New Digital Files
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Sketch Films #1-5 + Clear Blue Sky
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Tomonari Nishikawa’s Super 8 Sketch Film series (2005-2007) is now available. “As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa explains, “I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public […]
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Now Available: Three New Titles from Alexis Krasilovsky
The Celery Saga (2025, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A micro videopoem in haiku addressing injustices to veggies. (We’re all in hot water.) INDIGESTION (2025, 1 minute, color, sound, digital file) A micro videopoem about a rotten orange. Best Gal in the West (1992, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) This is a music […]
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New Artist Member: Ayanna Dozier
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Ayanna Dozier‘s work to the collection! Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental and narrative film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. Her current research and artwork examine how transactional intimacy (like sex work) redistributes care from the private sector into the public, social politics […]
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Now Available: Four New Films by Toney W. Merritt
Laurette At 100: Four Sketches For My Mother (2025, 30 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Composer Lenny Carlson wrote four musical sketches dedicated to the memory of his mother, Laurette Carlson Boarman (1922-2024). The sketches were performed by members of the AURIO Trio, Rufus Olivier, Jr. – Bassoon, Zachariah Spellman – Tuba, and Karen Hutchinson […]
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Now Available: Dominic Angerame’s Bigger Than Us, The Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana
Bigger Than Us, The Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana (2026, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) This is an environmental film. A visual essay of a superfund site located in Butte Montana. An acid lake formed as a result of an abandoned strip mine. “In Bigger Than Us, Dominic Angerame brings us closer to what looks […]
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Manhattan One Two Three Four
Manhattan One Two Three Four (2014, 3 minutes, b&w, silent, digital file) “A study in visual rhythm with images of architecture in Manhattan, New York, using the technique I did for the first sequence in Sketch Film #3. All edited in-camera and hand-processed afterwards. This film was commissioned by Echo Park Film Center for the […]
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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 […]

