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Michael Gitlin has been making media work since the mid-1980s. His early films and videos were most often engaged with teasing apart the mechanics of narrative. This period of work culminated in the short feature, "Berenice" (1996), which is very loosely adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name and was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial Exhibition.
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26 September 1998
Mimi and Michael are close friends after a brief and unsuccessful dating interlude years before. Michael has remained in love with Mimi over the years, but Mimi, who has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, seems willing to try romance with Michael a second time.
01 January 1996
Berenice is a meditation on a dream of lost plenitude, and its inversion into decay. The events depicted in the film concern the formation and dissolution of a utopian community in 1832, and the psychic and physical disintegration of two members of that community.
01 January 2000
An essay on some aspects of the language and technology deployed in turning natural space into commercialized space, shot in nine different commercialized caverns.
01 January 2018
Eastern District Terminal documents a particular lost time and place: the Brooklyn waterfront after the end of its use as an industrial and shipping site, but before it became the front lawn for the shiny apartment towers to come.
01 October 2023
The Night Visitors is a movie about moths. In large and small fragments, looking both inward and out, through a critical lens that is by turns social and personal, the film closely examines these underknown creatures.
