomstraat Studios, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Sept 11-22, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Proyector Moving Image Festival, Madrid, Spain

Aug 30-Sept 8, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Aricadoc International Documentary Film Festival, Arica, Chile

July 19-21, 2024 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at aCinema Summer Screening Series, Milwaukee, WI, USA

July 11-14, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, Iowa, USA

July 6-7, 2024 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Tabor Film Festival, Veliki Tabor Castle, Croatia

June 10, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at ONED Film Festival, Beijing, China, special screening with Traverse Video

June 5-9, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Kino Otok Isola Cinema, Izola, Slovenia

June 3-8, 2024 - 1976: SEACH FOR LIFE at Animafest Zagreb, World Panorama, Croatia

May 10, 2024 - MARIO at Bologna in Lettere International Poetry & Video Art Festival, online

April 23-27, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, USA

April 26, 2024 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

April 8-15, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA

March 21-25, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at AmDocs Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA, USA

March 13-17, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at Rencontres Internationales Traverse, experimental art festival, Toulouse, France (in attendance)

March 12-17, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at InScience International Science Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands

March 7-17, 2024 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE at International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany

Feb 17-22, 2024 - Berlinale Talents (attendance supported by the Dutch Film Fund and the US Embassy Berlin)

Jan 26-27, 2024 - DEAR ROSA - Try Out Installation at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam

Jan 23-28, 2024 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway - HONORABLE MENTION

Jan 19-Feb 11, 2024 - ORBIT film & monoprints & installation at ‘Turn On’, Rotondes Explorations Culturelles, Luxembourg

Jan 4-11, 2024 - ‘1976: TOUCH DOWN’ installation at De Aanschouw (at Cafe HensePeter), Rotterdam

Dec 6-9, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Alternative Film Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia - in attendance

Dec 5-10, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Interface Video Art Festival, Zagreb, Croatia

Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Tindirindis International Animation Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania

Nov 27-Dec 3, 2023 - Animateka International Animated Film Festival (Best of the World program), Ljubljana, Slovenia

Nov 24-Dec 3, 2023 - ORBIT at Márgenes Film Festival, Madrid, Spain

Nov 14-26, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra, Australia

Nov 15-19, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy

Nov 14-19, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy

Nov 13, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at accordi @ DISACCORDI International Short Film Festival, Naples, Italy

Nov 10, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Feinaki Animation Week, Beijing, China (Panorama)

Nov 4, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Museumnacht, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Oct 23-29, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden

Oct 11-14, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Silhouettes program), Budaors, Hungary

Oct 13, 2023 - Retrospective screening and Masterclass at DOK Leipzig, Germany

Oct 10-15, 2023 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE festival premiere at DOK Leipzig, Germany (Animated Film Competition)

Oct 9, 2023: online launch and review of STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER on Zippyframes.

Oct 8, 2023: Docs in Orbit podcast - in conversation about the work of Tess Martin

Oct 4-8, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada

Sept 27-Oct 1, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Stoptrik International Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia

Sept 5-Oct 28, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Revolutions Per Minute Festival, UMass Boston, USA

Sept 1-4, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Malatesta Short Film Festival, Cesena, Italy

Aug 18-20, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Animation Block Party, Brooklyn, NY, USA

July 25-30, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Animaphix Film Festival, Bagheria, Italy

July 13-16, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, IA, USA

July 7-9, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Walla Walla Movie Crush, Walla Walla, WA, USA

July 1-8, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Shorts International Film Festival, Trieste, Italy

June 14-18, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy

June 7, 2023 - ORBIT at OFF Screen, WORM, Rotterdam

June 7-11, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Isola Cinema International Film Festival, Isola, Slovenia

May 18-20, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Animatricks International Animation Festival, Helsinki, Finland

May 11-June 9, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER in group exhibition ‘Female Bodies in the Digital’, Topocentrala Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

April 18-22, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, USA,

March 16-April 2, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France

March 16-31, 2023 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER at Traverse Video Festival, Toulouse, France

March 8, 2023 - VOICE at FemFest, WORM, Rotterdam

January 2023 - ORBIT featured in the Labocine online magazine ‘Scientific Musicals’ edition

Sept 24-Oct 1, 2022 - 1976: SEARCH FOR LIFE installation at Workshop Gallery, Rotterdam (finissage Oct 1)

Sept 25, 2022 - STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN, TEA AND LETTER festival pemiere at Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht

Aug 6-Sept 4, 2022 - ORBIT and VOICE at The Wild Summer of Art, Part II group exhibition, BRUTUS, Rotterdam

April 3-9, 2022 - THE WHALE STORY at Festival Animocje, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Jan 16, 2022 - ORBIT at Best of Cardiff Animation Festival, Wales, UK

