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film by Emily Hubley
sound by Yo La Tengo
add’l animation - Jeremiah Dickey
associate editor – Tara Knight
synopsis
A skull at the beach, a busted watch, a green brassiere! (and
so on) ... Animated film miniatures play with musical tones and shifting
symbolic images to create eight moments when things come together in mysterious
cohesion.
Each segment, consisting of a picture puzzle, a one-word clue and a new
tone played on an embellished musical scale, provides a distinct mental
location for the audience to dig around in their own unconscious stuff.
This material, which started as a group of animated poems for my feature-in-progress,
THE TOE TACTIC, has taken on a life of its own. Here, free of one layer
of narrative meaning and accompanied by inventive and riveting sound,
the imagery, with its eclectic, surprising visual vocabulary becomes simply
hypnotic and fun.
2006 screenings/festivals
Museum of Modern Art, Titus 2, Black Maria Film Festival, SXSW Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, IFC Center, Short Attention Span Cinema - NYC Theatrical Premier, Animation Block Party (Brooklyn), Williamstown Film Festival, High Falls Film Festival
SET SET SPIKE (2002 - 6 minutes)
credits
written, animated, and directed by Emily Hubley
produced by Emily Hubley/Hubbub Inc.
associate producer - Linda Moroney
music - Yo La Tengo
sound design - Christopher Faulkner
cinematography - Mark Foster
associate editor - Tara Knight
compositing - Jeremiah Dickey
ink/paint - Wilson Young, Joseph Dwyer
on-line editorial - Hello World Communications
film recording - Tape House Digital
film processing - Technicolor East Coast
cast
mother - Miriam Shor
son - Max Rosenthal
baby voice - Leila Rosenthal
synopsis
A single mother's personal ritual combines her history, poetry and a volleyball-inspired
aerobic workout. The piece uses animated and live-action footage to create
a kind of temporal collage - where past and present emotional truths coexist
and play.
background
Set Set Spike was written for one of the characters in The Toe
Tactic, the feature length script I took to the 2002 June Screenwriters
and 2003 Filmmakers Lab at the Sundance Institute. The dense and poetic
script provided a wonderful opportunity for experimentation with the techniques
I wanted to explore - using moving live-action and drawn images to depict
how memory and imagination regularly haunt and flavor our private moments.
festivals
NY Expo of Short Film and Video, 2003 Sundance Film Festival,
22nd Annual Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 2003 Florida Film Festival,2003
Taos Talking Picture Festival, 2003 Boston International Festival of Women's
Cinema, 2003 Philadelphia Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Nashville
Film Festival, Jacksonville Film Festival.
PIGEON WITHIN (2000 - 4.5 minutes)
written,
narrated and animated by Emily Hubley
music by Yo La Tengo
art assistance - Adam Kaufman, Tara Knight and Lauren Krueger
sound - Missy Cohen and Don Christensen
synopsis
PIGEON WITHIN depicts a woman's journey home through tunnels
of doubt and what may be an encounter with her guardian angel to the joy
of slapping Park Avenue canopies. The film combines Xeroxed photographs
with drawn animation, juxtaposing ideas of present reality with remembered,
envisioned or emotional truths.
screenings/festivals/tv
Reel New York (June 2005); 2001 New York Animated Film Festival (September,
01) Best in USA Award; Brisbane International Film Festival, Australia
(August. 01); Anima Mundi 2001, Brazil (July. 01); USA Short Film Festival
(May, 01) - Best Animation Award; Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival
(May, 01); She Said Cinema, Sundance Channel Special Program and Television
Screenings (April, 01); Sundance Channel (November, 00 - 02); NY Expo
of Short Film and Video (November, 00); Hiroshima International Animation
Festival (August 2000); Florida Film Festival (June 9 - 18th, 00); Film
Fest New Haven (April, 00 -- 2nd Place, Short Category, Jury Award; Washington
DC International Film Festival (April, 00); The Eighth Annual Boston International
Festival of Women's Cinema (April, 00); Taos Talking Picture Festival
2000 (April, 00) ; Museum of Modern Art (March 7, 00); Thomas Edison/Black
Maria Film & Video Festival -- director's choice (February - June,
00); Quad Cinema, NYC (January, 00); 2000 Sundance Film Festival (January,
00)
ONE SELF: FISH/GIRL
1997 - 10 minutes 35 mm
written,
narrated and animated by Emily Hubley
produced by Emily Hubley/Hubbub Inc.
music by Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan
voices - Diane Brown,Alana Harris, Emily Hubley, Tamara Rosenblum
art assistance - Gregory Lewis, Heather Maddox, Beth Mann, Amy Morley
& Linda Moroney
still photography - Linda Moroney & Jennifer Scheerer
support - Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation & the Threshold Foundation.
synopsis
One Self: Fish/Girl is a personal animated narrative in which
girl’s diary comes to life, depicting, in the following segments,
her layered, poetic efforts to deal with a chaotic world and overcome
self-doubt. “Secret Religion” works to reconcile good, evil
and boys; “Girlfriends” remembers early friendships; “Solitary
Stomp” suffers through abandonment vs. independence; “The
Center” self-interrogates and “Time Passes…” Somehow,
she arrives.
screenings/festivals
1999: 30th Nashville Independent Film Festival (June); NY Animation
Festival — Honorable Mention (May); Thomas Edison/Black Maria Film
Festival — Jury Citation (Jan-May); Film Fest New Haven —
Honorable Mention, Dramatic Short (April); 1998: NY Expo of Short Film
& Video (Dec); Northampton Film Festival (Nov); The Hamptons Intern’l
Film Festival (Oct); Cinematexas Intern’l Short Film Festival (Sept);
Florida Film Festival (June); Myhelan Film Festival (May); The NY Women’s
Film Festival (April); USA Film Festival – Special Achievement Award
(April); ASIFA-East Animation Awards (April).
