New Acquisitions

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    Now Available: Jodie Mack’s Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons

    Posted July 28th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: “The third film in Jodie Mack’s Wasteland series, Moons, Sons, observes the rapid thaw of natural forms. A world tender and unhatched; future chaos in repose, in slumber.” (IFFR) Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (Jodie Mack, 2021, 5 min, color, silent, 16mm) A world tender and unhatched, Future chaos in repose, […]

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    Now Available: Eight Digital Files from Brice Bowman

    Posted July 13th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Eight digital files by the Bay Area-based filmmaker and painter Brice Bowman, including: FALLEN SNOW (2019, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) FALLEN SNOW is about Self-Awareness and Other-Awareness. MOTEL (2017, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) MOTEL thinks of the phenomena of moments. As So Was I (2015, 2 […]

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    New Acquisition: Taiki Sakpisit’s Seeing in the Dark

    Posted July 8th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Taiki Sakpisit‘s Seeing in the Dark, which continues the filmmaker’s exploration of Thailand’s political history and landscape. Seeing in the Dark (2021, 29 minutes, color and b&w, sound) The film interweaves the legacy of Thailand’s Cold War, the remnants of the Communist insurgency in Thailand and the ruined fortress that […]

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    New Artist Member: Priyanka Das

    Posted June 23rd, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Brooklyn-based filmmaker Priyanka Das to the collection! Priyanka Das was born in India and is currently living in New York City. She is a transdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer, and curator. Her works aim to ignite thoughts, feelings, and emotions that delve deep into the essence of “otherness” mediated by […]

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    Now Available: Greta Snider’s Prayer for the Torture Memos

    Posted May 11th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Greta Snider‘s Prayer for the Torture Memos, which takes on the mountain of text and verbiage that controls the US policy on legal torture, allowing us to confront the materiality of pages, words, text, and resolve these abstractions into the concrete realm of people, in image and sound. Prayer for […]

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    New Artist Member: Rock Ross

    Posted April 28th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome Rock Ross back to the collection! Rock Ross is an independent filmmaker and musician living and working in San Francisco. After receiving his BFA and MFA in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute, Ross worked as Film Inspector and Shipper for the Canyon Cinema Co-op from 1975 to 1978, Editing […]

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    New Artist Member: John Woodman

    Posted April 21st, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the UK-based artist and filmmaker John Woodman to the collection! John Woodman is an artist working with landscape film/video and photography and studied at St. Martin’s School of Art and the Slade School of Art. He worked as a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication Studies at West Midlands College […]

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    Now Available: Nathaniel Dorsky’s Interval

    Posted April 20th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Nathaniel Dorsky‘s Interval, one of a number of recent films photographed in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. For more on Dorsky’s work, check out Maximilien Luc Proctor‘s recent conversation with the filmmaker for MUBI’s Notebook: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/nathaniel-dorsky-shimmering-golden-music Interval (2021, 12.5 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, 18fps) A bouquet from those final arid […]

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    New Acquisition: Two Films by Brigid McCaffrey

    Posted April 19th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema on 16mm: Two films by Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Brigid McCaffrey, whose work documents environments and people in states of flux. McCaffrey’s films explore extremes of autonomy and coexistence experienced by individuals who have distinct relationships with the land. Often taking shape as nuanced portraits, the films respond to […]

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    Now Available: New Prints and Digitizations of Two Early Films by Naomi Uman!

    Posted April 15th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that two early films by Naomi Uman are now available in 16mm and digital formats! Both films were restored in 2021 by XFR Collective through the initiative of Walter Forsberg and Andrea Callard and with the assistance of the National Film Preservation Foundation. New prints and digitizations were made […]

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