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Now Available on 16mm: New Prints of James Broughton’s Hermes Bird and High Kukus, and Broughton & Joel Singers’ The Gardener of Eden
New, beautiful prints of Hermes Bird, High Kukus and The Gardener of Eden are now available for loan from Canyon Cinema! High Kukus (1973 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “A visualization of the Zen dictum of ‘sitting quietly, doing nothing,’ HIGH KUKUS uses a single beautiful visual image while it delights with a poetic […]
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Now Available on Blu Ray: Janie Geiser’s The Hummingbird Wars
We are pleased to announce that The Humming Bird Wars, the latest work from filmmaker Janie Geiser, is now available to rent on BluRay! The Humming Bird Wars (2014 | 10 minutes | color | sound) “A theatrical fiction, collapsing time and place: turn-of-the-last-century performers apply stage makeup as if for war, to engage in […]
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6/29/15 Canyon Cinema Salon, Betwixt and Between with Kate McCabe
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of June 29th, 2015 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment of our 2015 Salon series. This month, we’re pleased to welcome independent filmmaker Kate McCabe who will premiere her new film “You and I Remain”, a lovely apocalyptic lullaby about the Anthropocene, alongside films from the Canyon collection that have greatly […]
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Now Available on 16mm: 8 Films by Saul Levine
We at Canyon Cinema are beyond excited to announce 8 films now available to rent on 16mm by Saul Levine! Falling Notes Unleaving (2013 | 13 minutes | color | sound) Made almost fifty years after his debut film, Saul Levine’s FALLING NOTES UNLEAVING presents the filmmaker returning to the inspiration of Stan Brakhage and […]
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New on 16mm: Nursing History by Marian McMahon
Canyon Cinema is honored to offer Nursing History by the late, great Marian McMahon for loan on 16mm. Marian McMahon’s contributions to Canadian critical film and video practice have had a substantial impact on contemporary art discourse in Canada. Her work created a dialogue for women’s experiences, interlacing personal and shared subjectivities to examine the […]
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New on 16mm: Lawrence Jordan’s Entr’acte II
We are pleased to announce that Entr’acte II, the latest work from filmmaker Lawrence Jordan, is now available to rent on 16mm! Entr’acte II (2015 | 2 minutes | color | sound) In ENTR’ACTE II the walls come tumbling down. The wheels come off the wagon: Thunder, Lightning, Explosive meditations. Everything seems tobe happening at […]
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New on 16mm: Two Films from Mark Toscano
Canyon Cinema is happy to announce the acquisition of two new films by our friend, preservationist extraordinaire and former board member, filmmaker Mark Toscano! Certain Things (2014 | 4 minutes | color | sound) Certain things you remember. These are two of them, remembered by my father, as we drove north on S. Las Vegas […]
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5/31/15: AVANT-GARDE PARIS at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Canyon Cinema Foundation is happy co-present a program with The Silent Film Festival this year! Head over to the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco at 12:30PM on May 31 for AVANT-GARDE PARIS, a program that explores two seminal films from two great visionaries of the Avant-Garde working in one of the most important cultural […]
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05/22/15: Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus Premiere at Cannes Film Festival!
We’re excited to announce that Canyon Cinema filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky’s latest film, The Exquisite Corpus, will premiere at Cannes Film Festival at the Director’s Fortnight. Read on for screening dates and a description of the film. And be sure to check out Peter’s filmmaker page and official website for more info about the artist and his body of work. […]
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New 16mm print: Oskar Fischinger’s Allegretto
A new 16mm print of Oskar Fischinger’s ALLEGRETTO is now available through Canyon Cinema! Allegretto (1936-43 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “Visually, ALLEGRETTO is very rich indeed. Fischinger’s fascination with the new (to him) technique of cell animation led him to experiment with multi-layered see-through constructions which are more diverse and complex on the […]
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Unseen Cinema CollectionIn the Street - Helen Levitt
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Alternate title: I Hate 1010th Street
Co-makers: Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee
Shot 1945-46, 1948 early edit, later... Read more »