Dominic Angerame

The San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway comes to life in this elegy for modernity. The Freeway was deemed a triumph of engineering, a monument for...

Short film by Dominic Angerame.

"In June 1999 dear friends Agnetta Falk and Jack Hirschman were married at Matt Gonzales' place in the Mission. I was there with my 16mm Bolex and...

“I've never seen light that looks or feels so dark; forward moving possibility united with so much cosmic terror.”—Marilyn Brakhage

“I've never seen light that looks or feels so dark; forward moving possibility united with so much cosmic terror.”—Marilyn Brakhage

A parody of being a bohemian hanging out in a coffee shop all day.

A poetic black and white celluloid film depicting the city landscape (San Francisco) in a state of constant change.

Song of the El Train in Chicago. The lab did not sync this film correctly and makes this film what it is.

“I've never seen light that looks or feels so dark; forward moving possibility united with so much cosmic terror.”—Marilyn Brakhage

"At the beginning and end of each roll of 16mm I shot a small part of the film is exposed to light because of the insertion and removal of the spool...

Anti-war demonstration, 1968, New York City march to Sheep's Meadow, shows Vets against the war, Yippies, arrests, and flags of a half-forgotten...

I was hoping to strike it rich on our honeymoon in Reno. In a way I did, seeing that the camera was filled with very rich imagery in recording this...

Soundtrack: Ed Sanders. Filmed in Buffalo, 1969, completed in Chicago, 1973. Acid in the park, broken images, danger symbols of the fleeting moments.

Soundtrack: Subduing Demons in America, John Giorno; Actress: Lillian North. A film dealing with the alteration of human scaling within the 16mm...

A humorous parody on the condition of creative film studies in art schools and colleges in general. The sound-track is a composition combining the...

"If you have to beg, or steal, or borrow, Welcome to Los Angeles, City of Tomorrow." - Phil Ochs, to whose memory this film is dedicated. First...

In CONTINUUM, the world, the workers within the world and the labor of making the film itself are equated through montage and a brilliantly...

I'D RATHER BE IN PARIS depicts the filmmaker's visual concern with his physical environment by autobiographically exploring his alternatives:...

Angerame's film juxtaposes footage of the auteur's conflagrated material possessions after an apartment fire with an angiogram of his coronary...

Going home – from west to east; return. Part of a series of turning points. Recording a journal in color language; shadows of faces. Realities...

Longtime San Francisco filmmaker Dominic Angerame turns the classical city symphony on its head by focusing on demolition rather than...

By focusing on demolition precipitated by the Loma Prieta earthquake, Dominic Angerame suggests that the natural disaster simply highlights the...

“WAR ZONE (...) Angerame’s unique take on the history, geopolitics and present-day of the DMZ, which emerges as a complex site that goes...

“A beacon of creativity, a cauldron of experimentation and a haunted space of an (im)possible future — (...) continues Angerame's (...)...

“AEON (...) draws parallels between the earthly and the heavenly, linking the San Francisco cityscape and city dwellers to outer space (...)...

"I traveled to Albany, NY, and called Robert Fulton and stated that I wanted to come and visit him in Newtown, CT. 'You can’t get here from...

" (...) documents the beginnings of San Francisco’s radical microcinema (...) a landmark venue for showcasing the work of independent and...

"I had the pleasure of meeting Kurt Kren when he lived here in the Bay and had the chance of hanging out with him a few times. All I remember was...

Dedicated to Stan Brakhage "Before being introduced to 16mm filmmaking I was filming with a cheap Regular 8mm camera my sister had given me. I lived...

"This is dedicated to Rosemary Manno, a dear friend that passed away in 2021. Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ”...

"In 1984 the Democrat Party Convention was held in San Francisco. The contenders included Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson against the front runner Walter...

Dedicated to my dear friend Suzanne Kelliher. Sound: “Feather” by Kevin Barnard "This is a portrait of a camping trip to the Cottonwood...

Filmed in Chicago 1978, Papa John Creach playing with Grace Slick and Hot Tuna. "I filmed from stage side one roll of Reg 8mm black and white. As...

These are the waterfalls in Yosemite National Forest. The mesmerizing movement of water. Film ends with two dolphins sun bathing.

Voyeuristic Tendencies is not so much a film about voyeurism as it is our tendency to be voyeuristic. That tendency, nurtured by the filmmakers...

Starring Bruce Conner, a belly dancer, a geiger counter, and a toxic waste dump.

Inspired by the novel Flicker by Theodore Roszak, this film was intended to explore the images captured in the flickering light of multiple projector...

"Anaconda Targets , a documentation tape of aerial bombings by the American military in Afghanistan, depicts the devastating effect of smart bombs....

July 5, 1980. Summertime, San Francisco's Chinatown. A gang of Chinese firework dealers dispose of their unsold goods to the glory of emulsified...

This film utilizes a telephone answering machine as the basic structure. During the past year I kept all the messages recorded on this machine, and...

Starring Zhanna. Gamaya ("Lead Us") a Sanskrit mantra performed by Zhanna, recorded and mastered by Zak May. This is a haiku and offers a prelude to...

A film that seems to be partially created by the magic that only pixies can create. I went out shooting with my Bolex with the intention of shooting...

REVELATIONS is a continuation of what I call my "City Symphony" series. This works includes footage that was shot from the late 90s to the present....

Anti-war demonstration, 1968, New York City march to Sheep's Meadow, shows Vets against the war, Yippies, arrests, and flags of a half-forgotten...

The ultimate rejection film. A compilation of many of the rejection notices and letters that I have received during my fifteen years of making films....