Alan Berliner

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Alan Berliner is a virtuoso of essayistic documentary. His films are characterized by a first person perspective, playful use of archive materials, and inventive editing and sound design. His works include Letter to the Editor, an eclectic meditation on newspaper photography that played at DOC NYC; First Cousin, Once Removed, on a poet’s experience with Alzheimer’s disease, that was on the DOC NYC and Oscar short lists; Wide Awake about the director’s experiences with insomnia; The Sweetest Sound interviewing other people with the name Alan Berliner; Nobody’s Business profiling his father; Intimate Stranger profiling his maternal grandfather; and Family Album, a cinematic collage drawn from home movies.