Ben Berman

Ben Berman

History

Ben graduated Harvard University with a BA in Visual Art and Computer Science. He was an assistant to director Errol Morris in Cambridge, MA, where he contributed visual and special effects for feature films. His digital interactives have appeared online in The New York Times, including opinion pieces written in collaboration with Mr. Morris. His animations have appeared in his brother Alex’s films since 2010.

Profile

Ben Berman

Movies

An Evening with Tim Heidecker
Director
Filmed in Los Angeles in pre-COVID times and produced by Abso Lutely Productions, An Evening With Tim Heidecker features Tim’s unique, no-holds-barred takes on modern inconveniences, PC culture, politics and marriage. You can call it a send-up, a parody, a character, a performance piece, or whatever you’d like, but at the end of the day, it’s jokes! Please clap.
Wormholes
Self
Ben goes down a late-night internet wormhole of bad advice and growing neuroses.
Wormholes
Executive Producer
Ben goes down a late-night internet wormhole of bad advice and growing neuroses.
Wormholes
Creator
Ben goes down a late-night internet wormhole of bad advice and growing neuroses.
Wormholes
Director
Ben goes down a late-night internet wormhole of bad advice and growing neuroses.
The Follow-Up
Director
Lonely. Scared. Insecure. But how's it going with you? Is this the first film to be made completely in quarantine? Possibly. 'The Follow-Up' is Ben Berman's follow up film to 'The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (Hulu 2019).
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Director of Photography
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Self
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Editor
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Producer
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Writer
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Director
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps!
Director
Losing weight and getting fit has never been easier! Shed those unwanted pounds with these simple tricks your gym doesn't want you to know about. You won't believe what happens next!
App
Animation
Love is dumb. Now there's an app for that. A shy engineer desperately needs venture capital for his virtual wing woman app. Can he and his app seduce a heartbroken girl at a swanky LA bar to prove it works?.. A modern-day take on Cyrano de Bergerac, APP follows Paul as he desperately tries to get venture capital for his sexy wingwoman app from a sex-starved investor, Mike. To convince Mike to invest, Paul uses his app to seduce a feisty stranger, Zoe. As the App whispers advice, Paul becomes a hipster Don Juan and they grow closer through the night. But when Paul starts to feel a genuine connection, all his calculations become a little more complicated.
I'm a Mitzvah
Writer
A short film about a young American man who spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.
I'm a Mitzvah
Director
A short film about a young American man who spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.
It's Gert
Writer
It's Gert
Director
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special
Director
Join Messers Heidecker and Wareheim for an exciting winter holiday that's taking the world by storm with the Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special.
Father and Son
Editor
A grown man's quest to find love and acceptance from his stepdad and win a magazine contest.
The New Big Ball with Neil Hamburger
Camera Operator
A TV pilot starring Neil Hamburger.
The New Big Ball with Neil Hamburger
Editor
A TV pilot starring Neil Hamburger.
Gettin' it Dunn with Richard Dunn
Editor
Gettin' it Dunn with Richard Dunn
Director of Photography
A Vodka Movie
Editor
Three vignettes detail Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's failing attempts to create an Absolut Vodka commercial with their irate friend Zack Galifianakis.
Dare
Sound Recordist
High school senior Ben secretly lusts after bad boy classmate Johnny. After Ben gives Johnny a ride home one night, the boys end up in Johnny's swimming pool and have an encounter that breaks the rules and blows Ben's mind.