Independent Animation At Images Cinema
Williamstown, Mass. - Images Cinema will present a double feature of animation on Friday, March 13 starting at 6pm with a program of Animated Shorts by John, Faith and Emily Hubley, and continuing at 7pm with Emily Hubley’s feature film, THE TOE TACTIC. Details about both programs follow below. General ticket prices apply. Purchase one ticket for admission to both screenings. Tickets for each screening available separately. Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA.ANIMATED SHORTS BY JOHN, FAITH & EMILY HUBLEY
Friday, March 13th at 6:00 pm
John Hubley started out as an animator and art director at Walt Disney Studios, before moving on to create Mr. Magoo. From 1955 til his death in 1977 he collaborated with his wife Faith to produce 22 independent animated films, seven of which were nominated for Oscars. The Hubleys' animation style is unique: hand-drawn, fluid, Miro-esque, concerned with emotional realism. Their daughter Emily continues the family tradition today as an animator and director. Emily's sister Georgia, with her band Yo La Tengo, contributes music for some of the films.
THE TOE TACTIC
Friday, March 13th at 7:00 pm
With Special Guest Writer/Director/Animator Emily Hubley
Emily Hubley unspools the whimsical story of a young woman engulfed by loss and the mystical events she encounters over the course of a problematic but magical weekend. By juxtaposing different views of reality, THE TOE TACTIC addresses themes of memory, loss, and renewal. The film had its premiere at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, and was included in the 2008 New Directors/New Films festival organized by The Museum of Modern Art and Film Society at Lincoln Center. Independent filmmaker John Sayles has a cameo appearance in the film.
Mona is jarred by delayed grief for her dead father when she finds her childhood home has been sold. Her emotional plight is the subject of an esoteric card game played in another dimension by four animated dogs. When Mona returns to her back yard to disinter her father's relic, a piece of bone she buried there, the game begins. Over the course of an oddly problematic but magical weekend, the dogs mystify an unknowing Mona by stealing objects, impersonating humans and intervening with fate. The Toe Tactic uses live action and animation to explore the interaction between the human and magical realms as Mona finds her way to reconnect with her world.
EMILY HUBLEY has been making animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Her work has shown at numerous film festivals including Sundance, South by Southwest, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art and Ocularis/Galapagos Art Space. Hubley created the animated sequences for John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Emily was 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 to depict a reality that is at once subjective, honest and fun.
The only one of its kind in Berkshire County, Images Cinema is a year-round non-profit, member-supported community film house that presents a wide range of films that impact filmmaking and our culture. Images continuously seeks to entertain, educate and engage the community with quality programming, while maintaining its dedication to independent film and media. Images Cinema is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Check for up-to-date happenings at www.imagescinema.org.