Dec 18, 2021 - ORBIT at Gallery Striegl, Bonobostudio program, Sisak, Croatia

Nov 15-Dec 5, 2021 - ORBIT at L’Alternativa, Barcelona, Spain

Nov 19-27, 2021 - ORBIT at Lublin Film Festival, Lublin, Poland

Nov 14, 2021 - (R)OMA documentary premiere at Chassé Theater, Breda, the Netherlands

Nov 5, 2021 - 09 Jan 2022 - (R)OMA exhibition at Stedelijk Museum, Breda, the Netherlands

Sept 23, 2021 - ORBIT at Un Festival, C’est Trop Court, special program, Mouans-Sartoux, France

Sept 23-Dec 24, 2021 - ORBIT at Japan Media Arts Festival, Special Site

Aug 2-7, 2021 - ORBIT at Tartuff, Black Nights Film Festival, Tartu, Estonia

July 1-4, 2021 - ORBIT at Fest Anca, Zilina, Slovakia

March 10-14, 2021 - VOICE at Tricky Women Animation Festival, Vienna, Austria

April 11-15, 2021 - VOICE at Go Short International Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Nov 25-29, 2020 - ORBIT at Festival Cinéma Jeune Public, Lausanne, Switzerland

Oct 24-Nov 1, 2020 - ORBIT at Cardiff Animation Festival, UK

Oct 15-18, 2020 - ORBIT at Animatricks Animation Festival, Helsinki, Finland

Oct 6, 2020 - VOICE at Shortcutz, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Aug 7-13, 2020 - ORBIT at Flipbook Film Festival, Skopje, Macedonia

Aug 2-9, 2020 - ORBIT at New Directors New Films Festival, Portugal

July 20-24, 2020 - VOICE at Supertoon International Animation Festival, Croatia

July 6-12, 2020 - ORBIT at Animakom, Bilbao, Spain

Mar 26-27, 2020 - ORBIT at the Landshut Short Film Festival, Landshut, Germany

Mar 1-April 28, 2020 - ORBIT in Media Wave online film festival

Mar 11-18, 2020 - ORBIT at Regensburg Short Film Week, Regensburg, Germany

Mar 6, 2020 - ORBIT at Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Feb 28, 2020 - ORBIT at Animac International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia, Lleida, Spain

Jan 31-Feb 3, 2020 - ORBIT at Revolutions per Minute Festival, U-Mass, Boston, MA, USA

Jan 30-Feb 3, 2020 - Screening/Talk on Jan 30, exhibition Jan 30-Feb 3 at ArtnShelter, Tokyo, Japan - in attendance

Jan 13-Feb 3, 2020 - Artist in Residence at ArtnShelter, Tokyo, Japan - in attendance

Jan 11-Feb 9, 2020 - ORBIT exhibition at TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo Art and Space, Japan

Jan 11, 2020 - ORBIT exhibition launch, TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo Art and Space, Japan - in attendance

Dec 7, 2019 - ORBIT at Malt Adult Animation Show, Columbus, OH, USA

Dec 3-7, 2019 - ORBIT at Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France (Experimental Competition)

Nov 30-Dec 7, 2019 - ORBIT at Kort Film Festival Leuven, Belgium

Nov 27-Dec 1, 2019 - ORBIT at Anilogue International Animation Festival, Budapest, Hungary

Nov 27-Dec 1, 2019 - ORBIT at Animasivo Animation Festival, Mexico City, Mexico

Nov 21, 2019 - ORBIT launch at Theater Rotterdam Media Wall - in attendance

Nov 15-24, 2019 - ORBIT at Exground Film Fest, Wiesbaden, Germany

Nov 14-15, 2019 - ORBIT at Kaboom Animation Festival, Amsterdam - in attendance

Nov 13, 2019 - ORBIT at Kasseler Dokfest, Germany - in attendance

Nov 12-17, 2019 - ORBIT at Sound Unseen, Minneapolis, MN

Nov 8-15, 2019 - ORBIT at Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain (International Competition)

Nov 6-21, 2019 - ORBIT at Leeds International Film Festival, UK (International Competition)

Nov 4, 2019 - ORBIT at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan

Oct 28-Nov 2, 2019 - ORBIT at CRAFT International Animation Festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Oct 24-28, 2019 - ORBIT at Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (International Competition)

Oct 19-26, 2019 - GINEVRA at Fronteiras, Ayamonte, Spain and Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Portugal

Oct 18-31, 2019 - ORBIT at Milwaukee Film Festival, WI

Oct 18-20, 2019 - ORBIT at Animafilm Baku International Animation Festival, Azerbaijan (International Competition)

Oct 17-27, 2019 - ORBIT at Shnit Worldwide Film Festival, Bern, Switzerland (International Competition)

