Hal Hartley Movies

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...

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

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

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.

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

Man talking about the United States of America.

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

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

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

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

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

A woman talks about how hard her life is.

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...

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

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...

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

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