New Films

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   Now Available: Five Films by Anna Kipervaser

   Posted August 26th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five films by Anna Kipervaser, made between 2021 and 2023, are now available. Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and nonhuman animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a […]

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   Now Available: Michael Alexander Morris’s First Hermanubis: Initiation

   Posted June 17th, 2025 in New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   First Hermanubis: Initiation (2023, 40 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic and the occult. This first episode focuses on the […]

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   Now Available: Two Stereoscopic 3D Films by Greta Snider

   Posted June 3rd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two stereoscopic 16mm films by Greta Snider are now available for rent. Please note that these dual projection films require a silver 3D type exhibition screen. Each film rental comes with linear polarizing filters for projectors, and audience polarizing glasses. Sound is played on a separate file. See […]

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   Now Available: Three 16mm Films by LeAnn Bartok

   Posted May 13th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new 16mm prints of three films by LeAnn Bartok are now available. This new acquisition includes two of Bartok’s renowned Skyworks films, as well as her final film, Film Painting I. A pioneering conceptual visionary artist, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, actress, and inventor (U.S. patent liquid crystal), LeAnn […]

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   Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s The Egg

   Posted January 28th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: The latest cut-out animation from the prolific avant-garde maestro, Lawrence Jordan! The Egg (Lawrence Jordan, 2024, 8 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) The egg rolls, tumbles and flies from jungles to Desert glasses in a rollicking adventure, accompanied by the music of Eric Satie.

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   New Artist Member: Alexandra Cuesta

   Posted January 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Alexandra Cuesta to the collection! Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and visual artist who combines experimental film traditions with documentary practices. Her 16mm films and videos are portraits of public places, urban landscapes, and the people in them. Reminiscent of documentary practices such as street photography, Cuesta’s work is […]

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   Now Available: Jerome Hiler’s Careless Passage

   Posted January 14th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Careless Passage (Jerome Hiler, 2024, 20 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file or DCP) Wandering through the ordinary sights of day and night. How, in this vast cosmos, did all this happen? We live in a world of constant transformations. Somehow, aeons ago, consciousness came about. I’m often drawn to think of the earliest […]

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   Now Available: Three New Films by Lynne Sachs

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

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that three new films by Lynne Sachs are now available for rent, including: Contractions, which was recently featured on The New York Times’ Op-Docs page; She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes, featuring Barbara Friedman and Laetitia Mikles; and The Jitters, commissioned by Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive for […]

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   Now Available: Four New Films by Malic Amalya

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

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Malic Amalya’s Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023), along with three additional films, are now available for rent: Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023, 21 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Tourism in an age of mass incarceration and mass extinction. Living Lessons […]

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    Now Available: Bill Brown’s Mountain State

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

    Mountain State (Bill Brown, 2003, 19 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “History is a ghost, and every historical marker tells a ghost story,” Brown writes about his film; that’s true but also a truism, since every true story must one day become a kind of ghost story. Mountain State is instead a film about absence, […]

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