New Acquisitions
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Now available: DEAL!! by Gary Adlestein & Jerry Orr
“The most important aspect to Adlestein‘s approach to video is that it is irrefutably and defiantly filmic. … It is sublimely tactile where most videos tend to be impersonally cool and hard. …”-Albert Kilchesty, film curator and author “Jerry Orr is an audio-visual alchemist. He does with the two-dimensional image of film and video what […]
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Now available: Three recent films by Saul Levine
A legend of small gauge filmmaking, Saul Levine‘s practice includes film, video, live performance, collage and installation. Included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1998 exhibition Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films, Levine’s work is noted for its incorporation of splice marks, percussive editing, “unconstrained camera movements and spontaneous formal accidents.”– Steve […]
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Now available: two new films by Nathaniel Dorsky
Nathaniel Dorsky, born in New York City in 1943, is an experimental filmmaker and film editor who has been making films since 1963. He has resided in San Francisco since 1971. “In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in […]
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New Filmmaker: Anna Kipervaser
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
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
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
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: three DVDs collecting the films of Lynn Marie Kirby
Lynn Marie Kirby is a San Francisco-based artist who makes films, videos, and site responsive installations. Three DVDs that compile works made between 1997 and 2010 are now available for individual and institutional purchase from Canyon Cinema. Translation Series (1997-2003 | 27 minutes | COLOR) “[Kirby] is indeed an artist whose work represents simultaneously artistic […]
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Now available: three classic films from Fred Padula on Blu-Ray and DVD
Fred Padula is a musician, photographer, and filmmaker who has won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, and the Chicago Film Festival. Three of his works made between 1965 and 1978 are now available for purchase on Blu-Ray Disc and DVD from Canyon Cinema. Ephesus (1965 | 24 minutes | B&W […]
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Now available: a new digital exhibition file of Charlotte Pryce’s Prima Materia
Charlotte Pryce has been making experimental films, photographs and optical objects since 1986. Her films have screened in numerous festivals including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Toronto, San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, Ann Arbor and London. Her film Prima Materia (2015) is now available to rent as a digital exhibition file from Canyon Cinema. Prima Materia (2015 […]
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