Emily Hubley is an American filmmaker and animator.[1]

Hubley in 2024

Personal

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Emily Hubley is the daughter of animators Faith and John Hubley.[2]

Filmmaker and producer

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Emily Hubley worked on films at Emily Hubley Studios from 1977 to 2001. After more than two decades of making numerous short films, providing animated segments for documentaries such as Blue Vinyl and the musical feature Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Emily Hubley made her first feature, The Toe Tactic[3] which opened at the Museum of Modern Art in January 2009 and was released on DVD by Kino International.[4]

Among her 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. In 2010, she completed a series of animated pieces for Motherhood: Out Loud, a play presented at Hartford Stage between February and March 2010. Other animated sequences were provided by Emily Hubley and Jeremiah Dickey to the documentary Everything’s Cool by Judith Helfand and Dan Gold, and The Boy in the Bubble by Barak Goodman and John Maggio. Other projects have included work for Disturbing the Universe: Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, directed by Emily and Sarah Kunstler, and What's On Your Plate? directed by Catherine Gund. Her company, Hubbub Inc, also created a short form series for the cable networks Nickelodeon and Lifetime.

Filmography

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  • The Tower (1984, short film)
  • Blake Ball (1988, short film)
  • Enough (1994, short film)
  • Her Grandmother's Gift (1995, short film)
  • The Girl with Her Head Coming Off (1997, short film)
  • One Self: Fish/Girl (1998, short film)
  • Pigeon Within (2000, short film)
  • Octave (2005, short film)
  • The Toe Tactic (2008, feature film)
  • Hail (2011, short film)[5]
  • And/Or (2012, short film)[5]
  • Brainworm Billy (2018, short film)[5]
  • Nico, From Danny Says (2015, short film)[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Emily Hubley". Clipland. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021.
  2. ^ Lang, Jamie (28 April 2022). "On Take Your Child To Work Day, Emily Hubley Talks Three Generations Of Family Animation". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  3. ^ Scott, A. O. (26 March 2008). "Big Ideas in Deceptively Small Packages". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  4. ^ "MoMA Presents: Emily Hubley's The Toe Tactic - January 28–February 2, 2009". The Museum of Modern Art. 2009. Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d Wolfe, Jennifer (6 September 2018). "The Academy To Present 'Women in Indie Animation' September 21". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
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