New Acquisitions

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   Now Available: A New Digital Restoration of Lynne Sachs’s Investigation of a Flame

   Posted August 29th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon is pleased to announce that a new digital restoration of Lynne Sachs’s Investigation of a Flame (2001), an intimate, experimental documentary portrait of the Catonsville Nine, is now available. Praised by The Los Angeles Times as “A complex rumination on the power of protest,” and hailed by The Village Voice‘s Phillip Lopate as the best […]

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   Now Available: 20 Films + 3 Digital Videos by Amy Halpern

   Posted August 25th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the acquisition of 23 films and videos by longtime artist member Amy Halpern, all of which are new to Canyon’s collection. Highlights of this major deposit, spanning 50 years of Halpern’s career, include the early suite Opus I (Three Preparations / A Glance / Peach Landscape) (1972-73); 1978’s Cigarette […]

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   Now Available: Five New Digital Files from Dorothy Wiley

   Posted August 4th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce the acquisition of five new digital files from longtime member Dorothy Wiley! Included amongst this new deposit are 4 titles that were previously available on 16mm – Cabbage, Letters, The Weeny Worm or the Fat Innkeeper, and Zane Forbidden – as well as one film that is new to […]

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   Now Available: Three New Films by Federica Foglia

   Posted July 7th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that exhibition files for three new handmade films by Federica Foglia are now available, including: Negative / Positive Film (2023, 14 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) Negative / Positive Film is a hand-made, camera-less collage film composed of layers of erotic 16mm films from 1920s, 1940s, and 1970s, intermingled with […]

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   Now Available: Four New Films from Nathaniel Dorsky

   Posted June 21st, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Four new 16mm films by Nathaniel Dorsky made over the past year, including: Place d’Or (2023, 10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, 18fps) A rainy autumn afternoon at North Lake in Golden Gate Park. Perhaps the “Square of Gold” is also the screen itself. – N.D. Dialogues (2022, 17.5 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, […]

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   Now Available: Tulapop Saenjaroen’s Mangosteen

   Posted June 16th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Mangosteen (Tulapop Saenjaroen, 2022, 40 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A story about storytelling: After returning to his hometown to work in his sister’s fruit processing factory, Earth slowly but surely pulls out of the family business due to his disagreement with his sister. Earth then dedicates himself to writing an abstract, gory novel. Winner […]

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   Now Available: Abigail He’s Measuring 500 Feet

   Posted June 13th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Measuring 500 Feet (Abigail He, 2021, 14 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm) Medium: 16mm filmDimensions: 500 ft. x 5/8 in. x 1/128 in. (15240 x 1.6 x .02 cm) overall: 547 ft. x 5/8 in. x 1/128 in. (16672.6 x 1.6 x .02 cm)

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   Now Available: Four New Titles from Raymond Rea

   Posted June 13th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the availability of four new titles from Raymond Rea. A filmmaker and writer, Rea’s work often challenges assumptions, hints at theatricality, and uses a raw LoFi aesthetic to address complexities. His films have screened widely including at the Ann Arbor Film Festival; Light Field, San Francisco; San Francisco International […]

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   New Artist Member: TT Takemoto

   Posted June 9th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome the San Francisco-based artist TT Takemoto to the collection! TT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American filmmaker exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Their experimental films delve into hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and trauma that exist within Asian and Asian American archives. Takemoto interacts with found footage […]

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    Now Available: Louise Bourque’s Bye Bye Now

    Posted May 26th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
    

    Bye Bye Now (2022, 9.5 minutes, color, sound, 35mm or DCP) The very gesture of waving HELLO to the movie camera in itself (re)presents a recurring GOODBYE to a fleeting moment. Made in homage to my father, this film traces past lives lived in these personal 8mm family archives he left me.

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