Dominic Angerame Co-Curates Program of Bay Area Films To Play at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on June 7th

OFFICIAL PROGRAM POSTER BY MATT McKINZIE. SOURCE: THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE.

On June 7th, at 7pm, experimental filmmaker and former Executive Director of Canyon Cinema, Dominic Angerame, will present a program of eight films catalogued by both Canyon and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, titled From West and East: Canyon Cinema Meets the Coop. Scholar and educator Kornelia Boczkowska co-curated the program with Angerame, which features two of Angerame’s recent films: LUMINAE (2023) and AEON (2024). GME is proud to distribute nine of Angerame’s city symphony films in the collection CITYSCAPES, which is available to the North American university market as both a DVD and DSL.

Angerame and Boczkowska’s program “presents the legacy of some of the most widely celebrated (and also largely overlooked) filmmakers who lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area,” and traces “the history of the Bay Area experimental film culture from surreal psychodramas of the 1940s and Beatnik-era film poems to personal, ‘talkin’ blues,’ and found footage films.” In addition to the two Angerame films, the program highlights work by Sidney Peterson, Lawrence Jordan, Mike Henderson, Will Hindle, Chick Strand, and Michael Wallin.

GME’s collection of Angerame’s city symphony films includes A TICKET HOME, I’D RATHER BE IN PARIS (both 1982); HONEYMOON IN RIO (1984); CONTINUUM, LINE OF FIRE, IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS (all 1987); DECONSTRUCTION SIGHT (1990); PREMONITION (1995); and THE SOUL OF THINGS (2010). A 20-page English/French bilingual booklet by Stefan Grissemann accompanies the publication.