New Acquisitions

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   James Benning’s California trilogy and other films from 1999-2007 now available

   Posted December 4th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted December 1st, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted November 30th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted November 29th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted November 28th, 2017 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   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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   4 new prints from Gordon Ball at Canyon !

   Posted November 27th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Sitting (1977 | 2 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Sitting meditation study. First work after I laid down camera seven years – thus newskin concentration on breath-body precise rhythm attention. Awards: Honorable Mention, North Carolina Film Festival, 1977; Third Int’l Avant-Garde Film Festival, London, 1978.   Father Movie (1978 | 10 minutes | COLOR | SILENT ) Made spontaneously […]

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   Sophie Michael’s The Watershow Extravaganza now available

   Posted November 23rd, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Sophie Michael is a London based artist working across film, photography and installation. Her 16mm films examine ideas around nostalgia and innocence, drawing on early experimental filmmaking and mid-twentieth century design to question our relationship to the past through the lens of the present. We are pleased to offer The Watershow Extravaganza for rental on […]

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   Two films from Mariah Garnett now available

   Posted November 20th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Mariah Garnett to the catalog. Garnett moves freely between documentary, narrative, and experimental modes to create cinematic allegories that codify and locate identity. Her films Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin and Signal are now available to rent. Encounters I May or May Not […]

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   Canyon Cinema welcomes Jodie Mack to the collection

   Posted November 16th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the addition of fifteen films by Jodie Mack to the catalog. Jodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those […]

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    New filmmaker at Canyon : Sandy Ding

    Posted November 13th, 2017 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    In 2016 Canyon Cinema was delighted to welcome new filmmaker Sandy Ding to the catalog. Now three films on 16mm, one work on 35mm, and a new DVD collection issued by Re:Voir are available from Canyon. Sandy Ding is a experimental filmmaker from Beijing China. He graduated from CalArts Film and Video MFA in 2007, and […]

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