Dominic Angerame Program at SF's Roxie This Saturday

FILMMAKER DOMINIC ANGERAME. SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTEPRISES.

This Saturday, October 7th, 2023, nine short works by filmmaker, theorist, and avant-garde activist Dominic Angerame will screen at San Francisco’s Roxie in a program titled The Soul of Cinema.

Angerame has been active as a filmmaker since the 1960s, and from 1980 to 2012 worked as the Executive Director of Canyon Cinema, the premier avant-garde filmmaking collective on the West Coast. His films typically show urban deconstruction and cinematic construction as two sides of the same coin — as de-construction, even. He searches for unfamiliar views of seemingly familiar things: cities, landscapes, faces, bodies. Ultimately, the filmmaker’s desire is to make everyday images unfamiliar, to learn to see them fresh, and to estrange them from our senses.

Angerame has lived in North Beach for 45 years, and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, University of California, Berkeley; New College of San Francisco; Osher Life Long Learning Center; the University of Nevada at Reno; and the Academy of Art University. He has completed 30 films on 16mm and countless projects on video and digital formats.

GME is proud to distribute nine of Angerame’s “city symphonies” in the collection CITYSCAPES, which is available to the North American university market as both a DSL file and physical DVD. Included in this package are the 16mm shorts A TICKET HOME (1982), I’D RATHER BE IN PARIS (1982), HONEYMOON IN RENO (1984), CONTINUUM (1987), DECONSTRUCTION SIGHT (1990), PREMONITION (1995), LINE OF FIRE (1987), IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS (1987), and THE SOUL OF THINGS (2010). Of these films, both CONTINUUM and THE SOUL OF THINGS will play in the Roxie’s program this Saturday.

Visit the Roxie’s website for additional information about this engaging retrospective, co-presented by Canyon Cinema and featuring live sound by Kevin Barnard.