Dominic Angerame - Cityscapes
A collection of nine short films by Dominic Angerame
1 .Dominic Angerame - A Ticket Home (1982) 08:52mins
2. Dominic Angerame - I'd Rather be in Paris (1982) 11:27mins
3. Dominic Angerame - Honeymoon in Reno (1984) 03:15mins
4. Dominic Angerame - Continuum (1987) 13:41mins
5. Dominic Angerame - Deconstruction Sight (1990) 13:02mins
6. Dominic Angerame - Premonition (1995) 10:14mins
7. Dominic Angerame - Line of Fire (1997) 07:40mins
8. Dominic Angerame - In the Course of Human events (1997) 23:16mins
9. Dominic Angerame - Soul of Things (2010) 14:52mins
“The concrete world of the American infrastructure and its demise are made strangely poetic in this expressionist documentary which shows the vacant San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway before its destruction. In an atmosphere of daylight, mystery, Angerame sows inklings and reveals the past encircled by the future. Lyrical, ominous, comic, Premonition works on the attentive viewer like a remembrance of something that is to happen, a silent, telling daydream." - Barbara Jaspersen Voorhees
“...the images of Continuum certainly haunt me. It was amazing to me how little evidence there was in the film of the Time in which it was made, or even the location. I found myself tending to forget that these were City-chores, that this was rooftop work, so forth: just the labor, the continuity of labor, timeless, and ongoing, withOUT inexorable. Bravo.” - Stan Brakhage
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« Le monde bétonné de l’infrastructure américaine et sa chute prennent une qualité étrangement poétique dans ce documentaire expressionniste, qui montre l’Embarcadero Freeway de San Francisco juste avant sa démolition. Dans une atmosphère de mystère en plein jour, Angerame sème les allusions et révèle un passé encerclé par le futur. Lyrique, menaçant, comique, Premonition fait l’effet, chez le spectateur attentif, du souvenir de quelque chose qui va se passer, silencieux, un rêve éveillé, silencieux et révélateur. » - Barbara Jaspersen Voorhees
« ... les images de Continuum me hantent assurément. J’étais stupéfait par le peu d’indications que donnait le film quant au moment, et même quant au lieu de sa création. J’oubliais presque que c’étaient des chœurs urbains, des travaux sur les toits, etc. : juste le travail, la continuité du travail, intemporel, incessant, inexorable. Bravo. » - Stan Brakhage
