Press/Screenings
REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS
RAMPS TO NOWHERE ©2019 (65min, clr/snd, mixed media)
Design in Public, “Healing our Ramps to Nowhere”, August 2019 with Freeway Park Association + Lid I-5
Bicknell, Natalie “New Documentary Tells the Story of Seattle’s Freeway Revolt”, Urbanist, Oct 2nd 2018
https://www.theurbanist.org/2018/10/02/new-documentary-tells-the-story-of-seattles-freeway-revolt/
Davies, Allan “Two Regional Film Documentaries in the Making”, Northwest Passages, 2016
Kelley, Peter “Documentary, archive to remember the “Seattle Freeway Revolt”, UW Today, Oct 18th, 2016 http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/10/18/documentary-archive-to-remember-the-seattle-freeway-revolt/
FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN ©2012 (segment “The Long Distance Operator”, 13min, clr/snd, mixed media)
Vora, Kalindi & Atanasoki “Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures” published by Duke University, 2019 The Long Distance Operator is written about in the chapter “Machine Autonomy and the Unmanned Spacetime of Technoliberal Warfare”
Paul, Laura “A New Resistance: Far From Afghanistan,” Brooklyn Rail, Nov, 2013
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/11/film/a-new-resistance-far-from-afghanistan.
Vasquez, Tiffany, “When Cinema Revolts,” Filmlinc, 2013
http://www.filmlinc.com/blog/entry/cinema-of-resistance-far-from-vietnam-occupy-wall-street
Atkinson, Michael, “An Antiwar Flame That Flickered Glows Brightly Again,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/movies/the-filmfar-from-vietnam-returns-after-decades.html
Walsh, David. “Review and Interviews of Filmmakers from Far From Afghanistan,” World
Socialist Website, (Oct 2012) http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/tff8-o18.shtml
Cutler, Aaron & Shellard, Mariana. “The Discomforts of Home: Far From Afghanistan,”
Cinemascope, (Sept 2012) http://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scopeonline
Celluloid Liberation Front, “Far From Afghanistan, Indeed,” Indiewire, (Aug,
2012) http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/far-from-afghanistan-indeed
Kaufman, Anthony “Far From Afghanistan: U.S. Filmmakers Agitate on the 10th
Anniversary of the War.” Filmmaker Magazine, (Oct, 2011) http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2011/09/31229/
FREE LAND, ©2009, (65minutes, clr/snd, mixed media)
Schmidt, Kerstin “Mobile Indians: Capitalism, the Performance of Mobility, and the Mediation of Place in Minda Martin’s Documentary Free Land” written for the book “Mediating Indiannes” edited by Cathy Covell Waegner, Michigan State University Press, 2015 http://mediatingindianness.com/
Laurier, Joanne. “Free Land: American Dreams and Realities: Commentary and Interview with
filmmaker,” World Socialist Website, (Nov 2012) http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/
free-n15.shtml
Hwang, Yun Mi. “Cinema, Time Regained: Jeonju 13th International Film Festival,” Senses of
Cinema, (July, 2012) http://sensesofcinema.com/2012/festivalreports/cinema-time-regainedthe-13th-jeonju-international-film-festival
Koehler, Robert. “Buenos Aires Film Review: Free Land,” Variety, May, 2011
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117945099/
Anderson, Samantha. “ImagineNative 2010: Free Land,” CBC News, (Oct 22nd, 2010)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/things-that-go-pop-blog/2010/10/imaginenative-2010-freeland.html
Domingo, David. “Free Land” published on wificola blogspot http://wificola.blogspot.com/2010/02/punto-de-vista-dia-1-como-estar-90.html
Musik, Alexander. “Free Land” published on site ORF in Vienna October 2009
http://viennale.orf.at/stories/1630130/
Seth, Lia "Free Land" Tells Personal Story of Cherokee History, Homelessness”
http://www.civilrights.org/archives/2010/08/1036-free-land.html
AKA KATHE ©2000, 55min (clr/snd, mixed media)
Scott, A.O. “AKA Kathe,” “In The Flux of Reality Recomposed” New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/movies/critic-s-notebook-in-the-flux-of-reality-recomposed.html
“AKA Kathe” Rev. in “Local Talent Screens In Tucson.” Editorial. Arizona Daily Star, 29 July
a little ballad ©1998, 8min (clr/snd, 16mm)
Hardy, Ernest. “a little ballad” Rev. in “Best of Showcase” LA Weekly. 13 May 1998
Mother’s Heritage ©1995, 11min (clr/snd, mixed media)
Rosenthal, Alan. “Mother’s Heritage” Rev. of “Family Films” in Writing, Producing and Directing the Documentary published by Southern Illinois Univ. Pr.; 3 rd ed 2007
Conference and Screening Presentations
“Life Under Drones Symposium,” Pacific Lutheran University, screened The Long Distance Operator and contributed to discussion about drones, September 2019
“Friends of Waterfront Seattle,” screened clips of Ramps to Nowhere and responded to the research on the Seattle freeway revolt and the film, March 2019
Community, Research, and Action-West (CRA-W) conference, Oct 2015. Title of panel “Praxis of Activist Scholarship”. Presented Seattle Freeway Revolt trailer edited by Jill Freidberg and discussed the work-in-progress.
