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The Backup Tapes from Moon and Mars

In 2012 eteam visits Mars and Moon in Pennsylvania. Their approach is documentary, positioning themselves as cultural anthropologists who view the towns as if they were simulated environments on Earth, a training ground for eventual living on the planet Mars and Earth's satellite, the Moon.

This is Roberto Delgado

What is an individual, if not a blot at the window, in the photo of a building? A point that, after zooming in with a Google-Earth-type programme, would become a blurred-out face like so many others? On the images of his district in northern Madrid, Roberto DELGADO - not seen on screen - talks about himself.

Substanz

This cinematic composition examines the randomness and distance of the footage shot after the catastrophe in Japan in April 2011. In order to attain a new level of perception by overlapping image and sound and therefore recreating a sensation of being lost in a foreign country under state of emergency.

Hua-Shan-Qiang

A man who has died from burning himself comes to a paper house, where Golden Boy and Jade Lady await to take him to the Western Paradise. He climbs up to the Hua-Shan-Qiang, and his soul goes through a fable of national identity.

The Queen

Her crown is so heavy, they have to remove weight from it since she cannot carry it and it would fall off her head. But now she doesn't want anything else to be done with it because she looks so pretty.

The Visit

In a care home surrounded by magical forest deep in the middle of nowhere, the residents are leading their quiet and unruffled lives. Only on Sundays they break the routines since it's the visiting day, and yet they seem to spend it on waiting for the visitors that never show up.

City Edition

City Edition is a pamphlet addressed to the American mass media. Between the printing out of the New York Times in the opening sequence and Dirk BOGARDE, who disappears into a taxi after having thrown the day's edition into the bin at the end, BERLINER uses editing to restage the rumbling of the world.

Myth in the Electric Age

Creatively-mounted archive footage, letters, animation and sound effect make Myth in the Electric Age a gripping visual gala of natural phenomena, orchestrated wonderfully by maestro BERLINER and narrated by philosopher Marshall McLUHAN.

The Family Album

The Family Album is a one-hour experimental documentary film utilising a vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. These home movies are exciting authentic documents of the American folk history and culture, taken from the personal vantage point of the amateur photographic eye.

Intimate Stranger

Joseph CASSUTO is Alan BERLINER's maternal grandfather, a Palestinian Jew who was a cotton buyer for the Japanese in Egypt prior to World War II. Later, he abandoned his family and went off to Japan to pursue his business interest and life-long affair with Japanese culture. Seventeen years after his death, his grandson made a film of his grandfather's life story.

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