Stephanie Maxwell

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.

For the softball player, see Stephanie Skegas-Maxwell.
Stephanie Maxwell
Born
California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Filmmaker
Animator
Years active1984–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

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
  1. Stephanie Maxwell Visual Music, Northwest Film Forum
  2. Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival Digital Art LA - iotaCenter at the Downtown LA Artwalk
  3. Image, Movement, Sound at Eastman, Campus Times
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