film/video
Six Months At Sea In The Merchant Marine - 22 min 2011
This is a short documentary about my first international containership job as a merchant mariner.
First Row To Alcatraz - 10 min 2007
Shot on 16mm by releasing the shutter one frame per second, then stretched out in editing. The camera, housed in a wooden box on steel pontoons, was towed behind a rowboat as I rowed from the shore of San Francisco to Alcatraz and back during a hailstorm.
The camera-houseboat was too heavy and acted as a sea anchor, pulling me out toward the Golden Gate Bridge as I tried to row back to shore. When the coast guard helicopter began hovering above me, I finally pulled the camera-houseboat into the rowboat and was able to row much more easily back to shore.
Water Passing - 3 min 2006
16mm Film, digitally overlaid. Filmed at sea along the Northern California coast. Music by Windsor for the Derby
Gulling - 2 min 40 sec 2006
Video, digitally manipulated. Shot on the municipal pier San Francisco.
Artist’s Talk- Martin Machado with Ted Barrow - 56 min 2025
A conversation about art, life, and work. Took place at the Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco during the exhibition Fine Dine the Demons in June 2025
Full Moon Plein Air Painting - 2 min 2025
This is a short video depicting Machado’s ongoing series of moonlit painting, along the San Francisco waterfront and beyond.
Rows - 10 min 45 sec 2005
-Video, Shot from cars, busses, and trains throughout the US and Argentina. Music by Keith Jarett