New Acquisitions

1. 

   Now Available: Three New Films by Lynne Sachs

   Posted August 26th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that three new films by Lynne Sachs are now available for rent, including: Contractions, which was recently featured on The New York Times’ Op-Docs page; She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes, featuring Barbara Friedman and Laetitia Mikles; and The Jitters, commissioned by Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive for […]

   Read more »

2. 

   Now Available: Four New Films by Malic Amalya

   Posted August 21st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Malic Amalya’s Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023), along with three additional films, are now available for rent: Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023, 21 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Tourism in an age of mass incarceration and mass extinction. Living Lessons […]

   Read more »

3. 

   Now Available: Four Films by Philip Hoffman

   Posted August 14th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of four recent handmade films by longtime artist member Philip Hoffman. A film artist of memory and association, Hoffman has long been recognized as Canada’s pre-eminent diary filmmaker. As Karyn Sandlos writes, “For over twenty years he has been straining history through personal fictions, using the material of […]

   Read more »

4. 

   Now Available: Bill Brown’s Mountain State

   Posted August 7th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Mountain State (Bill Brown, 2003, 19 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “History is a ghost, and every historical marker tells a ghost story,” Brown writes about his film; that’s true but also a truism, since every true story must one day become a kind of ghost story. Mountain State is instead a film about absence, […]

   Read more »

5. 

   New Store Item! Tommy Becker’s The Mirror Neuron

   Posted August 5th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Now in stock: Tommy Becker’s The Mirror Neuron, a 36-page color zine featuring an introduction by David Finkelstein and over 30 hi-res stills printed in combination with the poetry and text of the work. A QR code grants access to the full 14:30-minute work online. An optional expanded edition includes a 16″ x 20″ poster […]

   Read more »

6. 

   Now Available: Federica Foglia’s Glitter for Girls

   Posted August 1st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Glitter for Girls (Federica Foglia, 2023, 4 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP)  Glitter for Girls is a handmade tattoo film that utilizes a camera-less direct-on-film animation approach to collage multiple layers of water tattoos (commonly used by children.) Foglia, known for her tactile work on celluloid, this time intervenes on the 16mm polyester base […]

   Read more »

7. 

   Now Available: Ten Digital Files from Mark Street

   Posted July 25th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that ten new digital files from longtime artist member Mark Street, encompassing work completed since 2019, are now available. “For many years Mark Street has been making small, observational films of the details and energies of public spaces in urban settings. City blocks, parking spaces, and storefronts (and the […]

   Read more »

8. 

   Now Available: A Roll for Peter

   Posted July 1st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   A Roll for Peter (multiple filmmakers, 2016, 56 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm, digital file, or DCP) A collective film by: Dominic Angerame, Roddy Bogawa, Cassandra Bull, Jacob Burckhardt, Jesse Cain, David Gatten, Richard Max Gavrich, George Griffin, Eve Heller, Mott Hupfel, Nikolas Jaeger, Amanda Katz & Josh Lewis, Theodore Rex King, Robbie Land, rebecca (marks) leopold, […]

   Read more »

9. 

   Announcing the Lawrence Jordan Digital Collection

   Posted June 24th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of 43 digital files by founding co-op member Lawrence Jordan. Included within this major new deposit – spanning eight decades of work – are many new digitizations as well as three recently completed films, available in both 16mm and digital formats: Hommage, Fairytale, and Reve d’Or. Canyon’s […]

   Read more »

10. 

    Now Available: Henry Hills’s Social Skills

    Posted June 19th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Social Skills (2021, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) SOCIAL SKILLS is a composition in which a large international group of improvising dancers share a viable vision of a cooperative and imaginative future based on mutual support and spontaneous creation. Here is an environment of touch without threat, closeness without conflict, and individual expression within […]

    Read more »