Hello all, this week we're presenting another installment of Alan Berliner's experimental documentaries. PLEASE NOTE that this week's screening has a special start time of 8 p.m., rather than our usual 7 p.m. time.
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Following up on our Berliner double feature in the Fall, we present two more of his smart and sensitive autobiographical documentaries. _Wide Awake_ (2005, 78m) uses both metaphor and candid first-person observations to illuminate how an obsessive mind that won't shut down at night leaves him feeling “jet lagged in his own time zone.” In _The Sweetest Sound_ (2001, 60m), Berliner dives headfirst inside the American name pool in search of the treasures and dangers hidden inside his own name, convening a dinner at his house of a group of men, all named Alan Berliner. A film that starts out in search of identity slowly transforms into a meditation on mortality.
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The underground film series is sponsored by Indiana University's Department of Communication and Culture. All screenings are on alternating Fridays at 7 p.m. in room 251 of the Radio-TV building on the IU campus. All screenings are free and open to the public, and free parking is ample in the lot adjacent to the building, provided you clearly display an underground flyer on the dashboard of your vehicle.
