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Alan Berliner is one of the most influential contemporary experimental filmmakers. It was my pleasure to interview Alan about his films and to gain an insight into how he thinks about film, a bit about his process, and to touch on his personal involvement with his films. His films, as you'll hear in the podcast, are personal works. I love all of his films, but if you need a place to start, find "The Sweetest Sound" and "Wide Awake" to get a sense of his style and technique. Alan's website lists his films, other interviews, photos, installation work, and more. Alan Berliner is an experimental documentarian who entertains, educates, and engages the viewer. He pulls you inside the story and makes it personal for you as well. He has a unique storytelling style that makes you immediately care and empathize with his characters. I also asked Alan to give filmmakers some advice, which you'll hear toward the end of the podcast, so stay tuned for it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/experimentalfilmpodcast/support
Film critic Dana Linssen interviews Alan Berliner, director of IDFA 2019 film 'Letter to the Editor'. The film won the IDFA Beeld en Geluid Reframe Award for the best creative use of archive in a documentary film.
The New Age of TV: Bringing the Look of Cinema to the Small Screen - Sight, Sound & Story: The Art of Cinematography 2018 Moderator: David Leitner (Director, Producer, and Cinematographer) Panelist: Robert McLachlan, ASC, CSC ("Game of Thrones," "Westworld," "Ray Donovan," "The Affair") Meet the Cinematographer who brought some of the most fantastical and gritty moments from "Game of Thrones" to life, Rob McLachlan ASC, CSC. Rob has directed one of the biggest budget episodes of television in history, "The Spoils of War" and one of the most viral moments of modern television "The Red Wedding." Here with David Leitner, Cinematographer of the critically acclaimed "Trembling Before G-d", serving as moderator, Rob dissects his most recent television work. Rob offers his generous insight into the choices behind his camerawork on "Ray Donovan," "WestWorld," and of course, "Game of Thrones." About Robert McLachlan, ASC, CSC: Robert was born in San Francisco. He became involved with photography and film at an early age thanks to an artistic father. Since then, Robert has moved on with unusual ease between television and theatrical films of all sizes. In the process, winning many awards and amassing hundreds of credits including close to 50 Theatrical and television movies; as well as over 550 episodes of Television that include "MacGyver" in the late ’80s and the groundbreaking, "Millennium" in the mid’90ss. Recently he shot what is regarded as the most famous episode of TV ever - best known as “The Red Wedding”, in addition to the biggest episode of TV ever made, "The Spoils of War." Both of these episodes are from the international phenomenon, "Game of Thrones." His other TV credits include "Westworld" for HBO and Showtime’s critically acclaimed, "Ray Donovan." Along the way, he has returned to wearing both Director and cinematographer hats on the movies "The Golden Compass" and "Dragonball Evolution" on their second units and more recently he has directed episodes of "Ray Donovan." About the Moderator: David Leitner is a director, producer, and Emmy-nominated DP (Chuck Close: Portrait in Progress), with over eighty credits in feature-length dramas and documentaries, including eight Sundance Film Festival premieres. These include his own Vienna is Different: 50 Years After the Anchluss, Alan Berliner’s Nobody’s Business, Sandi Dubowski’s Trembling Before G-d, the Oscar-nominated documentary For All Mankind, for which he spent nine months at NASA’s Johnson Space Center restoring original 16mm lunar footage, and Memories of Overdevelopment, a Cuban follow-up to 1968’s film classic, Memories of Underdevelopment. For over 25 years, as DP, he has photographed hour-long documentaries on iconic writers, artists, and architects for New York’s Checkerboard Film Foundation. Subjects include Brancusi, Picasso, James Salter, Joel Shapiro, Sir John Soane, Ellsworth Kelly, Milton Glaser, Daniel Libeskind, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Eisenman, Roy Lichtenstein, Eric Fischl, Jeff Koons, Frank Stella, and Sol LeWitt. Leitner is also an author, columnist, motion picture technologist and industry consultant. From 1977-1985 he was Director of New Technology at DuArt Film & Video in New York, where he created innovations in optical printing, cine lens testing, film-to-tape transfer, and played a key role introducing Super 16 to the U.S. He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. This year’s fourth annual Sight, Sound & Story: The Art of Cinematography event we'll go behind the lens to better understand the challenges and decisions made by top visual artists in the realm of narrative TV, documentary and feature films. Our event series is where we hope many pieces of the creative puzzle fit together - a familiar enclave for the exchange of ideas and a celebration of this unique collaborative process. For more information go to https://SightSoundandStory.com.
