Announcements

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   Now Available: Five Works by Lawrence Jordan

   Posted February 13th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Five works by Lawrence Jordan, spanning 1956 to 2022. This new acquisition includes Jordan’s latest 16mm cut-out animation, Harper’s Bazar (2022), 2021’s Alchemy, 2007’s Silent Sonata, as well as new digitizations of two early films from the 1950s: the psychodrama Three (1956) and the collage film Minerva Looks Out Into […]

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   Now Available: Three Works by Al Wong

   Posted February 10th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three works by Al Wong, including the expanded cinema pieces Screen, Projector & Film (1977) and Puddle (1982), as well as a new video, Paper Sister (2023). Paper Sister (Al Wong, 2023, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) This work is a response to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was […]

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   Now Available: Stephanie Barber’s oh my homeland

   Posted February 9th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Stephanie Barber‘s oh my homeland, a minimalist, single-shot portrait of the renowned African American soprano Leontyne Price. In addition, we’ve also added exhibition files of eight of Barber’s 16mm films to Canyon’s digital collection, including: 3 peonies (2017), the parent trap (2017), Catalog (2005), Total Power, dead dead dead (2005), […]

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   Announcing New Streaming Partnership with Projectr EDU

   Posted December 16th, 2022 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is excited to collaborate with our friends at Grasshopper Film on their new Projectr EDU streaming service! Partnering with the New York Public Library and educational institutions across North America, the free platform features nearly 1000 independent and artist-made films, archival restorations, and documentaries.  A sampling of these films includes over 100 titles from Canyon’s collection; the complete restored films of pioneering […]

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5. 

   Canyon Cinema Supports the ExFM Graduate Student Essay Award!

   Posted December 13th, 2022 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is proud to support the inaugural ExFM Graduate Student Essay Award competition! ExFM is the Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS); a forum for scholars and students interested in all forms of experimental film and media, to meet, share ideas and resources, and […]

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   New Artist Member: Jim Jennings

   Posted November 21st, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome the films of prolific New York filmmaker Jim Jennings to the collection. This major new acquisition includes 32 titles made between 1969 and 2008, all on 16mm. For a full list of the Jennings films currently in distribution at Canyon, see: https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=506 About Jim Jennings James Robertson Jennings, usually […]

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   Now Available: A Fire’s Poem + Four More New Titles from Toney W. Merritt

   Posted November 19th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Five new titles from Toney W. Merritt, including his latest work A Fire’s Poem. To learn more about Merritt’s films, see “Effecting Repair: A Canyon Cinema Report on the ‘Rediscovery’ of Toney W. Merritt,” in the current (Fall 2022) issue of JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. A Fire’s […]

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   Now Available: Two Digital Files from Sergio Bátiz

   Posted November 14th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Two new digital files from Sergio Bátiz! Chicago (2003, 3.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The idea of discovering and documenting a new city and new country where I moved to live coming from Mexico with my film camera using a stop-motion or time-lapse film animation photographic technique. Mission San […]

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   Now Available: Paige Taul’s 71

   Posted November 10th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   71 (Paige Taul, 2022, 19 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) 71 is about the sensibilities of the black middle class as observed by Jessica Taul and Pamela Patterson, the filmmaker’s mother and aunt, respectively. They discuss their differing tastes, definitions of class, frogs, and other qualifiers they consider in their evaluation of the space that they […]

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    Canyon Cinema Discovered Launches Four Newly-Curated Programs and 40 Artist-Made Films and Videos From Inaugural Curatorial Fellowship

    Posted September 26th, 2022 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    For Immediate Release San Francisco, CA—Canyon Cinema (est. 1961 in the Bay Area), one of the world’s foremost advocates for and distributors of independent moving-image art, announces the full line-up and screening schedule for its inaugural curatorial fellowship, Canyon Cinema Discovered, taking place throughout the month of October 2022. Four newly-curated programs will premiere at […]

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