New Acquisitions

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   Now Available: James Sansing’s A Light Unseen

   Posted July 1st, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   A Light Unseen (2025, 10 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Light glinting off spider webs, seem unremarkable, but there is a world of color and composition invisible to the human eye revealed by this experimental film. These are not artifacts caused by camera optics, this is the natural world.

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   Now Available: Julie Murray’s Estuary

   Posted June 30th, 2026 in New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Estuary (2025, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A poem of patterns and pictures captured onto photo sensitive film. Photograms and fragments of found film footage combine with shapes and textures fixed from detritus often found drifting on shorelines. Using hand-cranked film rewinds, these film strips are wound back and forth generating braided rhythmic variations, […]

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   Now Available: New 2K Digitization of Coni Beeson’s Firefly

   Posted June 23rd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Firefly (Coni Beeson, 1974, 5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) A short expressive dance film, featuring Carrie Mae Weems. Scan courtesy of UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

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   Now Available: Ten Videos by Azian Nurudin

   Posted May 19th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of ten videos by the Bay Area-based Malaysian-American artist Azian Nurudin. Made between 1986 and 2001, these videos “feature leather and whips in the streets and S&M havens in the sheets. While Azian’s contemporaries from a ‘brat pack’ of insurgent women artists like Cecilia Dougherty and Leslie […]

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   Now Available: Tulapop Saenjaroen’s Local Sensations

   Posted May 4th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Local Sensations (2025, 25.5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file or DCP) Shot on black-and-white 16mm film, Local Sensations opens a loose, playful dialogue with Chatri Prakitnonthakan’s essay, “How to Design a Modern Monument That Won’t Become a Shrine.” Rather than illustrating the text, the film generates pluralities — unraveling the dichotomy of object and subject — and […]

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   New Artist Member: Tijana Petrović

   Posted April 22nd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Tijana Petrović‘s work to the collection! Tijana Petrović is a filmmaker and artist born and raised in the former Yugoslavia. Her moving image work includes nonfiction films, and film and video installations which use landscape as a framework to observe and question our relationships to history, place and the natural […]

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   Now Available: Emily Chao’s Light Signal + chive pockets

   Posted April 9th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Light Signal (2022, 11 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) A keeper’s log, a score for light, a script for sound. A reconstruction, a slow reclamation. To begin where there is light. chive pockets (2017, 3 minutes, b&w, silent, digital file) A 16mm film documenting my grandmother making chive pockets for the last time.

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   Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Sketch Films #1-5 + Clear Blue Sky

   Posted March 26th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Tomonari Nishikawa’s Super 8 Sketch Film series (2005-2007) is now available. “As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa explains, “I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public […]

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   Now Available: Three New Titles from Alexis Krasilovsky

   Posted March 16th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   The Celery Saga (2025, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A micro videopoem in haiku addressing injustices to veggies. (We’re all in hot water.) INDIGESTION (2025, 1 minute, color, sound, digital file) A micro videopoem about a rotten orange. Best Gal in the West (1992, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) This is a music […]

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    New Artist Member: Ayanna Dozier

    Posted March 9th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Ayanna Dozier‘s work to the collection! Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental and narrative film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. Her current research and artwork examine how transactional intimacy (like sex work) redistributes care from the private sector into the public, social politics […]

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