Faculty Colloquium, presented the short film, “The Long Distance Operator.” 2012
“Visiting Filmmaker” National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 2010
Martin, Minda. “Camera Follies: Framing Strategies Between Frederick Wiseman’s Public
Housing and Minda Martin’s Free Land.” Film and Video History Conference, Nov 2006
Martin, Minda “Visiting Filmmaker” Metro State University, St. Paul
Screened Free Land as a work in progress with Q & A (October 2008)
Martin, Minda “Class Matters: Working Class Culture and Counter-Culture” Conference of the
Working Class Studies Association. Screened Free Land as a work in progress. (July 2008)
Martin, Minda “Media Arts Alumni” University of Arizona. Screened Monsoon St.,’77 Talk on narrative and documentary practice. (April 2006)
Film Festivals/Museums and other Film Screenings
Ramps to Nowhere, 65min, HDcam/Mixed Media, 2019 (in collaboration with Seattle ARCH)
Various community screenings via in persona and remote due to COVID-19 (2018-2020)
Cinemad Magazine online screening December, 2020
Seattle ByDesign Festival, screening on top of I-5 and open to the public, August 2019
Local Sightings, “World Premiere”, Sept, 2018 (longer cut 70min)
Cuba Cine Adentro, 13minutes, HDcam/Mixed Media, 2015 (in collaboration with America’s Media Initiative)
(film screened as part of the Closing Distances 2 tour organized by America’s Media Initiative)
Screened with Cuban audiences in the towns of Bayamo, San Pablo de Yao which is based in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, Guantanamo, and Baracoa in the eastern part of Cuba
Far From Afghanistan (118minutes, contributed the segment The Long Distance Operator) 2012 www.farfromafghanistan.org distributed by Traveling Light Pictures
Locarno International Film Festival, 2012, Locarno, Switzerland “World Premiere”
Toronto International Film Festival, 2012, Toronto, Canada “North American Premiere”
Mostra 43, Sao Paulo International Film Festival, 2012, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Viennale, 2012, Vienna, Austria
Vancouver International Film Festival, 2012, Vancouver, Canada
RIDM, Monteal International Film Festival, 2012, Montreal, Canada
CPH: DOX, 2012, Denmark
Doc Lisboa, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
Film Mutations, 2012, Zagreb, Croatia
Film Mutations, 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Museum of Modern Art, 2013, New York
Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival, 2013, Spain
BAFICI, Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Harvard Film Archives, 2013, Boston, MA
Films4Peace Film Festival, 2013, Vancouver, BC
TRANSCINEMA Festival International of Non-Fiction Film, 2013, Peru
Maine International Film Festival, 2013, Belfast, Maine
FICUNAM Film Festival, 2013, Mexico City, Mexico
Athens International Film Festival, 2013, Athens, OH
Film Society Lincoln Center, 2013, New York City, NY
ARC Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive, 2013, Canberra, Australia
Traverse City Film Festival, 2013, Traverse, Michigan
Lincoln Center, New York, 2013, New York, NY
Los Angeles Film Forum, 2013, Los Angeles, CA
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, 2013, South Korea
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2013, Japan
Underdox International Film Festival, 2013, Munich, Germany
Cinematheque, Francaise, 2013, Paris, France
Jihalva International Documentary Film Festival, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Pacific Film Archives, 2014, Berkeley, CA
Jeonji South Korea International Film Festival, 2014, South Korea
Documentary Film Center, 2014, Prague, Czech Republic
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2014, Taiwan
Northwest Film Forum, 2014, Seattle, WA
Pacific Lutheran University, 2019, Seattle, WA
Free Land, 63minutes, DVCam/Mixed Media, 2009
Best Documentary “US Super 8mm Film/Video Festival at Rutgers University” 2010 USA
Special Jury Prize “Arizona International Film Festival” 2010, Tucson, AZ
Viennale, Vienna, Austria, 2009 “World Premiere”
Punto de Vista International Navarro, Spain, 2010, “Un Certain Regard”
US Super 8mm Film/Video Festival, 2010, Rutgers University, NY
Arizona International Film Festival, 2010, Tucson, AZ
California Institute of the Arts, 2010, Valencia, CA
Underdox, 2010, Munich, Germany
ImagineNATIVE, International Film/Video Festival, 2010, Toronto, Canada
National Museum of the American Indian, 2010, Washington, D.C.
