Mar 17, 2009
Emily
Hubley is a daughter of pioneer animators Faith and
John
Hubley and she worked on Faith
Hubley's films at The Hubley Studio, Inc. from 1977 to 2001.
Emily has
also been making her own animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films
explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life.
Among Hubley's shorts are: Pigeon Within, Delivery Man, The Tower, Her Grandmother's Gift, Set Set Spike, and Octave.
She has created the animated sequences for John Cameron
Mitchell's Hedwig and the
Angry Inch. She also provided inserts for documentaries
Everything's Cool, Blue Vinyl, The Boy in
the Bubble, and Original
Child Bomb.
With Emily’s 1st feature length film, The Toe Tactic,
she layers human truths, working with live elements to depict a
reality that is at once subjective, honest and
bittersweet.
The Toe
Tactic uses live action and animation together to explore the
interaction between the human and supernatural forces and the main
character, Mona Peek, finds her way to reconnect with the
world.
The Toe
Tactic features an eclectic score from her sister and
collaborator Georgia Hubley's band, Yo La Tengo.
Emily is
touring and speaking about The Toe Tactic in various cinemas and venues
nationwide.