New Digital Files
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Now Available: Louise Bourque’s Bye Bye Now
Bye Bye Now (2022, 9.5 minutes, color, sound, 35mm or DCP) The very gesture of waving HELLO to the movie camera in itself (re)presents a recurring GOODBYE to a fleeting moment. Made in homage to my father, this film traces past lives lived in these personal 8mm family archives he left me.
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Now Available: 12 Exhibition Files from Ben Russell
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce a major new deposit of digital files from Ben Russell. Included amongst this acquisition are 9 titles that are new to Canyon’s catalog (see below), as well as exhibition files for three films that were previously only available on 16mm: Black and White Trypps Number Three, Trypps #5 (Dubai), […]
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Now Available: Priyanka Das’s Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden
Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden (2023, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Suspended in moments When our surroundings (aka nature) are an extension of our internal landscapes Forming, rapturous Conversing to re-connect Declaration, involved, a state of “ACTIVE BEING”
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New Artist Member: Margaret Rorison
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Baltimore-based filmmaker, projectionist, educator, and curator Margaret Rorison to the collection! Rorison’s work aims to support and preserve contemporary filmmakers and film culture. Her current work focuses on portraiture, memory, and the precarity and beauty of nature. Her work has been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, Miami PULSE […]
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New Artist Member: Malic Amalya
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Boston-based filmmaker Malic Amalya to the collection! Malic Amalya (b. 1980 – Burlington, VT) is a white, transgender filmmaker working across 16mm, video, and performance. His films are situated between formal avant-garde traditions, the anti-assimilation subculture of queercore, and intersectional feminism. His creative framework is informed by prison […]
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Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Agantukayan / Strangers
Agantukayan / Strangers (2022, 11 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file or DCP) As a child, my mother was sent away to live with other relatives for a number of years, away from her own parents and siblings. This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s […]
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Now Available: Five Works by Lawrence Jordan
Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Five works by Lawrence Jordan, spanning 1956 to 2022. This new acquisition includes Jordan’s latest 16mm cut-out animation, Harper’s Bazar (2022), 2021’s Alchemy, 2007’s Silent Sonata, as well as new digitizations of two early films from the 1950s: the psychodrama Three (1956) and the collage film Minerva Looks Out Into […]
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Now Available: Three Works by Al Wong
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three works by Al Wong, including the expanded cinema pieces Screen, Projector & Film (1977) and Puddle (1982), as well as a new video, Paper Sister (2023). Paper Sister (Al Wong, 2023, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) This work is a response to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was […]
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Now Available: A Fire’s Poem + Four More New Titles from Toney W. Merritt
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Five new titles from Toney W. Merritt, including his latest work A Fire’s Poem. To learn more about Merritt’s films, see “Effecting Repair: A Canyon Cinema Report on the ‘Rediscovery’ of Toney W. Merritt,” in the current (Fall 2022) issue of JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. A Fire’s […]
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Now Available: Two Digital Files from Sergio Bátiz
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Two new digital files from Sergio Bátiz! Chicago (2003, 3.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The idea of discovering and documenting a new city and new country where I moved to live coming from Mexico with my film camera using a stop-motion or time-lapse film animation photographic technique. Mission San […]
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