New Acquisitions
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Sandy Ding’s The Moon now available
Sandy Ding’s lyrical lunar short The Moon is now available to rent. The Moon (2006 | 4 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) The moon is a fundamental element of human life.
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New filmmaker: Fern Silva
New York-based filmmaker Fern Silva has joined the Canyon catalog. Six of his films are now available to rent. Fern Silva (b. 1982, USA/Portugal) is an artist who primarily works in 16mm. His films consider methods of narrative, ethnographic, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation. He has created a body of […]
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Henry Hills returns to Canyon
Canyon Cinema is honored to welcome filmmaker, teacher, and erstwhile Cinemanews editor Henry Hills back to its catalog. Ten of his rhythmic, collaborative works are now in distribution. “Film is so large and we are so small. Every maker in this catalog has a very partial approach. I think of editing as a way to […]
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New print: So Is This by Michael Snow
A new print of Michael Snow’s formalist word-by-word masterpiece So Is This is now in distribution. So Is This (1982 | 45 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) “SO IS THIS parlays an elegantly simple concept into an unpredictable, cumulatively rich experience. The film is a text in which each shot is a single word, tightly-framed white letters against […]
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Now touring: new prints of work by Saul Levine and Christopher Harris
New prints of Light Lick: Amen and 28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark) are now circulating for our Canyon Cinema 50 film tour. Both are available as a part of Studies in Natural Magic, a selection of films made between 1973 and 2017. For complete information on the tour, including how to book, click here. For a list […]
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Now Available: Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon
Tomonari Nishikawa’s landscape exposure experiment Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon is now available to rent on film through Canyon Cinema. Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016 | 10 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) It displays bridges on Yahagi River, which runs near where I was grown up in Japan. I shot […]
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New Filmmaker: Mike Stoltz
We are pleased to welcome filmmaker Mike Stoltz to the Canyon catalog. Three of Stoltz’s films made between 2013 and 2015 are now available. With Pluses and Minuses (2013 | 5 minutes | COLOR | OPT) A ground-less and boundless 16mm film in which a wall becomes a window to a swirling landscape.? “Stoltz shakes […]
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Now from Larry Gottheim: Chants and Dances for Hand
Chants and Dances for Hand, Larry Gottheim’s exploration of Haitian Vodou, is now available to rent or purchase on DVD, or as a digital file for exhibition. Chants and Dances for Hand (2016 | 40 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) The material was shot in Haiti about 25 years ago. Some sections are formed out […]
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Septuagenarian Collaborations now available on DVD
Jerry Orr and Gary Adlestein’s six-year joint project Septuagenarian Collaborations is now available on DVD for rental and sale. Septuagenarian Collaborations (2010-2016 | 49 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) By Gary Adlestein and Jerry Orr Three non-narrative tales based on literary classics (by way of 1950’s Classic Comics) and an experimental meditation on how fast, […]
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Now available: Newt Pauses by Amy Halpern
Amy Halpern’s biological study Newt Pauses is now available to rent on 16mm. Newt Pauses (2016 | 7.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Notopthalmus viridescens Endangered species on an endangered medium. The timing is unaltered, the animals’ own.