Hal Hartley Movies

The job, should you choose to accept it: two young women playing out roles associated with the purchasing of real estate. Questions regarding the...

Excerpts from performances of Hal Hartley's play "Soon", a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called...

A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine...

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Self-funded Hal Hartley project shot on 16mm with a focus on a somewhat bizarre romance.

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young,...

A short film about friendship, disillusionment, loathing and despair, in which the pictures of three young men talking are juxtaposed with slowmotion...

A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama...

Man talking about the United States of America.

21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the...

A documentary concerning the periods between the actual takes during the production of Hartley's short film "Iris," revealing the imagination,...

Follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only...

A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.

A short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'

A woman talks about how hard her life is.

The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

Hartley's conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to...

A minimalist, atmospheric, meditation on the theme of "Love" or "Amour" that focuses on reconciliation and forgiveness.

Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery. Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up. His girlfriend thinks he's...

This film is the visual component of the multi-media collaboration between the composer Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley.