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New Board Member: TT Takemoto
Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome TT Takemoto to our Board of Directors! TT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American artist and scholar exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Their work delves into hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and trauma existing within Asian and Asian American archives. A Canyon artist member since 2023 and […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Scott Bartlett’s Moon 1969
Moon 1969 (1969, 15 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “The interrelated convolutions and spasms of image, color, and sound that filmmaker Bartlett creates is the cumulative effect of his pioneer work using negative images, polarization, television techniques, computer-film, and electronic patterns all compressed into a visual punch that directs one where he normally […]
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Now Available: Multiple Works by Kirk Tougas
Canyon welcomes Kirk Tougas, noted experimental film artist, director of photography, producer, director, curator, and founder of Vancouver’s Pacific Cinematheque to the collection. With over 250 professional credits, Tougas is recognized as one of Canada’s pre-eminent feature documentary cinematographers. Representing many cultural, anthropological, social, and political themes, these films have been broadcast on every major […]
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Now Available: Peter Hutton’s At Sea
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Peter Hutton’s silent portrait of a commercial shipping vessel, At Sea (2007), is now available for distribution on 16mm. At Sea (2007, 60 min, color, silent, 16mm) “Hutton knows the sea. His experiences as a former merchant seaman have informed his film making practice, known for its rigour and […]
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Now available: New digital works from Henry Hills
Henry Hills has made over two dozen short experimental films, videos & digital works since 1975. His dense and intensely rhythmic compositions, which seek abstraction within sharply-focused naturalistic imagery, the eternal in the temporal & the ethereal within the mundane, promote an active attentiveness through a relentlessly concentrated montage. The Falls (2019 | 7 minutes | COLOR | SOUND)A […]
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Now available: three new prints from Ernie Gehr
An essential filmmaker of the avant-garde, Ernie Gehr has worked continuously for over 50 years, crafting hypnotic and perception-shifting studies of the familiar. Within his films, observational studies of cities and land take on magical qualities through which streets and buildings reveal unexpected phenomena. Whether using film or digital video, working with abstract or representational […]
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New filmmaker: 8 works from Bill Basquin
Bill Basquin has been making films since the late 1990s. His art crosses genre and mode in ways that are quiet and sometimes surprising. He likes to work outside, with his hands, in dim daylight. He also likes the lessons that come from working with people, living with a tiny grey cat, and continuing to […]
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Now available: five new prints from Robert Breer
Robert Breer‘s career as artist and animator spans 50 years and his creative explorations have made him an international figure. He began his artistic pursuits as a painter while living in Paris from 1949-59. Using an old Bolex 16mm camera, his first films, such as Form Phases, were simple stop motion studies based on his […]
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Now available: three exhibition files from Jason Halprin
Jason Halprin is media artist and teacher working in film & video, and is currently based in Oakland, CA. He is a Professor in the Cinema Department at City College of San Francisco, and was previously a member of the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Colgate University, and Columbia College […]
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Now available: New digital works from Raymond Rea
Raymond Rea is a filmmaker and writer. He worked for over a decade as with San Francisco’s Theatre Rhubarb, a company dedicated to staging rarely seen and risk-taking theatre works. His own production company, Density Over Duration, has produced 8 stage works, 8 short films and an experimental narrative feature. His film and video work […]
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