New Acquisitions
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Now Available: 12 Exhibition Files from Ben Russell
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce a major new deposit of digital files from Ben Russell. Included amongst this acquisition are 9 titles that are new to Canyon’s catalog (see below), as well as exhibition files for three films that were previously only available on 16mm: Black and White Trypps Number Three, Trypps #5 (Dubai), […]
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Now Available: Priyanka Das’s Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden
Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden (2023, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Suspended in moments When our surroundings (aka nature) are an extension of our internal landscapes Forming, rapturous Conversing to re-connect Declaration, involved, a state of “ACTIVE BEING”
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New Artist Member: Margaret Rorison
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Baltimore-based filmmaker, projectionist, educator, and curator Margaret Rorison to the collection! Rorison’s work aims to support and preserve contemporary filmmakers and film culture. Her current work focuses on portraiture, memory, and the precarity and beauty of nature. Her work has been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, Miami PULSE […]
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Now in Stock: Three New Blu-rays from Black Zero
Founded by Canyon artist member Stephen Broomer, Black Zero is a new multimedia publisher specializing in Canadian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present. Black Zero’s first three releases – Palace of Pleasure by John Hofsess, Everything Everywhere Again Alive by Keith Lock, and Strange Codes by Arthur Lipsett – are now available for individual-use […]
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New Artist Members: John and James Whitney
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome the films of John and James Whitney to the collection! John Whitney (1917-1995) is considered one of the fathers of computer animation. His works include the opening title sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo (1958), which is a collaboration work with Saul Bass; Catalogue (1961), assembled record of visual […]
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New Artist Member: Malic Amalya
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Boston-based filmmaker Malic Amalya to the collection! Malic Amalya (b. 1980 – Burlington, VT) is a white, transgender filmmaker working across 16mm, video, and performance. His films are situated between formal avant-garde traditions, the anti-assimilation subculture of queercore, and intersectional feminism. His creative framework is informed by prison […]
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Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Agantukayan / Strangers
Agantukayan / Strangers (2022, 11 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file or DCP) As a child, my mother was sent away to live with other relatives for a number of years, away from her own parents and siblings. This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s […]
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Now Available: Five Works by Lawrence Jordan
Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Five works by Lawrence Jordan, spanning 1956 to 2022. This new acquisition includes Jordan’s latest 16mm cut-out animation, Harper’s Bazar (2022), 2021’s Alchemy, 2007’s Silent Sonata, as well as new digitizations of two early films from the 1950s: the psychodrama Three (1956) and the collage film Minerva Looks Out Into […]
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Now Available: Three Works by Al Wong
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three works by Al Wong, including the expanded cinema pieces Screen, Projector & Film (1977) and Puddle (1982), as well as a new video, Paper Sister (2023). Paper Sister (Al Wong, 2023, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) This work is a response to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was […]
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Now Available: Stephanie Barber’s oh my homeland
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Stephanie Barber‘s oh my homeland, a minimalist, single-shot portrait of the renowned African American soprano Leontyne Price. In addition, we’ve also added exhibition files of eight of Barber’s 16mm films to Canyon’s digital collection, including: 3 peonies (2017), the parent trap (2017), Catalog (2005), Total Power, dead dead dead (2005), […]
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