New Acquisitions
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Now Available in 35mm: Coming Attractions (Tscherkassky, 2010)
35mm prints of Peter Tscherkassky’s newest film, Coming Attractions, are now available to rent! “Tscherkassky’s recent, most beautiful film Coming Attractions creates a complex mosaic of cross-references – both formal, between shots, and historical, between periods and genres. This film demonstrates the extreme textual density found footage can achieve, interweaving early cinema, the avant-garde and […]
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Now Available on DVD: Robert Huot’s Rolls: 1971
Excerpts from Robert Huot’s Rolls: 1971 are now available to rent on DVD! Rolls: 1971 (1971-1972 | 48 minutes | Color/B&W | Sound) “Rolls: 1971 is so powerful and so unusual in its emotional effects that I find it difficult to discuss.” – Scott MacDonald Click here for more information and to rent this title!
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New For Sale: Peter Rose’s ‘Analogies’
A new compilation of Peter Rose’s work is now available to purchase on DVD! This region free DVD includes the following films: Incantations (1971 | color | sound | 8.5 min) Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time (1977 | color | sound | 14 […]
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New For Sale: Paul Sharits’ ‘Mandala Films’
A new compilation of Paul Sharits’ work is now available to purchase on DVD! This region free DVD includes the following films: Piece Mandala/End War (1966 | color | silent | 5 min) N:O;T;H;I;N;G (1968 | color | sound | 36 min) T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968 | color | sound | 12 min) In the mid-1960s, Paul […]
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Now Available on 16mm: Battements Solaires (Bokanowski, 2008)
Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. :::: We are pleased to announce a new print of an animated film by the maestro Patrick Bokanowski, Battlements Solaires (Solar Beats). Rent it today!
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New for Sale: Film Independents 1964
Now available to purchase from Canyon Cinema… Film Independents 1964 (1964 | 57 minutes) This historic DVD is a collection of short films made by members of the group Film Independents, whose activities in the 1960s constitute an important foundation of the Japanese avant0garde. The group’s first event took place in 1964, when its members […]
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Now Available on DVD: Films By Richard Myers
Several new compilations of Richard Myers’ work are now available to purchase on DVD! 1. Three Films By Richard Myers: The Path, First Time Here, and Coronation The Path (1961| 20 minutes | B&W | Silent) “Light as the symbol of the ineffable. The ‘plot’ of this subjective recreation of a dream seems to concern […]
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Now Available on DVD: Films by John Carney
Two films by John Carney, Bal-Anat and Black Jackets and Choppers, are now available to purchase on DVD! Bal-Anat(1975, 20 min) There was a time in the 1970’s when Middle Eastern culture and dance gained widespread popular attention in the Bay Area through the offerings of Jamila Salimpour and her exciting and exotic dance troupe, […]
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Now Available on 16mm: Bruce Baillie’s Little Girl!
This new restoration of Bruce Baillie’s Little Girl by Academy Film Archives rings in the first edition of the film available to rent ever! “This film by Bruce Baillie, completed in 1966 but unreleased until 2014, is contemporaneous with Castro Street, but is much more formally connected to All My Life or Still Life, also from […]
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Now Available on DVD: Films of Alice Anne Parker Severson
A DVD compilation of works by Alice Anne Parker (Severson) is available to purchase from Canyon Cinema! Included films: I Change I Am the Same (1969 | 1 min | B&W | Sound) A short, hilarious film of a woman and a man in various stages of undress – in their own and each other’s […]
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