New Acquisitions
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Now available: three files from Larry Gottheim
“Gottheim’s Cinema is a quest of origins. The films elaborate a response to the fictions of our world, the construction of images and sounds, the repeating cycles of life and nature. The profoundness of Gottheim’s act is to elaborate a body of work outside of fashion and within a search for an authentic language of […]
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Now available: That Woman by Sandra Davis
Sandra Davis has finished That Woman, a timely and hysterical reflection on the Monica Lewinsky media spectacle featuring George Kuchar as Barbara Walters. A digital file is now available to rent. That Woman (2018 | 22 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) THAT WOMAN uses as source material the original Barbara Walters interview with Monica Lewinsky, which is intercut […]
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Spotlight on The Arboretum Cycle and Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
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
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
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
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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Now available: Piyut I-V by Abraham Ravett
Abraham Ravett collects five films on Judaism and familial memory on a DVD, Piyut I-V. It is now available for individual and institutional sale. Piyut I-V (2009-2012 | 94 minutes | COLOR/B&W) DVD collection of five films made 2009 – 2012. Notes For A Polish Jew (2012, 8 min, 16mm, silent) From Prague To Poland (2010, 15 min, digital, […]
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New filmmaker: Diane Kitchen
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
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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Now available: Athyrium filix-femina by Kelly Egan
Kelly Egan’s reflection on Anna Atkins and the gendered legacy of photographic art and science, Athyrium filix-femina, is now available on 35mm. Athyrium filix-femina (2016 | 5 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) The second in a series of “quilt films” that pay homage to the work of pioneering female artists, Athyrium filix-femina reimagines Anna Atkins’ foundational work […]