NEWS
"New Cannonball blues" won Best Music Video at the 2012 Los Angeles Animation Festival! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v (link to the video)
RECENT:
TV on the Radio's 2011 movie "Nine Types of Light" (of which "New Cannonball Blues" the music video I directed for them, is a chapter) was nominated for a 2012 Grammy award for Best Long Form Music Video.
"Phosphena" to be screened:
Official Selection and Winner (3rd Place): The 2011 James River Film Festival at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia
Official Selection: The 2011 Cinetoro Festival de Experimentacion in Toro (Valle de Cauca) Colombia
Official Selection: The 2011 Istanbul Animation Festival at the Pera Museum from Dec. 16th-19th
Current group show at The Museo de Ponce in Puerto Rico http://www.museoarteponce.org/
Statement
I’m a bowerbird. I collect and weave myths, dreams, and memories into animated structures and handmade illusions. I create stories and characters to give a corporeal body to ephemeral ideas and non-ordinary realms of consciousness. My work explores hybrid approaches to animation and installation, collaging hand-made cut-paper puppets within digitally enhanced worlds. Current influences on my work include: outsider/folk art, animal courtship rituals, surrealist costume parties, old tin toys, heraldic symbols and crests, hand-painted street signs, Hans Christian Anderson cut-outs, Navajo and Hopi sacred designs, and desert flora and fauna.
At present, I'm in pre-production for my thesis film "Pareidolia," a non-linear stream-of-consciousness self-portrait exploring the people and places I am connected to. The animation will use cut-paper puppets, cell and drawn animation. It will involve my Great-Grandmother Margit's story of survival, reinterpretations of death, imaginary creatures, the body as landscape, and the mind as architecture.
Bio
As a child, Maya used to sleep with a pencil under her pillow so she could draw out her dreams on her bedroom walls the next morning. Since then, she has travelled the Arctic to study Ice Sculpture, lived in a Parisian squatted bank building making surrealist costumes and performances, traversed India to study religion and textiles, and began animating as a grad student at Harvard. Before that she studied fine art at The Cooper Union and Hunter College in NYC.
Recent projects include directing the music video "New Cannonball Blues" for TV on the Radio, as part of the larger feature film "Nine Types of Light" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v and co-curating a 22-artist animated exquisite corpse http://exquisitequickanddirty.. Maya has worked on projects with a diverse group of filmmakers/animators and artists including: Michel Gondry, Aaron Rose, TV on the Radio, Isaiah Seret, Janie Geiser, and Jamie Caliri.
Her award-winning animations have been shown at various festivals/venues and museums internationally. Most recently: Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, MoCA LA, The London International Animation Festival, The Melbourne International Animation Festival, The Hammer Museum LA, The Museum of Arts and Design NYC, The Big Screen Project NYC, The Harvard Film Archives, RedCat, The Prague Quadrennial 2011, Anilogue Film Festival, among others.
A native New Yorker, Maya was born to a Hungarian Psychologist and a Colombian Poet. She is currently an MFA candidate in Experimental Animation at CalArts.
A write-up on electricsheepmagazine.com about the 2011 London International Animation Festival: "Another traditional animation method is celebrated in this year’s technique focus screening, which will showcase the use of paper cut-outs on film. A mainstay of animation dating back to early 20th-century cinematic pioneers such as Lotte Reiniger, cut-outs continue to produce visually arresting results as evidenced by Maya Erdelyi’s Phosphena (2010), a kaleidoscope of intricate paper creations and abstract confetti. If Erdelyi’s film is an indicator of the selection, the screening should provide a very stimulating survey of shorts."
"New Cannonball blues" won Best Music Video at the 2012 Los Angeles Animation Festival! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v (link to the video)
RECENT:
TV on the Radio's 2011 movie "Nine Types of Light" (of which "New Cannonball Blues" the music video I directed for them, is a chapter) was nominated for a 2012 Grammy award for Best Long Form Music Video.
"Phosphena" to be screened:
Official Selection and Winner (3rd Place): The 2011 James River Film Festival at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia
Official Selection: The 2011 Cinetoro Festival de Experimentacion in Toro (Valle de Cauca) Colombia
Official Selection: The 2011 Istanbul Animation Festival at the Pera Museum from Dec. 16th-19th
Current group show at The Museo de Ponce in Puerto Rico http://www.museoarteponce.org/
Statement
I’m a bowerbird. I collect and weave myths, dreams, and memories into animated structures and handmade illusions. I create stories and characters to give a corporeal body to ephemeral ideas and non-ordinary realms of consciousness. My work explores hybrid approaches to animation and installation, collaging hand-made cut-paper puppets within digitally enhanced worlds. Current influences on my work include: outsider/folk art, animal courtship rituals, surrealist costume parties, old tin toys, heraldic symbols and crests, hand-painted street signs, Hans Christian Anderson cut-outs, Navajo and Hopi sacred designs, and desert flora and fauna.
At present, I'm in pre-production for my thesis film "Pareidolia," a non-linear stream-of-consciousness self-portrait exploring the people and places I am connected to. The animation will use cut-paper puppets, cell and drawn animation. It will involve my Great-Grandmother Margit's story of survival, reinterpretations of death, imaginary creatures, the body as landscape, and the mind as architecture.
Bio
As a child, Maya used to sleep with a pencil under her pillow so she could draw out her dreams on her bedroom walls the next morning. Since then, she has travelled the Arctic to study Ice Sculpture, lived in a Parisian squatted bank building making surrealist costumes and performances, traversed India to study religion and textiles, and began animating as a grad student at Harvard. Before that she studied fine art at The Cooper Union and Hunter College in NYC.
Recent projects include directing the music video "New Cannonball Blues" for TV on the Radio, as part of the larger feature film "Nine Types of Light" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v and co-curating a 22-artist animated exquisite corpse http://exquisitequickanddirty.. Maya has worked on projects with a diverse group of filmmakers/animators and artists including: Michel Gondry, Aaron Rose, TV on the Radio, Isaiah Seret, Janie Geiser, and Jamie Caliri.
Her award-winning animations have been shown at various festivals/venues and museums internationally. Most recently: Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, MoCA LA, The London International Animation Festival, The Melbourne International Animation Festival, The Hammer Museum LA, The Museum of Arts and Design NYC, The Big Screen Project NYC, The Harvard Film Archives, RedCat, The Prague Quadrennial 2011, Anilogue Film Festival, among others.
A native New Yorker, Maya was born to a Hungarian Psychologist and a Colombian Poet. She is currently an MFA candidate in Experimental Animation at CalArts.
A write-up on electricsheepmagazine.com about the 2011 London International Animation Festival: "Another traditional animation method is celebrated in this year’s technique focus screening, which will showcase the use of paper cut-outs on film. A mainstay of animation dating back to early 20th-century cinematic pioneers such as Lotte Reiniger, cut-outs continue to produce visually arresting results as evidenced by Maya Erdelyi’s Phosphena (2010), a kaleidoscope of intricate paper creations and abstract confetti. If Erdelyi’s film is an indicator of the selection, the screening should provide a very stimulating survey of shorts."
