Dominic Angerame
Dominic Angerame (b. 1949, Albany, New York) is an American experimental filmmaker best known for his city symphony and urban landscapes series of films shot in high-contrast black and white.[1] Since 1969, Angerame has made over thirty five films, which have received worldwide recognition. His work has been presented and won awards in numerous film festivals worldwide.[2]
After having graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Angerame moved to the West Coast and majored in filmmaking at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Since the 1980s, he has been one of the key members of the Bay Area avant-garde film community and his work is particularly noted for its relationship to the San Francisco urban landscape and architecture. He cites William Denton, Frank Stauffacher, Rudy Burckhardt, Jonas Mekas, Robert Fulton and the 1930s filmmakers, including Dziga Vertov, Walter Ruttman, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Joris Evens, as influences.[3] For his filmmaking projects, Angerame has been awarded film productions grants from National Endowment for the Arts, American Film Institute, The Illinois Arts Council, The Film Arts Foundation, Samuel B. Mayer Foundation and others. He was the subject of retrospectives at the Vienale International Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of the Cineprobe series.[4]
Angerame has taught film production and cinema studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, the University of California Berkeley, Extension, New College of California, San Francisco, Academy of Art University, San Francisco and Universtiy of Nevada, Reno. He has also been a guest lecturer and visiting artist for Stanford University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Wesleyan University, Contemporary Center for the Arts, Barcelona and others.[5]
From 1980 to 2012, Angerame served as executive director of Canyon Cinema. Under his leadership, Canyon Cinema has become one of the largest distributors of avant garde, experimental and artist-made films.[6]
His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema Foundation in San Francisco, California, and Light Cone in Paris.[5] [7]
In November 2019, Re:Voir released several of Angerame's works on a DVD, entitled "Cityscapes."[8]
Filmography[edit]
Flush it! (1969) 16mm black and white silent, 1 minute
10 X 17 (1971) 16mm black and white sound, 20 minutes
Putzo (1972) 16mm black and white sound, 10 minutes
Delaware Park (1969-73) 16mm black and white sound, 4 minutes
Demonstration (1968-74) 16mm color silent, 4 minutes
Scratches, Inc. (1975) 16mm black and white sound, 5 minutes
El Train Film (1976) 16mm color sound, 5 minutes
Neptunian Space Angel (1977) 16mm black and white, 9 minutes
A Film (1979) 16mm color silent, 3 minutes
Freedom's Skyway (1980) 16mm black and white silent, 3 minutes
SFAI (1980) 16mm black and white sound, 5 minutes
A Ticket Home (1982) 16mm color sound, 11 minutes
I'd Rather Be in Paris (1982) 16mm color/black and white silent 17 minutes
The Mystery of Life (as discovered in Los Angeles) (1982) 16mm black and white, 4 minutes
Honeymoon in Reno (1983) 16mm color sound, 4 minutes
Sambhoga-Kaya (1983) 16mm black and white silent, 6 minutes
Hit the Turnpike! (1984) 16mm black and white sound, 3 minutes
Voyeuristic Tendencies (1984) 16mm black and white sound, 17 minutes
Phone/Film Portraits (1985) 16mm black and white sound, 6 minutes
Continuum (1987) 16mm black and white silent, 17 minutes
Deconstruction Sight (1990) 16mm black and white sound, 14 minutes
Premonition (1995) 16mm black and white sound, 10 minutes
In the Course of Human Events (1997) 16mm black and white sound, 23 minutes
Line of Fire (1997) 16mm black and white sound, 8 minutes
Battle Stations—A Naval Adventure (2002) black and white sound 7 minutes
Consume (2003) 16mm black and white color, sound 12 minutes
Pixiescope (2003) 16mm black and white color sound 3 minutes
The Waifen Maiden (2003) 16mm black and white color sound 45 seconds
Anaconda Targets (2004) digital, black and white, sound 12 minutes
The Soul of Things (2013) 16mm black and white, silent 15 minutes
Revelations (2018) 16mm black and white, sound 21 minutes[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ MacDonald, Scott. "The City As Motion Picture: Notes on Some California City Films." Wide Angle Magazine 19, 4 (1997): 109-130
- ↑ MacDonald, Scott. "Conversation with Dominic Angerame, August 2002 and May 2006." Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor. 410-419. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
- ↑ Wasrshawski, Morrie. "Interview with Dominic Angerame." Media Arts Spring-Summer, 1990.
- ↑ The Film-Makers' Coop. https://film-makerscoop.com/filmmakers/dominic-angerame. Accessed 8 January 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Canyon Cinema. https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=9. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ↑ MacDonald, Scott. "Conversation with Dominic Angerame. August 2002." Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor, 410-419. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
- ↑ LIGHT CONE. https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-6-dominic-angerame. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ↑ Dominic Angerame – Cityscapes. RE:VOIR. https://re-voir.com/shop/en/dominic-angerame/1095-dominic-angerame-cityscapes.html. Accessed 7 August 2020.
- ↑ LIGHT CONE. https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-6-dominic-angerame. Accessed 16 August 2020.
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