Alan Berliner Attending April 9

In this deeply intimate and haunting documentary, director Alan Berliner (First Cousin Once Removed, The Sweetest Sound) posthumously collaborates with his friend and colleague, New York City experimental filmmaker Benita Raphan, who died by suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film is an unflinching, lyrical, and ultimately moving study of an artist’s mind, offering profound insights into the intersections of mental health, creativity, loneliness, and human resilience.

A meticulous chronicler of incredible people, Benita Raphan crafted short documentaries that focused on visionary artists and innovators like Emily Dickinson, John Nash, and Buckminster Fuller, among others. Her films also examined the frontier between mental health and genius, and Berliner, who knew her well and plumbed her enormous collection of journals and films, home movies and much more, has created an amazing portrait of a complicated and beautiful person