Translucence Video-Installation

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Translucence is part of large para-cinematic sculptural project Alan Berliner calls, Think Like a Filmmaker, in which he try to breathe new life into his collection of old motion picture tools and materials – re-imagining and transforming them into sculptural forms, translucent collages, Constructivist compositions, Color Field studies, conceptual gestures, found objects, time capsules, and sometimes simply as unexpectedly beautiful things.

The videos included in Translucence represent a selection of 16mm motion picture reels, each composed of different configurations of translucent 16mm motion picture film. Each reel is mounted on a table-top rewind in front of a light box. A hand enters the frame and spins the reel at maximum speed, setting in motion a series of abstractions that produce a wide range of unpredictable visual transformations -- from sudden reversals of movement, the illusion of stasis in the midst of rapid visual energy, to the false impression that parts of the reel appear to be moving in opposite directions at the same time -- all before the spinning reel comes to a slow and graceful stop.

Alan Berliner’s focus is always on finding new meanings, new metaphors, and new ways of revealing how artifacts of an old technology can still tell new kinds of stories and excite the eye.

13:OCT 18H30 Opening

14-17 OCT 15H00-19H00
Rampa

Alan Berliner

Alan Berliner’s uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose, and popular appeal in compelling film essays has made him one of America’s most acclaimed independent filmmakers. The New York Times has described Berliner’ work as “powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life.”

In 2024, Berliner received a Visionary Tribute Lifetime Achievement Award from DOC NYC, the largest and most important documentary film festival in the United States. In 2025, Berliner received the Pennebaker Career Achievement Award at the Hampton Doc Fest Film Festival. His experimental documentary films, BENITA (2025), Letter to the Editor (2019), First Cousin Once Removed (2013), Wide Awake (2006), The Sweetest Sound (2001), Nobody’s Business (1996), Intimate Stranger (1991), and The Family Album (1986), have been broadcast all over the world, and received awards, prizes, and retrospectives at many major international film festivals.

The San Francisco International Film Festival called Berliner, “America’s foremost cinematic essayist.” The Florida Film Festival called him “the modern master of personal documentary filmmaking.” Over the years, Berliner’s films have become part of the core curriculum for documentary filmmaking and film history classes at universities worldwide and are in the permanent collections of many film societies, festivals, libraries, colleges and museums. All of his films are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Rosenblatt é bolseiro das fundações Guggenheim, USA Artists e Rockefeller. É membro da Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas desde 2002, tendo integrado o Comité Executivo da secção de Documentário durante doze anos.

Natural de Nova Iorque, vive há muitos anos em São Francisco. Entre 1989 e 2010, lecionou produção de cinema e vídeo em várias escolas da Bay Area, incluindo a Universidade de Stanford, a San Francisco State University e o San Francisco Art Institute. Durante 15 anos, foi Diretor de Programação do Jewish Film Institute (responsável pelo Festival de Cinema Judaico de São Francisco). Tem um Mestrado em Psicologia da Aconselhamento e, numa vida anterior, trabalhou como terapeuta.

http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/jay-rosenblatt/

Alan Berliner

Think Like a Filmmaker 2026, 45'

Talk with Alan Berliner by Efrén Cuevas 2026, 45'

BENITA 2025, United States, 81'

First Cousin Once Removed 2012, United States, 79'

56 Ways Of Saying I Don’t Remember 2010, United States, 3'

Wide Awake 2006, United States, 79'

Nobody’s Business 1996, United States, 60'

Intimate Stranger 1991, United States, 60'

The Family Album 1986, United States, 60'

Everywhere at Once 1985, United States, 9'

Myth in the Electric Age 1981, United States, 13'

City Edition 1980, United States, 9'

Patent Pending 1975, United States, 11'

C[ode 2026, 60'

Think Like a Filmmaker
2026, 45'

Talk with Alan Berliner by Efrén Cuevas
2026, 45'

BENITA
2025, United States, 81'

First Cousin Once Removed
2012, United States, 79'

56 Ways Of Saying I Don’t Remember
2010, United States, 3'

Wide Awake
2006, United States, 79'

Nobody’s Business
1996, United States, 60'

Intimate Stranger
1991, United States, 60'

The Family Album
1986, United States, 60'

Everywhere at Once
1985, United States, 9'

Myth in the Electric Age
1981, United States, 13'

City Edition
1980, United States, 9'

Patent Pending
1975, United States, 11'

C[ode
2026, 60'