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THE TOE TACTIC-Emily Hubley and Kevin Corrigan
Highlights:
In THE TOE TACTIC , a hybrid of live-action and animation, a young woman grieves for her father while unaware of the magical world around her.
Director Emily Hubley chats with us about her animated exploration of grief, the film's symbolism and complexity, and how music connects us. Kevin's discusses his character's ability to generate musical vibes from other characters, creating musical notations, and the disappearance of objects.
Happenings:
Emily 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, crack wise and embellish the meaning of specific ideas. Among Hubley's shorts are Pigeon Within, Delivery Man, Enough, Her Grandmother's Gift (a collaboration with her mother, animator Faith Hubley), and her latest, Octave. Ms. Hubley is in the first class of (2004) Annenberg Film Fellows named by the Sundance Institute. She was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's 2002 Screenwriters' and 2003 Filmmakers' Labs. With The Toe Tactic, Hubley continues to layer human truths, working here with live elements (actors, locations, gravity) to depict a reality that is at once subjective, honest and fun. Hubley's work has shown at numerous festivals, including Sundance and South by Southwest, and 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. Hubley developed Another Tack with composer/musician Sue Garner. The piece combines Hubley's animated loops and poetry with original music performed live by Ms. Garner and others. Another Tack was presented in Austin at SXSW (2007), and in NYC at IFC (2007) and MoMA (2005). Hubley created the animated sequences for John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig ...
Emily 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, crack wise and embellish the meaning of specific ideas. Among Hubley's shorts are Pigeon Within, Delivery Man, Enough, Her Grandmother's Gift (a collaboration with her mother, animator Faith Hubley), and her latest, Octave. Ms. Hubley is in the first class of (2004) Annenberg Film Fellows named by the Sundance Institute. She was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's 2002 Screenwriters' and 2003 Filmmakers' Labs. With The Toe Tactic, Hubley continues to layer human truths, working here with live elements (actors, locations, gravity) to depict a reality that is at once subjective, honest and fun. Hubley's work has shown at numerous festivals, including Sundance and South by Southwest, and 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. Hubley developed Another Tack with composer/musician Sue Garner. The piece combines Hubley's animated loops and poetry with original music performed live by Ms. Garner and others. Another Tack was presented in Austin at SXSW (2007), and in NYC at IFC (2007) and MoMA (2005). 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, and Original Child Bomb by Carey MacKenzie. Her company, Hubbub Inc., created short form series for the cable networks Nickelodeon and Lifetime. 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 with her husband and children in Maplewood, NJ.
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