- Artist/Maker:
- Maya Erdelyi
- Bio:
- b. 1979, New York
- Title:
- Anyuka
- Date:
- 2014–23
- Medium:
- Single-channel video, color, sound, 20 min., 38 sec.
- Dimensions:
- Dimensions variable
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2024-8
On View
Maya Erdelyi is a first-generation American artist of Colombian and Hungarian Jewish heritage, who was raised in Queens and is now based in Boston. This ambitious animated film commemorates the remarkable life of the artist’s indomitable grandmother Veronica Földes Frame, whom she called Anyuka (Hungarian for “mother” or “mommy”)—a writer, World War II and Cold War refugee, and Holocaust survivor. Erdelyi traces Frame’s marvelous and tragic story across three continents, as told by three generations of her family. The video work interweaves Frame’s personal Super-8 family films and archival materials with her son’s testimony and her granddaughter’s experimental animations. A woman’s strength, survival skills, and power to reinvent her life are vividly illustrated in this intimate and heartfelt portrait.
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