Ben Berman

Director

Biography

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.

Filmography

8.4

On Cinema

Tim Heidecker reviews the latest movies in theaters with a special guest.

6.3

Comedy Bang! Bang!

Based on Scott Aukerman’s popular podcast of the same name, COMEDY BANG! BANG! cleverly riffs on the well-known format of the late night talk show, infusing celebrity appearances and comedy sketches with a tinge of the surreal. In each episode, Aukerman engages his guests with unfiltered and improvisational lines of questioning, punctuated by banter and beats provided by bandleader, one-man musical mastermind Reggie Watts, to reinvent the traditional celebrity interview. Packed with character cameos, filmic shorts, sketches and games set amongst an off-beat world, COMEDY BANG! BANG! delivers thirty minutes of absurd laugh-loaded fun featuring some of the biggest names in comedy.

4.4

Funny or Die Presents

Funny or Die Presents is a half-hour sketch comedy show that spawned from the comedy website Funny or Die, created by Will Ferrell & Adam McKay. It premiered on HBO on February 19, 2010. It is also currently being broadcast in the UK on Sky Atlantic.

8.0

Tim and Eric Nite Live!

Tim and Eric Nite Live is a live show broadcast via Internet stream. Meaning anything can happen, including random people speaking and acting in "mature" ways. We can't predict or control it; that's the beauty of it all. Consider yourself warned!

2.0

The Follow-Up

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).

6.4

An Evening with Tim Heidecker

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.

6.1

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

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.

8.1

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special

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.

6.2

I'm a Mitzvah

A short film about a young American man who spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.

7.0

The American Gladiators Documentary

The American Gladiators Documentary, a two-part 30 for 30 ESPN film directed by Ben Berman, takes an unconventional approach to the epic tale of the famed reality-competition show. From its humble beginnings in small-town Erie, PA to international stardom, the show's most charismatic figures finally tell their stories. But what begins as a traditional sports documentary soon gives way to bigger themes of greed, divergent narratives, and ultimately questions how history itself is written.

N/A

Heads

Come inside the head of NYC sculptor Jack Cox who makes heads from his head.

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Wormholes

Ben goes down a late-night internet wormhole of bad advice and growing neuroses.

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