Alicia Maye is an experimental filmmaker, performer and songwriter based in the greater Los Angeles area. She graduated with an MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts on the Lillian Disney Scholarship.
Maye’s experimental musical films often dramatize internal universes that lie beyond the public facades her characters carefully construct for themselves. Maye often does her own VFX and compositing, combining CGI with the tangible textures of live-action puppetry and miniatures to build surreal interior worlds that blur the borders between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the artificial and the organic. Through the fantastical medium of music, her characters are free to fully express themselves, reveling in their own idiosyncrasies and individuality in ways that they can't through regular channels of communication. The incorporation of live-action puppetry further liberates her characters to rediscover themselves through the new, non-verbal languages of fictional creatures and, ultimately, to explore their own shape-shifting potential.
Maye’s films have screened at the CalArts Film/Video Showcase at REDCAT Theater, International Student Moving Image Showcase co-hosted by Saatchi Gallery London, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Long Island International Film Expo, Cinema Sisters International Film Festival, Winter Film Awards, The NewFilmmakers Series, and Brooklyn Girl Film Festival. Previously, she worked in media in New York, managing video content strategy for digital news and lifestyle sites. She has a BA from Smith College, where she graduated summa cum laude.