"I've always been aneditor." Alan Berliner Alan Berliner's fascination with collecting andorganizing images dates back to his experience as a child, sorting hisstamp collection by color and motif, rather than more typically bycountry. As an adult, he continued to construct highly personal visions,now using found images and sounds: rectangles cut from cardboard boxes,thousands of photographs discarded by a photo processing plant, homemovies from the '20s, '30s and '40s, N.Y. Times photos (every one, everyday, for a year), as well as audio tapes of family holiday gatherings,Marshall McLuhan lecturing, looney tunes, and piano playing. Theseartifacts from the modern era are the "raw materials" for Berliner'sdensely woven, expressive collage films. "The films you will see tonightare drawn exclusively from my sound and image libraries. Composed,therefore, from a random and ever expanding pool of elements, they are aform of 'bricolage', cultural artifacts and residues, odds and endsaccumulated over time, transformed via trial and error into worksattempting to bridge a wide range of poetic horizons: the actual withthe possible, pre-history with science fiction, magic with science fact,the medium with the message." (Alan Berliner) Kathy Geritz Tonight's program includes City Edition (1980, 10min); Myth in the Electric Age (1981, 15 min, color); Everywhere at Once(1985, 10 min, color); and Children of All Ages (work-in-progress, 1986,c. 60 min). Alan Berliner teaches editing at the Collective for LivingCinema in New York. His film Everywhere at Once was the prize winner atthis year's Ann Arbor Film Festival.