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11/7/18 // Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa
Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa Wednesday, November 7th 2018 // 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Tickets – $13.00 General Admission ($8.00 BAMPFA members) Tomonari Nishikawa in person! “This program’s cinematic duet highlights the intergenerational convergences and transcontinental connections animating the structural filmmaking tradition. Through the alternately contemplative and psychedelic works […]
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11/4/18 // Dirty Looks: Eight Years On
Dirty Looks: Eight Years On Sunday, November 4th 2018 // 7:00 PM The Stud Facebook Event Tickets – $10.00 General Admission Filmmakers Mariah Garnett, Aimee Goguen, Brontez Purnell, Jill Reiter and Michael Robinson in attendance! “Dirty Looks compiles eight years of experimental screenings for a shorts program of signature delights that queer the pop cannon […]
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11/4/18 // BAWAR Benefit: Rage/Resist
GAZE presents Rage/Resist: A BAWAR Benefit Sunday, November 4th 2018 // 5:00 PM Artists’ Television Access Tickets – $7.00 – $10.00 Sliding Scale Presented by GAZE film series. GAZE film series presents a curated screening exploring gendered oppression, bearing witness, survivorship, and modes of resistance to benefit Bay Area Women Against Rape (BAWAR), where call volume and requested […]
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New film: Saisonnier by Sandra Davis
Sandra Davis’ “little story without a narrative” — or perhap, her “ode” — Saisonnier is now available to rent. Saisonnier (2016 | 7 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Another ode – a little story without a narrative. A reverie for a moment in time, and a passion of place. Facing time and echoes of disappearance. Audio and […]
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Celebrating the work of Josephine Massarella
Josephine Massarella was an independent filmmaker and teacher based in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as a longtime friend of Canyon Cinema. She passed away on June 22, 2018. Her last work, 165708, premiered at the 2018 Ann Arbor Film Festival, where it was awarded the prize for Best Experimental Film. A digital version of the film […]
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New prints: Piece Mandala/End War, Word Movie and T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G by Paul Sharits
New prints of Paul Sharits’ flicker films Word Movie, Piece Mandala/End War, and T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G, have arrived at Canyon and are now in circulation! T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G (1968 | 12 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on soundtrack/an […]
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New digital files: Karen Holmes’ Returning the Shadow and Saving the Proof
Karen Holmes has delivered digital versions of Saving the Proof, an 11-minute deconstruction of the act and process of a woman walking, and Returning the Shadow, which uses old family photographs to meditate on personal and hereditary memory. Returning the Shadow (1985 | 23 minutes | COLOR | OPT) Old family photographs invoke memories and invite […]
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Now available: Revelations by Dominic Angerame
Dominic Angerame’s Revelations, the newest iteration in his “City Symphony” series, is now available to rent! Revelations (2018 | 24 minutes | B&W | SOUND) “He began to recognize that motion pix could be used as a medium to reveal the supernatural and underworld. He found the calling for which he had been born. He found […]
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Now available: Tartarughe d’Acqua by Rose Lowder
Tartarughe d’Acqua, Rose Lowder’s study of a turtle colony in a small pond in Italy, is now available for rental. Tartarughe d’Acqua (2016 | 24.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) The town of Asti, Piemonte, in Italy, has in its park a very small pond in which there are a great number of turtles, a species […]
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New prints: Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone
Two more prints of Anthony McCall’s pioneering solid light film Line Describing a Cone have now arrived at Canyon. Line Describing a Cone (1973 | 30 minutes | B&W | SILENT) Line Describing a Cone is what I term a solid light film. It is dealing with the projected light-beam itself, rather than treating the light-beam as a mere […]
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Robert HuotRed Stockings / Cross-Cut - A Blue Movie / Black and White Film
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Red Stockings
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