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Following writer-director Michael Almereyda's remarkable "Hamlet" two years ago, "Happy Here and Now" is an affirmation of something Almereyda has been slowly building...
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In the beginning of the world, the earth and the sky were one creature
- Trance (The Eternal)
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from: Eternal (1998)

FILMOGRAPHY

WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD [IMDB]
(2005, Highline Productions & Keep Your Head Productions)
DV / color / 86m / documentary
  • Premiered as work in progress, January, 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SURREALISM
(2003)
pixelvision & DV / 13m
Cast: Miye Bromberg, Karl Geary, Shalom Harlow, Jeff Winner

Festivals: East Village Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival

THIS SO-CALLED DISASTER [IMDB]
(2002, IFC Productions)
DV / color / documentary
Sam Shepard directs his play, "The Late Henry Moss."

Cast: T-Bone Burnett, James Gammon, Woody Harrelson, Cheech Marin, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Sheila Tousey

Festivals: Rotterdam, Tribeca

HAPPY HERE AND NOW [IMDB]
(2001, IFC Productions)
35mm / color / 89m
Cast: David Arquette, Liane Balaban, Karl Geary, Ernie K-Doe, Gloria Rueben, Ally Sheedy, Clarence Williams III

Festivals: Toronto, Rotterdam, CineVegas, Film Comment Selects

  • Special Jury Award from SXSW, Austin, Texas
HAMLET [IMDB]
(2000, Miramax Films)
super 16mm / color / 112m
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, Bill Murray, Kyle McLachlan, Diane Venora, Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber

Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco (closing night), Locarno, Rotterdam, Havana

TRANCE aka THE ETERNAL KISS OF THE MUMMY [IMDB]
(1998, Trimark Pictures)
35mm / color / 93m
Cast: Alison Elliott, Jared Harris, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken

Festivals: Toronto, Berlin (International Forum)

  • Sitges Awarded Best Actor: Jared Harris
THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER [IMDB]
(1997)
pixelvision / b&w / 23m
Cast: Jesse Forrestal, Paula Malcomson, Eric Stoltz

Festivals: Sundance, New York, Toronto, Rotterdam, Hong Kong

  • Awarded Best Short Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival
AT SUNDANCE [IMDB]
(1995, co-directed with Amy Hobby; Shooting Gallery Films)
pixelvision / b&w / 75m
Interviews with filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival.

Interviews with: Robert Redford, John Turturo, Danny Boyle, Mike Newell, Lee Tamohori, Atom Egoyan, Todd Haynes, Abel Ferrara, Ed Burns, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, etc.

Festivals: New York, Locarno, Rotterdam, Melbourne, Vancouver

NADJA [IMDB]
(1994, October Films)
35mm & pixelvision / b&w / 90m
Cast: Suzy Amis, Martin Donovan, Peter Fonda, Karl Geary, Jared Harris, Elina Lowensohn, David Lynch

Festivals: Sundance, Toronto, San Francisco, Locarno, London, Sitges

  • Awarded Best Director at Sitges
  • IFP Spirit Award Nominations for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography
ALIENS [IMDB]
(1993)
pixelvision / b&w / 13m
Featured in "Big as Life," a series of small gauge films at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Shown with ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER PLANET when the London Institute of Contemporary Art toured the film
ANOTHER GIRL, ANOTHER PLANET [IMDB]
(1992, Nabu Productions)
pixelvision / b&w / 56m
Cast: Isabel Gillies, Elina Lowensohn, Nic Ratner, Barry Sherman, Mary Ward

Festivals: Houston, Sundance, Toronto, Edinburgh, London, Rimini, Rotterdam, Melbourne

  • Citation from the National Society of Film Critics "for expanding the possibilities of experimental filmmaking"
  • New Directors/New Films Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Golden Gate Award: San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Special Jury Award: USA Film Festival
TWISTER [IMDB]
(1989, Vestron Pictures)
35mm / color / 90m
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis, William Burroughs, Dylan McDermot, Lois Chiles

  • IFP Spirit Award nomination: Best First Feature
A HERO OF OUR TIME [IMDB]
(1987)
35mm / b&w / 26m
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Kevin Jarre, Natalie Zimmerman

Festivals: Sundance, Shown throughout the U.S. as part of a traveling Dennis Hopper retrospective

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