Collections/October 2020
Six Films by Faith and John Hubley
Featuring a conversation among the filmmakers’ children Mark, Emily, Georgia, and Ray Hubley, moderated by filmmaker Leah Shore A pair of Hollywood exiles—she was a former sound-effects and music editor at Columbia, he was an ex–Disney cartoonist and union activist blacklisted for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee—Faith and John Hubley left behind the mainstream to forge a thrillingly experimental animation style all their own. Channeling the influences of jazz and abstract expressionism, the husband-and-wife duo created strikingly hand-drawn and -painted works that pulse with the improvisational spirit of bebop ( Date with Dizzy , a sly anticapitalist critique featuring Dizzy Gillespie) and childhood imagination ( Moonbird , which sets a recording of their own children at play to free-flowing…
6 films — 0 on the Channel, 6 unavailable
