New Acquisitions

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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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2. 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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   Daniel Barnett’s Loose Ends Trilogy DVD available at Canyon

   Posted December 8th, 2016 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce newly available DVDs from filmmaker Daniel Barnett. The Loose Ends trilogy includes Endless (1987-1990), Untoward Ends (1969-1971), and Dead End, Dead End (1981) “Untoward Ends, along with Dead End, Dead End and Endless are a kind of cross between diaries and structural films and span the main part of my career […]

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   2 new films by Nathaniel Dorksy are now available ~ The Dreamer and Autumn

   Posted November 7th, 2016 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We are pleased to announce that Nathaniel Dorsky’s most recent films – The Dreamer and Autumn (2016) – are now available through Canyon Cinema. Autumn (2016 | 26 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy […]

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   Now available on 16mm : 9 new films by Amy Halpern

   Posted October 9th, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Nine brand new 16mm prints of films by Amy Halpern are available to rent from Canyon Cinema! Amy Halpern is a New York filmmaker, living & working in Los Angeles. Since childhood she has been composing with movement and light, and making 16mm abstract films since 1972. She is the co-founder of two film screening organizations: The Collective for […]

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   Now available: Josephine Massarella’s Light Study

   Posted May 23rd, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
   

   Canyon is pleased to announce this latest addition to Massarella’s films in distribution – beautifully photographed on 16mm and available for distribution in high definition digital formats. Josephine Massarella | 2013 | 12.5 minutes | COLOR/B&W | STEREO Rental Format(s): Digital File (Quicktime ProRes 1920×1080) Sale Format(s): Blu-Ray Disc   Light Study is a poetic examination of the wetlands, forests, […]

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    Films by Jean Sousa now distributed by Canyon Cinema

    Posted May 18th, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
    

    We’re pleased to announce that the 16mm films of Chicago-based filmmaker and photographer Jean Sousa are now distributed by Canyon Cinema. Excellent 16mm prints of films made from 1977-1987 received from the filmmaker are for the first time available from Canyon, Sousa’s films are a welcome addition to the Canyon Cinema catalog. Seven of Sousa’s films are now […]

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