News / Events

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   New prints: Piece Mandala/End War, Word Movie and T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G by Paul Sharits

   Posted September 27th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   New prints of Paul Sharits’ flicker films Word Movie, Piece Mandala/End War, and T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G, have arrived at Canyon and are now in circulation! T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G (1968 | 12 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on soundtrack/an […]

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   New digital files: Karen Holmes’ Returning the Shadow and Saving the Proof

   Posted September 25th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Karen Holmes has delivered digital versions of Saving the Proof, an 11-minute deconstruction of the act and process of a woman walking, and Returning the Shadow, which uses old family photographs to meditate on personal and hereditary memory. Returning the Shadow (1985 | 23 minutes | COLOR | OPT) Old family photographs invoke memories and invite […]

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   Now available: Revelations by Dominic Angerame

   Posted September 24th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Dominic Angerame’s Revelations, the newest iteration in his “City Symphony” series, is now available to rent! Revelations (2018 | 24 minutes | B&W | SOUND) “He began to recognize that motion pix could be used as a medium to reveal the supernatural and underworld. He found the calling for which he had been born. He found […]

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   Now available: Tartarughe d’Acqua by Rose Lowder

   Posted September 23rd, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Tartarughe d’Acqua, Rose Lowder’s study of a turtle colony in a small pond in Italy, is now available for rental. Tartarughe d’Acqua (2016 | 24.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) The town of Asti, Piemonte, in Italy, has in its park a very small pond in which there are a great number of turtles, a species […]

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   Bruce Baillie’s 88th Birthday Celebration

   Posted September 21st, 2018 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   The eminent, esteemed Bruce Baillie has telephoned Canyon Cinema headquarters with this message, which we faithfully here broadcast to the world: Birthday for Dr. Bish September 24 Number 88! All invited Anthony’s Restaurant near Everett, Washington Uniform of the day: Dress blues Spread the Word Anyone interested in making the trip is welcome to get in touch with […]

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6. New prints: Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone

   Posted September 21st, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Two more prints of Anthony McCall’s pioneering solid light film Line Describing a Cone have now arrived at Canyon. Line Describing a Cone (1973 | 30 minutes | B&W | SILENT) Line Describing a Cone is what I term a solid light film. It is dealing with the projected light-beam itself, rather than treating the light-beam as a mere […]

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   Now available: Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus

   Posted September 19th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Peter Tscherkassky’s most recent film The Exquisite Corpus draws from found soft-core pornography, advertising rushes, and long-forgotten B movies to conjure an erotic and delirious seaside dream. It is now available to rent. The Exquisite Corpus (2015 | 19 minutes | B&W | SOUND) In 1925 Surrealists in Paris started to use a writing and […]

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8. New Brakhage Prints: Mothlight, Scenes from Under Childhood & The Dead

   Posted September 17th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   The National Gallery of Art in Wasington, D.C. has generously provided funding for new distribution prints of Mothlight, Scenes From Under Childhood (I, II, III, & IV), and The Dead, which are now in distribution. Scenes From Under Childhood Part 1 (1967 | 25 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Scenes From Under Childhood Part 2 […]

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   Now available: digital versions of 13 works by Mark Street

   Posted September 14th, 2018 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Thirteen works by Mark Street are now available as digital files. “My interests in filmmaking are restless and peripatetic. I’ve made films about the American flag, soft-core pornography, a Brooklyn walk, a trip to Mexico, abstract shapes on black leader, and day-to-day life in Tampa, Florida. Each new project sends me spinning in a new […]

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    10/25/18 // A Salon with Lynne Sachs

    Posted September 13th, 2018 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    A Salon with Lynne Sachs Thursday, October 25th, 2018 // 7:30 PM (doors 7:00 PM) 16 Sherman Street Facebook Event Please join Canyon Cinema for the next installment of our Salon series with filmmaker and Canyon board member Lynne Sachs, who will be presenting A Biography of Lilith (1997). A prismatic and deeply personal meditation on the […]

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