Wide Awake

Director: Alan Berliner
Cast: Dr. Willam C. Dement, MD, PhD., Dr. Leonid Kayumov, PhD., Dr. Mark Rosekind, PhD.,Dr. Richard D. Simon Jr., MD., Dr. Art Spielman PhD.

Screening Times

screening in: Special Screenings

1:45 PM, Saturday March 11th - Alamo Downtown
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8:45 PM, Wednesday March 15th - Alamo S. Lamar 2
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Documentary Feature

    Regional Premiere

Synopsis:
Wide Awake is filmmaker Alan Berliner's uniquely personal tour through his life-long obsession with insomnia. Berliner once again uses his own life as a laboratory- this time to confront both the anguish of his sleeplessness, and the blessing of extra time that it affords his creative life.A film about sleep. About obsession. About seeing in the dark. About the emotional tugs of love and family. About creativity itself. Portrait of an artist as insomniac.

Director's Bio:
Alan Berliner's uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose and popular appeal into compelling film essays has made him one of America's most acclaimed independent filmmakers.