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From the quiet and thoughtful to the loud and ridiculous, this arresting collection of short work by Hal Hartley reveals the tireless experimentation, curiosity, and playfulness that lies behind his many feature films, like The Unbelievable Truth, Simple Men, Amateur, The Book of Life, Trust, Flirt, Henry Fool, No Such Thing, and The Girl From Monday.
Further Information:
Special Features:
Includes rare footage of Hartley’s controversial play Soon, an exclusive interview regarding it, a complete biography, and an essay by the filmmaker.
Also includes The Sisters of Mercy, a new short film starring Parker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd. It premieres on this DVD and is not available anywhere else.
| Catalog Number: MC-373 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Narrative, General |
| Copyright: 2005 |
Length: 100 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: 097606240-2 |
UPC: 187719000016 |
| Label: Possible Films |
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Films In Compilation
Opera No. 1 directed by
Hal
Hartley
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 to escape, but he steals her roller blades (!), without which she cannot return to the spirit world.
Lot's of running around, mistaken identities, everyone gets lost... some arias... later...
The goddesses do somehow manage to bring the two overworked mortals crashing into one another's arms and to retrieve the supernatural roller blades. We'll figure that out later... Can Adrienne and Parker roller blade?
(From Hal's treatment for Comedy Central, Spring 1994)
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Other Also, The directed by
Hal
Hartley
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".
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New Math, The directed by
Hal
Hartley
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.
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NYC3/94 directed by
Hal
Hartley
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.
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Sisters of Mercy, The directed by
Hal
Hartley
USA,
Comedy / Satire,
2005,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:16:40
A new short film starring Parker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd.
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Kimono directed by
Hal
Hartley
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.
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Girl From Monday, The
MC-486, 2005
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A Girl drops into the Ocean from outer space. A being from a distant constellation called Monday, she has assumed the human form of a beautiful young woman in order to look for her friend who arrived years before and whom she suspects is in trouble;... more >
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Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire
MC-1086, 1991
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SURVIVING DESIRE (1991, 53 min) is a comedy about obsessive love from the director Time Magazine called “the smartest new outlaw in the movies.” SURVIVING DESIRE is a bold and playful little tale about a handsome young college professor smitten with... more >
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Possible Films Volume 2
MC-1087, 2010
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An ambitious young actress comes to Berlin to convince an American ex-pat filmmaker she must be his next muse ... Hartley's conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in... more >
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Possible Music
MC-485, 2003
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This is a collection of the signature tunes from Hal Hartley's movies from 1990 till 2002. It includes work from Trust, Simple Men, Amateur, and other films, as well as pieces from his theater productions. It is a very listenable sequence of music... more >
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Simple Men and Trust Me
MC-736, 2006
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This beautifully produced presentation of the two films with the original French release art work is now available on Double DVD
TRUST
Maria is a self-centered teenage suburban brat, until she gets pregnant by her un-loving quarterback... more >
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Trust
MC-503, 1990
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Maria is a self-centered teenage suburban brat, until she gets pregnant by her un-loving quarterback boyfriend and gives her father a fatal heart attack. Matthew is a rowdy and disillusioned computer engineer with a vicious temper. Disowned by her... more >
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