21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.
Joe Fulton
Vuelta al cine de Hal Hartley tras cinco años de silencio. En esta ocasión nos cuenta la historia de Joe Fulton (D.J. Mendel), un hombre que trata de sobrevivir en la desesperanzadora sociedad del siglo XXI, tomándose la vida con filosofía. Ayudar al prójimo y sus diversos empleos, son sus grandes fuertes.
Himself (Interviewer)
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.
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.
Father Lang
Continuación de "Henry Fool". La historia empieza ocho años después de que Henry abandonara el país dejando a su mujer, Fay Grim, y a su hijo Ned que ya tiene catorce años. Henry Fool había revolucionado la vida de Simon y de su hermana Fay. Con Fay tuvo una tormentosa relación sexual, con Simon un pacto de amistad. Un buen día, tal como llegó, se fue, pero Simon fue a parar a la cárcel por haberlo ayudado a escapar de la justicia. Simon ha tenido tiempo de sobra, en la soledad de su celda, para pensar que Henry no era en absoluto el hombre que aparentaba ser. Sus sospechas se ven confirmadas cuando Fay le cuenta que la CIA le ha pedido que viaje a París para recuperar ciertos objetos personales de Henry...
Abercrombie
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
Director
Written by legendary theater artist, Richard Foreman, Planet Earth: Dreams revolves around the desire to escape -- not to a Dream world -- but to a mode of consciousness in which one is able to function in real life with the same mental freedom the dream mind has available in the realm of sleep.
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.
A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
Agent
Una periodista (Sarah Polley) es enviada a Islandia para investigar la desaparición de un cámara de su empresa, pero cuando llega lo que encuentra es un monstruo depresivo y alcohólico que no desea más que morir.
Teacher
This film is the visual component of the multi-media collaboration between the composer Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley.
Lawyer
The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdelina discuss and debate the end of the world, the opening of the seven seals, and the essence of being human.
