Everywhere at Once (1985) by Alan Berliner
Thursday, October 23, 1986, 8:00 pm
Charles Wright/Alan Berliner
Both filmmakers will be present
Tonight’s program offers new work by two filmmakers living in New York, each of whom has mastered highly individual approaches to image/sound montage.
Charles Wright grew up in the Bay Area and helped program the Cinematheque in 1976 and 1977. Of Cable Car Melody (1986) he writes: “You will look down Hyde Street and see San Francisco Bay in the background. In the foreground a cable car will move across the surface of the screen, while almost everything else will change, from shot to shot, to create a melody.” He will also show Sorted Details (1980) and Surprised (1973).
Alan Berliner uses his life-long interest in collecting as the springboard for his films: “The films are composed from a random and ever expanding pool of elements, cultural artifacts and residues, odds and ends accumulated over time, transformed into works attempting to bridge a wide range of poetic horizons: the actual with the possible, pre-history with science-fiction, magic with science fact, the medium with the message.” He will show: Everywhere at Once (1985), Natural History (1983), and City Edition (1980).