New Digital Files
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Announcing the Lawrence Jordan Digital Collection
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of 43 digital files by founding co-op member Lawrence Jordan. Included within this major new deposit – spanning eight decades of work – are many new digitizations as well as three recently completed films, available in both 16mm and digital formats: Hommage, Fairytale, and Reve d’Or. Canyon’s […]
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Now Available: Henry Hills’s Social Skills
Social Skills (2021, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) SOCIAL SKILLS is a composition in which a large international group of improvising dancers share a viable vision of a cooperative and imaginative future based on mutual support and spontaneous creation. Here is an environment of touch without threat, closeness without conflict, and individual expression within […]
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke (2023, 6 min, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) The visual shows the alternation of the shots of fireworks filmed at a summer festival in Japan, producing a distinctive yet organic rhythm, as well as a gap in time between the visual and sound, both of which are […]
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Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Lotus-Eyed Girl
Lotus-Eyed Girl (2023, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) Loosely based on the erotic poem “Caurapañcasika” by Bilhana, which was written in prison upon discovery of the poet’s clandestine affair with Princess Yaminipurnatilaka. The verses were written while awaiting judgment, not knowing if he was to be executed or exiled — his fate […]
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Now Available: Gloria Chung’s True Places and Ommatidia
True Places (2022, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Places that exist at the border(s) of memory and physical terrain. Ommatidia (2022, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Each compound eye of a large dragonfly is composed of up to 30,000 ommatidia. Each ommatidium collects visual information through photoreceptors, and together the thousands of ommatidia […]
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Now Available: New Digital Files from Guy Sherwin
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two landscape films from Guy Sherwin are now available for rent in digital formats: Under the Freeway (1995, 16 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure. Connemara (1980, […]
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Now Available: New Digital Files and Prints from Jerome Hiler
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new digital files and 4K DCPs of Jerome Hiler‘s films are now available for rent. Revised 16mm versions of New Shores (1971-87) and In the Stone House (2012) are also now available from Canyon. In addition, from May 9–16, 2024, the Museum of Modern Art in New York […]
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Now Available: 13 New Films from Dominic Angerame
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that 13 new films by Dominic Angerame are now available for rent. This group of films, all completed in 2024, spans many decades of filmmaking and diverse subjects; from a visual study of the beloved San Francisco Art Institute building, to a portrait of the Korean Demilitarized Zone filmed […]
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Now Available: Azucena Losana’s Primitiva
Primitiva (2023, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) From the “light bugs” series, this is the portrait of Doña Vivi, maker and alchemist of the original light that is offered to the souls that come to visit every year. This is her home and ceremonial beeswax candle factory, in Teotitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Now Available: 18 Digital Files from Janis Crystal Lipzin
Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce the acquisition of 18 exhibition files from longtime artist member Janis Crystal Lipzin. Spanning six decades of work, this deposit includes recent digital transfers of Lipzin’s 16mm films of the 1970s and 1980s, new digital copies of videos from the 2000s, as well as several born-digital works that are […]
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