Announcements

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   Now Available: Bill Brown’s Mountain State

   Posted August 7th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Mountain State (Bill Brown, 2003, 19 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “History is a ghost, and every historical marker tells a ghost story,” Brown writes about his film; that’s true but also a truism, since every true story must one day become a kind of ghost story. Mountain State is instead a film about absence, […]

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   New Store Item! Tommy Becker’s The Mirror Neuron

   Posted August 5th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Now in stock: Tommy Becker’s The Mirror Neuron, a 36-page color zine featuring an introduction by David Finkelstein and over 30 hi-res stills printed in combination with the poetry and text of the work. A QR code grants access to the full 14:30-minute work online. An optional expanded edition includes a 16″ x 20″ poster […]

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   Now Available: Federica Foglia’s Glitter for Girls

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

   Glitter for Girls (Federica Foglia, 2023, 4 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP)  Glitter for Girls is a handmade tattoo film that utilizes a camera-less direct-on-film animation approach to collage multiple layers of water tattoos (commonly used by children.) Foglia, known for her tactile work on celluloid, this time intervenes on the 16mm polyester base […]

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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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