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Now available: a new digital exhibition file of Charlotte Pryce’s Pwdre Ser the rot of stars
Charlotte Pryce has been making experimental films, photographs and optical objects since 1986. Born in London, Charlotte Pryce graduated with a BFA from the Slade School of Art, University College London and completed an MFA in Fine Art/ Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Pwdre Ser the rot of stars (2018 […]
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Now Available: new and recent works by Stephanie Barber
Stephanie Barber is an American writer and artist. She has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Her videos are concerned with the content, musicality and experiential qualities of language and her language is concerned with the emotional impact of moments and ideas. They ferry viewers through philosophical […]
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Now available: DEAL!! by Gary Adlestein & Jerry Orr
“The most important aspect to Adlestein‘s approach to video is that it is irrefutably and defiantly filmic. … It is sublimely tactile where most videos tend to be impersonally cool and hard. …”-Albert Kilchesty, film curator and author “Jerry Orr is an audio-visual alchemist. He does with the two-dimensional image of film and video what […]
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Now available: Three recent films by Saul Levine
A legend of small gauge filmmaking, Saul Levine‘s practice includes film, video, live performance, collage and installation. Included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1998 exhibition Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films, Levine’s work is noted for its incorporation of splice marks, percussive editing, “unconstrained camera movements and spontaneous formal accidents.”– Steve […]
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Now available: two new films by Nathaniel Dorsky
Nathaniel Dorsky, born in New York City in 1943, is an experimental filmmaker and film editor who has been making films since 1963. He has resided in San Francisco since 1971. “In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in […]
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New Filmmaker: Anna Kipervaser
Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born multimedia artist. Her work spans multiple disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and video. Her moving image work has screened at festivals internationally at Crossroads Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Antimatter, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Full Frame Documentary […]
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Now available: Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer by Jack Walsh
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to add Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer by Jack Walsh to our distribution catalog. DCP, Blu-Ray and exhibition quality digital files are available for public screenings, and DVDs can be purchased for institutional or home use. Inhabiting the worlds of television, film festivals and art museums, Jack Walsh’s […]
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Now available: Six recent works by David Gatten
Throughout his filmmaking career David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. His body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, often blurring the boundary between these categories. […]
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6/27/19 // Remembering Barbara Hammer
Remembering Barbara Hammer Thursday, June 27th, 2019 // 7:30 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Facebook Event Tickets – $10.00 General Admission ($6.00 Cinematheque members) Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque. On Thursday, June 27, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, we are proud to present a special memorial screening in honor of the recently […]
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New consignment DVDs from Re:Voir
Re:Voir publishes beautiful DVD editions of classic and contemporary experimental cinema, with the goal of introducing the broadest possible audience to rare, under-seen, and important artist-made films. Canyon Cinema is an American distributor of Re:Voir releases, and we are pleased to share work by Patrick Bokanowski, Stephen Dwoskin, Anne Maregiano, François Miron, Suzan Pitt, Jürgen […]
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Unseen Cinema CollectionTwenty-Four Dollar Island - New 4K digital restoration - Robert J. Flaherty
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Complete title: Twenty-Four Dollar Island: A Camera Impression of New York
Maker: Robert J. Flaherty
Original format: 35mm silent film... Read more »