Announcements

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   New Artist Member: TT Takemoto

   Posted June 9th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome the San Francisco-based artist TT Takemoto to the collection! TT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American filmmaker exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Their experimental films delve into hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and trauma that exist within Asian and Asian American archives. Takemoto interacts with found footage […]

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   Now in Stock: Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!

   Posted May 30th, 2023 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Now available on Canyon Cinema’s online store: A new publication on the work and life of acclaimed Bay Area filmmaker and longtime Canyon artist member Craig Baldwin! Meticulously detailed, with contributions from over 50 writers, artists, illustrators, and ideologues, Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! is the first critical text to examine the artist’s films analytically as a […]

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   Now Available: Louise Bourque’s Bye Bye Now

   Posted May 26th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Bye Bye Now (2022, 9.5 minutes, color, sound, 35mm or DCP) The very gesture of waving HELLO to the movie camera in itself (re)presents a recurring GOODBYE to a fleeting moment. Made in homage to my father, this film traces past lives lived in these personal 8mm family archives he left me.

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   Now Available: 12 Exhibition Files from Ben Russell

   Posted May 19th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce a major new deposit of digital files from Ben Russell. Included amongst this acquisition are 9 titles that are new to Canyon’s catalog (see below), as well as exhibition files for three films that were previously only available on 16mm: Black and White Trypps Number Three, Trypps #5 (Dubai), […]

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   Now Available: Priyanka Das’s Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden

   Posted May 15th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden (2023, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Suspended in moments When our surroundings (aka nature) are an extension of our internal landscapes Forming, rapturous Conversing to re-connect Declaration, involved, a state of “ACTIVE BEING”

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   New Artist Member: Margaret Rorison

   Posted March 17th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Baltimore-based filmmaker, projectionist, educator, and curator Margaret Rorison to the collection! Rorison’s work aims to support and preserve contemporary filmmakers and film culture. Her current work focuses on portraiture, memory, and the precarity and beauty of nature. Her work has been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, Miami PULSE […]

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   New Artist Members: John and James Whitney

   Posted March 14th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome the films of John and James Whitney to the collection! John Whitney (1917-1995) is considered one of the fathers of computer animation. His works include the opening title sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo (1958), which is a collaboration work with Saul Bass; Catalogue (1961), assembled record of visual […]

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8. 

   3/14/2023 – Dispersed Renderings: A Salon with Patricia Ledesma Villon

   Posted March 6th, 2023 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Dispersed Renderings: A selection of Bay Area works from the Canyon Cinema collection Tuesday, March 14, 2023 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Curated by Patricia Ledesma Villon Familiar sights and inhabitants materialize and depart from the region known as the San Francisco Bay Area; we start anew while certain constants remain. Connections […]

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   New Artist Member: Malic Amalya

   Posted March 1st, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Boston-based filmmaker Malic Amalya to the collection! Malic Amalya (b. 1980 – Burlington, VT) is a white, transgender filmmaker working across 16mm, video, and performance. His films are situated between formal avant-garde traditions, the anti-assimilation subculture of queercore, and intersectional feminism. His creative framework is informed by prison […]

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    Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Agantukayan / Strangers

    Posted February 24th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Agantukayan / Strangers (2022, 11 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file or DCP) As a child, my mother was sent away to live with other relatives for a number of years, away from her own parents and siblings. This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s […]

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