Athens International Film Festival, 2010, Athens, OH
Mass Art Film Society, 2010, Boston, MA
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, 2011, Kassel, Germany
Montreal First Peoples Film and Video Festival, 2011, Montreal, Canada
Zagreb Film Festival, 2011, Croatia
Buenos Aires International Film and Video Festival, 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Skabmagovat Film and Video Festival, 2011, Helinski, Finland
58th Flaherty Film Seminar, 2012, Hamilton, NY
Jeonju International Film Festival, 2012, Jeonju, South Korea
Northwest Film Forum, 2012, Seattle, WA
Pittsburgh Film Society, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA
Documentaries of Flaherty Seminar, 2012, Perm, Russia
Flahery Film Seminar Tour, 2012-2013, “Family Nightmares”
Pacific Film Archives, 2013, San Francisco, CA
America’s Media Initiative Tour: Closing Distances 2
Screened in select Cities and towns throughout Eastern Cuba, 2013
Los Angeles Film Forum, 2013, Los Angeles, CA
Frieberger Filmforum, Berlin, Germany, 2017
Monsoon St.,’77, 13minutes, 16mm, 2006
Best Short Narrative Film “New Jersey International Film Festival” 2006, New Jersey, USA
Frameline Film and Video Festival, 2006, San Francisco, CA
Arizona International Film and Video Festival, 2006, Tucson, AZ
New Jersey International Film Festival, 2006, New Jersey
Viennale, 2006, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Modern Art, 2007, Washington, D.C.
WARC Art Gallery, “Summer Shorts On Demand,” 2012, Toronto, Canada
Love, Minda, 3minutes, Super8mm, 2003
MIX Experimental Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, 2003, New York
MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Arts, 2003, Tucson, AZ
58th Flaherty Film Seminar, 2012, Hamilton, NY
Society of Photographic Exhibition, Feb, 2013, Chicago, IL
AKA Kathe, 55minutes, Video/Super 8mm, 2000
Best Documentary “US Super 8mm Film/Video Festival at Rutgers University” 2001 USA
Best Documentary “Arizona International Film Festival” 2001 USA
New York Video Festival, 2001, New York, USA
Athens International Film Festival, 2001, Athens, Ohio
Arizona International Film and Video Festival, 2001, Tucson, AZ
US Super 8mm Film/Video Festival at Rutgers University, 2001, Rutgers, NY
Dallas Video Festival, 2001, Dallas, TX
OMNI International Film/Video Festival, 2001, Barcelona, Spain
San Diego International Film/Video Festival, 2002, San Diego, CA
MOSTRA Video Art Tour, 2001-2002, Europe
Museum of Modern Art, 2006, New York, NY
RedCat, 2006, New York, NY
a little ballad, 8minutes, 16mm, 1998
Best Short Film, Flicker Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA 2000
Creteil International Films de Femmes Festival, 1998, Creteil, France
Arizona International Film Festival, 1999, Tucson, AZ
Immaginaria Women’s Film Festival,1999, Bologna, Italy
Paris Film Festival, 1999, Paris, France
Video Vixens, Sushi Performance Space, 1999, San Diego, CA
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, 1999, Los Angeles, CA
Mother’s Heritage, 11minutes, Video/Super8mm, 1995
New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, 1996, New York
OVNI Film Festival, 1996, Barcelona, Spain
MOSTRA Video Art Tour, 1996-1998, Barcelona, Spain
Video Tensions, 1997, Tucson, AZ
California Institute of the Arts, 2010, Valencia, CA
58th Flaherty Film Seminar, 2012, Hamilton, New York
COLLECTIONS OF FILMS/RETROSPECTIVES
2013—America Media Initiative, “Closing Distances Program” shared two of my films with local communities throughout eastern Cuba. https://americasmediainitiative.org/closing-distance-program
2012—58th Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, NY (screened three of my films, Love, Minda, Mother’s Heritage, and Free Land)
2010—California Institute of the Arts, CA (Retrospective)
2008—Media Arts Center, San Diego, CA (Retrospective)
2006—University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ “Alumni Highlights” (Retrospective)
2004—Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA (Retrospective)
2002—Pitzer College, Claremont, CA (Retrospective)
1999—University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (Retrospective)
Television/Radio Broadcasts
Northwest Passages, KBTC, for the film on the freeway revolt and presented Seattle Freeway Revolt clips. 05/11/18 https://video.kbtc.org/video/freeway-wars-z9sczm/
BR radio in Munich, Germany to promote the screening of Free Land. 10/06/2010 http://on3.de/element/7856/interview-regisseurin-minda-martin-es-ist-ein-bisschen-wie-beim-punkrock#/element/7856/interview-regisseurin-minda-martin-es-ist-ein-bisschen-wie-beim-punkrock
Free Speech TV, “Mother’s Heritage, National Broadcast, Denver, Colorado, 1997