Production Design
A night out at a bar turns mysterious when a stranger in a fedora calls Meredith by the wrong name - and she admits she's changed her name many times before, reinventing herself each time. Sunny, Violet, Jacosta, Pauline... What's to keep her from changing again and leaving her friends and fiance behind? Who's the odd man in the hat and why did he bring a birdcage to a bar? Does the hot bartender really exist? The group fractures, seeking answers to these questions over the course of one surreal night. A film about identity and history and what people choose to reveal to each other.
Production Design
Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
Camera Operator
A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and process.
Cinematography
A short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'
Production Design
Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.
Director
A behind the scenes look, including an interview with Hal Hartley, surrounding his play "Soon," a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called the Branch Davidians and their collision with the US Federal Government.
Editor
Excerpts from performances of Hal Hartley's play "Soon", a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called the Branch Davidians and their collision with the US Federal Government.
Director of Photography
A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
Music
A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
Editor
A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
Writer
A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
Director
A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
Cinematography
This film is the visual component of the multi-media collaboration between the composer Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley.