Possible Films

Driven by music and choreography, Soon is a play first performed in Europe in 1998 and then again in the US in 2001. The music is available for the first time, recently re-worked into a compelling weave of brief spoken-word segments and songs constructed from the dialogues. Complete selection available to download from possiblefilms.com now. Individual tracks available everywhere else.

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SOON, a play

Available for the first time: the definitive version of Hal Hartley’s only play to date which was staged in Europe in 1998 and California in 2001. With an introduction by the author.

Hilarious, moving, and sociologically astute, SOON “touched a naked nerve in contemporary American sensibility” (Western European Stages).

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PF2: Possible Films vol. 2

Available now on DVD from Microcinema International & Digital Download from our website, Possible Films 2 comprises five new short films by Hal Hartley made when he was living and working in Europe.

“Exploring small ideas that couldn’t be fleshed out in feature form, Hartley creates intimate works that are honest and feel like they’re done by an artist doing it for the love of the craft, not looking for a quick buck. But would we think anything less from Hartley?” —Filmmaker Magazine

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Old & New Hartley @ IFC Center, NYC

IFC Center in New York City (323 Ave of the Americas @ West 3rd) will present a two evening event with Hal, screening his 1991 film, Surviving Desire, on the 21st and his newest collection of short films, Possible Films 2, on the 22nd. Both programs start at 8:30pm. Hal will be introducing each program.

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Surviving Desire, Remaster

Available as a download from our website, and on DVD from Microcinema International.

Newly digitally re-mastered with color correction supervised by the director, this early Hartley favorite stars Martin Donovan, Mary Ward, Matt Malloy, and Rebecca Nelson.

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Amateur Soundtrack

Original score by Hal (AKA Ned Rifle) & Jeffrey Taylor

with songs by My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, P.J. Harvey, Yo La Tengo, and others!

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Movies

Excerpt from US Staging of Soon

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A short excerpt from the US staging of Soon. A longer, 15 minute excerpt is available as part of the Possible Films 1 collection. The full text of the play is now available as a book, along with an album of music from the play.

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Music

I Want to Believe (2:10)

From the new release SOON, Music from the Play by Hal Hartley. This song is made with recordings from the second, US, staging of Soon in California. “Generally, we thought of the European production as large, quiet, and slow; the US version was small, loud, and fast.” (Hal, from the press kit interview)