New Films

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   New films: Breathing (35mm) and What Goes Up…

   Posted February 10th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Trust us: watching Robert Breer’s Breathing in 35mm is a breathtaking experience. Forty years separate the film from What Goes Up…, his last work–and one of his most touching. Book them both from Canyon. What Goes Up… (2003 | 5.5 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “Robert Breer’s final film represents his characteristic dynamic collage sensibility at […]

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   Spotlight on John Smith

   Posted February 6th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   With his elaborate verbal and visual puns and exuberant wit, John Smith reminds us that experimental film can be funny. New restoration prints of Om and Associations are now available, and we are thrilled to offer Slow Glass, Smith’s experimental documentary on glassmaking and urban transformation, for the first time. Slow Glass (1988-91 | 40 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) […]

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   Now available: 3 films from Sophie Michael

   Posted February 3rd, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Sophie Michael channels Oskar Fischinger in three luminous studies of color and shape, now available from Canyon. Chapters One to Five (2012 | 16 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “This is the third film in the Astrid series 2010-14, made with the young Astrid Everall over the ages of seven to eleven. Astrid responds to different […]

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   Now available: two from Rose Lowder

   Posted February 1st, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   The incomparable Rose Lowder has been weaving short films with ecstatic precision for more than forty years. Her recent works foryannfromrose – hair removed and Turbulence are now available. Turbulence (2015 | 7 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Turbulence was filmed in the medieval town of Alet les Bains, in the Department of Aude. In the […]

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   Spotlight on The Arboretum Cycle and Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)

   Posted December 20th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Nathaniel Dorsky has spent the last two years meditating on the energy of light as creation in a seven film sequence that is now collected together as The Arboretum Cycle. The work is followed by Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle), which is “a new thing, a spring later, a different maker.” Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) premiered at the […]

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   Remembering Robert Todd

   Posted December 18th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We are deeply saddened by the loss of prolific filmmaker, generous teacher and dear friend Robert Todd, whose lyrical work offers a singular vision of the world, and are working hard to ensure his films continue to circulate. Distribution prints of 17 of Todd’s films have been deposited in the catalog, and digital transfers of […]

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   Now available: Demonstration and Process of Elimination

   Posted December 17th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Archivist, filmmaker–and former Canyon employee–Mark Toscano has placed two short works, Demonstration and Process of Elimination, into distribution. Demonstration (2012 | 2.5 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) It may be that exhibitionistic displays of emotion are purely for the benefit of the demonstrator, in an act of self-indulgent catharsis, but that doesn’t mean they can’t communicate some of […]

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   Now available: Color Time by Elizabeth Block

   Posted December 13th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   In Color Time, Elizabeth Block “longs to play with the color of film at its last gasp.” The film is now in distribution. Color Time (2004/2018 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) A film for screen; projector performance (with lens and light filters); a film to be projected in a shadow box (as part of […]

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   New filmmaker: Diane Kitchen

   Posted December 4th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Diane Kitchen is an experimental ethnographer of indigenous life and keen observer of the natural world. Her films are once again available to rent from Canyon Cinema. Videe (2014 | 8.5 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Consulting the text of the natural world. Filmed in a spruce forest. Ecstatic Vessels (2007 | 21 minutes | COLOR | […]

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    Now available: Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant by Jodie Mack

    Posted December 3rd, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Jodie Mack’s eulogy for victims of planned obsolescence, Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant is now available to rent. Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant (2017 | 4.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) A eulogy for wasted potential sends the out of date to the out of body: trash to treasure. An appetite for destruction charts the product life […]

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