FILM

In collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Aurora Picture Show will present a series of films from filmmaker and animator Emily Hubley. A selection of her short works will be screened Friday night and the Houston premiere of her new feature, The Toe Tactic, will be featured Saturday evening.

The Toe Tactic, which will be screened Saturday is film that combines animation with live action. Mona Peek, a young woman engulfed by loss. Four capricious dogs playing a game of cards manipulate Mona’s life of grieving and searching, along with the lives of her neighbors. Winsome newcomer Lily Rabe, joined by the voices of Eli Wallach, Marian Seldes, Andrea Martin and David Cross, melds with the animated forms that push, pull and caress the film’s flesh-and-blood cohabitants through a journey of renewal.  The unique kinetic flow of Hubley’s remarkable feature debut is enhanced by the music Yo La Tengo.

ABOUT EMILY HUBLEY Emily Hubley has made short animated films for thirty years and provided animation to television, fictional and documentary films for over a decade. Her first feature film The Toe Tactic (2008) screened at a dozen 2008 film festivals including South by Southwest, New Directors/New Films and the San Francisco International Film Festival. Hubley is a 2004 Annenberg Film Fellow, named by the Sundance Institute; she attended their 2002 Screenwriters’ and 2003 Filmmakers’ Labs.