Now Available: Four Films by Tommy Becker
Posted April 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the addition of four films by Tommy Becker to the catalog, including:
Animal, Animal (Song for the Fate of Animals) (2018, 2.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
A celebration of the wild mixes with icons of the inhumane. A war chant heard bellowing from the mouths of animals is interrupted by a poetic rant championing the wild. The mantra returns to fuel the creatures’ protest as a bombardment of images continues to call into question, “who are the true animals of this world?”
Catastrophe and Convenience (2016, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
An out of breath man struggles to complete his weekend to-do list as Black Friday shoppers find themselves trapped in their frenzy. Weapons discharge in the solitude of nature as a boy’s day dream becomes an epiphany revealing a catastrophe of convenience.
Prelude & Song for the Pain-body (2014, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
The term “pain-body” was introduced by philosopher and author Eckhart Tolle in his book A New Earth. The Pain-body is the collective manifestation of all the pain, misery, and sorrow a person has ever experienced in their life. This lingering energy field of pain can be triggered when we encounter fear, anger, and anxiety in our daily lives. One can recognize the ego’s attachment to these emotions through mindfulness. The truly tragic state of David Banner is his high, almost enlightened level of self-awareness but his inability to subvert the outcomes of his pain-body once it is triggered. This video places the Hulk creature in a subordinate role as he struggles to surrender to authority and overcome the emotional effects of his pain-body.
Deer Children (2012/2023, 3 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
It’s a natural response for teenagers to question and react against their cultural conditioning. Deer Children is an exhortation to embrace unfettered joy and chaos before the agonies of adulthood set in. It invites the viewer to momentarily indulge in the fantasy of youthful rebellion, self-discovery, recklessness, love, disregard, dream and contempt that continues to escape us as we are pulled further into the constructs of age and culture.
