D.J. Mendel

Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her...

A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He...

This film is the visual component of the multi-media collaboration between the composer Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley.

Excerpts from performances of Hal Hartley's play "Soon", a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called...

A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and...

A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.

An 18-minute documentary made in 2005 by perennial Hartley actor D.J. Mendel, reunites the director and line producer Ted Hope with actors Adrienne...

21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the...

An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.

New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdalena discuss and debate the End of the World.

A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

Bounces through a fragmented, impressionistic history of the world from Napoleon to Jesus, from Socrates to Superman and back again with a...

Mixes found footage with the delirious, death-bed ramblings of the gangster Dutch Schultz, who died following a shooting in Newark, NJ in 1935.