New Acquisitions

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    Now Available: Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking about All My Life, by Guy Sherwin, David Sherman, and Rebecca Barten

    Posted May 15th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking about All My Life (Guy Sherwin, David Sherman and Rebecca Barten, 1995/2024, 3.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) With: Rebecca Barten, David Sherman, Guy Sherwin, Barbara Meter, Ross Lipman, Brian Frye, Mark Wilson and others Camera: Most of the above and Bruce Baillie Concept: Guy Sherwin, Rebecca Barten, […]

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    Now Available: Two Films by Raymond Rea

    Posted May 14th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Augmented (2025, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Augmented is an experimental non-fiction short, shot completely on 16mm, that analyzes the commonalities between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment. We are frightening because we’re the future. A Mile and A Half (2022, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The border between North Dakota and Minnesota is physically […]

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    Now Available: Three 16mm Films by LeAnn Bartok

    Posted May 13th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new 16mm prints of three films by LeAnn Bartok are now available. This new acquisition includes two of Bartok’s renowned Skyworks films, as well as her final film, Film Painting I. A pioneering conceptual visionary artist, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, actress, and inventor (U.S. patent liquid crystal), LeAnn […]

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    Now Available: Tyler Turkle’s War of the Worlds

    Posted April 28th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    War of the Worlds (2022, 14 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Gators, snakes, spiders, ticks, mosquitos, lightning, sharks, jellyfish and more! Threats to humans are abundant throughout North Florida and South Georgia. See and hear about actual encounters with many of these dangerous and deadly enemies as they are described by a cast of those […]

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    Now Available: Four Films by Tommy Becker

    Posted April 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the addition of four films by Tommy Becker to the catalog, including: Animal, Animal (Song for the Fate of Animals) (2018, 2.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A celebration of the wild mixes with icons of the inhumane. A war chant heard bellowing from the mouths of animals is […]

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    Now Available: Elena Pardo’s Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color)

    Posted April 16th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color) (2024, 12.5 min, color, sound, digital file) In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, the women’s organization Poj Kaa maintains a community herbarium. Foraging for plants is a way to share knowledge with grandmothers, midwives, healers and shamans. In Teotitlán del Valle the Ruiz family makes their […]

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    Now Available: Jeffrey Skoller’s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary + Four New Digitizations

    Posted April 9th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of five new exhibition files from longtime artist member Jeffrey Skoller. This deposit includes the latest installment of Skoller’s Unimagined Lives series, Occupation Diary (2025), as well as new 2K digitizations of four 16mm films from the 1980s and 1990s, including Moving In (1982), Topography/Surface Writing (1984), […]

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    Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s This Side of Salina

    Posted March 25th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    This Side of Salina (2025, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all […]

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    Now Available: Four New Films by Toney W. Merritt

    Posted March 4th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that four new films by Toney W. Merritt are now available for rent. Fragments One (2024, 1 minute, color, sound, digital file) Vague Question: Vague Answer Summer’s End (2024, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Something that used to bug me.” In Our Sky (2023, 0.5 minutes, color, sound, […]

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    Now Available: New Digitizations of Five Films by Sharon Couzin

    Posted February 13th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new digitizations of five films by Sharon Couzin are now available! Sharon Couzin (1943-2019) was a Chicago experimental filmmaker, painter, and poet who began making films in the early 1970s. Her work is known for its complex visual layering that reflects a personal, autobiographical point of view. The […]

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