Stephanie Angela Maxwell is an animator, filmmaker and Professor Emeritus in the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She specializes in hand-painted experimental abstract animation. Her techniques include direct-on-film painting, motion painting, object animation, copier techniques, and live action manipulation. Most of her works are collaborations with composers.
Stephanie Maxwell | |
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| Born | California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Filmmaker Animator |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Stephanie Maxwell's works have been presented in many international festivals and solo retrospectives, including the Northwest Film Forum,[1] the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival,[2] and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. She was co-founder and co-director for 12 years of the ImageMovementSound festivals, an annual festival of collaborative productions by interdisciplinary artists.[3]
Works
editStephanie Maxwell's films include:
- Aquarium (2018), Aquarium by Camille Saint-Saëns, arranged by Max Berlin
- River (2015), composer Tom Davis
- Ocean (2014), composer Michaela Eremiasova
- Marimba Quartet (2014), composer Michael Burritt
- tzzzz! (2010), composer Yuya Takeda
- Currents (2008), a collaborative work with Michaela Eremiasova and Jairo Duarte-Lopez
- Time Streams (2003), a collaborative work with composer Allan Schindler
- Nocturne (1999), a collaborative work with composer Greg Wilder
- Driving Abstractions (1997), composer Bill Haslett
Publications
edit- "Why I work direct on film", Animation, vol. 7, spring 1999
References
edit- ^ Stephanie Maxwell Visual Music, Northwest Film Forum
- ^ Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival Digital Art LA - iotaCenter at the Downtown LA Artwalk
- ^ Image, Movement, Sound at Eastman, Campus Times
External links
edit- "The Animation Pimp: Unsung Animators #3: Riding with Stephanie Maxwell", Animation World Network
- Please Don't Stop (1989) on YouTube
- Fragments (2000) on YouTube
- Runa's Spell (2007) on YouTube
- Stephanie Maxwell's homepage