Oct 11-18, 2019 - ORBIT at Nice Short Film Festival, France (Experimental Competition)

Oct 9, 2019 - ORBIT at Drunken Film Festival, Oakland, CA

Oct 5, 2019 - ORBIT at KloosterKino, Nijmegen

Oct 4-13, 2019 - ORBIT at Anim’est Bucharest International Animation Festival, Romania (International Short Competition)

Oct 4-12, 2019 - ORBIT at Animatou, Geneva, Switzerland (Experimental Short Competition)

Sept 27-Oct 5, 2019 - ORBIT at Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht

Sept 21, 2019 - ORBIT at Animation Block Party, Brooklyn, NY

Sept 18, 2019 - ORBIT at Message to Man International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia (In Silico Experimental Short Competition)

Sept 17-23, 2019 - ORBIT at PIAFF, Paris International Animation Film Festival, France

Sept 6, 2019 - ORBIT at Squeaky Wheel Animation Festival, Buffalo, NY

Sept 4-8, 2019 - ORBIT at Linoleum Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art, Kiev, Ukraine

Sept 4-7, 2019 - ORBIT at Animanima International Animation Festival, Cacak, Serbia

Aug 30-Sept 8, 2019 - ORBIT at Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil

Aug 26-31, 2019 - ORBIT at AricaDoc, Arica, Chile

Aug 26-Sept 1, 2019 - ORBIT at Odense International Film Festival, Denmark

Aug 22, 2019 - LAM 2: RED HANDS at So Bazaar Festival, Redmond, WA

Aug 21-25, 2019 - ORBIT short film and installation at Turku Animation Film Festival, Finland

Aug 11, 2019 - ORBIT at Pleinbioscoop (Open Air Cinema), Rotterdam

Aug 2-31, 2019 - ORBIT at Aggregated Animated Shorts, Oakland, CA

Aug 2, 2019 - ORBIT at Rooftop Films Summer Series, New York, USA (in attendance)

July 20, 2019 - ORBIT at Anibar International Animation Festival, Peja, Kosovo

July 19-21, 2019 - ORBIT at Animations on the Big Screen, Artscape, Baltimore, MD, USA

July 18-22, 2019 - ORBIT at Insomnia International Open-Air Animation Film Festival, Kaluga, Russia

July 17-28, 2019 - ORBIT at Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, Brazil (Gallery Competition)

July 1-5, 2019 - ORBIT at Under the Radar festival, Vienna, Austria

June 27-30, 2019 - ORBIT at Fest Anca International Animation Festival, Zilina, Slovakia

June 21, 2019 - ORBIT at De Kortste Nacht - Het Beste van de Buren, Leuven, Belgium - in attendance

June 20-23, 2019 - ORBIT at Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, IA, USA

June 15, 2019 - ORBIT at the Sardinia Film Festival, Italy

May 27, 2019 - ORBIT at Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA, USA

May 26, 2019 - ORBIT at Rotterdams Open Doek Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

May 22, 2019 - ORBIT at Lions Film Award (Finalist), Rotterdam, the Netherlands

May 7-12, 2019 - ORBIT at Anifilm International Festival of Animated Film, Trebon, Czech Republic (International Non-Narrative and Abstract Competition)

May 3, 2019 - ORBIT in special Go Shorts Presents: Best Dutch Shorts program, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany

April 16-20, 2019 - ORBIT at Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, NM

April 10, 2019 - The Whale Story at End Deportations event, Minerva Works, Birmingham, UK

April 8-14, 2019 - ORBIT at Athens International Film and Video Festival, OH

April 3-7, 2019 - ORBIT at GoShort International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Dutch Competition and Best Dutch Shorts program)

March 26-31, 2019 - ORBIT at Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI (North American Premiere, competition)

March 14-17, 2019 - ORBIT at Tricky Women Film Festival, Vienna, Austria

Jan 24-Feb 2, 2019 - ORBIT World Premiere, International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Oct 6-8, 2018 - Ginevra at Ellensburg Film Festival, Ellensburg, WA

Sept 14, 2018 - Slices in Time at ASIFAKEIL 100 Exhibitions celebration, Vienna, Austria

Sept 4-8, 2018 - Ginevra at ANIMANIMA, Cacak, Serbia

July 6-8, 2018 - Ginevra at Walla Walla Movie Crush, Walla Walla, WA

June 20-23, 2018 - Ginevra at Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, IA

May 27, 2018 - Ginevra at GRRLS HAUS, WORM, Rotterdam

May 18, 2018 - Ginevra at CineNoord, Rotterdam

May 9-12, 2018 - Ginevra at Underexposed Film Festival yc, Rock Hill, SC

May 3-13, 2018 - Ginevra at Northwest Fest, Edmonton, Canada

April 17-22, 2018 - Riverside International Film Festival, Riverside, CA