New on 16mm: Alan Berliner’s The Family Album
Posted May 3rd, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
The Family Album by Alan Berliner (16mm, 1986)
“exerts a cumulative a considerable behavioral fascination.”
— J. Hoberman, Village Voice
“…a moving and universal celebration, a family album that provokes a warm shock of recognition.”
— Howard Aaron, Northwest Film and Video Center
“…the disjunction between soundtrack and image curiously heightens the reality and surreality of the home movie as a private dream.
— John Hanhardt, Whitney Museum of American Art.
… Most of not all of the adults in the films are surely dead by now, forgotten, often almost unknown, yet visible in a flickering facsimile of life, waving and speaking to us from beyond this life in a kind of anonymous immortality.”
— Ted Mahar, Oregonian, July 4, 1987
