News / Events

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   New Artist Member: Barron Sherer

   Posted July 13th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Miami-based media artist Barron Sherer to the collection! Taking the form of hybrid film/video remediations and projection-based media installations, Sherer’s work focuses on repurposing and manipulating found film, slides, video, and photographs through formal experimentation; utilizing social media platforms such as Instagram as both a source of material and […]

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   New Acquisition: Three Exhibition Files from Kate McCabe

   Posted June 14th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three new exhibition files from Joshua Tree-based artist and filmmaker Kate McCabe! This acquisition includes the addition of a new film to the catalog, 2018’s There Are No Shadows in East Berlin, as well as new digital copies of McCabe’s debut feature Sabbia (2006), a visual album for stoner rock prince, Brant […]

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   Now Available: Jeffrey Skoller’s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors

   Posted June 11th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that an exhibition file of Jeffrey Skoller‘s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors (2019) is now available for rent.  “[A] first-person remembrance from one of the first US sailors on the ground in post-atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki… the tale-telling comes across in a riveting minimal mode, foregrounding the witnessing, the fragile personal narration […]

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   Introducing the Canyon Cinema Discovered Fellows!

   Posted June 2nd, 2021 in Announcements, News / Events
   

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   Now Available in Digital Format: Dorothy Wiley’s Miss Jesus Fries on Grill

   Posted May 28th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that an exhibition file of Dorothy Wiley‘s Miss Jesus Fries on Grill is now available for rent. Digital scanning provided by our friends at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Miss Jesus Fries on Grill (Dorothy Wiley, 1973, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file or 16mm) “Miss […]

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   New Artist Member: Mónica de Miranda

   Posted May 26th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome Lisbon-based artist Mónica de Miranda to the collection! Mónica de Miranda is a Portuguese visual artist and filmmaker of Angolan ancestry. Working in photography, mixed media, and video, de Miranda deals with themes of geography and identity, expressing quiet visions of personal history and exploring the poetics of belonging. She received her PhD in Visual […]

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   Now Available: New Digital Files from Naomi Uman

   Posted May 18th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that a number of assiduous, handcrafted films by Naomi Uman are now available to rent or license as digital files. The scanning and post-production work is courtesy of Seattle’s Lightpress, and was supported by an Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant, awarded to Uman in January 2021. This suite of new transfers […]

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   New Acquisition: Four Exhibition Files from Greta Snider

   Posted May 7th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Four new exhibition files from the SF cinema great Greta Snider! This acquisition includes the addition of a new film to the catalog, 2019’s A Small Place, as well as stunning new digitizations of Snider-staples Hard Core Home Movie (1989), No-Zone (1993), and Flight (1996). A Small Place (Greta Snider, […]

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   Now Available: 12 Exhibition Files from Toney W. Merritt

   Posted April 15th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that 12 exhibition files from Bay Area filmmaker and artist Toney W. Merritt have been added to our distribution catalog! A longtime Canyon member, Merritt has been making work for over five decades. His unique corpus of personal films and videos, totaling more than 30 titles, draws upon and […]

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    New Artist Member: Elena Pardo

    Posted April 8th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome Mexico City-based filmmaker Elena Pardo to the collection! Elena Pardo is a maker, explorer, and promoter of the moving image. She has developed her practice around experimental cinema, combining the making of documentaries, expanded cinema, and animation. Pardo is also the co-founder of the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC), a […]

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