Sep 17, 2021
As a boy, Tyler Hubby began making films and photographs. While
in high school, he was mentored by then unknown director David
Fincher. Later on, Tyler went on to study film and photography at
the San Francisco Art Institute with "low-fi" underground film
legend George Kuchar.
His subversive and irreverent short films and videos detailing
fetishism, co-dependency and bodily mutations have screened
internationally, and are featured in Jack Sargeant's book Cinema
Contra Cinema.
Tyler has documented artists such as Faust, Keiji Haino, John
Fahey, Jim O'Rourke, Rhys Chatham, Arnold Dreyblatt, Zeena Parkins,
Jonathan Kane and Tony Conrad. Furthermore, he has edited over 30
documentary films. Most notable among them are The Devil and
Daniel Johnston, a biography of mentally ill artist/musician
Daniel Johnston; The Final Member which follows the
curator of the Icelandic Phallological Museum as he attempts to
complete his exotic penis collection; The Great
Invisible, which won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW 2014. Tyler
also served as an additional editor on the Oscar
nominated Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.
Tyler wrote and directed Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, a feature documentary about iconoclastic multi-media artist Tony Conrad that was named as one the best films of 2017 by Artforum.