New Acquisitions

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   Four new 16mm titles from filmmaker Paul Turano now available for rental !

   Posted June 26th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Four new films by Paul Turano are now available for rental from Canyon Cinema.   26 First Light on South St. (2013 | 11.5 minutes |COLOR |SOUND) The first weeks with our newborn twins, getting used to waking up early, the new sounds in the house, imagining the world through their eyes. Prompted by Bartók’s […]

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   Stephen Broomer’s films now distributed by Canyon

   Posted June 19th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is honored to welcome filmmaker Stephen Broomer to our distribution catalog. Broomer is a Toronto-based filmmaker who appeared with his work throughout the 2016 Crossroads Festival in  San Francisco and placed many of the 16mm prints with Canyon shortly after.  See this in-depth interview for more on Broomer and his recent filmmaking. Beautiful 16mm prints […]

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   DVDs galore (from our European friends at Re:Voir and Index DVD Edition)

   Posted June 1st, 2017 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   We are pleased to announce that we have expanded our catalog of DVDs! The following 66 titles from European labels Re:Voir and Index DVD Edition are now available for purchase! Adolfas Mekas  – Hallelujah The Hills Armager & Dervaux – Cinemas de traverse Christopher  McLaine – Beat Films Dada Cinema DIFFERENT CINEMA : VOLUME 2 […]

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   New and Now Available from Canyon: Mark Toscano’s The Song Remains the Same

   Posted May 31st, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   The Song Remains The Same (2014 | 4.5 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) When feelings are reduced to keywords, it’s a lot easier to find just the right soundtrack. And when an emotional response can be so readily activated via musical triggers, it’s a lot easier to make a moving film. Prix DeVarti Award for Funniest […]

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5. Now available for rent on 16mm : Los Ojos, by Gary Beydler

   Posted May 29th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new 16mm print of this 1975 work by Gary Beydler is now available for rental. Los Ojos ( 1975 | 1.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Only slightly over a minute in length, Gary Beydler’s LOS OJOS, like GLASS FACE, demonstrates a whimsical side of Beydler which, […]

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   New filmmaker in the Canyon Cinema catalog: James Sansing

   Posted May 25th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome the work of  filmmaker James Sansing. New to Canyon but already well known to the film-going public in the Bay Area and beyond, Canyon is pleased to offer these two recent works on celluloid by Sansing: Verses (2012 | 4 minutes | B&W | SILENT | 35mm) Verses is a film […]

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7. Bruce Baillie’s Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?) – new 16mm print now available

   Posted May 22nd, 2017 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new print of Bruce Baillie’s film Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?) is now available for rental. This beautiful new print is the result of recent preservation work conducted by the Academy Film Archive, in collaboration with filmmaker Bruce Baillie. Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?) (1974 | […]

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   Films by Kerry Laitala now distributed by Canyon Cinema

   Posted May 15th, 2017 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
   

   It is an honor to announce that the 16mm and 35mm films of San Francisco-based filmmaker Kerry Laitala are now distributed by Canyon Cinema. Secure the Shadow… ‘Ere the Substance Fade (1997 | 9 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “… steeped in melancholia, involuntary schadenfreude and a sense of spoil that is both anachronistic and transcendental. […]

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   New on 35mm – Traces/Legacy, by Scott Stark

   Posted December 15th, 2016 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We are pleased to announce that Scott Stark’s most recent 35mm film is now available from Canyon Cinema Traces/Legacy (2015 | 9 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) A follow-up to my 2012 film Traces, Traces/Legacy uses a device called a film recorder to print a series of digital still images onto 35mm film. Discarded Christmas trees, […]

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    Now available in 16mm at Canyon : Prima Materia by Charlotte Pryce !

    Posted December 12th, 2016 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Charlotte Pryce’s stunning hand processed Prima Materia is now available from Canyon Cinema. \ Prima Materia (2015 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Hand Processed. Delicate threads of energy spiral and transform into mysterious microscopic cells of golden dust: these are the luminous particles of the alchemist’s dream. Prima Materia is inspired by the haunting wonderment […]

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