Dominic Angerame
Cityscapes
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Original format 16mm
Year 1982-2010
Artist(s) Dominic Angerame
Running time 119 min
Films
A TICKET HOME (1982) 11'
I'D RATHER BE IN PARIS (1982) 17'
HONEYMOON IN RENO (1984) 8'
CONTINUUM (1987) 15'
DECONSTRUCTION SIGHT (1990) 12'
PREMONITION (1995) 10'
LINE OF FIRE (1997) 8'
IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS (1997) 23'
THE SOUL OF THINGS (2010) 15'
Description
"And in the midst of it all—the streets, the bridges, the roads, the rooftops, the endless river of communication cables and the glassy monoliths of the protruding superstructure—there is man. The film is like a dream that one cannot put one's finger on and cannot forget, so elusive, suggestive, labyrinthine is truth itself. And then one realizes that the very fact of life is heroic."
— Ronald Sauer
"The concrete world of American infrastructure and its disappearance are rendered strangely poetic in this expressionist documentary that shows San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway before its destruction. In an atmosphere of daylight and mystery, Angerame plants clues and reveals the past encircled by the future. Lyrical, unsettling, comic, Premonition acts on the attentive viewer like a memory of something about to happen, a silent and revealing waking dream."
— Barbara Jaspersen Voorhees
"... the images from Continuum certainly haunt me. I was astonished to find how much the film does not evoke the time in which it was made, nor even the place where it was shot. I tended to forget that it was about City-chores, rooftop work, etc.: just work, the continuity of work, timeless and continuous, yet inexorable. Bravo."
— Stan Brakhage