An integral part of the Bay Area avant-garde film scene since the 1970s, Dominic Angerame has directed more than 35 films (and counting) over the course of his career, and has also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, University of California, Berkeley, New College of San Francisco, Osher Life Long Learning Center, and the University of Nevada at Reno, as well as the Academy of Art University. From 1980-2012, he was the Executive Director of Canyon Cinema, where he played an invaluable role in helping to distribute, promote, and preserve experimental cinema.

Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1952-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre, as he explored and exploited material idiosyncrasies of his sources – whether chemically altering the emulsion of Hollywood films and personal home movies or détourning the digital gaming universe of Grand Theft Auto.

Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1952-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre, as he explored and exploited material idiosyncrasies of his sources – whether chemically altering the emulsion of Hollywood films and personal home movies or détourning the digital gaming universe of Grand Theft Auto.

SURVIVA, directed by Ariel Dougherty and Carol Clement, a Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) preservation premiere, and Lisa Crafts' GLASS GARDENS, an earlier WFPF preservation, view the theme of art making and survival from different perspectives: SURVIVA, on a pragmatic level focusing on the day to day concerns of a group of women artists and GLASS GARDENS, showing the power of a woman’s artistic drive, even in the worst of times.  In both films animation figures prominently.