New Digital Files
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Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s Dreamscape I
Dreamscape I (2025, 8 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Is a series of scenes, dissolving one into another, each highly different, but held together by the irony and possibilities of dreams. They also have some of the aggressiveness of surrealism, and the lyricism of fairytale. We see goddesses and a blue boy on […]
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Now Available: Brice Bowman’s Museum Closed
Museum Closed (2023, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Museum Closed is an audio-visual phenomenological interference pattern.
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Now Available: Gloria Chung’s Dark Light
Dark Light (2025, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Regarding the Sun, dead images, sound and etymologies. “DARK LIGHT: the dim cloud of light that is experienced in complete darkness, owing to the spontaneous activity of neurons in the visual system.”
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Now Available: Three Films by Tommy Becker
The Shape of Things to Come (2025, 20 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The Shape of Things to Come is a six-chapter art rock film that delves into themes of nostalgia for the future, uncertainties of technological progress, and the quest for authentic human connection. Through original songwriting, poetry, performance art, and insights of Terence […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Robert Nelson’s Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978, 47 minutes, color and b&w, 16mm or digital file) “I’m definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information about California. There’s plenty of that everywhere. I’m trying to get at some feeling state.” – Robert Nelson, from A […]
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New Artist Member: Kelly Gallagher
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Kelly Gallagher and her work to the collection! Kelly Gallagher is a filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital award for her feature experimental documentary, By All Your Memories. Her handcrafted films and commissioned animations have screened at […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Scott Stark’s Degrees of Limitation
Degrees of Limitation (1982, 3 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) A single 100′ roll shot with a hand-wound 16mm Bolex. For each shot the camera was wound one additional time, allowing me to make it a little bit farther up the hill. Will I reach the top before the film runs out? A […]
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Now Available: New Digital Files of Gary Beydler’s Hand Held Day and Pasadena Freeway Stills
Hand Held Day (1975, 6 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) “Beydler’s magical Hand Held Day is his most unabashedly beautiful film, but it’s no less complex than his other works. The filming approach is simple, yet incredibly rich with possibilities, as Beydler collapses the time and space of a full day in the […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Abigail Child’s Mercy
Mercy (1989, 10 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Mercy, the last in Child’s Is This What You Were Born For? series, is encyclopedic ephemera, exploring public visions of technological and romantic invention, dissecting the game mass media plays with our private perceptions. “You could say the sound plays the part of the page, […]
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Announcing the Philip Hoffman Digital Collection
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of 20+ digital files by longtime artist member Philip Hoffman. With works spanning from 1978 to 2024, this new deposit represents nearly the entire output of Hoffman’s filmmaking career. Canyon’s Philip Hoffman Digital Collection now includes 26 films in all, from early 16mm film diaries such as […]
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