New Films
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Henry Hills returns to Canyon
Canyon Cinema is honored to welcome filmmaker, teacher, and erstwhile Cinemanews editor Henry Hills back to its catalog. Ten of his rhythmic, collaborative works are now in distribution. “Film is so large and we are so small. Every maker in this catalog has a very partial approach. I think of editing as a way to […]
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Now Available: Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon
Tomonari Nishikawa’s landscape exposure experiment Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon is now available to rent on film through Canyon Cinema. Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016 | 10 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) It displays bridges on Yahagi River, which runs near where I was grown up in Japan. I shot […]
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New Filmmaker: Mike Stoltz
We are pleased to welcome filmmaker Mike Stoltz to the Canyon catalog. Three of Stoltz’s films made between 2013 and 2015 are now available. With Pluses and Minuses (2013 | 5 minutes | COLOR | OPT) A ground-less and boundless 16mm film in which a wall becomes a window to a swirling landscape.? “Stoltz shakes […]
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Now available: Newt Pauses by Amy Halpern
Amy Halpern’s biological study Newt Pauses is now available to rent on 16mm. Newt Pauses (2016 | 7.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Notopthalmus viridescens Endangered species on an endangered medium. The timing is unaltered, the animals’ own.
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Jerome Hiler’s Bagatelle II and Marginalia available to rent
Two recent films by lyrical San Francisco filmmaker Jerome Hiler are now available to rent. Bagatelle II (2016 | 16 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) “Mr. Hiler’s misleadingly titled “Bagatelle II” draws on ravishing moments in time (dancing lights, scudding clouds, a bathing woman) that build into what seems like a self-portrait of the artist” […]
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Jason Halprin joins the Canyon catalog
We are pleased to welcome Jason Halprin to the collection. His film War Heb Je Voor Het Gekeken is now available to rent. War Heb Je Voor Het Gekeken (2004 | 8 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “My attempt at a City Symphony of Amsterdam, the title is taken from a poorly compiled Dutch-English traveller’s […]
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Four new films from Nathaniel Dorsky available to rent
Four recent films from Nathaniel Dorsky are now available to book. “For the past several years California experienced an extreme drought. Several winter rainy seasons with barely any rainfall. But this past winter good fortune brought a bountiful amount of storms and liquid refreshment. The spring that followed took on magical and celebratory qualities of […]
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James Benning’s California trilogy and other films from 1999-2007 now available
The last works James Benning made before transitioning to digital production–including the California trilogy (El Valley Centro, Los, and Sogobi), as well as his conceptual “remake” of One Way Boogie Woogie, titled 27 Years Later, and others–are now available to rent through Canyon Cinema. Casting a Glance (2007 | 81 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) […]
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Sophie Michael’s The Watershow Extravaganza now available
Sophie Michael is a London based artist working across film, photography and installation. Her 16mm films examine ideas around nostalgia and innocence, drawing on early experimental filmmaking and mid-twentieth century design to question our relationship to the past through the lens of the present. We are pleased to offer The Watershow Extravaganza for rental on […]
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Two films from Mariah Garnett now available
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Mariah Garnett to the catalog. Garnett moves freely between documentary, narrative, and experimental modes to create cinematic allegories that codify and locate identity. Her films Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin and Signal are now available to rent. Encounters I May or May Not […]
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