Brian Dowley

Movies

Talent Has Hunger
Cinematography
Documentary about the influence that master cello player Paul Katz has on four gifted cello players over the space of several years. It explores how music can influence and enhance the lives of both the teacher and his students.
Surrogates
Camera Operator
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Back from the Edge
Cinematography
A landmark documentary style short film that features compelling and dramatic first-person accounts of people living with, and recovering from, Borderline Personality Disorder. The production also features family members as well as leading clinicians, including Otto F. Kernberg, MD; Marsha Linehan, PhDl John Gunderson, MD; Wayne Fenton, MD; and Perry Hoffman, PhD, who put their stories into a broader social and medical context.
Mars, Dead or Alive
Additional Camera
NOVA goes behind the scenes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to offer a look at the construction and launch of two Martian exploratory rovers: "Spirit" and "Opportunity".
The Mind's Big Bang
Camera Operator
The events and coincidences that led to rapid advances in human intelligence 50,000 years ago.
The Machine That Changed the World
Camera Operator
5-part documentary series on the history of electronic digital computers.