Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

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...

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First Cousin Once Removed

First Cousin Once Removed

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

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Silent Men

Silent Men

Part road trip, part coming-of-middle-age tale, Cowles’ laconic humour and frank approach to his subject proves effective in exploring aspects of...

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Nobody's Business

Nobody's Business

Director Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this affecting and graceful study of family history and memory...

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Line

Line

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

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Wide Awake

Wide Awake

Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly...

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Independent filmmaker Alan Berliner considers the power of photography and what may be lost as daily newspapers face extinction, in this...

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The Sweetest Sound

The Sweetest Sound

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

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The Family Album

The Family Album

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....

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Filmmakers Unite (FU)

Filmmakers Unite (FU)

Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet's Alzheimer

Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet's Alzheimer

Alan Berliner has been chronicling the final years of his friend, cousin, and former mentor, Edwin Honig - distinguished poet, translator, critic...

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Everywhere at Once

Everywhere at Once

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

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Intimate Stranger

Intimate Stranger

A documentary about the director's maternal grandfather.

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City Edition

City Edition

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...

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Patent Pending

Patent Pending

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

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Perimeter

Perimeter

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

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Natural History

Natural History

"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."

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Myth in the Electric Age

Myth in the Electric Age

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

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