Possible Films 2

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Hal Hartley in person!

Possible Films 2 comprises five new short films by the veteran, award winning, American filmmaker, Hal Hartley. There are five separate films, but they were made practically at the same time over a few years, with a consistency of style and formal strategy that resembles something like a new album. The five films were made during the years Hartley lived in Berlin and, though clearly addressing different issues and initiated by separate concerns, they are linked by a consistent preoccupations and formal creative strategies.

A/MUSE (11:00)

An ambitious and idealistic young actress comes to Berlin to convince an American ex-pat filmmaker that she must be his next muse — the leading lady of his first great German film… Featuring: Christina Flick

IMPLIED HARMONIES (28:00)

Hartley’s conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to create the staging for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen’s opera, “la Commedia”… Featuring: Louis Andriessen, Christina Zavalloni, Claron McFadden, Jeroen Willems, Reinbert de Leeuw, Asko/Shoenberg Ensemble, Jordana Maurer

THE APOLOGIES (13:00)

A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama school audition while he goes off to save his doomed production in New York… Featuring: Nikolai Kinski, Bettina Zimmermann, Ireen Kirsch

ADVENTURE (20:00)

Hartley and his wife, Miho Nikaido, travel to Japan to see her parents and reflect on 12 years of marriage, her career ambitions, and the adventures of growing older… Featuring: Miho Nikaido, Hal Hartley, the Nikaido Family, various friends…

ACCOMPLICE (3:08)

An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. Featuring: Jordana Maurer, DJ Mendel (voice), Professor David Poeppel (voice), Jean-Luc Godard, David Bordwell (voice).

IFC Center does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. In addition to the synopses, trailers and other links on our website, further information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com as well as through general internet searches.