maya erdelyi

Thursday, May 7, 2009

"Le Puit" Directed by Maya Erdelyi

"Le Puit" Directed by Maya Erdelyi from Maya Erdelyi-Perez on Vimeo.

Monday, December 8, 2008

OUROBOUROS prequel: How the Giantess turned from white to black. Starring contortionist Sandhi Ferreira.

OUROBOUROS animation 3/3. The Shadow Giantess dances with her doppelganger. Starring contortionist Sandhi Ferreira

OUROBOUROS animation 2/3. The Shaman Trickster is born and explores his bodily limits. Starring performer Evan Collier.

OUROBOUROS animation 1/3. A tale of regeneration and the circular nature of life.

CREDITS for the OUROBOUROS SERIES:
Directed by Maya Erdelyi-Perez.
Performer: Evan Collier; Contortionist: Sandhi Ferreira;
Make-up/Airbrush Artist: Erica Pearce, Airbrush Textile Design: Malcolm Stuart; Assistant Animator: Gene Romero; Interns extraordinaire: Diana Ro, Greem Lee.
Shot at Seventh Heaven Studios, NYC.
Paper animation shot at Chashama North Artist Residency, New York. copyright 2008.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Stills from the next two parts of the OUROBOUROS triptych starring Performers Evan Collier and Sandhi Ferreira

Monday, October 20, 2008

Some stills from the music video "Le Puits" awaiting release...

STILLS BASED ON THE VIDEOS AND AN INSTALLATION VIEW

News...

Residencies/Awards:
2008 Chashama North Arts Residency--August
2008 Pollack/Krasner Fellow at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony-July
2008 Bric/Rotunda Gallery Video Residency
2008 Vermont Studio Center Arts Residency--April
2007-08 Swingspace Artist Residency through the Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council

Commercial work:
2008 Music video for French singer Thierry Stremler (in production)
2008 Music video for electro/hiphop group"No Surrender"(to be released in July)
2008 TV show opening sequence for BCAT's "Caught in the Act"

ARTIST STATEMENT

My new work in experimental animation is an exploration of dreams, fantasy, memories, symbols, personal myths and narratives. New to the medium, I have worked primarily in the past with printmaking, painting, drawing and textiles. I took my first animation class in 2006 at Harvard University (as a grad student in the Arts and Education program) studying under the English animator Ruth Lingford. The freedom and freshness of the medium seduced me. I have been creating various short pieces and experiments since then.

My work combines the use of performance, shadow puppetry, cut-paper, small-scale sculpture, set design, installation, costume design, puppetry, drawing, painting, stop-motion and pixillation animation/video. Through animation/video I synthesize these various mediums.

I use sculpture/drawing/painting as branches of the time and space of the video to reveal the before/after--inside/outside that a video cannot show. This extension is part of the internal logic and structure of my work.