New Digital Files
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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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Now Available: 7 New Exhibition Files from John Smith
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
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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"HAPPY-END is a found-footage film. The original material stems from a Viennese married couple who filmed themselves over the 1960s... Read more »