New Digital Files
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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 […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Robert Nelson’s Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978, 47 minutes, color and b&w, 16mm or digital file) “I’m definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information about California. There’s plenty of that everywhere. I’m trying to get at some feeling state.” – Robert Nelson, from A […]
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New Artist Member: Kelly Gallagher
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Kelly Gallagher and her work to the collection! Kelly Gallagher is a filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital award for her feature experimental documentary, By All Your Memories. Her handcrafted films and commissioned animations have screened at […]
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Now Available: Two New Videos by Toney W. Merritt
The Birds and the Beasts (2025, 4 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Another installment of Toney Merritt’s Fragment series, THE BIRDS AND THE BEASTS is a hypnotizing meditation on nature and sounds that combines timelapse footage of the bird feeder with the trail camera footage of the mountain lion shot in real time. Set to […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Scott Stark’s Degrees of Limitation
Degrees of Limitation (1982, 3 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) A single 100′ roll shot with a hand-wound 16mm Bolex. For each shot the camera was wound one additional time, allowing me to make it a little bit farther up the hill. Will I reach the top before the film runs out? A […]
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