News / Events

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   Now Available: Ten Digital Files from Mark Street

   Posted July 25th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that ten new digital files from longtime artist member Mark Street, encompassing work completed since 2019, are now available. “For many years Mark Street has been making small, observational films of the details and energies of public spaces in urban settings. City blocks, parking spaces, and storefronts (and the […]

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   Canyon Summer Break: July 4-12, 2024

   Posted July 1st, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema will be closed for a brief summer break beginning Thursday, July 4th. We will re-open for business on Monday, July 15th. In the meantime, please email all booking requests and questions to info@canyoncinema.com. Please note: New bookings with a screening date between July 4-21 need to be received by Friday, June 28th at […]

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   Now Available: A Roll for Peter

   Posted July 1st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   A Roll for Peter (multiple filmmakers, 2016, 56 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm, digital file, or DCP) A collective film by: Dominic Angerame, Roddy Bogawa, Cassandra Bull, Jacob Burckhardt, Jesse Cain, David Gatten, Richard Max Gavrich, George Griffin, Eve Heller, Mott Hupfel, Nikolas Jaeger, Amanda Katz & Josh Lewis, Theodore Rex King, Robbie Land, rebecca (marks) leopold, […]

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   Announcing the Lawrence Jordan Digital Collection

   Posted June 24th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of 43 digital files by founding co-op member Lawrence Jordan. Included within this major new deposit – spanning eight decades of work – are many new digitizations as well as three recently completed films, available in both 16mm and digital formats: Hommage, Fairytale, and Reve d’Or. Canyon’s […]

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   Now Available: Henry Hills’s Social Skills

   Posted June 19th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Social Skills (2021, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) SOCIAL SKILLS is a composition in which a large international group of improvising dancers share a viable vision of a cooperative and imaginative future based on mutual support and spontaneous creation. Here is an environment of touch without threat, closeness without conflict, and individual expression within […]

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   Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke

   Posted June 14th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke (2023, 6 min, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) The visual shows the alternation of the shots of fireworks filmed at a summer festival in Japan, producing a distinctive yet organic rhythm, as well as a gap in time between the visual and sound, both of which are […]

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   Now Available: Bruce James Cooper’s World Without End

   Posted June 11th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   World Without End (2023, 8 minutes color, silent, 16mm) “In his World Without End, Bruce Cooper proposes and proves a universe of multiple dimensions, or perhaps parallel universes gently colliding with each other. Abstractions of redolent blue, backwoods landscapes of autumn leaves, Malick-ian fields of wheat, flowing water in many guises, worlds of animal, and […]

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   Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Lotus-Eyed Girl

   Posted June 11th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Lotus-Eyed Girl (2023, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) Loosely based on the erotic poem “Caurapañcasika” by Bilhana, which was written in prison upon discovery of the poet’s clandestine affair with Princess Yaminipurnatilaka. The verses were written while awaiting judgment, not knowing if he was to be executed or exiled — his fate […]

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   Now Available: Gloria Chung’s True Places and Ommatidia

   Posted May 31st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   True Places (2022, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Places that exist at the border(s) of memory and physical terrain. Ommatidia (2022, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Each compound eye of a large dragonfly is composed of up to 30,000 ommatidia. Each ommatidium collects visual information through photoreceptors, and together the thousands of ommatidia […]

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    Now Available: New Digital Files from Guy Sherwin

    Posted May 21st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two landscape films from Guy Sherwin are now available for rent in digital formats: Under the Freeway (1995, 16 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure. Connemara (1980, […]

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