Hal Hartley Movies

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

A hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of...

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

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Louis Andriessen's opera, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, plays out as a combination of a stage production and filmed elements, which sees Dante as a...

Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He...

An 18-minute documentary made in 2005 by perennial Hartley actor D.J. Mendel, reunites the director and line producer Ted Hope with actors Adrienne...

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

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

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

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

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

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...

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...

Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd...

Man talking about the United States of America.

Over one night in New York City, lives of disparate strangers intersect by fate and circumstance.

A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and...

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 comical mini opera following the exploits of two goddesses interfering with the lives of mortals. Mistaken identities, miscast spells, and...