New Acquisitions
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Now available on DVD: Candy Colors: An Interview with Stan Brakhage
Candy Colors: An Interview with Stan Brakhage (1985 | 43.5 minutes | Color | Sound) “While on a showing tour in Boulder, CO, I visited with Stan and he showed me how he went about constructing his highly colored hand-painted 16mm films. We see him explaining his materials, the difficulties, the percentages of […]
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New on 16mm: 3 Films by Rose Lowder
New on 16mm: Sous le Soleil / Under the Sun (Rose Lowder, 2011) In the heat of summer, solar panel reflections blend with butterflies on flowers and a little bird eating the mulberries. Click for more information about Lowder and to rent this film Jardin du Sel / Salt Garden (Rose Lowder, 2011) The production […]
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Lawrence Jordan’s After the Circus (2013) is now available!
After the Circus by Lawrence Jordan 9 min. B/W, sound, 16 mm, 2013 Live and Cut-out Animation An exploration into 19th century death mystiques, which rely heavily on the supernatural, along with a belief in, or at least a fascination with, fairy magic, much of it implied through subtle imagery. In all, it is a fascinating […]
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For sale on DVD: Len Lye’s ‘rhythms’
A major figure in experimental cinema, Len Lye was also a renowned kinetic sculptor, an innovative theorist, painter, and writer. He invented the “direct cinema” — facts without film– painting and scratching on film falls back in other films, exposing the film in the shade of various objects, or practicing a number of experimental […]
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New on 16mm: Entr’acte (Jordan, 2013)
New on 16mm: Entr’acte (Lawrence Jordan, 2013) A series of Vaudeville acts inserted between the lines of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemerality of all things. -L.J. For more information about Jordan and to rent this film…
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New on 16mm: Solar Sight III (Jordan, 2013)
The third installment of Jordan’s Solar Sight series now available for rent
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New for Sale: DVDs from Brian Patrick
Four new DVD compilations of documentary and experimental films from Brian Patrick
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New Takahiko Iimura DVDs for Sale
Four new DVD titles now available to purchase from Canyon Cinema
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