New Acquisitions

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   Now available: Barbara Hammer restorations

   Posted November 20th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Thirteen restored prints of Barbara Hammer’s films are now in circulation, courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, Electronic Arts Intermix, the National Film Preservation Foundation, and the Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. History Lessons (2000 | 66 minutes | COLOR/B&W | SOUND) Available from Canyon for the first time! […]

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   Now available: new prints, films & files from Julie Murray

   Posted November 18th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Julie Murray has deposited two 16mm blowups of early Super 8 work; two 16mm films previously unavailable through Canyon; nine new prints of works already in the catalog; and seven files representing her recent digital work. FF (1986 | 10 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) New 16mm blowup print courtesy of the National Film Preservation Foundation! FF […]

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   Now available: three films by Colin Barton

   Posted November 15th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Hot off his visit in May for a Salon in San Francisco, experimental animator Colin V. Barton has added three films to the catalog. People In Pain (2009 | 10 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) A passage of pain resonates the cries for help only answered by death, explored through stages of suffering and release. Give […]

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   New film: Saisonnier by Sandra Davis

   Posted October 1st, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Sandra Davis’ “little story without a narrative” — or perhap, her “ode” — Saisonnier is now available to rent. Saisonnier (2016 | 7 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Another ode – a little story without a narrative. A reverie for a moment in time, and a passion of place. Facing time and echoes of disappearance. Audio and […]

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   Celebrating the work of Josephine Massarella

   Posted September 29th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions
   

   Josephine Massarella was an independent filmmaker and teacher based in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as a longtime friend of Canyon Cinema. She passed away on June 22, 2018. Her last work, 165708, premiered at the 2018 Ann Arbor Film Festival, where it was awarded the prize for Best Experimental Film. A digital version of the film […]

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   New prints: Piece Mandala/End War, Word Movie and T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G by Paul Sharits

   Posted September 27th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   New prints of Paul Sharits’ flicker films Word Movie, Piece Mandala/End War, and T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G, have arrived at Canyon and are now in circulation! T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G (1968 | 12 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on soundtrack/an […]

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   New digital files: Karen Holmes’ Returning the Shadow and Saving the Proof

   Posted September 25th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Karen Holmes has delivered digital versions of Saving the Proof, an 11-minute deconstruction of the act and process of a woman walking, and Returning the Shadow, which uses old family photographs to meditate on personal and hereditary memory. Returning the Shadow (1985 | 23 minutes | COLOR | OPT) Old family photographs invoke memories and invite […]

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   Now available: Revelations by Dominic Angerame

   Posted September 24th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Dominic Angerame’s Revelations, the newest iteration in his “City Symphony” series, is now available to rent! Revelations (2018 | 24 minutes | B&W | SOUND) “He began to recognize that motion pix could be used as a medium to reveal the supernatural and underworld. He found the calling for which he had been born. He found […]

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   Now available: Tartarughe d’Acqua by Rose Lowder

   Posted September 23rd, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Tartarughe d’Acqua, Rose Lowder’s study of a turtle colony in a small pond in Italy, is now available for rental. Tartarughe d’Acqua (2016 | 24.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) The town of Asti, Piemonte, in Italy, has in its park a very small pond in which there are a great number of turtles, a species […]

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10. New prints: Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone

    Posted September 21st, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
    

    Two more prints of Anthony McCall’s pioneering solid light film Line Describing a Cone have now arrived at Canyon. Line Describing a Cone (1973 | 30 minutes | B&W | SILENT) Line Describing a Cone is what I term a solid light film. It is dealing with the projected light-beam itself, rather than treating the light-beam as a mere […]

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