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7/19/18 — Love it or Leave it at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts — FREE
The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA) hosts ‘Love it or Leave it,’ an evening of short, experimental 16mm films. Selected by Canyon Cinema, the program features works by Jack Smith, Julie Murray, Jodie Mack, Lewis Klahr, Scott Stark, Tomonari Nishikawa, and Tom Palazzolo. These films employ familiar images and artifacts of mid-20th-century popular culture, […]
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2017 was a remarkable year. 2018 will be even better (but only with your help).
2017 has been nothing short of an extraordinary year for Canyon Cinema. A 50th anniversary celebration, 40+ local screenings, new works, new artists, free events, new programs and exciting partnerships! As we enter our 51st year as one of the world’s preeminent sources for artist-made moving image work, we will strive towards expanding access to […]
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New DVD on sale : Let Them Eat Cake, by Alexis Krasilovsky
Let Them Eat Cake (2014 |81 minutes |COLOR |SOUND) Six years in the making, filmed in a dozen countries, this is a poetic essay film on the full range from the pleasures and dangers of overeating to the tragedies of world hunger. Let Them Eat Cake is not your typical documentary. It is a poetic […]
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Lynn Sachs Your Day Is My Night now available on DVD
Your Day Is My Night (2013 | 64 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Blending autobiographical monologues, intimate conversations, and staged performances, Lynne Sachs’ Your Day Is My Night documents the lives of Chinese immigrants sharing a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown, offering a deeply felt portrait of the Asian-American immigrant experience. […]
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Found and Lost by Janis Crystal Lipzin : New sale DVD available
Found and Lost (2014 | 8 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Music by Lisa Mezzacappa A found home movie of a vacation in mid-20th-century Bakersfield, CA prompts reflection on lost times and lost technologies. Commissioned for the 30th Anniversary of Artists Television Access (ATA) San Francisco by Mission Eye and Ear. Selected screenings: 18th ANTIMATTER MEDIA […]
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4 new prints from Gordon Ball at Canyon !
Sitting (1977 | 2 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Sitting meditation study. First work after I laid down camera seven years – thus newskin concentration on breath-body precise rhythm attention. Awards: Honorable Mention, North Carolina Film Festival, 1977; Third Int’l Avant-Garde Film Festival, London, 1978. Father Movie (1978 | 10 minutes | COLOR | SILENT ) Made spontaneously […]
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New filmmaker at Canyon : Sandy Ding
In 2016 Canyon Cinema was delighted to welcome new filmmaker Sandy Ding to the catalog. Now three films on 16mm, one work on 35mm, and a new DVD collection issued by Re:Voir are available from Canyon. Sandy Ding is a experimental filmmaker from Beijing China. He graduated from CalArts Film and Video MFA in 2007, and […]
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Four new 16mm titles from filmmaker Paul Turano now available for rental !
Four new films by Paul Turano are now available for rental from Canyon Cinema. 26 First Light on South St. (2013 | 11.5 minutes |COLOR |SOUND) The first weeks with our newborn twins, getting used to waking up early, the new sounds in the house, imagining the world through their eyes. Prompted by Bartók’s […]
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Stephen Broomer’s films now distributed by Canyon
Canyon Cinema is honored to welcome filmmaker Stephen Broomer to our distribution catalog. Broomer is a Toronto-based filmmaker who appeared with his work throughout the 2016 Crossroads Festival in San Francisco and placed many of the 16mm prints with Canyon shortly after. See this in-depth interview for more on Broomer and his recent filmmaking. Beautiful 16mm prints […]
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DVDs galore (from our European friends at Re:Voir and Index DVD Edition)
We are pleased to announce that we have expanded our catalog of DVDs! The following 66 titles from European labels Re:Voir and Index DVD Edition are now available for purchase! Adolfas Mekas – Hallelujah The Hills Armager & Dervaux – Cinemas de traverse Christopher McLaine – Beat Films Dada Cinema DIFFERENT CINEMA : VOLUME 2 […]
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