Directed by Alan Berliner • 1988 • United States
Alan Berliner’s experimental documentary draws from a vast collection of rare 16 mm home movies, shot by some sixty families between the 1920s and the 1950s, and weaves them into a composite lifetime of celebrations and struggles that passes from childhood to adulthood, innocence to experience. The result is a universal yet intimate portrait of the American family, not scripted, not rehearsed, and shot through with the conflicts and contradictions that define our private lives and rituals.
Directed by Alan Berliner • 1991 • United States
Cinematic essayist Alan Berliner carves a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather’s remarkable life story. Family members try to make sense of an enigmatic man who was at once ordinary and endlessly ...
Directed by Alan Berliner • 1996 • United States
Alan Berliner takes on his own reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. Finding both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son, Berliner cr...
Directed by Alan Berliner • 2001 • United States
What’s in a name? In THE SWEETEST SOUND, Alan Berliner (specifically the filmmaker from New York) is tired of being mistaken for people who share his name and decides to rid himself of the dreaded Same-Name Syndrome. His solution: invite all the A...
