USA, Comedy / Satire, 1994, 16mm, Color, Magnetic Monaural, 00:07:00
Two charming but inept agents of the supernatural - sort of like cupid goddesses - decide to interfere in human affairs. Mini Musical Comedy. Like one of those Shakespeare situation comedies in the woods. Or the Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour". A mini-opera with some sort of dense but ultimately meaningless plot. There's a young man who works too much and who needs to fall in love and a young woman in similar straits on the far side of the forest. The goddesses split up and attempt to cast spells on the mortals. But one of them, while casting a spell calculated to make the man fall in love with the first girl he sees, bungles the job. He falls wildly in love with her instead. She tries... more info
USA, Music, 1997, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:07:00
A slow, meditative, piece of visual music. Commissioned by the Paris Gallery of the Foundation Cartier, for their group show, "Amours". Different artists, filmmakers, and writers were asked to make something treating the concept of "Amour" - "Love". Hartley decided to treat the that aspect of love which is charity and deconstructed the well known phrase from the gospel of Mark regarding "turning the other cheek".... more info
USA, Comedy / Satire, 1999, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:15:00
Two students and their teacher seem to be fighting - literally - over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or a coded instruction manual about their own secrete urges? An alchemical action movie? A real life cartoon with original music by Dutch heavyweight, Louis Andriessen. Hal Hartley fashioned this whimsical piece of fight choreography with three of his recent performer/collaborators, Miho Nikaido, David Neumann, and DJ Mendel.... more info
USA, Narrative, 1994, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:10:00
Another video collage, this one woven around the idea of a city under siege. Commissioned by European television, NYC3/94 is part of a series called "Post Cards From America". Various American artists were asked to make short videos about the city they lived in. In March 1994, Hal Hartley was preoccupied with what his downtown neighborhood would be like during wartime.... more info
USA, Comedy / Satire, 2005, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:16:40
A new short film starring Parker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd.... more info
USA, Narrative, 2000, 35mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:27:00
This half hour "ambient narrative" was made for the German TV series "Erotic Tales". Inspired by some of the more sensual readings in a collection of classical Japanese poetry, the film follows a young bride abandoned at a desolate roadside, and her dream-like descent into the depths of the forest. There, other aspects of herself come to tempt her. ... more info