Announcements

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   Now available – new preservation print Warren Haack’s Selective Service System

   Posted May 28th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Courtesy of filmmaker Warren Haack and the Academy Film Archive, we are pleased to announce a new 16mm print from a recently completed preservation is now in distribution at Canyon. Selective Service System (1970 | 13 min | color | sound) Since 1956, the United States had been involved in a ground war in Asia. The […]

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2. Announcing the return to distribution of Toney Merritt’s Welcome to the House of Raven

   Posted May 24th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Following his appearance in the Canyon Cinema salon screening series, we are pleased to announce the return to distribution of Toney Merritt’s 1997 film Welcome to the House of Raven. Welcome to the House of Raven (1997 | 3 min | B&W | sound) A dance. When magic is a verb. The Beginning of the End. The […]

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3. In case you missed it: Curt McDowell packaged programs

   Posted May 17th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   As of Fall 2016, camp king Curt McDowell’s films are available through Canyon as specially curated programs featuring newly struck 16mm prints. “Curt McDowell worked in San Francisco from the late 1960s until his death in 1987- a period that witnessed the Summer of Love, gay liberation, and the onset of AIDS, to which he […]

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   New filmmaker: Fern Silva

   Posted April 30th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   New York-based filmmaker Fern Silva has joined the Canyon catalog. Six of his films are now available to rent. Fern Silva (b. 1982, USA/Portugal) is an artist who primarily works in 16mm. His films consider methods of narrative, ethnographic, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation. He has created a body of […]

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   Henry Hills returns to Canyon

   Posted April 26th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is honored to welcome filmmaker, teacher, and erstwhile Cinemanews editor Henry Hills back to its catalog. Ten of his rhythmic, collaborative works are now in distribution. “Film is so large and we are so small. Every maker in this catalog has a very partial approach. I think of editing as a way to […]

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   Now touring: new prints of work by Saul Levine and Christopher Harris

   Posted April 23rd, 2018 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema 50, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   New prints of Light Lick: Amen and 28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark) are now circulating for our Canyon Cinema 50 film tour. Both are available as a part of Studies in Natural Magic, a selection of films made between 1973 and 2017. For complete information on the tour, including how to book, click here. For a list […]

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   New Filmmaker: Mike Stoltz

   Posted April 16th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
   

   We are pleased to welcome filmmaker Mike Stoltz to the Canyon catalog. Three of Stoltz’s films made between 2013 and 2015 are now available. With Pluses and Minuses (2013 | 5 minutes | COLOR | OPT) A ground-less and boundless 16mm film in which a wall becomes a window to a swirling landscape.? “Stoltz shakes […]

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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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