Albert Harry Maysles

President. With his late brother David, he formed a documentary filmmaking team whose notable works include Salesman (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (1976). Beginning as a professor of psychology, he made the transition from psychology to film in the summer of 1955 by taking a 16mm camera to Russia to film patients at several mental hospitals. The result, Psychiatry in Russia, was Albert's first foray into filmmaking. Later, the Maysles brothers made a motorcycle journey from Munich to Moscow and along the way shot their first collaborative film on the Polish student revolution. Their 1964 film on The Beatles forms the backbone of the DVD, The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit. Several films document art projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude over a three-decade period, from 1974 when Christo's Valley Curtain was nominated for an Academy Award to 2005 when The Gates headlined New York's Tribeca Film Festival. Albert has continued to make films on his own since his brother's death. He is currently working on a film about the late artist Keith Haring. He founded the Maysles Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides training and apprenticeships to underprivileged individuals. Patron of Shooting People, a filmmaker's community.