Bio

Martin is an artist and educator focused on documentary film.  He has a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art. His film (with James Gaffney and Jon Miller), Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet (New York Film Festival, 1980) detailed the engineered bankruptcy of NYC. Camino Triste: The Sad Road of the Guatemalan Refugees (PBS, 1982) investigated genocide in the Mayan communities of Guatemala under General Efraín Rios-Montt.  (Permanent collection, Museum of the American Indian). 

As a member of Paper Tiger TV, Martin co-produced The Gulf Crisis Television Project (Whitney Biennial, 1993).   His personal essay film, Hiroshima Bound (2015), uses the images of specific American and Japanese photographers to unpack America's collective memory of the atomic bombings of WW2. Other work includes multi-media installation, performance and video art. 

A former director of the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program, Hunter College, CUNY, Martin speaks regularly on issues related to visual culture and documentary film.  His articles have appeared in publications including Afterimage, Postscript, and World Records Journal.