In 1995, he made his first commercially released feature, Milk and Money, on 35 mm film produced by RKO Pictures, but as early as 1976 he began making narrative films on video from his own scripts.
Bergmann wrote the libretto for Stefania de Kenessey's opera based on Tom Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities and directed the premiere in New York on October 9th, 2015 [REF].