Emily Hubley’s first feature film, The Toe Tactic had its theatrical premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in January 2009 and was released on DVD by Kino International in the Fall. In 2008, the film screened at numerous prestigious film festivals including SXSW, New Directors/New Films and the San Francisco and Rio de Janiero International Film Festivals. The Toe Tactic was developed at the Sundance Institute’s 2002 Screenwriters’ and 2003 Filmmakers’ Labs. She was in the first class (2004) of Annenberg Film Fellows named by the Sundance Institute.
In 2009, Ms. Hubley toured with the film to museums, art houses and universities, often with programs of her shorts and/or those by her parents, Faith and John Hubley.
Ms. Hubley has been making animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Her narration delivers concrete stories while visual elements question and embellish the meaning of specific ideas… read more
Emily Hubley’s first feature film, The Toe Tactic had its theatrical premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in January 2009 and was released on DVD by Kino International in the Fall. In 2008, the film screened at numerous prestigious film festivals including SXSW, New Directors/New Films and the San Francisco and Rio de Janiero International Film Festivals. The Toe Tactic was developed at the Sundance Institute’s 2002 Screenwriters’ and 2003 Filmmakers’ Labs. She was in the first class (2004) of Annenberg Film Fellows named by the Sundance Institute.
In 2009, Ms. Hubley toured with the film to museums, art houses and universities, often with programs of her shorts and/or those by her parents, Faith and John Hubley.
Ms. Hubley has been making animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Her narration delivers concrete stories while visual elements question and embellish the meaning of specific ideas. Among Hubley’s shorts are Octave, Pigeon Within, Her Grandmother’s Gift (in collaboration with her mother Faith), The Tower (in collaboration with her sister Georgia) and Delivery Man.
Ms. Hubley’s shorts have shown at film festivals, including Sundance and South by Southwest; programs of her films have been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, the Tribeca Film Festival, Ocularis/Galapagos Art Space and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. In addition to the screenings of her feature, Ms. Hubley continues to present programs of her animated work, most recently at The International Animated Film Festivals in Poznan and Krakow, Poland and in China.
This year, Ms Hubley completed animated pieces for In Mother Words, a new play that premiered at Hartford Stage in February 2010 and was produced at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles (Feb – May 2011). She completed a musical short, commissioned by Victor Campos/Creative Outlet Productions and based on the song, Hail, composed and performed by Hamell on Trial. She is currently creating a poetic short, and ever with voices: Kevin Corrigan and Emily McDonnell and music by Yo La Tengo.
Ms. Hubley created the animated sequences for John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig And The Angry Inch. With associate Jeremiah Dickey, she provided inserts for documentaries Everything’s Cool and Blue Vinyl by Judith Helfand & Dan Gold, The Boy In The Bubble by Barak Goodman & John Maggio. Her company, Hubbub Inc., created short form series’ for the cable networks Nickelodeon and Lifetime.
Last year’s projects include Disturbing the Universe: Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, directed by Emily and Sarah Kunstler and What’s On Your Plate? directed by Catherine Gund.
A daughter of pioneer animators Faith and John Hubley, Emily worked on Faith Hubley’s films at The Hubley Studio, Inc. from 1977 to 2001. She lives in South Orange, NJ. —emilyhubley.com
