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2/13/19 // Celebrating Jonas Mekas
Celebrating Jonas Mekas: Birth of a Nation Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 // 7:30 PM Artists’ Television Access // 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco Facebook Event Jonas Mekas (1922–2019), tireless advocate for the underdog, was without a doubt the world’s foremost advocate for personal/underground/avant-garde cinema. As a poet, publisher, filmmaker, curator, critic, archivist, rabble rouser and hopeless romantic, […]
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Spotlight on Patrick Bokanowski: new work, DCPs, and Blu Rays
Patrick Bokanowski is a French filmmaker and animator concerned with the subjective potential of cinema, achieved through distortion of the camera lens and virtuoso optical manipulation. In L’envol and L’indomptable (both 2018), video inputs effloresce into rays of light; both are available as DCPs from Canyon for the first time. The feature films L’ange and […]
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Now available: Stan VanDerBeek 2K transfers
Stan VanDerBeek was a towering figure of the 20th century avant-garde, pioneering live-action and collage animation techniques, proto-expanded cinema installations, and computer processes in a utopian quest to combine art and technology. Gorgeous new 2K restorations of Euclidean Illusions, the Poemfield series, and Science Friction are now available for exhibition. Science Friction (1959 | 10 minutes […]
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2/7/19 // A Salon with Janis Crystal Lipzin
A Salon with Janis Crystal Lipzin Thursday, February 7th, 2019 // 8:00 PM (doors 7:15 PM) Exploratorium – Kanbar Forum // Pier 15, San Francisco Facebook Event Please enter the Exploratorium through the Historic Pier 15 Bulkhead located directly on the Embarcadero. The Kanbar Forum is located to your right immediately upon entry. There will be no Museum […]
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Now available: three files from Larry Gottheim
“Gottheim’s Cinema is a quest of origins. The films elaborate a response to the fictions of our world, the construction of images and sounds, the repeating cycles of life and nature. The profoundness of Gottheim’s act is to elaborate a body of work outside of fashion and within a search for an authentic language of […]
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Now available: That Woman by Sandra Davis
Sandra Davis has finished That Woman, a timely and hysterical reflection on the Monica Lewinsky media spectacle featuring George Kuchar as Barbara Walters. A digital file is now available to rent. That Woman (2018 | 22 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) THAT WOMAN uses as source material the original Barbara Walters interview with Monica Lewinsky, which is intercut […]
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Spotlight on The Arboretum Cycle and Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
Nathaniel Dorsky has spent the last two years meditating on the energy of light as creation in a seven film sequence that is now collected together as The Arboretum Cycle. The work is followed by Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle), which is “a new thing, a spring later, a different maker.” Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) premiered at the […]
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Remembering Robert Todd
We are deeply saddened by the loss of prolific filmmaker, generous teacher and dear friend Robert Todd, whose lyrical work offers a singular vision of the world, and are working hard to ensure his films continue to circulate. Distribution prints of 17 of Todd’s films have been deposited in the catalog, and digital transfers of […]
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Now available: Demonstration and Process of Elimination
Archivist, filmmaker–and former Canyon employee–Mark Toscano has placed two short works, Demonstration and Process of Elimination, into distribution. Demonstration (2012 | 2.5 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) It may be that exhibitionistic displays of emotion are purely for the benefit of the demonstrator, in an act of self-indulgent catharsis, but that doesn’t mean they can’t communicate some of […]
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Now available: Color Time by Elizabeth Block
In Color Time, Elizabeth Block “longs to play with the color of film at its last gasp.” The film is now in distribution. Color Time (2004/2018 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) A film for screen; projector performance (with lens and light filters); a film to be projected in a shadow box (as part of […]
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CHUCK'S WILL'S WIDOW is a eulogy for my father and mother whose ashes are spread in the Adirondack mountain woods... Read more »