New Acquisitions
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Now Available: Dominic Angerame’s Bigger Than Us, The Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana
Bigger Than Us, The Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana (2026, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) This is an environmental film. A visual essay of a superfund site located in Butte Montana. An acid lake formed as a result of an abandoned strip mine. “In Bigger Than Us, Dominic Angerame brings us closer to what looks […]
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Now Available: Jennifer Reeves’s When It Was Blue + Additional Titles from Re:Voir
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Re:Voir’s recent Blu-ray release, Jennifer Reeves: When It Was Blue, Selected Works 1992-2022, is now in stock. The collection features 10 of Reeves’s stunning handcrafted films, newly remastered, as well as a 40-page booklet in English & French with texts by Michael Sicinski and Laura Staab. Contents: When It Was Blue (2008, […]
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Manhattan One Two Three Four
Manhattan One Two Three Four (2014, 3 minutes, b&w, silent, digital file) “A study in visual rhythm with images of architecture in Manhattan, New York, using the technique I did for the first sequence in Sketch Film #3. All edited in-camera and hand-processed afterwards. This film was commissioned by Echo Park Film Center for the […]
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Now Available: New 16mm Preservation Print of Carolee Schneemann’s Plumb Line
Plumb Line (1972, 18 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) Breaking down, splitting apart, burning up: a relationship and the film itself. Edited from scrap diary footage shot in 8mm, hand printed as 16mm. PLUMB LINE is a moving and powerful subjective chronicle of the breaking up of a love relationship. The film is a devastating exorcism, […]
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Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s Dreamscape I
Dreamscape I (2025, 8 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Is a series of scenes, dissolving one into another, each highly different, but held together by the irony and possibilities of dreams. They also have some of the aggressiveness of surrealism, and the lyricism of fairytale. We see goddesses and a blue boy on […]
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Print Generations – Premiere Screening @ SFMOMA, Feb 22
Print Generations – Premiere Screening! 2pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free with RSVP Canyon Cinema’s inaugural film commissioning project! Borrowing its title from J.J. Murphy’s astounding structural showpiece, Print Generation (1974), and inspired by the centennial of 16mm film (1923–2023), Print Generations was conceived to support analog-based filmmaking in the Bay […]
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Now Available: 16mm Print of Al Wong’s Screen, Projector & Film
Screen, Projector & Film (1977, 14 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) IMPORTANT:With this work, the primary experience is the concern. In order to exhibit this work, you need to have a screen with a three legged tripod base. You also need to fit the projected image perfectly on the screen. Also available: video […]
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Now Available: Brice Bowman’s Museum Closed
Museum Closed (2023, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Museum Closed is an audio-visual phenomenological interference pattern.
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Now Available: Gloria Chung’s Dark Light
Dark Light (2025, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Regarding the Sun, dead images, sound and etymologies. “DARK LIGHT: the dim cloud of light that is experienced in complete darkness, owing to the spontaneous activity of neurons in the visual system.”
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Lumphini 2552 (35mm)
Lumphini 2552 (2009, 3 minutes, b&w, sound, 35mm) This work was shot with a still camera in Lumphini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. The home-developed film projects the organic patterns present in the memorial park onto the screen, creating a rhythmic yet emotional tempo. At the same time, the images captured by the still camera are […]
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