In a very special on location episode, Chris and Bart interview four filmmakers at SXSW. Please visit our website for the video footage of these interviews: www.fogoftruth.com/video-extras Filmmakers Interviewed: Jeremy Workman (Director) & Matt Green (Subject), THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET Alexandria Bombach (Director), ON HER SHOULDERS Cristina Constantini & Darren Foster (Co-Directors), SCIENCE FAIR Yuqi Kang (Director), A LITTLE WISDOM Other Items & People Mentioned: Walking Blog by Matt Green The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad The Naked Truth: Death by Fentanyl / 2016 Alan Berliner, Filmmaker Hammer to Nail Links by Christopher Llewellyn Reed: http://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/on-her-shoulders-review/ http://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/little-wisdom-review/ Timestamps: 00:39 - Introduction by Christopher Llewellyn Reed 02:52 - On location introduction by Bart Weiss & Christopher Llewellyn Reed 04:41 - Interview with Jeremy Workman & Matt Green 22:15 - Interview with Alexandria Bombach 38:57 - Interview with Cristina Constantini & Darren Foster 54:50 - Interview with Yuqi Kang Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com disinfo@fogoftruth.com Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moore Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst) Video Shot by Ryan Neitzey
Highlights from a 2013 masterclass with filmmaker Alan Berliner. Podcast edited and presented by Duncan Cowles. More info: http://scotdoc.com/berliner
Alan Berliner & Victor Kossakovsky in Conversation at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Journalist Ian Haydn Smith and Director of the Scottish Documentary Institute Noe Mendelle asking questions. Podcast hosted by Duncan Cowles
For nearly 30 years, the filmmaker Alan Berliner has made uniquely personal documentaries that mine his life and the lives of his relatives, chipping away at seemingly routine stories to find a more precise, poetic, and nuanced narrative. His films display a relentless curiosity about the people closest to him—territory fraught with pitfalls. Berliner’s 1996 film Nobody’s Business examined his father, a lonely, divorced, retired salesman. Throughout the documentary, we hear the senior Berliner barking his objections with “my life is nothing!” and “you’re boring the shit out of me!” But as details of his past are revealed, Berliner’s father becomes a complex, lively figure in history, while, at every turn, the audience is compelled to adjust their perception of him. In Berliner’s newest film, First Cousin Once Removed, the filmmaker again focuses on family: in this case
6 Haziran 2013: Documentarist : Necati Sönmez Documentarist İstanbul Belgesel Günleri, programına direniş belgeselleri ekleyerek festivali uzatma kararı aldı. Kapanış ve ödül töreni 9 Haziran akşamı Gezi Parkı'nda yapılacak. Alan Berliner'in tüm filmleri de önümüzdeki günlerde ücretsiz gösterilecek. Documentarist'ten Necati Sönmez Açık Dergi'deydi.
