Tempe Hale is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, visual artist, and Sundance Film Institute Filmmaker Fellow (2020). Her work weaves hand-drawn animations with archival footage and collage. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2014 with an MFA in Experimental Animation. Hale’s multimedia films have been exhibited at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, The Autry Museum, The Pacific Symphony, Grand Performances, The Industry LA, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony San Francisco, Los Angeles Public Library, REDCAT, and film festivals internationally.
In 2015, Hale began collaborating with Emmy and Grammy-winning composer Laura Karpman. She creates multimedia films using puppetry, collage, and footage to accompany Karpman’s symphonic pieces, including “Siren Songs” which premiered at Pacific Symphony and Karpman’s Grammy-winning multimedia project “Ask Your Mama,” featuring The Roots and Jessye Norman.
Hale participated in the Music in Animation Intensive Sundance Lab in Los Angeles in July 2020. She was the Editor of From the Shtetl to the Studio: The Jewish Story of Hollywood, a short form documentary, narrated by TCM host and author Ben Mankiewicz, permanently on view at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
