Hal Hartley

Hal Hartley was born on Long Island in 1959, the son of a metalworker. He studied painting at the Massachusetts College of Art, then film at the State University of New York at Purchase, from which he graduated in 1984. A production assistant for a company making public-service announcements, whose head financed his first feature film, he then produced most of his films himself, about a dozen feature films, and often composes their music under a pseudonym. He taught film at Harvard in the early two thousands.

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• CinemaTrustHal Hartley · 1990Cinema