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
Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He produces online advertising and he’s written a big fat novel. He’s also a pretty good drummer. But success eludes him. For Joe can’t keep himself from fixing other people’s problems. His own ambitions are constantly interrupted by his willingness and ability to go out of his way for others.
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
삶의 희망이라고는 전혀 찾아볼 수 없을 것 같은 ‘페이 그림’. 그녀의 남편 ‘헨리’는 우발적인 살인사건을 저지르고 7년 동안이나 소식 두절이고 14세 아들 ‘네드’는 학교에서 사고뭉치로 낙인 찍힌 문제아이다. 게다가 시인임을 자처하는 동생 ‘사이먼’은 남편의 도주를 도왔다는 이유로 교도소에 수감 중이다. 어느 날, 야동을 친구들에게 보여주는 등 악행을 일삼았다는 이유로 아들 ‘네드’는 퇴학을 당하게 되고 소년원에 수감될 처지에 놓이게 되자 ‘페이 그림’은 남편 ‘헨리’를 대신해 ‘사이먼’이 출소하여 ‘네드’의 후견인이 되어주어야 만 하는 절박한 상황에 처하게 된다. 그런 그녀 앞에 어느 날, 들이닥친 CIA요원들. 이들은 남편 ‘헨리’가 스웨덴에서 사망했으며, 사실은 그가 미국의 스파이로 활동해 왔고 암호해독 전문가였던 그가 생전에 썼던 음란소설들은 그가 암호화 한 미국의 정치, 군사 기밀들이라는 사실을 그녀에게 알려주면서 생전에 쓴 소설이 담겨 있는 6권의 노트를 프랑스에 가서 회수해 줄 것을 요청한다. 이에 프랑스로 날아간 ‘페이 그림’은 그곳에서 만난 다른 나라의 스파이로부터 ‘헨리’가 죽지 않고 살아 있다는 충격적인 소식을 듣게 되는데...
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
현대판 미녀와 야수 이야기로 동화를 통해 미디어의 위선을 꼬집고 있다
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.
