Now Available: New Prints and Digital Files from James Otis

Posted October 22nd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the addition of seven films by longtime artist member James Otis to the collection. This new deposit includes five films made between 1990 and 1995 on Super 8, and subsequently transferred to 16mm or digital video, as well as 1979’s No Art of Memory and 2003’s The Last Bite.

Carter Jackson’s Cottonwood (1995, 4.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file)

For three years I commuted 13 miles to work through the Roaring Fork valley. Carter Jackson’s ranch lay to the west of the road. Pseudo-hyper-stereoscopy.

O Places, O Trees! (1995, 12 minutes, color, silent, digital file)

Moving from the mountains into town necessitated recalibrating my eyes, reconciling to new “vistas”. Pseudo-hyper-stereoscopy.

Messenger 48 (1994, 3 minutes, color, silent, 16mm)

In the way station, out there the city. Light in here and out there and from off me, all filtered, mediated, synthetic. Houston business trip. Weeks passing through. When not seeing, building the structures of efficient commerce, yearning for the merest bug in a bush.

Mount Sopris and the Cattle Creek Anticline (1993, 7 minutes, color, silent, digital file)

For three years I commuted 13 miles to work through the Roaring Fork valley. The Cattle Creek anticline lay to the east of the road. Pseudo-hyper-stereoscopy.

He Waited for Days (1990, 2.5 minutes, color, silent, 16mm)

While Don Yannacito was out of town we hosted Marco. Then Don came back! … Marco was a very good dog: smart, friendly, and alert. Don, yet with us as of this writing, is a very good man: also smart, friendly, and alert.

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