Emily Hubley

Filmes

Motian in Motion
Animation
Motian In Motion is a documentary film about iconic jazz drummer Paul Motian, with rare footage of Paul playing and recording at the world renowned Village Vanguard, Birdland and other venues.
Brainworm Billy
Director
a young man is haunted by a famous comedian.
Vessel
Animation
A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.
and/or
Director
The agony and beauty of the creative process are explored in this reflective work, first inspired by a piano solo by Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan, which reminds us that the act of creation can feel like “cracking the code in another dimension.”
The Toe Tactic
Writer
Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office assistant, ignoring her mother's calls, talking to herself in mirrors, and rejecting any offered intimacy. She's watched over by comic extraterrestrial beings whom we see as cartoon squiggles. They ensure that random acts bring her connections - with a neighbor boy, his mother, and his surreptitious piano teacher (the lad wants to surprise his mom). She also meets an elevator operator in the building where she temps for Ms. Hadaway, a widow with perfect diction. Can Mona take a few steps on the road to expressing emotion?
The Toe Tactic
Director
Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office assistant, ignoring her mother's calls, talking to herself in mirrors, and rejecting any offered intimacy. She's watched over by comic extraterrestrial beings whom we see as cartoon squiggles. They ensure that random acts bring her connections - with a neighbor boy, his mother, and his surreptitious piano teacher (the lad wants to surprise his mom). She also meets an elevator operator in the building where she temps for Ms. Hadaway, a widow with perfect diction. Can Mona take a few steps on the road to expressing emotion?
Octave
Director
Hubley created this short while at work on her first feature, The Toe Tactic, as a musical exploration of poetry featured in the film. Each frame was drawn on a single sheet of paper using watercolor pencil and ink, and the animation is accompanied by Yo La Tengo’s meditative score.
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Herself
Documentary about the creation of the stage musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and its subsequent film adaptation.
Northern Ice, Golden Sun
Director
The 25th and final film completed by Hubley, is a lyrical visual poem to environmentalism and to the Inuits' attachment to the land, and their ability to adapt to the natural world.
Witch Madness
Painter
Witch Madness depicts a neglected chapter of human history: Europe’s three centuries of fanatical witchhunts, which resulted in the genocide of perhaps as many as two million women. But ultimately, the film communicates a message of love and hope.
Witch Madness
Animation
Witch Madness depicts a neglected chapter of human history: Europe’s three centuries of fanatical witchhunts, which resulted in the genocide of perhaps as many as two million women. But ultimately, the film communicates a message of love and hope.
Witch Madness
Associate Producer
Witch Madness depicts a neglected chapter of human history: Europe’s three centuries of fanatical witchhunts, which resulted in the genocide of perhaps as many as two million women. But ultimately, the film communicates a message of love and hope.
Pigeon Within
Director
A young woman has an encounter with her guardian angel (or was it?).
Tall Time Tales
Associate Producer
A film about the many faces of time as it flows from the future to the past, through cyclic, biological, curved and paradoxical time.
One Self: Fish/Girl
Director
A young woman's diary depicts her layered, poetic, inner efforts to deal with the world and overcome self-doubt.
The Girl w/ Her Head Coming Off
Director
A young girl, Alice, shares her feelings of love and envy regarding her crush, Elvin.
Her Grandmother's Gift
Writer
A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.
Her Grandmother's Gift
Director
A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.
Enough
Director
A person finds a magical fish, wishes for "it all" and learns a lesson about when enough is enough.
Upside Down
voice
Inspired by the writings of the 13th century Indian poet Kabir, "Upside Down" shocks the audience from its torpor. Lost in a maze of contradictions, its characters search for a way out... Death is befriended and the eternal yearning for harmony, beauty and balance are realized in the final sequence.
Yes We Can
Production Supervisor
Gaia, our living Earth, joyously balances life and death until human beings begin to plunder her resources. Gaia retreats in despair. When women and men reach out to one another and remember their primal love, Gaia returns.
Blake Ball
Animation
Using Baseball as a metaphor, this film explores the world of William Blake.
Blake Ball
Director
Using Baseball as a metaphor, this film explores the world of William Blake.
The Cosmic Eye
Animation
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
The Cosmic Eye
Associate Producer
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
The Tower
Director
In this early work and collaboration between sisters Emily and Georgia, a figure journeys through a bewildering, menacing world. The film was created using a plethora of materials, including color-changing children’s markers and spray paint, and many of the specialized supplies, like cels, cel paint, and grease pencils, were leftovers from their parents’ famed Hubley Studios.
Delivery Man
Director
This animated psychedelic short portrays the stream-of-consciousness adventures of a young woman, including an encounter with her dead father, her mother's struggle with cancer, and open-heart surgery at the hands of the doctor who birthed her (the "Delivery Man" of the title).
Emergence Of Eunice
Director
A wryly ironic, deadpan voice-over belies the anxieties, fears and obsessions in the everyday life of a misunderstood adolescent; whose most intimate relationship is with her diary. A spare graphic style, an animation variant on New Wave / Punk, is powerfully effective in conveying unarticulated emotions. Felt tip on paper, backlit.
Cockaboody
Self (voice)
John & Faith Hubley combined animation with the voices of their preschool daughters (Georgia & Emily) to make this award winning short. (New York Animation Festval) Similar in concept to their earlier work "Moonbird".
Windy Day
Self (voice)
Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard.
Children of the Sun
On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid. On the one had, a quarter of the blue planet's children. On the other hand, the remaining three quarters.