An interview with DENNIS DOROS of MILESTONE FILMS and ROSS LIPMAN film preservationist at the UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE. Milestone Films is an independent company, founded in 1990 in the United States by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller, dedicated to researching and distributing quality cinematographic material from around the world, including silent movies, films of the postwar foreign film renaissance, to contemporary American independent features, documentaries and foreign films. Some of the films that Milestone has distributed are by Alfred Hitchcock, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, F.W. Murnau, Orson Welles, Mikhail Kalatozov and Luis Bunuel. Among the modern day films are works by Takeshi Kitano, Jane Campion, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Alan Berliner and Philip Haas. Lipman has restored and preserved some landmark works of independent cinema including The Times of Harvey Milk, some of Kenneth Anger's most prominent titles, and Milestone's Killer of Sheep and The Exiles. He is the winner of the National Society of Film Critics Special Film Heritage Award.
http://www.andystreasuretrove.com/andystreasuretrove.com/Media/ATTSF%20Episode%20%232%20Levelated.mp3.mp3 ()In Episode #2 we'll join a media preview tour of San Francisco's new http://www.thecjm.org/ (Contemporary Jewish Museum) and spend time with its architect Daniel Libeskind, museum President Rosalyn Swig, Director Connie Wolf, artists http://www.alanberliner.com/ (Alan Berliner) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton_Doyle_Hancock (Trenton Doyle Hancock), and others. We'll also talk to Liam Passmore about San Francisco's own literary festival, http://www.litquake.org/ (Litquake), coming up in October, and about the horror of those yearly visitors, the Blue Angels. Then, because they got such a great response after Episode #1, we'll hear another piece from the Ernest Bloch Bell Ringers, this one entitled “All Things Bright and Beautiful.” This episode is 37 minutes long. See photos and videos below, under the keywords. Keywords for this episode: Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Daniel Libeskind, Rosalyn (“Sissy”) Swig, Connie Wolf, Liam Passmore, Litquake, Ernest Bloch Bell Ringers, Jewish Community Foundation Building, Jessie Street Power Station, Willis Polk, Alan Berliner, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Matthew Richie, Kay Rosen, Ben Rubin, Shirley Shor, Genesis, Pamela Rourke Levy, “Playing God,” Blue Angels, “All Things Bright and Beautiful,”
This is the special “sneak preview” episode, Episode Zero, which contains mini-excerpts from full segments that will be coming up on future episodes of Andy's Treasure Trove. I hope that you'll tell your friends about Andy's Treasure Trove, where culture, art and fun co-mingle! Thanks, Andy Moore Keywords for this episode: San Francisco, art, culture, fun, Lisa Geduldig, Charo, comedy, Frameline, Frameline32, Michael Lumpkin, Terence Davies, England, The Long Day Closes, The Neon Bible, House of Mirth, Liverpool, Dawn Logsdon, Lucie Faulkner, New Orleans, independent film, documentary, Faubourg Treme, Hurricane Katrina, Karen Pedersen, San Francisco Columbarium, Steve Fagin, Eloisa Haudenschild, Haudenschild Garage, pizza, JoAnne Brasil, The Wander Theater, Stuart Gaffney, Fenton Johnson, California same-sex marriage, gay, LGBT, Keeping Faith, Barbara Sher, Wishcraft, I Could Do Anything if Only I Knew What It Was, New York, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Daniel Libeskind, Rosalyn (Sissy) Swig, Alan Berliner, nature, mockingbird, crow, The Sea Ranch, harbor seals, Jeanne Jackson, Gualala, fireworks, Sonoma, Mendocino, Mendonoma, Al the Laysan albatross, Independent Coast Observer, Hugh King, Chopper King, the Coffeehouse Movement, Writers' Guild of America Foundation Library, scripts, film, television, Factor's Deli, Kyle Jewhurst, quantum physics, flash drives, Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, carousel, Jim Van Buskirk, Tiara, Palace Hotel, tea, first grade, Ivy League college, graduation, Linda Servis, real estate, CIA, Lauri Amat, vocalizing, Quahogging, Liam Passmore, Litquake, Susan Stryker, Maureen Gosling, Les Blank, Burden of Dreams, Fitzcarraldo, Blossoms of Fire, Juchitan, Oaxaca, matriarchy, Martha Toledo, Brooks Collins, airplane crash 1964, Jay Hall, astrology, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Ralph Jack, Mike Carroll, Camden NJ New Jersey, Fats Waller, Willie Brown, Basic Brown, film festivals, parties.