New DVDs

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   Now Available: James Broughton DVD Set + Exhibition Files of Broughton’s Films

   Posted December 10th, 2020 in New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Spanning a decades-long artistic career, the collected films of James Broughton represent a remarkable body of work by a leading avant-garde American filmmaker — an undisputed master of the fusion of spoken poetry with moving images. A poet and dramatist as well as a filmmaker, Broughton has transformed all three of these forms into what […]

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   Now Available on DVD: Dominic Angerame’s CITYSCAPES

   Posted November 11th, 2020 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   A new Re:Voir release featuring nine films by Dominic Angerame, longtime 16mm chronicler of San Francisco’s urban landscape is now available for individual-use purchase: https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=5304 Films: A Ticket Home (1982, color, 11 min) I’d Rather Be in Paris (1982, color/B&W, silent, 17 min) Honeymoon in Reno (1984, color, 8 min) Continuum (1987, B&W, silent, 15 […]

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   Now Available on DVD: Holly Fisher’s Bullets for Breakfast

   Posted October 20th, 2020 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Now available for individual-use purchase: Holly Fisher’s stunning hybrid feature, Bullets for Breakfast (1992). The DVD release from Re:Voir also includes Fisher’s early short films Glass Shadows, From the Ladies, This is Montage, and Softshoe. Info: https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=5305 “BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST is one of the most magnificently obsessive films in recent memory. A precisely made flood […]

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   Now Available on DVD: Paul Clipson – Landscape Dissolves: Selected Films, 2009-2016

   Posted October 16th, 2020 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Now Available from Canyon Cinema! A DVD collection of 14 short films by the San Francisco cinema artist Paul Clipson. Co-produced by Re:Voir and Students of Decay. Info: https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=5303 “[Paul Clipson’s films] are a photo-chemical catalog of the visible world, charged with psychic energy, scored partly by chance, and imbued with a generosity of being.” […]

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   New Brochure: Collection Highlights + Digital Distribution Program

   Posted September 5th, 2020 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, New Films, News / Events
   

   Learn about Canyon Cinema’s latest acquisitions, digitizations, distribution prints, and more in our new Collection Highlights brochure, designed by Helen Tseng. You’ll also find news about the Unseen Cinema Digital Collection – a recent addition of nearly 100 titles to Canyon’s catalog. Download a copy here.

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   Now available on DVD – Mad Dance: A Mental Health Film Trilogy by Ken Paul Rosenthal

   Posted April 1st, 2020 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Ken Paul Rosenthal‘s recent films explore the geography of madness through natural and urban landscapes. These films re-envision the way we think, speak, and feel about emotional distress and wellness in today’s chaotic world by connecting the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San […]

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   Now available: three exhibition files from Jason Halprin

   Posted February 20th, 2020 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Jason Halprin is media artist and teacher working in film & video, and is currently based in Oakland, CA. He is a Professor in the Cinema Department at City College of San Francisco, and was previously a member of the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Colgate University, and Columbia College […]

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   Now available: three DVDs collecting the films of Lynn Marie Kirby

   Posted November 27th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Lynn Marie Kirby is a San Francisco-based artist who makes films, videos, and site responsive installations. Three DVDs that compile works made between 1997 and 2010 are now available for individual and institutional purchase from Canyon Cinema. Translation Series (1997-2003 | 27 minutes | COLOR) “[Kirby] is indeed an artist whose work represents simultaneously artistic […]

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   Now available: three classic films from Fred Padula on Blu-Ray and DVD

   Posted November 25th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Fred Padula is a musician, photographer, and filmmaker who has won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, and the Chicago Film Festival. Three of his works made between 1965 and 1978 are now available for purchase on Blu-Ray Disc and DVD from Canyon Cinema. Ephesus (1965 | 24 minutes | B&W […]

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    New consignment DVDs from Re:Voir

    Posted June 18th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
    

    Re:Voir publishes beautiful DVD editions of classic and contemporary experimental cinema, with the goal of introducing the broadest possible audience to rare, under-seen, and important artist-made films. Canyon Cinema is an American distributor of Re:Voir releases, and we are pleased to share work by Patrick Bokanowski, Stephen Dwoskin, Anne Maregiano, François Miron, Suzan Pitt, Jürgen […]

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