Dominic ANGERAME: Consume
Film expérimental | 16mm | couleur et n&b | 0:12:00 | USA | 2003

(c) photo: Dominic Angerame

Set mostly to a soundtrack of chant and percussion, Consume displays an idea of ritual, a concept of dance, and depicts the elusive power of the projected image. It begins in a whirlwind of flickering scenes, at first anchored by Zhanna flashing back on herself dressed in street clothes and photographing us with a movie camera. Thereafter a succession of black and white portraits, multiple exposures, varying degrees of light and dark—over Zhanna’s face, mouth, eyes, body—are occasionally intruded by color. It probes to the wall of her skin. Like the obsessed photographer in Antonioni’s Blow-up, Angerame sharpens his focus until reality is blurred to an abstract magnification.
To examine someone or something so intensely most often results in the loss of objectivity. Angerame comprehends the rhythm of his film’s progressive subjectivity as “a trance by natural evolution,” the eye relearning to processes movement, space and appearance. “It becomes an exploration into oneself and the sense of seeing and being at the same time...both an inward journey and an outward one…” Hence, Consume.

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Since 1969, Dominic Angerame has made more than 35 films that have been shown and won awards in film festivals around the world. He has also been honored by two Cine Probe Series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City -- in 1993 and in June 1998. He teaches filmmaking/cinema studies/criticism the San Francisco Art Institute as a visiting artist. He has also taught film production and cinema studies at the University of California Berkeley, Extension, New College of California; and has been a guest lecturer and visiting artist for Stanford University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Graduate School of Theology in Berkeley, and others. Furthermore Dominic Angerame has been the Executive Director of Canyon Cinema for the past twenty years. Under his leadership Canyon Cinema has become one of the world’s most renowned distributors of avant garde and experimental films. Canyon Cinema’s contribution to the field of experimental/avant garde filmmaking is historic and heroic.

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- BATTLE STATIONS - A NAVEL ADVENTURE (2002) 16 mm black and white sound, 5.5 minutes
- IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS (1997) 16mm black and white sound, 23 minutes
- LINE OF FIRE (1997) 16mm black and white sound, 8 minutes
- PREMONITION (1995) 16mm black and white sound, 10 minutess
- DECONSTRUCTION SIGHT (1990) 16mm black and white sound, 14 minutes
- CONTINUUM (1987) 16mm black and white silent, 17 minutes
- PHONE/FILM PORTRAITS (1985) 16mm black and white sound, 6 minutes
- VOYEURISTIC TENDENCIES (1984) 16mm black and white sound, 17 minutes
- HIT THE TURNPIKE! (1984) 16mm black and white sound, 3 minutes
- HONEYMOON IN RENO (1983) 16mm color sound, 4 minutes
- SAMBHOGA-KAYA (1983) 16mm black and white silent, 6 minutes
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- EL TRAIN FILM (1976) 16mm color sound, 5 minutes
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- DELAWARE PARK (1969-73) 16mm black and white sound, 4 minutes
- DEMONSTRATION (1968-74) 16mm color silent, 4 minutes
- PUTZO (1972) 16mm black and white sound, 10 minutes
- 10 X 17 (1971) 16mm black and white sound, 20 minutes
- FLUSH IT! (1969) 16mm black and white silent, 1 min

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