Alan Berliner

Silent Men (2024)

Part road trip, part coming-of-middle-age tale, Cowles' laconic humour and frank approach to his subject proves effective in exploring aspects of masculinity that all too often are little discussed. ...

Letter to the Editor (2019)

Independent filmmaker Alan Berliner considers the power of photography and what may be lost as daily newspapers face extinction, in this documentary exploring his near-lifelong obsession with clipping and indexing photos. ...

Filmmakers Unite (FU) (2017)

First Cousin Once Removed (2012)

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's. ...

Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet's Alzheimer (2010)

Alan Berliner has been chronicling the final years of his friend, cousin, and former mentor, Edwin Honig - distinguished poet, translator, critic, and teacher - into the depths of Alzheimer's disease. Among many other honors, Honig received honorary "knigh ...

Wide Awake (2006)

Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly active mind so he can get a decent night's sleep, capturing the details of what it's like to suffer from a c ...

The Sweetest Sound (2001)

Alan Berliner uses the internet to track down 12 men who share his surname, and invites them over for dinner in New York. ...

Nobody's Business (1996)

Director Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this affecting and graceful study of family history and memory. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds -- where the past meets the present, where generatio ...

Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed (1996)

A documentary on the influential anthropologist Margaret Mead. Using never-before-seen archival footage, stills, interviews and dramatic re-creations, it shows the journey of how Mead became a scientist, adventurer, and international celebrity. As a true p ...

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow ...

The Family Album (1988)

THE FAMILY ALBUM is a one-hour experimental documentary film utilizing a vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. These home movies are exciting authentic documents of American folk history and culture, taken from the pers ...

Everywhere at Once (1985)

A symphony of found footage scenes, each shot loosely connected to the one before. ...

Natural History (1983)

"From there to here...from then to now. The soundtrack feature 33 frogs, 22 birds, lion growls, bomb whistles, a heartbeat and the chromatic scale. ...

Myth in the Electric Age (1981)

"...Berliner's film which talks about nature, culture, and technology impresses through its outstanding classical editing technique...Berliner finds precise and original transitions... ...

City Edition (1980)

City Edition immerses us in a lived experience of the fourth estate, beginning with the print-run and purchase of a single issue of the New York Times; a rapid found-footage montage of political happenings, wars, sports, celebrity, and natural disasters en ...

Line (1976)

Cars, trucks pedestrians and the line they cross over, by and through. ...

Perimeter (1976)

Relentless camera movements over a busy urban intersection, following the lines of force. ...

Patent Pending (1975)

A student film by a fledgling master––a single-shot "research report" on Berliner's experiences as the Harpur College Film Society projectionist. ...

Winnebago Man (2010)

Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to ...

The Sweetest Sound (2001)

Alan Berliner uses the internet to track down 12 men who share his surname, and invites them over for dinner in New York. ...

Nobody's Business (1996)

Director Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this affecting and graceful study of family history and memory. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds -- where the past meets the present, where generatio ...

Rich and Famous (1981)

Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich. ...