New Films
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Now Available: Eve Heller’s Singing in Oblivion
Singing in Oblivion (2021, 13 minutes, b&w, sound, 35mm) “A magnificent visual and musical poem, simultaneously timeless and in delicate synchronicity with our devastated present.” — Nicole Brenez “Films that uncompromisingly deal in (and with) death necessarily seem to have fallen out of time, like the dead themselves. Singing in Oblivion takes this idea as its point […]
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Now Available: Nathaniel Dorsky’s O Death
O Death (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2023, 5 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, 18fps) In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… – N.D.
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New Artist Member: Jenni Olson
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome Jenni Olson to the collection! Jenni Olson is a queer film historian and archivist, writer, and non-fiction filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. Her two feature-length essay films — The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015) — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and, like her many short films, have screened internationally […]
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New Artist Member: Harry Smith
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the films of Harry Smith to the collection! “Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid 20th-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his […]
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Now Available: Phil Solomon’s Yes, I Said Yes, I Will, Yes
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Phil Solomon’s exquisite 1999 miniature, Yes, I Said Yes, I Will, Yes. The film screens on November 9, 2023 at Anthology Film Archives in Program 3 of the upcoming series “Lost and Found, You Still Remain There”: A Phil Solomon Retrospective, curated by Mark McElhatten. The three-program retrospective is presented […]
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Now Available: Three New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three new 16mm portrait films by Nathaniel Dorsky, including: Caracole (for Izcali) (2023, 17.5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm, 18fps) In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture. There is always a surprise as to what the […]
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Now Available: Stephanie Barber’s Another Horizon
Another Horizon (Stephanie Barber, 2020, 9 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) the horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, is a promised place where these two elements come together. a metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence. a place where the corporeal and spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart. here, […]
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Now Available: 20 Films + 3 Digital Videos by Amy Halpern
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the acquisition of 23 films and videos by longtime artist member Amy Halpern, all of which are new to Canyon’s collection. Highlights of this major deposit, spanning 50 years of Halpern’s career, include the early suite Opus I (Three Preparations / A Glance / Peach Landscape) (1972-73); 1978’s Cigarette […]
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Now Available: Four New Films from Nathaniel Dorsky
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Four new 16mm films by Nathaniel Dorsky made over the past year, including: Place d’Or (2023, 10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, 18fps) A rainy autumn afternoon at North Lake in Golden Gate Park. Perhaps the “Square of Gold” is also the screen itself. – N.D. Dialogues (2022, 17.5 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, […]
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Now Available: Abigail He’s Measuring 500 Feet
Measuring 500 Feet (Abigail He, 2021, 14 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm) Medium: 16mm filmDimensions: 500 ft. x 5/8 in. x 1/128 in. (15240 x 1.6 x .02 cm) overall: 547 ft. x 5/8 in. x 1/128 in. (16672.6 x 1.6 x .02 cm)
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