HER GRANDMOTHER’S GIFT
1995 - 4.5 minutes 35mm stereo 1:33
written and animated by Emily Hubley
co-written and narrated by Faith Hubley
music - Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan
sound design – Don Christensen
art assistance - Benjamin Goldman and Amanda Gusack
synopsis
A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.
screenings/festivals/tv
Museum of Modern Art 3/00, 2/98, 1/98, & 11/97; Bucks County
Theater, PA 8/96 - 9/96; The Disney Institute (2/96); 1996 ASIFA-East
Festival - Gold Award, 1997 San Francisco International Film Festival;
Broadcast: Sundance Channel (5/97 – 5/03)
ENOUGH (1993)
5 minutes 16mm
written, narrated and animated by Emily Hubley
music - Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan
sound design – Don Christensen
synopsis
A person finds a magical fish, wishes for "it all"
and learns a lesson about when enough is enough.
screenings/festivals
Museum of Modern Art - 3/95; 1994 NY Expo of Short Film &
Video - Silver Animation Award, 1994 Hiroshima Film Festival, 1994 Animation
Pandemonium at Cardiff WALES, 1994 Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1994 ASIFA-East
Animation Festival - Charles Samu Award
BLAKE BALL (1988)
16 minutes 16mm
animated and directed by Emily Hubley
co-created by Will Rosenthal
poetry by William Blake
music by Don Christensen
narrated by Monica Cumberbatch and Bill “Spaceman” Lee
add’l animation - Georgia Hubley
art assistance – Heidi Brackin
synopsis
Using Baseball as a metaphor, this film explores the world of
William Blake.
screenings/festivals/tv
Brattle Theater 7/05, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 4/00, Exploratorium
in San Francisco 3/89, 6/89, and 3/90. 1989 American Film & Video
Festival - Honorable Mention; Broadcast: Channel Thirteen's 1989 Independent
Focus series.
DELIBERATING MAN
1985 - 6 minutes 16 mm
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film by Emily Hubley
music by Don Christensen
synopsis
A "man" is manipulated by words and ultimately punished
by the false deity created by misperception.
screenings/festivals
Short Stakes Series at the Symphony Space NYC, Museum of Modern
Art 5/91, 10/90; 1985 Thomas Edison/Black Maria Festival; 1986 Ann Arbor
Film Festival.
THE TOWER
1984 - 10.5 minutes 16mm
animated and directed by Emily and Georgia Hubley
music by Don Christensen
support – National Endowment for the Arts
synopsis
A subject enters the realm of a tower and is victimized. At length,
experience gives way to confrontation and a balance of power is achieved.
screenings/festivals/tv
The Academy of Motion Picture Sciences 4/85, Carnegie Institute,
9/85; 1985 Women Make Movies IV, Washington DC, 1985 Murcia International
Film Festival; Partial Broadcast: Late Night with Conan O' Brian 2/94,
6/94
BIG BROWN EYES
1982 - 2 minutes 16mm
a film by Emily Hubley
song by Peter Holsapple
performed by the dB’s
synopsis
Visual interpretation of a song in which the protagonist chases
a pair of eyes.
screenings/festival
Museum of Modern Art – 1/06, 3/93, 2/93, 5/91 and11/90;
1983 Thomas Edison/Black Maria Festival
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DELIVERY MAN
1982 - 7.5 minutes 16mm
animated, narrated and directed by Emily Hubley
music by Don Christensen
art assistance - Georgia Hubley
support – Jerome Foundation
synopsis
A woman discusses dreams/experiences about the doctor who delivered
her, her mother who survived surgery, and her father who did not.
screenings/festivals/tv
The Museum of Modern Art - 1/98, 2/98, 11/97, 3/95; 1982 New
York Film Festival, 1983 Ann Arbor Film Festival - Best Film Award, 1983
Women Make Movies III, Washington DC, 1984 Wellington Film Festival New
Zealand; Channel Thirteen's 1983 Independent Focus Series; Sundance Channel
broadcast 5/97 - 5/99
EMERGENCE OF EUNICE
1980 - 6 minutes 16mm
a film by Emily Hubley
support – The American Film Institute
synopsis
Emily’s thesis film made at Hampshire College with the
advice of Tom Joslin. A young woman leaves home when she crashes her car
and fears she is pregnant.
festivals/broadcast
1981 Sinking Creek Film Cellebration; 1983 Cambridge (ENGLAND)
Animation Festival, 1981 Washington Women's Film Festival, DC. ; WNYC
1980 Independent Film & Video Festival; Channel Thirteen's 1981 Independent
Focus Series.