Albert Birney

Albert Birney is a Baltimore-based filmmaker. He has directed four feature films, The Beast Pageant (co-directed with Jon Moses), Sylvio and Strawberry Mansion (both co-directed with Kentucker Audley), and Tux and Fanny. Sylvio was named one of the 10 best films of 2017 by The New Yorker. He recently finished making a Tux and Fanny video game with Gabriel Koenig, which is now available from the Nintendo store and itch.io. He is currently animating part two of Tux and Fanny.

Talks

Dr. Mario or: How I Learned to Love Video Games Again and Accidentally Made One

By Albert Birney | December 6, 2021

Dr. Mario or: How I Learned to Love Video Games Again and Accidentally Made One

Filmmaker Albert Birney on how the video game of his 8-bit web series Tux and Fanny serendipitously came into existence.