New Digital Files

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   Now Available: Elena Pardo’s Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color)

   Posted April 16th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color) (2024, 12.5 min, color, sound, digital file) In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, the women’s organization Poj Kaa maintains a community herbarium. Foraging for plants is a way to share knowledge with grandmothers, midwives, healers and shamans. In Teotitlán del Valle the Ruiz family makes their […]

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   Now Available: Jeffrey Skoller’s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary + Four New Digitizations

   Posted April 9th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of five new exhibition files from longtime artist member Jeffrey Skoller. This deposit includes the latest installment of Skoller’s Unimagined Lives series, Occupation Diary (2025), as well as new 2K digitizations of four 16mm films from the 1980s and 1990s, including Moving In (1982), Topography/Surface Writing (1984), […]

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   Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s This Side of Salina

   Posted March 25th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   This Side of Salina (2025, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all […]

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   Now Available: Four New Films by Toney W. Merritt

   Posted March 4th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that four new films by Toney W. Merritt are now available for rent. Fragments One (2024, 1 minute, color, sound, digital file) Vague Question: Vague Answer Summer’s End (2024, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Something that used to bug me.” In Our Sky (2023, 0.5 minutes, color, sound, […]

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   Now Available: New Digitizations of Five Films by Sharon Couzin

   Posted February 13th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new digitizations of five films by Sharon Couzin are now available! Sharon Couzin (1943-2019) was a Chicago experimental filmmaker, painter, and poet who began making films in the early 1970s. Her work is known for its complex visual layering that reflects a personal, autobiographical point of view. The […]

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   Now Available: Five New Films by Dominic Angerame

   Posted February 11th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five new films by Dominic Angerame are now available for rent. A Small Fragment of a Day That Belongs to 20 Years Ago (2025, 7.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Memories of lovers past. A glimpse of the erotic emotions that linger in the mind as it changes with each […]

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   Now Available: Jack Walsh’s Dear Rock and The Lost Generation

   Posted February 6th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Dear Rock (Jack Walsh, 1993, 18 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Dear Rock is a posthumous fan letter to Rock Hudson that uses Hudson as a springboard for an exploration of AIDS and homophobia. Using the contrived form of the fan letter, Dear Rock employees digression as its structure, beginning with elements of Hudson’s life that open onto […]

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   Now Available: New Exhibition Files from Leandro Katz

   Posted February 4th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new exhibition files of Leandro Katz‘s Splits and El Día Que Me Quieras are now available for rent. These high-resolution digital scans replace the previous files that were in distribution. Splits (1978, 27 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The story of a young factory worker who in an act of […]

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   Now Available: Four New Poetry Films by Alexis Krasilovsky

   Posted January 31st, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Rafael (2023, 1.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) Videopoem based on “Rafael”, a poem about the angel, by Rodger Kamenetz, from his book, The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022. This microfilm (with embedded English subtitles) includes several photocollages by Alexis Krasilovsky as well as sand video filmed by Zell Lundberg. Positive Thinking (2023, 1.5 […]

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    Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s The Egg

    Posted January 28th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
    

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: The latest cut-out animation from the prolific avant-garde maestro, Lawrence Jordan! The Egg (Lawrence Jordan, 2024, 8 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) The egg rolls, tumbles and flies from jungles to Desert glasses in a rollicking adventure, accompanied by the music of Eric Satie.

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