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Stephanie Maxwell

b. 1901

American animator and filmmaker

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About Stephanie Maxwell

Born 1901. Stephanie Maxwell was an American composer, animator, animation and filmmaker.

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

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Rochester Institute of Technology

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American animator and filmmaker

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Stephanie Maxwell was born in 1901.

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Stephanie Maxwell was a composer, animator, animation and filmmaker.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Stephanie Maxwell

· Wikidata: Q7608331

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