“And in the midst of it all — the streets, the bridges, the roads, the roofs, the endless river of communication cables and the windowed monoliths of jutting superstructure — there stands man. The film is like a dream you can’t put your finger on and can’t forget, because the very truth of it is so evasive, suggestive, labyrinthine. And then it dawns on you, the very fact of life is heroic.” - Ronald Sauer
“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, Dominic 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
This DVD contains:
A Ticket Home, 1982, 11 min
I'd Rather be in Paris, 1982, 17 min
Honeymoon in Reno, 1984, 8 min
Continuum, 1987 15 min
Deconstruction Sight, 1990, 12 min
Premonition, 1995, 10 min
Line of Fire, 1997, 8 min
In the Course of Human Events, 1997, 23 min
The Soul of Things, 2010, 15 min
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Extras
20-page bilingual booklet with text by Stefan Grissman
