New Acquisitions

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   Now Available – Brand New Work by Lawrence Jordan

   Posted December 4th, 2015 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Lawrence Jordan’s new film The Apoplectic Walrus is now available for rent and purchase at Canyon Cinema!  The film pays homage to some of Jordan’s influences in surrealism, collage, and cinema. The Apoplectic Walrus (Lawrence Jordan |2015 |17 minutes |COLOR/B&W |SILENT) Rental Format(s): 16mm film, 24 fps / DVD Sale Format(s): DVD Joanna wanted a […]

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   Now Available – New Work by Tomonari Nishikawa

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

   Tomonari Nishikawa’s recent 35mm film sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars is now available to rent at Canyon Cinema!  The film is currently screening at film festivals worldwide – most recently at the Singapore International Film Festival. sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars (2014 |2 minutes |COLOR | […]

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   Now Available – Eight Works by Rose Lowder

   Posted November 10th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Eight brand new 16mm prints from Rose Lowder are available to rent from Canyon Cinema! Jardins du Marais (Marsh Gardens)  (2010 |2.5 minutes |COLOR |SOUND) This magnificent garden, in the Parc naturel régional de Brière, in the middle of the presqu#île de Guérande, Loire-Atlantique, in France, covers over a hectare of land. It’s vegetable garden, […]

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   Available November 1st on 16mm: Two New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky

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

   Available for booking starting November 1st // Prelude and Intimations: New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky Prelude |2015 |20 minutes |COLOR |SILENT Rental Format(s): 16mm film, 18 fps It is a profound and rarified pleasure to be photographing and editing film at this most tentative of times. To do so is to behold the soulful beauty and […]

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   Now Available on DVD: Four Films by Tom Palazzolo

   Posted August 19th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Tom Palazzolo’s Street Scene, I Married a Munchkin, Lily’s World of Wax, and Marquette Park Pts. 1 & 2 on DVD now available for purchase from Canyon Cinema! Street Scene (2012 | 42 min | COLOR/B&W | SOUND) Includes Vivian Maier: Photographer and Down Clark Street Vivian Maier: Photographer (2012, 12min, B&W, Sound)This 12-minute video by Tom Palazzolo and Chicago writer Jack Helbig tells […]

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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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