Alan Berliner Movies

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...

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

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

A documentary about the director's maternal grandfather.

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two directors' unexpected joint project explores life, death, imagination and existence, while examining how mental wellness and artistic expression...

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

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...

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....

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

A documentary on the influential anthropologist Margaret Mead. Using never-before-seen archival footage, stills, interviews and dramatic...