Announcements

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   Canyon Cinema Foundation to receive $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

   Posted February 7th, 2018 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $25 million in grants as part of the NEA’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $25,000 to Canyon Cinema Foundation to support its film and media distribution program. The Art Works category is the […]

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   Now Available – Digital copies of Seven Works by Matthias Müller

   Posted November 28th, 2017 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Matthias Müller is making available the following seven of his films in digital formats, in addition to the 16mm and 35mm prints in distribution: Alpsee | 1994 | 15 minutes | COLOR | SOUND Rental Format(s): 16mm film, 24 fps / Digital File “Despite the seemingly innocuous gestures of household life, a […]

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   New filmmaker at Canyon : Sandy Ding

   Posted November 13th, 2017 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   In 2016 Canyon Cinema was delighted to welcome new filmmaker Sandy Ding to the catalog. Now three films on 16mm, one work on 35mm, and a new DVD collection issued by Re:Voir are available from Canyon. Sandy Ding is a experimental filmmaker from Beijing China. He graduated from CalArts Film and Video MFA in 2007, and […]

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4. 

   Films by Kerry Laitala now distributed by Canyon Cinema

   Posted May 15th, 2017 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
   

   It is an honor to announce that the 16mm and 35mm films of San Francisco-based filmmaker Kerry Laitala are now distributed by Canyon Cinema. Secure the Shadow… ‘Ere the Substance Fade (1997 | 9 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “… steeped in melancholia, involuntary schadenfreude and a sense of spoil that is both anachronistic and transcendental. […]

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5. 

   November 14 // Canyon Cinema Salon with Toney W. Merritt

   Posted November 14th, 2016 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of Monday November 14, 2016 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment in our Salon series. We’re pleased to welcome filmmaker Toney W. Merritt. Toney’s selection of his personal films span from his time at the San Francisco Art Institute to an excerpt of a current film-in-progress. Merritt and other local […]

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6. 

   Now available on 16mm : 9 new films by Amy Halpern

   Posted October 9th, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Nine brand new 16mm prints of films by Amy Halpern are available to rent from Canyon Cinema! Amy Halpern is a New York filmmaker, living & working in Los Angeles. Since childhood she has been composing with movement and light, and making 16mm abstract films since 1972. She is the co-founder of two film screening organizations: The Collective for […]

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   8/10/2016 – Peter Hutton Tribute – Canyon Cinema Salon, led by Steve Anker

   Posted August 1st, 2016 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   “…For thirty years now, Peter Hutton has been building a radical and singular body of work. A sort of primitive documentary, silent, which celebrates the beauty of the world without forgetting to observe people, the conditions they live and work under…” – Cahiers du cinéma The loss of Peter Hutton in June robbed personal independent […]

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8. 

   Peter Hutton Dies at 71

   Posted June 27th, 2016 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   We are deeply saddened by the untimely passing of filmmaker Peter Hutton. He produced a remarkable filmic oeuvre over nearly half a century. Starting out as a sculptor, painter and photographer, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1960s where he was influenced by Bruce Baillie, Bruce Conner, Bruce Nauman and Robert Nelson. Writing […]

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   Now available: Josephine Massarella’s Light Study

   Posted May 23rd, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
   

   Canyon is pleased to announce this latest addition to Massarella’s films in distribution – beautifully photographed on 16mm and available for distribution in high definition digital formats. Josephine Massarella | 2013 | 12.5 minutes | COLOR/B&W | STEREO Rental Format(s): Digital File (Quicktime ProRes 1920×1080) Sale Format(s): Blu-Ray Disc   Light Study is a poetic examination of the wetlands, forests, […]

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10. 

    Films by Jean Sousa now distributed by Canyon Cinema

    Posted May 18th, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
    

    We’re pleased to announce that the 16mm films of Chicago-based filmmaker and photographer Jean Sousa are now distributed by Canyon Cinema. Excellent 16mm prints of films made from 1977-1987 received from the filmmaker are for the first time available from Canyon, Sousa’s films are a welcome addition to the Canyon Cinema catalog. Seven of Sousa’s films are now […]

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