In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.

A needy young man confronts years of parental manipulation when he discovers that his father has gotten plastic surgery to look exactly like him.

A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brooklynites who would love to make something of their lives -- assuming they can pay the rent first.

Men and women search for intimacy and meaning in their lives.

When locksmith Bobby gets out of prison after a two year sentence for stealing money from parking meters, his wife Ginny is waiting outside for him. So is Ruby, a transvestite who was Bobby's cell mate and became his lover in prison. Bobby spurns Ruby, but he finds himself unable to reconnect with Ginny once they're back home together. He's in love, and it's not with her. Is there any way he can sort this out?

Follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only frustration and violence.

Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd obstacles.

Funny Chaplinesque cartoon short as seen by Writer/Director Whitney Ransick by way of Spaghetti Westerns and Dr Seuss.

A mockumentary about (action) filmmaking by Christian Ingvordsen