New Acquisitions
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New print: Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux
A newly struck print of Canyon founder Bruce Baillie’s San Francisco hymnal Mass for the Dakota Sioux is now available to rent! Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964 | 20 minutes | B&W | SOUND) A film Mass, dedicated to nobility and excellence. The film begins with a short introduction – “No chance for me […]
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Brice Bowman joins Canyon catalog
Canyon Cinema is pleased to offer four films by prolific California painter and filmmaker Brice Bowman for rental on DVD. Narcotics, In the Next Room (2012 | 8 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) A film in a series which takes a look at managing existence without a permanent residence. Shot on digital video, 2012. […]
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Twelve DVDs from Lynne Sachs now available for rental
Twelve titles from experimental documentarian Lynne Sachs are now available to rent on DVD from Canyon. Window Work (2000 | 9 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) A woman drinks tea, washes a window, reads the paper – simple tasks that somehow suggest a kind of quiet mystery within and beyond the image. Sometimes one hears […]
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Daniel Barnett’s White Heart available on DVD
Cinematic philosopher Daniel Barnett’s rare and influential film White Heart is now available for individual and institutional sale on DVD. White Heart (1975 | 53 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “Daniel Barnett is a leading experimental filmmaker who develops complex metaphors in his films out of rephotography and other post-production techniques…White Heart is his longest […]
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Four new films from Nathaniel Dorsky available to rent
Four recent films from Nathaniel Dorsky are now available to book. “For the past several years California experienced an extreme drought. Several winter rainy seasons with barely any rainfall. But this past winter good fortune brought a bountiful amount of storms and liquid refreshment. The spring that followed took on magical and celebratory qualities of […]
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James Benning’s California trilogy and other films from 1999-2007 now available
The last works James Benning made before transitioning to digital production–including the California trilogy (El Valley Centro, Los, and Sogobi), as well as his conceptual “remake” of One Way Boogie Woogie, titled 27 Years Later, and others–are now available to rent through Canyon Cinema. Casting a Glance (2007 | 81 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) […]
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New DVD on sale : Let Them Eat Cake, by Alexis Krasilovsky
Let Them Eat Cake (2014 |81 minutes |COLOR |SOUND) Six years in the making, filmed in a dozen countries, this is a poetic essay film on the full range from the pleasures and dangers of overeating to the tragedies of world hunger. Let Them Eat Cake is not your typical documentary. It is a poetic […]
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Lynn Sachs Your Day Is My Night now available on DVD
Your Day Is My Night (2013 | 64 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Blending autobiographical monologues, intimate conversations, and staged performances, Lynne Sachs’ Your Day Is My Night documents the lives of Chinese immigrants sharing a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown, offering a deeply felt portrait of the Asian-American immigrant experience. […]
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Found and Lost by Janis Crystal Lipzin : New sale DVD available
Found and Lost (2014 | 8 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Music by Lisa Mezzacappa A found home movie of a vacation in mid-20th-century Bakersfield, CA prompts reflection on lost times and lost technologies. Commissioned for the 30th Anniversary of Artists Television Access (ATA) San Francisco by Mission Eye and Ear. Selected screenings: 18th ANTIMATTER MEDIA […]
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Now Available – Digital copies of Seven Works by Matthias Müller
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Matthias Müller is making available the following seven of his films in digital formats, in addition to the 16mm and 35mm prints in distribution: Alpsee | 1994 | 15 minutes | COLOR | SOUND Rental Format(s): 16mm film, 24 fps / Digital File “Despite the seemingly innocuous gestures of household life, a […]
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