New Acquisitions

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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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   Now Available: Four New Films by Toney W. Merritt

   Posted March 9th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Laurette At 100: Four Sketches For My Mother (2025, 30 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Composer Lenny Carlson wrote four musical sketches dedicated to the memory of his mother, Laurette Carlson Boarman (1922-2024). The sketches were performed by members of the AURIO Trio, Rufus Olivier, Jr. – Bassoon, Zachariah Spellman – Tuba, and Karen Hutchinson […]

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   Now Available: Dominic Angerame’s Bigger Than Us, The Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana

   Posted March 5th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Bigger Than Us, The Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana (2026, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) This is an environmental film. A visual essay of a superfund site located in Butte Montana. An acid lake formed as a result of an abandoned strip mine. “In Bigger Than Us, Dominic Angerame brings us closer to what looks […]

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   Now Available: Jennifer Reeves’s When It Was Blue + Additional Titles from Re:Voir

   Posted February 26th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Re:Voir’s recent Blu-ray release, Jennifer Reeves: When It Was Blue, Selected Works 1992-2022, is now in stock. The collection features 10 of Reeves’s stunning handcrafted films, newly remastered, as well as a 40-page booklet in English & French with texts by Michael Sicinski and Laura Staab. Contents: When It Was Blue (2008, […]

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    Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Manhattan One Two Three Four

    Posted February 24th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Manhattan One Two Three Four (2014, 3 minutes, b&w, silent, digital file) “A study in visual rhythm with images of architecture in Manhattan, New York, using the technique I did for the first sequence in Sketch Film #3. All edited in-camera and hand-processed afterwards. This film was commissioned by Echo Park Film Center for the […]

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