New Acquisitions

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   Now Available on 16mm: New Print of James Otis’ On Your Own

   Posted August 14th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We have a beautiful new 16mm print of James Otis’ On Your Own available to rent from Canyon Cinema! On Your Own (1981 | 2 minutes | B&W | SOUND) Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, I undertook a distillation, editing […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: New Print of Standish Lawder’s Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie

   Posted August 5th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   A brand-spankin’ shiny new print of Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie is available to rent from Canyon Cinema! Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie (1973 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) In the early 70’s, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle produced a “Cat Film Fesitval:” which was shown in a large downtown […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: Kate McCabe’s You and I Remain

   Posted August 4th, 2015 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that after its premier at the Canyon Cinema Salon “Betwixt and Between,” You and I Remain is now available on 16mm! You and I Remain (2015 | 15 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) In this portrait of a world askew, filmmaker McCabe composes an apocalyptic lullaby, a landscape film meditating […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: New Prints of James Broughton’s Hermes Bird and High Kukus, and Broughton & Joel Singers’ The Gardener of Eden

   Posted July 16th, 2015 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   New, beautiful prints of Hermes Bird, High Kukus and The Gardener of Eden are now available for loan from Canyon Cinema! High Kukus (1973 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “A visualization of the Zen dictum of ‘sitting quietly, doing nothing,’ HIGH KUKUS uses a single beautiful visual image while it delights with a poetic […]

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   Now Available on Blu Ray: Janie Geiser’s The Hummingbird Wars

   Posted July 6th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   We are pleased to announce that The Humming Bird Wars, the latest work from filmmaker Janie Geiser, is now available to rent on BluRay! The Humming Bird Wars (2014 | 10 minutes | color | sound) “A theatrical fiction, collapsing time and place: turn-of-the-last-century performers apply stage makeup as if for war, to engage in […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: 8 Films by Saul Levine

   Posted June 18th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We at Canyon Cinema are beyond excited to announce 8 films now available to rent on 16mm by Saul Levine! Falling Notes Unleaving (2013 | 13 minutes | color | sound) Made almost fifty years after his debut film, Saul Levine’s FALLING NOTES UNLEAVING presents the filmmaker returning to the inspiration of Stan Brakhage and […]

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   New on 16mm: Nursing History by Marian McMahon

   Posted June 17th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is honored to offer Nursing History by the late, great Marian McMahon for loan on 16mm. Marian McMahon’s contributions to Canadian critical film and video practice have had a substantial impact on contemporary art discourse in Canada. Her work created a dialogue for women’s experiences, interlacing personal and shared subjectivities to examine the […]

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   New on 16mm: Lawrence Jordan’s Entr’acte II

   Posted June 15th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We are pleased to announce that Entr’acte II, the latest work from filmmaker Lawrence Jordan, is now available to rent on 16mm! Entr’acte II (2015 | 2 minutes | color | sound) In ENTR’ACTE II the walls come tumbling down. The wheels come off the wagon: Thunder, Lightning, Explosive meditations. Everything seems tobe happening at […]

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   New on 16mm: Two Films from Mark Toscano

   Posted June 11th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is happy to announce the acquisition of two new films by our friend, preservationist extraordinaire and former board member,  filmmaker Mark Toscano! Certain Things (2014 | 4 minutes | color | sound) Certain things you remember. These are two of them, remembered by my father, as we drove north on S. Las Vegas […]

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    New 16mm print: Oskar Fischinger’s Allegretto

    Posted May 4th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    A new 16mm print of Oskar Fischinger’s ALLEGRETTO is now available through Canyon Cinema! Allegretto (1936-43 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “Visually, ALLEGRETTO is very rich indeed. Fischinger’s fascination with the new (to him) technique of cell animation led him to experiment with multi-layered see-through constructions which are more diverse and complex on the […]

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