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...Berman says those awards gave him newfound confidence but also made him realize the difference between making a film for himself and making one for hundreds of film festival viewers. “Some people want to talk about theory,” he says, “but working in this medium is about the audience and making them feel something...
...resourcefulness and improvisation. “Songs from the Tundra” was originally meant to be an environmental film about the clash between Siberia’s near-frontier status and the industrialization its gas deposits are attracting. Finding himself treated as a tourist at every turn, however, Berman was forced to adapt. The result was his reindeer herder musical...
...Berman brought this viewer-centric ideal to his thesis film, looking for something that would have immediate impact. “To really connect with people now you have to show them something they’ve never seen before,” he says. He found just that with supernova simulations from the University of Chicago’s center for Advanced Simulation and Computing. Using these simulations and other cutting-edge graphics available in the public domain—3-D models of space stations from NASA, for instance—he and his brother Benjamin S. Berman...
...Berman faced the daunting task of making low-budget sci-fi believable by applying his hands-on, practical methodology to his special effects work. His process involved figuring out how to use available technology to achieve his desired, futuristic effects...
Likewise, Berman threw half of the material he filmed for “The Anomaly” away, added new animation sequences, and wrote a new voiceover in post-production. “As many little pictures that you draw or scripts that you write, you really don’t know what you’re going to have until you finish it,” Berman says. “And that’s what’s so exhilarating about...