“Pareidolia” (2012)
Director/Animator: Maya Erdelyi
Music/Sound Design: Paul Fraser
Animation short, TRT 7:30

“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 my experiences witnessing public cremations in India to my 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

“ハネムーン Hanemun Honeymoon” (2017)
Director/Animator: Maya Erdelyi & Daniel Rowe
Music/Sound Design: Nick Joliat
Animation short, TRT 4:03

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 structure. The film takes the viewer on a train journey from Tokyo into the mountains of Tsuruoka, to the cities of Osaka and Kyoto.

“Phosphena” (2011)
Director/Animator: Maya Erdelyi
Music/Sound Design: Paul Fraser
Animation short, TRT: 4:03

“Phosphena,” is a cut-paper hybrid animation inspired by ‘phosphenes’ the optical phenomenon characterized by the experience of seeing lights and patterns when the eyes are closed. Loosely based on the bowerbird and its constructions--the animation is a tale of love, deception, and tragedy.
Winner of the 2011 James River Film Festival for “Best Short Animation.”

“New Cannonball Blues” (2011)
Director/Animator: Maya Erdelyi
Music video, TRT: 4:17

Official music video for TV on the Radio’s 2011 album “Nine Types of Light. A kaleidoscopic neon explosion of spaceships, puppet creatures, and other-worldly flora and fauna collide in this strange and fantastic world.
Winner of the Los Angeles Animation Festival for “Best Music Video” (2012).
Nominated for a Grammy Award as part of “Nine Types of Light” feature film for “Best Long Form Music Video” (2012).

“Plume” (2006)
Director/Animator: Maya Erdelyi
Music/Sound Design: Hans Tutschku
Animation short, TRT: 2:09

A cut-paper animation inspired by mythology, shadows and the flamingo skeletons at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Winner of the Museum’s Choice Award at the 2011 Museum of Art and Design’s “Slash” exhibit.
Winner of the Museum’s Choice Award at the 2011 Museum of Art and Design’s “Slash” exhibit.

“Holy Forest” (2014)
Animator: Maya Erdelyi
Director: Jon Fine
Music video, TRT: 4:05

African textiles come to life in this music video set in the Gambia.
"The music video for “Africa Calling,” which we’re premiering here today, blends street shots from the Gambia and album recording sessions in NYC with striking hand-animation by Maya Erdelyi, who took inspiration from batik colors the crew saw in Banjul and across the country.” --OkayAfrica.com

Additional commissioned animated works can be seen here: www.gooseandhummingbird.com