New Digital Files

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   Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Lotus-Eyed Girl

   Posted June 11th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted May 31st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted May 21st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted May 7th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 5th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 1st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted March 8th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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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   Now Available: 7 New Exhibition Files from John Smith

   Posted February 26th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is excited to announce the acquisition of 7 exhibition files from longtime member John Smith. This deposit includes recent digitizations of 16mm experimental film classics such as The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), The Black Tower (1987), and Associations (1975), among others. John Smith was born in Walthamstow, London in 1952. He studied at North-East London Polytechnic and the Royal […]

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   Now Available: Craig Baldwin’s Stolen Movie

   Posted February 15th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Stolen Movie (Craig Baldwin, 1976, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Armed with S8 camera and sound-person (John Corser), Baldwin runs both recording devices continuously through single-take raids on a series of SF Market St. grindhouse theaters. Rushing past box offices and through front lobbies, he captures the chance scenes and sounds on screen at […]

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    New Artist Member: Tommy Becker

    Posted February 15th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome San Francisco-based artist Tommy Becker to the collection! Tommy Becker attended the San Francisco Art Institute before receiving an MFA in Film/Video/Performance from the California College of Arts. In 2001, he began his work on “Tape Number One,” a never-ending mix tape that acts as a depository for his […]

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