The Thinking Machine #89
Handle With Care
In their series The Thinking Machine, critics Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin create a new video essay for Filmkrant every month.
You’ve heard about the “hands of Bresson”, but what about the hands of American director Hal Hartley? This today often forgotten filmmaker has a very distinctive way of filming moments of interpersonal intimacy: touching, kissing, colliding, separating…
In this audiovisual essay, we put some of these moments together, in order to convey the consistency and coherence in Hartley’s framing, staging, cutting – and in his way of directing and blending his beloved, recurring actors.