New Acquisitions

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   Now available: Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus

   Posted September 19th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Peter Tscherkassky’s most recent film The Exquisite Corpus draws from found soft-core pornography, advertising rushes, and long-forgotten B movies to conjure an erotic and delirious seaside dream. It is now available to rent. The Exquisite Corpus (2015 | 19 minutes | B&W | SOUND) In 1925 Surrealists in Paris started to use a writing and […]

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2. New Brakhage Prints: Mothlight, Scenes from Under Childhood & The Dead

   Posted September 17th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   The National Gallery of Art in Wasington, D.C. has generously provided funding for new distribution prints of Mothlight, Scenes From Under Childhood (I, II, III, & IV), and The Dead, which are now in distribution. Scenes From Under Childhood Part 1 (1967 | 25 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Scenes From Under Childhood Part 2 […]

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   Now available: digital versions of 13 works by Mark Street

   Posted September 14th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Thirteen works by Mark Street are now available as digital files. “My interests in filmmaking are restless and peripatetic. I’ve made films about the American flag, soft-core pornography, a Brooklyn walk, a trip to Mexico, abstract shapes on black leader, and day-to-day life in Tampa, Florida. Each new project sends me spinning in a new […]

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   Now Available – Stephen Broomer’s Potamkin

   Posted August 21st, 2018 in New Films, News / Events
   

     Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new 16mm print of Stephen Broomer’s first feature and is now in distribution at Canyon. “The physical interpretation of Potamkin’s spirit is visualized by a disintegrated, contrasted and superimposed filmic material.”   -Ivonne Sheen Potamkin | 2017 | 67 minutes | B&W | SOUND In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin […]

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   Canyon Cinema now distributing the films of Fred Worden

   Posted August 14th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the availability of more than a dozen 16mm films spanning the career of a post-1960s pioneer of cinematic optical investigation, Fred Worden. “Originally from Southern California (as a young surfer dude he was nearly the drummer for his friends’ band The Leaves), Worden obtained his BA from Colorado College […]

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6. New Brakhage prints at Canyon: Gift (1973) and Chartres Series (1994)

   Posted May 31st, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Through the courtesy of the Estate of Stan Brakhage and the Academy Film Archive we are pleased to announce two recent additions to the Canyon catalog: For the first time in distribution at Canyon Cinema,  a new print of Stan Brakhage’s Gift is now available. Gift (1973 | 2. 5 min | color | silent) A “found […]

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   Now available – new preservation print Warren Haack’s Selective Service System

   Posted May 28th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Courtesy of filmmaker Warren Haack and the Academy Film Archive, we are pleased to announce a new 16mm print from a recently completed preservation is now in distribution at Canyon. Selective Service System (1970 | 13 min | color | sound) Since 1956, the United States had been involved in a ground war in Asia. The […]

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8. Announcing the return to distribution of Toney Merritt’s Welcome to the House of Raven

   Posted May 24th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Following his appearance in the Canyon Cinema salon screening series, we are pleased to announce the return to distribution of Toney Merritt’s 1997 film Welcome to the House of Raven. Welcome to the House of Raven (1997 | 3 min | B&W | sound) A dance. When magic is a verb. The Beginning of the End. The […]

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   New print: Book of Dead by Victor Faccinto

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

   A new print of Book of Dead, transgressive animator Victor Faccinto’s journey to hell, is now in distribution. Book of Dead (1978 | 15 minutes | B&W | SILENT) “In BOOK OF DEAD, no human image can hide from the secrets the animator chooses to reveal. Figures walking on a beach grow satanic horns and tails; tiny […]

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10. In case you missed it: Curt McDowell packaged programs

    Posted May 17th, 2018 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
    

    As of Fall 2016, camp king Curt McDowell’s films are available through Canyon as specially curated programs featuring newly struck 16mm prints. “Curt McDowell worked in San Francisco from the late 1960s until his death in 1987- a period that witnessed the Summer of Love, gay liberation, and the onset of AIDS, to which he […]

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