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    Now Available: New Films by Dominic Angerame

    Posted August 12th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Two new films by Dominic Angerame! Luminae (2022, 4 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) For years I had been shooting with an iris attached to my lens creating a circle. The sun seemed to be a natural progression of the circle, especially its revolutions. The film is an accession into […]

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    Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s Swerve

    Posted August 11th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Swerve, a new film by Lynne Sachs featuring poetry by Paolo Javier. As Herbert Gambill writes for Mystery Catalogue, “Swerve is a cinematic meditation on postmodern/avant-garde/post-colonial poetry construction in general and specifically it’s a terrific incitement to read Javier’s book and seek out more of Sachs’s fascinating body of work.”  Swerve […]

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    Now Available: Paige Taul’s Goat

    Posted August 10th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Goat (Paige Taul, 2021, 3 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) About a girl and her j’s. A meditation on the politics of style, collectivity, and personal taste.

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    Now Available: Jodie Mack’s Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons

    Posted July 28th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: “The third film in Jodie Mack’s Wasteland series, Moons, Sons, observes the rapid thaw of natural forms. A world tender and unhatched; future chaos in repose, in slumber.” (IFFR) Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (Jodie Mack, 2021, 5 min, color, silent, 16mm) A world tender and unhatched, Future chaos in repose, […]

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    Now Available: Eight Digital Files from Brice Bowman

    Posted July 13th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Eight digital files by the Bay Area-based filmmaker and painter Brice Bowman, including: FALLEN SNOW (2019, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) FALLEN SNOW is about Self-Awareness and Other-Awareness. MOTEL (2017, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) MOTEL thinks of the phenomena of moments. As So Was I (2015, 2 […]

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    New Acquisition: Taiki Sakpisit’s Seeing in the Dark

    Posted July 8th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Taiki Sakpisit‘s Seeing in the Dark, which continues the filmmaker’s exploration of Thailand’s political history and landscape. Seeing in the Dark (2021, 29 minutes, color and b&w, sound) The film interweaves the legacy of Thailand’s Cold War, the remnants of the Communist insurgency in Thailand and the ruined fortress that […]

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    Canyon Cinema presents A Tribute to Barbara Klutinis, July 30, 2022

    Posted July 5th, 2022 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    Active Processing in Shifting Bodies: A Tribute to Barbara Klutinis Saturday, July 30, 2022, 4pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Curated by Veronica Luke Tickets and program info: bit.ly/CanyonBarbaraKlutinis Canyon at the Roxie pays tribute to acclaimed San Francisco filmmaker, fly fisher, and feminist Barbara Klutinis (1943-2020). Barbara’s son, Dan Steiner, will be in attendance. […]

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    Canyon Cinema Welcomes Three New Board Members

    Posted June 28th, 2022 in Announcements, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome three new members to its Board of Directors: Terri Francis, Lian Ladia, and Patricia Ledesma Villon. Each of these new Board members, who will begin serving in July, brings with them a wealth of experience, unique perspectives, and an abiding commitment to the field of artist-made cinema and media. […]

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    New Artist Member: Priyanka Das

    Posted June 23rd, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Brooklyn-based filmmaker Priyanka Das to the collection! Priyanka Das was born in India and is currently living in New York City. She is a transdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer, and curator. Her works aim to ignite thoughts, feelings, and emotions that delve deep into the essence of “otherness” mediated by […]

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    Now Available: Greta Snider’s Prayer for the Torture Memos

    Posted May 11th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Greta Snider‘s Prayer for the Torture Memos, which takes on the mountain of text and verbiage that controls the US policy on legal torture, allowing us to confront the materiality of pages, words, text, and resolve these abstractions into the concrete realm of people, in image and sound. Prayer for […]

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