Featuring the Work of Hal Hartley ’84
The Metrograph in New York City is featuring the films of Hal Hartley ’84 this Friday, January 24 to Sunday, February 2.
Filmmaker Magazine recently released a Q&A with the filmmaker in which he speaks about his acclaimed career and his start at Purchase.
“Yeah, it seems everyone I met at Purchase ended up being around me or working with me for the next thirty years. When I left Boston, before I went to Purchase, I was watching a lot of films much more closely than anyone else around me, which meant I couldn’t share my enthusiasms. But when I got to Purchase, that’s all it was for four years. It was a really exciting, productive time. You were given license to fail, and you could try a lot of things to see where they went. Your competence was judged by your efforts to try.”
Picture above: Alumni Parker Posey (acting) and Hal Hartley ’84 on the set of Fay Grim (2005).