MICHAEL PALMIERI filmmaker / musician
SHORTS / COLLABS
Rougarouing, 2013
Rougarouing means "dangerous carousing." This was shot on Mardi Gras morning in Eunice, LA.
Winner, Best Short, Ashland Film Festival, 2012
Peace IN THE VALLEY, 2015
The first short film for Field of Vision, which led to its companion feature, "The Gospel of Eureka."
World Premiere, NYFF 2016
Screened also in Sundance shorts competition
MARSEILLES, 2014
COMMISSIONED BY THE Montreal RIDM
JEAN LEAVES HOME, 2006/2015
The first film Donal and I ever worked on together. A wonderful few days with Jean Ritchie in 2006, who passed away in 2015. We decided to honor her with a film that we never ended up making by creating this memorial for her.
AS EDITOR / CINEMATOGRAPHER
PORTRAITS AND DREAMS, 2021
CONTEMPORARY COLOR, 2017
Bill and Turner Ross invited me to help them shoot this amazing concert film, with the crazy talented Jarred Alterman and a host of other documentary cinematographers.
Forever, Chinatown, 2016
I shot the miniatures for and edited this lovely film directed by James Q. Chan about the miniature work and life of Frank Wong
International premiere, Camerimage, Poland
THE BATTLE OF AMFAR, 2013
Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
World Premiere, Sundance
Int'l Premiere, Cannes
released by HBO
"TELEPHONE" BY TAUBA AUERBACH, 2001
Tauba Auerbach kindly asked me to shoot this project for her, a time capsule of life in SF in the early 2000's.