New Digital Files
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Now Available: Craig Baldwin’s Stolen Movie
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
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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New Artist Member: Azian Nurudin
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the San Francisco-based artist Azian Nurudin to the collection! Azian Nurudin was born on Penang Island in Malaysia. She received a BA from Mills College in Oakland, California and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her works have been screened at film/video festivals, galleries, and museums throughout […]
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Now Available: Alexis Krasilovsky’s Nancy Spero: A Conversation with the Artist
Nancy Spero: A Conversation with the Artist (1991, 8 minutes, color, sound, digital file) One of the foremost political and feminist artists of our time, Nancy Spero talks about the Women Artists’ movement and images of women in her own work, during a 1989 retrospective at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York […]
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New Artist Member: Gloria Chung
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome New York-based artist Gloria Chung to the collection! Gloria Chung’s films explore places “not down in any map”; liminal places defined by time, light, and memory. Her films have screened at festivals and galleries in the U.S. and internationally. Chung holds degrees from the University of Michigan (BA Anthropology) […]
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Now Available: 15 New Exhibition Files from Pat O’Neill
Canyon Cinema is excited to announce the acquisition of 15 exhibition files from the West Coast film maestro, Pat O’Neill. This deposit includes recent digital transfers of avant-garde classics such as Water and Power (1989), Trouble in the Image (1996), and 7362 (1967), among others, as well as two video works that are new to […]
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Now Available: Jodie Mack’s All Stars
All Stars (Jodie Mack, 2006, 0.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A bite-sized star punch exercise in direct animation with colored acetate.
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Now Available: Kerry Laitala’s Fire Fly EYE
Fire Fly EYE (2020, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Fire Fly EYE is my response to the devastating re-making of the world brought on by anthropogenic climate change and corporate ‘stewardship’ of our natural resources. A ritual of reclamation in the face of overwhelming destruction, invoked through filming discarded consumer products, sifting spectacle out of […]
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Now Available: Phil Solomon’s Empire
Empire (Phil Solomon, 2008-2012, 48 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A re-make of Andy Warhol’s Empire from high atop the Manhattan Island of Grand Theft Auto IV (“Liberty City”), far from the madding crowd of thieves, cops, prostitutes and murderers down below. I hijacked a copter, leaped onto the rooftop of an adjacent building, spawned a scooter out of […]
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Now Available: A New Digital Restoration of Lynne Sachs’s Investigation of a Flame
Canyon is pleased to announce that a new digital restoration of Lynne Sachs’s Investigation of a Flame (2001), an intimate, experimental documentary portrait of the Catonsville Nine, is now available. Praised by The Los Angeles Times as “A complex rumination on the power of protest,” and hailed by The Village Voice‘s Phillip Lopate as the best […]
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