New Films

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   New Filmmaker: Anna Kipervaser

   Posted February 5th, 2020 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born multimedia artist. Her work spans multiple disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and video. Her moving image work has screened at festivals internationally at Crossroads Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Antimatter, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Full Frame Documentary […]

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   Now available: Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer by Jack Walsh

   Posted February 4th, 2020 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to add Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer by Jack Walsh to our distribution catalog. DCP, Blu-Ray and exhibition quality digital files are available for public screenings, and DVDs can be purchased for institutional or home use. Inhabiting the worlds of television, film festivals and art museums, Jack Walsh’s […]

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   Now available: Six recent works by David Gatten

   Posted January 21st, 2020 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Throughout his filmmaking career David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. His body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, often blurring the boundary between these categories. […]

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   Now available: five films from Jodie Mack

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

   Jodie Mack is an experimental animator that combines the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres. Her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the […]

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   Now available: Void Vision by Alexander Stewart

   Posted November 21st, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Alexander Stewart’s short films have screened internationally, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Image Forum in Japan. He is a co-founder of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation and teaches in the Experimental Animation program at CalArts.   Void Vision (2018 | 8 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) VOID VISION is an abstract science-fiction […]

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   Now available: new work and new digital exhibition files from Janis Crystal Lipzin

   Posted November 18th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Janis Crystal Lipzin has been called “one of the key American media artist of this era” and has been making art in virtually every form of reproducible media for nearly forty years. Lipzin taught Film and Interdisciplinary Studies at the renowned San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 2009 where she served as Chair of the prominent […]

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   Now available: additional Jonathan Schwartz prints

   Posted June 17th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Jonathan Schwartz (1973-2018) was a filmmaker, teacher, and source of inspiration for all his friends and students. Jonathan incorporated found and collected materials in many of his films, and simultaneously developed his unique 16mm vision through intimate exchanges with his subjects, handheld gestures, in-camera superimpositions, and a profound attention to the transient qualities of the […]

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   Newly available Robert Todd prints and files

   Posted June 17th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Robert Todd (1963-2018) was a profoundly creative and compassionate person who expressed raw emotion through the medium of film. He was a prolific filmmaker, a dedicated mentor and educator, a painter of dark wonders, and a musical prodigy. His cinema had a profound influence on the international experimental film community, embracing the deep complexity of […]

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   Celebrating Jonathan Schwartz

   Posted February 15th, 2019 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   The filmmaker Jonathan Schwartz passed away in October 2018, leaving behind a remarkable and intimate body of work that registers the sorrow, love, despair, and exultation of lived existence. Canyon Cinema will distribute all of Schwartz’s work, ensuring that his gestural, evanescent and deeply necessary works will continue to find new audiences. To see a complete […]

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    Six new films from Lynne Sachs

    Posted February 13th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Film essayist Lynne Sachs continues to work prolifically, with six new films now available, including Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor, a portrait of Schneeman, Hammer, and Nelson; The Washing Society, which documents labor in New York City laundromats; and Tip of My Tongue, a “collective distillation of our times” occasioned by the filmmaker’s 50th birthday. Digital […]

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