Atomic Children (2023)

Music Video

Music video directed, animated, and designed by Max Bernstein, in collaboration with the international Renewal Music Collective.

Developmental 2021 (trailers)

Queer web series

I was responsible for editing, VFX, and composing music for these trailers. This was a series that was produced entirely remotely during the pandemic. Directed and performed by Tommy Heleringer

I Chromagram Therefore I am (2018)

Music video/Drag Performance

Part music video, part performance persona, Chromagram is the beginning of a series of videos and performances featuring pop-star Sadie Hawkins. Video and song Written, produced, edited, and composed by Max Bernstein. This work was commissioned by the New York State Council on The Arts.

Why-Did-Dad-Go? (2016)

Part satire, part grief work, this short was made lovingly in memory of Michelle Ellsworth’s father who had passed, Orville Ellsworth.

Direction, cinematography, editing, and VFX by Max Bernstein

aVoiding the Obvious (2013)

Single-channel video work which depicts the failed attempts of the artist to make himself disappear completely from 360 degree landscapes. This work was screened at the New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA, Art Grease, Buffalo, NY, The Antimatter Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Counterpath Press, Denver, CO.

Yellow Rose in Formaldehyde (2008)

Written, Directed, produced, edited, shot by Max Bernstein