New Acquisitions
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Now Available: New Prints and Digital Files from James Otis
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the addition of seven films by longtime artist member James Otis to the collection. This new deposit includes five films made between 1990 and 1995 on Super 8, and subsequently transferred to 16mm or digital video, as well as 1979’s No Art of Memory and 2003’s The Last Bite. […]
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Now Available: Christopher Harris’s b/w
b/w (2023, 3 minutes, b&w, silent with audience participation for sound, 16mm or digital file) Shot on a single 100-foot roll of film and edited in-camera, b/w uses close focus cinematography of text from commercial house paint samples to suggest a mythology of light and shadow. The audience is asked to participate during the screening […]
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Now Available: Jean Sousa’s Jane and Pattern Impulse + Additional Digital Files
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that digital exhibition files of Jane (1977/2025) and Pattern Impulse (1979), by the Chicago-based artist Jean Sousa, are now available. Along with these two titles that are new to the catalog, we’ve added new digital files of Sousa’s The Circus (1977), What Am I Doing Here (1978), Swish (1982), […]
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Now Available: Lynn Marie Kirby’s C to C, Plus 24 New Digital Files
Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that Lynn Marie Kirby‘s 16mm installation C to C: Several Centuries After the Double Slit Experiment (1995) and new digital files of 24 of Kirby’s film and video works, spanning the years 1976 to 2025, are now available. This major deposit by the longtime Canyon artist member includes 14 […]
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Now Available: Tommy Becker’s De-escalation Tactics
De-escalation Tactics (2026, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) We are a species at war with our own narratives. The stories and structures we inherit – political, cultural and ecological have become traps, cycling us through conflict rather than carrying us forward. De-Escalation Tactics is a thematic-visual-song-cycle that sits inside this tension, contemplating alternative pathways. […]
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Now Available: Emily Chao’s 100 Years
100 Years (2023, 3 minutes, color, silent,16mm) An exercise in patience; made hastily while in love with an AI bot who tried but couldn’t love me back. Some mistakes were made. Commissioned by Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive for Century of 16mm, marking the 100-year anniversary of non-flammable 16mm safety motion picture film.
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New Artist Member: Amy Reid
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Amy Reid to the collection! Amy Reid is a filmmaker whose work examines the intersections between gender, national identity, and labor. Exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid’s work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form through feature length films, […]
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Now Available: Margaret Rorison’s emergence
emergence (2024, 2.5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) A series of summer occurrences, an observation of life cycles.
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Now Available: New Digitization of Scott Bartlett’s Moon 1969
Moon 1969 (1969, 15 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “The interrelated convolutions and spasms of image, color, and sound that filmmaker Bartlett creates is the cumulative effect of his pioneer work using negative images, polarization, television techniques, computer-film, and electronic patterns all compressed into a visual punch that directs one where he normally […]
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New Artist Member: Linda Izcali Scobie
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Linda Izcali Scobie and her work to the collection! Linda Izcali Scobie is a filmmaker, programmer, and projectionist living in San Francisco. Her films have been exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals and venues such as LA Film Forum, Antimatter, Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City, XCENTRIC […]
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