10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Special Programs 1 - Tribute to Hal Hartley
THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
Country: USA
Year: 1991
Duration: 17'
"Young, middleclass, white, collegeeducated, unskilled, broke". These are the words which the people paying the lead in this short film use to characterize themselves. They cannot live in expensive Manhattan but have to make do with Brooklyn. Addicted to the theory but unfamiliar with the practice, they wonder why the sentences they recite do not cover what they experience. For instance, one of them says: "To know we can die is to be dead already… I read that in a book somewhere". Can there really be a "theory of achievement"? Hartley wrote and filmed this 17minute film in one week, while he was looking for an apartment.
Biography
film director
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley was born in 1959 and grew up in the suburbs outside New York City. He attended art school for one year (1978-79) in Boston. He attended the State University of New York at Purchase Film School from 1980 to 1984. He moved to New York City after graduation and completed three short films between then and 1988 when he made his first feature film, The Unbelievable Truth. He lives and maintains his production company, True Fiction Pictures, in New York City.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Ambition (cm, 1991), Theory of Achievement (cm, 1991), Surviving Desire (cm, 1991), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994), NYC 3/94 (video, cm, 1994), Opera (cm, 1994), Flirt (1995).
Cast
& Credits
Director, screenplay and editor: Hal Hartley.
Director of photography: Michael Spiller.
Music: Jeffrey Howard, Ned Rifle.
Cast: Bob Gosse, Jessica Sager, Jeffrey Howard, William Sage, Elina Lowensohn, Naledi Tshazibane, Nick Gomez, M.C. Bailey.
Director of Production: James Schamus.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: American Playhouse True Fiction Pictures, 12 West 27th St., New York, NY 10001, tel. 2126844284, fax 2126866109.
Director of photography: Michael Spiller.
Music: Jeffrey Howard, Ned Rifle.
Cast: Bob Gosse, Jessica Sager, Jeffrey Howard, William Sage, Elina Lowensohn, Naledi Tshazibane, Nick Gomez, M.C. Bailey.
Director of Production: James Schamus.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: American Playhouse True Fiction Pictures, 12 West 27th St., New York, NY 10001, tel. 2126844284, fax 2126866109.