Albert Nerenberg (born October 13, 1962) is a Canadian independent filmmaker, actor, journalist, hypnotist, and laughologist.
Nerenberg told the Montreal newspaper, La Presse, that he became a filmmaker after he smuggled a video camera through army lines[2] during the 1990 Oka Crisis – a standoff between armed Mohawk Warriors and the Canadian military.
While still based in Montreal, some of Nerenberg's earliest films received acclaim, as well as some skepticism, "on the fringes" with "highly entertaining, low-budget documentaries", like Urban Anglo (1991) and 1949, so titled because it cost only $19.49 to make,[3] taking advantage of the sophistication of Hi-8 video equipment at that time.
Nerenberg moved to Toronto, "like many young Montreal anglo filmmakers before him," where he would eventually achieve even greater acclaim with higher-budget, more entertaining documentaries.
The director orchestrated the red carpet entry of a group of Trailervision actors as major movie stars.
Not long after, Nerenberg moved from Toronto with his significant other and child to take up residence in the Eastern Townships burgh of West Bolton, "where he does much hiking and laughing when not lecturing or making movies elsewhere.
[10] You Are What You Act (2018) points out how film actors often become their roles and suggests these principles apply to ordinary people in terms of actualizing confidence, heroism, health and love.
At IdeaCity in 2014,[11] Nerenberg made a controversial presentation[12] suggesting that all drug and alcohol states can be replicated with hypnosis.
Nerenberg said he got the idea of the Hypnotic Bar after coming across a statistician stating that more people are currently dying of drug and alcohol overdoses than at any other time in human history.
Nerenberg proposed that hypnotic chicken behaviour reveals a key aspect of human nature, that we believe our dreams.