Elina Löwensohn Movies

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams...

Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the multitude of...

In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical,...

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees...

In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a...

Traveling through the abyss, underworld dog Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by her own future, across eras, myths...

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a...

A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping...

A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

The Wake is the title of a large-scale multimedia project, the main element of which is an eight-hour long silent movie. The film is based on...

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

In the heart of the Danube Delta, superstition and religion are mixed together, like the earth and water that make up the mysterious mud from...

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 story about people who reinvent their ideals of perfection to incorporate a sensual attraction to surgically transformed bodies.

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of...

When down-on-his-luck photographer Horace meets Jane, a young streetwalker with a sordid lifestyle, they quickly fall in love and embark on a chaotic...

The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young,...

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.

An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an...