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's works have been presented in many international festivals and solo retrospectives, including the Northwest Film Forum, the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, 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.
Works
Stephanie 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
"Why I work direct on film", Animation, vol. 7, spring 1999
References
External links
"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
Abstract animation
American animators
American film directors
American animated film directors
American women film directors
Rochester Institute of Technology faculty
Living people
American women animators
Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women
