New Acquisitions

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   Now Available: Lynn Marie Kirby’s C to C, Plus 24 New Digital Files

   Posted October 6th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted October 2nd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted September 14th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

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

   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

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

   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

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

   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

   Posted August 3rd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   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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   Now Available: C Applewhaite’s I AM THE WORLD + let me breathe

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

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that C Applewhaite‘s I AM THE WORLD (2022) and let me breathe (2021) are now available. I AM THE WORLD screens at London’s Barbican Centre on July 30th, as part of videoclub’s UK touring program Selected 16. The program includes artists nominated by those shortlisted for the Film London […]

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   Now Available: Greta Snider’s In the Maritime Frequencies

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

   In the Maritime Frequencies (2025, 16 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file or DCP) “We’ll remember the earth as if it were a dream.” This film is an exploration of the coastal landscapes of San Francisco, using darkroom developers made from the solutions of our times — bay water, hand sanitizer and “safe” detergent […]

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    Now Available: New 2K Digitizations of Three Films by Robert Nelson (and Friends)

    Posted July 14th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new high-resolution digital files of three films by Robert Nelson, including collaborations with William T. Wiley and Mike Henderson, are now available. These 2K digitizations of The Off Handed Jape (1967), Worldly Woman (1973), and Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley […]

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