Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire

"Surviving Desire" is EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED by Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD and/or other Microcinema titles, go to: www.microcinemadvd.com. SURVIVING DESIRE (1991, 53 min) is a comedy about obsessive love from the director Time Magazine called “the smartest new outlaw in the movies.” SURVIVING DESIRE is a bold and playful little tale about a handsome young college professor smitten with a beautiful young female student. It is a swift dissection of male infatuation that is as fierce as it is compassionate. Special Features: THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (1991, 17 min) and AMBITION (1991, 9 min) are short story-essays about the everyday perils of finding one’s place in the world; made—for the most part—with the filmmaker’s actual friends as he himself negotiated the bewildering pathways of success and recognition. UPON REFLECTION: SURVIVING DESIRE (2005, 11 min) is part of a collection of interview films with Hartley and his collaborators. It includes candid talks with Hartley, producer Ted Hope, and actor Martin Donovan. Diabolically inventive and hilariously non-naturalistic, these films led THE NEW YORK TIMES to admit Hartley is “one of the most industrious and least compromising young artists in America.” Please check out and join Microcinema on other social networking sites: Facebook: http://facebook.com/microcinema MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/microcinemainternational Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/microcinema Twitter: http://twitter.com/microcinema