Tempe Hale is a Los Angeles based filmmaker, visual artist and Sundance Film Institute filmmaker Fellow (2020). Her work weaves together 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 screened at The Pacific Symphony, Grand Performances, The Industry LA, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony San Francisco, Aloud Lecture Series at the Los Angeles Public Library, and REDCAT and in U.S and international film festivals.
In 2015, Hale began collaborating with Emmy and Grammy-winning composer Laura Karpman. Hale created multimedia films using puppetry, collage, and footage from Academy-Award winning cinematographer Greg Macgillivray to accompany Karpman’s symphonic piece “Siren Songs”, which premiered at Pacific Symphony’s 25th anniversary season finale on June 11th, 2015. In 2016 Hale collaborated on Karpman’s Grammy-winning multimedia project based on Langston Hughes epic poem “Ask Your Mama” featuring The Roots and Jessye Norman. In 2017, Karpman’s opera “BALLS!”, about the tennis great Billie Jean King, featured Hale’s animated visuals and premiered at The Industry under the direction of Yuval Sharon.
Hale was selected as a participant in the Music in Animation Intensive Sundance Lab, held in Los Angeles July 2020. She is currently making multimedia films and documentary shorts for organizations such as the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and The Autry Museum of the American West.
