New Acquisitions

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   New Artist Member: Margaret Rorison

   Posted March 17th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Baltimore-based filmmaker, projectionist, educator, and curator Margaret Rorison to the collection! Rorison’s work aims to support and preserve contemporary filmmakers and film culture. Her current work focuses on portraiture, memory, and the precarity and beauty of nature. Her work has been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, Miami PULSE […]

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   Now in Stock: Three New Blu-rays from Black Zero

   Posted March 16th, 2023 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Founded by Canyon artist member Stephen Broomer, Black Zero is a new multimedia publisher specializing in Canadian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present. Black Zero’s first three releases – Palace of Pleasure by John Hofsess, Everything Everywhere Again Alive by Keith Lock, and Strange Codes by Arthur Lipsett – are now available for individual-use […]

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   New Artist Members: John and James Whitney

   Posted March 14th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome the films of John and James Whitney to the collection! John Whitney (1917-1995) is considered one of the fathers of computer animation. His works include the opening title sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo (1958), which is a collaboration work with Saul Bass; Catalogue (1961), assembled record of visual […]

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   New Artist Member: Malic Amalya

   Posted March 1st, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Boston-based filmmaker Malic Amalya to the collection! Malic Amalya (b. 1980 – Burlington, VT) is a white, transgender filmmaker working across 16mm, video, and performance. His films are situated between formal avant-garde traditions, the anti-assimilation subculture of queercore, and intersectional feminism. His creative framework is informed by prison […]

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   Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Agantukayan / Strangers

   Posted February 24th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Agantukayan / Strangers (2022, 11 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file or DCP) As a child, my mother was sent away to live with other relatives for a number of years, away from her own parents and siblings. This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s […]

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   Now Available: Five Works by Lawrence Jordan

   Posted February 13th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Five works by Lawrence Jordan, spanning 1956 to 2022. This new acquisition includes Jordan’s latest 16mm cut-out animation, Harper’s Bazar (2022), 2021’s Alchemy, 2007’s Silent Sonata, as well as new digitizations of two early films from the 1950s: the psychodrama Three (1956) and the collage film Minerva Looks Out Into […]

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   Now Available: Three Works by Al Wong

   Posted February 10th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three works by Al Wong, including the expanded cinema pieces Screen, Projector & Film (1977) and Puddle (1982), as well as a new video, Paper Sister (2023). Paper Sister (Al Wong, 2023, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) This work is a response to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was […]

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   Now Available: Stephanie Barber’s oh my homeland

   Posted February 9th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Stephanie Barber‘s oh my homeland, a minimalist, single-shot portrait of the renowned African American soprano Leontyne Price. In addition, we’ve also added exhibition files of eight of Barber’s 16mm films to Canyon’s digital collection, including: 3 peonies (2017), the parent trap (2017), Catalog (2005), Total Power, dead dead dead (2005), […]

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   New Artist Member: Jim Jennings

   Posted November 21st, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome the films of prolific New York filmmaker Jim Jennings to the collection. This major new acquisition includes 32 titles made between 1969 and 2008, all on 16mm. For a full list of the Jennings films currently in distribution at Canyon, see: https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=506 About Jim Jennings James Robertson Jennings, usually […]

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    Now Available: A Fire’s Poem + Four More New Titles from Toney W. Merritt

    Posted November 19th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Five new titles from Toney W. Merritt, including his latest work A Fire’s Poem. To learn more about Merritt’s films, see “Effecting Repair: A Canyon Cinema Report on the ‘Rediscovery’ of Toney W. Merritt,” in the current (Fall 2022) issue of JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. A Fire’s […]

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