“Tyler Hubby demands his audience experience a cinema of time, which transforms the commonplace into an aesthetic . . . that the audience re-imagine the everyday world around them, perceive the everyday in a new way.”
– Jack Sargeant
Cinema Contra Cinema
Tyler Hubby is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied film and photography. His subversive and irreverent short films & videos detailing fetishism, co-dependency and bodily mutations have screened internationally and are featured in the book Cinema Contra Cinema by British author Jack Sargeant. Since 1994 he has enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the avant/experimental record label Table of the Elements documenting artists suchas Faust, Keiji Haino, John Fahey, Jim O'Rourke, Rhys Chatham, Arnold Dreyblatt, Zeena Parkins, Jonathan Kane and Tony Conrad.
He is a regular contributor to Artillery magazine photographing such contemporary art figures as John Waters, Mike Kelley, John Baldessari, Shepard Fairey, Susan Anderson, Zak Smith, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andrew Krasnow and Samantha Fields. Additionally his photographs have been used as evidence in federal court.
He has edited over 30 documentaries. Most notable among them are The Devil and Daniel Johnston, a picaresque biography of mentally ill artist/musician Daniel Johnston; Double Take, Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez’s metaphysical essay on the cold war, the rise of television and the murder of Alfred Hitchcock by his own double, and the HBO documentary A Small Act which premiered at Sundance 2010. He recently edited and co-produced Lost Angels about the denizens of Los Angeles’ Skid Row and the new punk rock documentary Bad Brains: Band in DC. He served as an additional editor on the Oscar nominated The Garden and HBO’s Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.
He also edited the gothic horror short Usher, by cult director Curtis Harrington about whom he also co-directed a short documentary entitled House of Harrington. He is currently at work on a feature length documentary about composer/musician/artist Tony Conrad.