THE TOE TACTIC
Directed by Emily Hubley
United States, 90 Minutes
Animation/Drama
SAT APR 18, 12:15pm; SUN APR 19, 3:00pm
Filmmaker Emily Hubley in attendance
Film Hosted by Salem Cinema Staff
A whimsical combination of live action and hand-drawn animation, The Toe Tactic is layered with poetic and personal philosophy, humor, and a sense of magical realism. Mona Peek is jarred by delayed grief for her dead father when she finds out that 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 retrieve a bone she’d snatched from her father’s ashes to keep his memory alive, 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. By juxtaposing views of reality, The Toe Tactic explores the interaction between the human and magical realms as Mona finds her way to reconnect with her world.
Filmography: First Feature
Emily Hubley (Director)
Emily Hubley has been making animated shorts for thirty years. She is in the first class of (2005) Annenberg Film Fellows named by the Sundance Institute and was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's 2002 Screenwriters' and 2003 Filmmakers' Labs. Hubley created the animated sequences for John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch and among her shorts are Pigeon Within, Delivery Man and Her Grandmother's Gift, a collaboration with her mother, animator Faith Hubley. Her company, Hubbub Inc., has created short form series for the cable networks Nickelodeon and Lifetime. She lives with her husband and children in Maplewood, New Jersey.
