New Digital Files

  1. Das_Inferno_2

    Now Available: Priyanka Das’s Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden

    Posted May 15th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    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”

    Read more »

  2. Rorison_Baltimore_1

    New Artist Member: Margaret Rorison

    Posted March 17th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events

    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 […]

    Read more »

  3. Amalya_1

    New Artist Member: Malic Amalya

    Posted March 1st, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events

    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 […]

    Read more »

  4. Samarasinghe_Strangers_1

    Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Agantukayan / Strangers

    Posted February 24th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    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 […]

    Read more »

  5. Jordan_Three_1

    Now Available: Five Works by Lawrence Jordan

    Posted February 13th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events

    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 […]

    Read more »

  6. Paper-Sister-still-4-Holly-Wong

    Now Available: Three Works by Al Wong

    Posted February 10th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    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 […]

    Read more »

  7. Merritt_Toney_A-Fires-Poem-toney-merritt

    Now Available: A Fire’s Poem + Four More New Titles from Toney W. Merritt

    Posted November 19th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    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 […]

    Read more »

  8. Chicago-a-film-by-Batiz-2003-2-Sergio-Batiz

    Now Available: Two Digital Files from Sergio Bátiz

    Posted November 14th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    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 […]

    Read more »

  9. Taul_71_3

    Now Available: Paige Taul’s 71

    Posted November 10th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    71 (Paige Taul, 2022, 19 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) 71 is about the sensibilities of the black middle class as observed by Jessica Taul and Pamela Patterson, the filmmaker’s mother and aunt, respectively. They discuss their differing tastes, definitions of class, frogs, and other qualifiers they consider in their evaluation of the space that they […]

    Read more »

  10. Oh_Still001_2022-Chelsea-Spengemann

    Now Available: New Stan VanDerBeek Prints + Files

    Posted September 1st, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce a major new deposit from the Stan VanDerBeek Archive. This incredible trove of recently preserved works by the prolific multimedia artist, scientist, and inventor includes 12 new 16mm prints and 8 new digital files. New Prints + Files: Who Ho Rays (1972, 8 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital […]

    Read more »