New Acquisitions
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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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Now Available on 16mm: No Moon by Christopher Cogan
Pulling out enamel and bronze clack their insides :::: From Christopher Cogan, a multimedia artist based in Athens GA, we are pleased to present No Moon, a new 16mm film which evokes altered states of mind as a way of troubling the line between cinema and delirium.
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New 16mm and DVDs available from Janis Crystal Lipzin and Sergio Batiz
New on DVD from Janis Crystal Lipzin: De Luce 2: Architectura | 2013 | color | sound | 8.5 min. Super 8mm transferred to video Light & photo-chemistry collide and conspire against 12 different architectural backdrops suspending and dissolving celluloid matter into a luminosity reminiscent of Mark Rothko’s radiant field paintings. The original film was shot […]
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Incoming: New Printing of Bruce Baillie Volumes II & III on DVD
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce new editions of Bruce Baillie Volume II and Volume III on DVD. These discs are the epitome of quality, assembled by the hands of the Canyon cofounder himself. Printed in honor of the creation of the Canyon Cinema Foundation, Quick Billy, Quixote, and Here I Am are now en route to […]
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Works by Lawrence Jordan now available on DVD
Now available to purchase from Canyon Cinema: Chateau/Poyet (2010 | 11 minutes | Color | Sound) The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Jordan’s favorite illustrators: Poyet. Duels occur on a tight rope. Heavier-then- air machines fly […]
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