New Acquisitions
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Now Available: New Digitization of Abigail Child’s Mercy
Mercy (1989, 10 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Mercy, the last in Child’s Is This What You Were Born For? series, is encyclopedic ephemera, exploring public visions of technological and romantic invention, dissecting the game mass media plays with our private perceptions. “You could say the sound plays the part of the page, […]
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Announcing the Philip Hoffman Digital Collection
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of 20+ digital files by longtime artist member Philip Hoffman. With works spanning from 1978 to 2024, this new deposit represents nearly the entire output of Hoffman’s filmmaking career. Canyon’s Philip Hoffman Digital Collection now includes 26 films in all, from early 16mm film diaries such as […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Tom Palazzolo’s Love It/Leave It
Love It/Leave It (1973, 15 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “Love It/Leave It is a raucous treatment of patriotic color, football, nudity and parades set to a refrain of ‘Love It’ and coalescing into Tom Palazzolo’s nightmare rendition of America the Awful. It sounds the theme song of this program [at the Whitney] […]
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Now Available: Two New Films by Barron Sherer
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two new 16mm films by Barron Sherer are now available for rent. Barron Sherer is a Miami-based media artist with a background in moving image archival practice and research. Taking the form of hybrid film/video remediations and projection-based media installations, Sherer’s work focuses on repurposing and manipulating found […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Deborah Stratman’s In Order Not to Be Here
In Order Not to Be Here (2002, 33 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file or DCP) An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect […]
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Now Available: Five Films by Anna Kipervaser
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five films by Anna Kipervaser, made between 2021 and 2023, are now available. Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and nonhuman animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a […]
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Now Available: Dominic Angerame’s Cuban iMAL
Cuban iMAL (2025, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) No animals were harmed during the making of this film. This film contains iPhone footage that I shot when I was in Cuba in 2024, late December. The safari footage was also shot on an iPhone by Alanna Zrimsek when she was on a safari in […]
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Now Available: Paige Taul’s Full Contact
Full Contact (Paige Taul, 2024, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Blending found footage with oral interviews, Full Contact offers a personal dive into an unseen student’s spiritual and bodily relationship with Judo. Also featured is the student’s sensei, who discusses their philosophical understanding of Judo.” — Denny Mwuara Interviews provided by Mandela Hudson and Hollis Barnett. […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Alexis Krasilovsky’s End of the Art World
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new digitization of Alexis Krasilovksy‘s 1971 documentary End of the Art World, about the New York art scene, is now available. Recently preserved by Yale Film Archive, End of the Art World was the first film made by an undergraduate woman at Yale, and features artists such […]
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Now Available: Michael Alexander Morris’s First Hermanubis: Initiation
First Hermanubis: Initiation (2023, 40 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic and the occult. This first episode focuses on the […]
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