Hal Hartley Movies

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

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

Hartley and his wife, Miho Nikaido, travel to Japan to see her parents and reflect on 12 years of marriage, her career ambitions, and the adventures...

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

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...

A sort of birthday card for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.

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

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 concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer of...

An ambitious and idealistic young actress comes to Berlin to convince an American ex-pat filmmaker that she must be his next muse - the leading lady...

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...

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 documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'

A behind the scenes look, including an interview with Hal Hartley, surrounding his play "Soon," a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco,...

A woman talks about how hard her life is.

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

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

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

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