Announcements

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   Now Available: New Digitizations of Five Films by Sharon Couzin

   Posted February 13th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new digitizations of five films by Sharon Couzin are now available! Sharon Couzin (1943-2019) was a Chicago experimental filmmaker, painter, and poet who began making films in the early 1970s. Her work is known for its complex visual layering that reflects a personal, autobiographical point of view. The […]

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   Now Available: Five New Films by Dominic Angerame

   Posted February 11th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five new films by Dominic Angerame are now available for rent. A Small Fragment of a Day That Belongs to 20 Years Ago (2025, 7.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Memories of lovers past. A glimpse of the erotic emotions that linger in the mind as it changes with each […]

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   Now Available: Jack Walsh’s Dear Rock and The Lost Generation

   Posted February 6th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Dear Rock (Jack Walsh, 1993, 18 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Dear Rock is a posthumous fan letter to Rock Hudson that uses Hudson as a springboard for an exploration of AIDS and homophobia. Using the contrived form of the fan letter, Dear Rock employees digression as its structure, beginning with elements of Hudson’s life that open onto […]

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   Now Available: New Exhibition Files from Leandro Katz

   Posted February 4th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new exhibition files of Leandro Katz‘s Splits and El Día Que Me Quieras are now available for rent. These high-resolution digital scans replace the previous files that were in distribution. Splits (1978, 27 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The story of a young factory worker who in an act of […]

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   Now Available: Four New Poetry Films by Alexis Krasilovsky

   Posted January 31st, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Rafael (2023, 1.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) Videopoem based on “Rafael”, a poem about the angel, by Rodger Kamenetz, from his book, The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022. This microfilm (with embedded English subtitles) includes several photocollages by Alexis Krasilovsky as well as sand video filmed by Zell Lundberg. Positive Thinking (2023, 1.5 […]

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   Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s The Egg

   Posted January 28th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: The latest cut-out animation from the prolific avant-garde maestro, Lawrence Jordan! The Egg (Lawrence Jordan, 2024, 8 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) The egg rolls, tumbles and flies from jungles to Desert glasses in a rollicking adventure, accompanied by the music of Eric Satie.

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   New Artist Member: Alexandra Cuesta

   Posted January 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Alexandra Cuesta to the collection! Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and visual artist who combines experimental film traditions with documentary practices. Her 16mm films and videos are portraits of public places, urban landscapes, and the people in them. Reminiscent of documentary practices such as street photography, Cuesta’s work is […]

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   1/26/2025 – Straight from the Haight (and other Microcinemas in Mid-Sixties San Francisco)

   Posted January 15th, 2025 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   STRAIGHT FROM THE HAIGHT (and other Microcinemas in Mid-Sixties San Francisco) Sunday, January 26, 2025 @ 3:40pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco  Presented by Canyon Cinema With the emergence of Canyon Cinema, that foundational film presenter and distributor, in the early Sixties, there was a visible upsurge of interest in experimental and artisanal filmmaking in the Bay […]

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   Now Available: Jerome Hiler’s Careless Passage

   Posted January 14th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Careless Passage (Jerome Hiler, 2024, 20 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file or DCP) Wandering through the ordinary sights of day and night. How, in this vast cosmos, did all this happen? We live in a world of constant transformations. Somehow, aeons ago, consciousness came about. I’m often drawn to think of the earliest […]

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    Introducing Our New Staff Members: Zachary Epcar and Ashley Rose Tacheira

    Posted December 6th, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the addition of two new staff members: Zachary Epcar, as Distribution & Collections Manager, and Ashley Rose Tacheira, as Distribution Assistant. Zachary Epcar is an accomplished filmmaker working across platforms using 16mm and digital technologies. His award-winning films have been included in the international film festivals of Toronto, New York, […]

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