The job, should you choose to accept it: two young women playing out roles associated with the purchasing of real estate. Questions regarding the worries of ownership versus the worries of being un-invested. Intimations of a life filled with effort and debt. Tie this all together somehow with lines from the song, "Iris" by the Breeders. - (Taken from Hal Hartley's notebook, April 1994)
Directed by: Hal Hartley
Written by: Hal Hartley
Starring: Parker Posey, Sabrina Lloyd
Release Date: 1994
This was commissioned by the Red Hot Organization's "No Alternative" project. Red Hot organizes pop culture projects to help raise money for continued AIDS and HIV related research. Here, us filmmakers were asked to make something using one or another of the various songs contributed by a host of great Alternative Rock musicians of the day. I liked this live version of The Breeder's Iris and used some of the lyrics as dialogue along with scraps of the recording. - Hal Hartley
