PAREIDOLIA
MAYA ERDELYI
•
7m 10s
PAREIDOLIA is an abstract narrative exploring the landscape/architecture of the body as a container of memories. The film uses bleached and distressed film stock, cut-paper puppets, stop-motion sets, hand-drawn animation and various hybrid techniques. Through a re-imagining of family stories and life events, the film attempts to connect the filmmaker's experiences witnessing public cremations in India to her great-grandmother’s miraculous survival of a mass killing by Hungarian Nazis along the banks of the Danube in 1944.
Winner of the 2013 Barbara Aronofsky Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
“PAREIDOLIA is an astonishment.” — Junot Diaz
Up Next in MAYA ERDELYI
-
PHOSPHENA
PHOSPHENA is a cut-paper stop-motion animated film exploring the layers of consciousness connecting dreams, memories and death. Loosely based on the incredible bower bird and its constructions, the film is a tale of love, deception and tragedy. "Phosphena" (also known as "phosphene") is an “entop...
-
HANEMUN
A microscopic exploration of Japanese comics, candies, maps, washi tape, origami papers, magazines, gambling newspapers, porn, rice, ramen, flowers and marriage. The film is inspired by early direct-on-film works in the spirit of Len Lye. HANEMUN's editing is loosely informed by the Haiku 5-7-5 s...
