Documentaries

The SWEETEST SOUND

ALAN BERLINER
USA 2001
60 min
V'01

With the intimacy and humor of a personal essay, Berliner dives headfirst inside the American name pool in search of the treasures and dangers hidden inside his own name. A film that starts out in search of identity slowly transforms into a meditation on mortality. Along the way, he confronts his parents about the origins of his name, his sister about the names she gave her children, and visits the Jim Smith Society, The National Linda Convention, the streets of New York, The Holocaust name memorials, The Vietnam Memorial, and the AIDS Quilt. This is a film guaranteed to make you think twice about the who, the why, and the where contained in every name.

Credits
Alan Berliner 13 Vestry Street, 4/F New York, NY 10013, USA T 212 226 5213 ajberliner@aol.com

Jane Balfour Services Ltd. Flat 2, 122 Elgin Crescent London W11 2JN, Großbritannien T 20 7727 1528 janeathome@onetel.net.uk

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