A pair of Hollywood exiles—she was a former script clerk at Columbia, he was an ex–Disney cartoonist and union activist blacklisted for refusing to name names—Faith and John Hubley left the mainstream to forge an experimental animation style all their own.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/six-films-by-faith-and-john-hubley
Channeling the influences of jazz and abstract expressionism, the husband-and-wife duo created strikingly hand-drawn and -painted works.
Applying their effortlessly light touch to weighty themes like atomic-age anxiety and the place of humankind in the universe the Hubleys helped usher in a new era of independent animation in which Disneyfied gloss gave way to gloriously unrestrained personal expression.
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