DVDs

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   Now Available on DVD: Four Films by Tom Palazzolo

   Posted August 19th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Tom Palazzolo’s Street Scene, I Married a Munchkin, Lily’s World of Wax, and Marquette Park Pts. 1 & 2 on DVD now available for purchase from Canyon Cinema! Street Scene (2012 | 42 min | COLOR/B&W | SOUND) Includes Vivian Maier: Photographer and Down Clark Street Vivian Maier: Photographer (2012, 12min, B&W, Sound)This 12-minute video by Tom Palazzolo and Chicago writer Jack Helbig tells […]

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   New For Sale: Peter Rose’s ‘Analogies’

   Posted July 31st, 2014 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   A new compilation of Peter Rose’s work is now available to purchase on DVD!                     This region free DVD includes the following films: Incantations (1971 | color | sound | 8.5 min) Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time (1977 | color | sound | 14 […]

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   New For Sale: Paul Sharits’ ‘Mandala Films’

   Posted July 30th, 2014 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   A new compilation of Paul Sharits’ work is now available to purchase on DVD! This region free DVD includes the following films: Piece Mandala/End War (1966 | color | silent | 5 min) N:O;T;H;I;N;G (1968 | color | sound | 36 min) T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968 | color | sound | 12 min) In the mid-1960s, Paul […]

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   New for Sale: Film Independents 1964

   Posted July 24th, 2014 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Now available to purchase from Canyon Cinema… Film Independents 1964 (1964 | 57 minutes) This historic DVD is a collection of short films made by members of the group Film Independents, whose activities in the 1960s constitute an important foundation of the Japanese avant0garde. The group’s first event took place in 1964, when its members […]

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   Now Available on DVD: Films By Richard Myers

   Posted July 21st, 2014 in Announcements, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Several new compilations of Richard Myers’ work are now available to purchase on DVD! 1. Three Films By Richard Myers: The Path, First Time Here, and Coronation The Path (1961| 20 minutes | B&W | Silent) “Light as the symbol of the ineffable. The ‘plot’ of this subjective recreation of a dream seems to concern […]

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   Now Available on DVD: Films by John Carney

   Posted July 18th, 2014 in Announcements, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Two films by John Carney, Bal-Anat and Black Jackets and Choppers, are now available to purchase on DVD! Bal-Anat(1975, 20 min) There was a time in the 1970’s when Middle Eastern culture and dance gained widespread popular attention in the Bay Area through the offerings of Jamila Salimpour and her exciting and exotic dance troupe, […]

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   For sale on DVD: Len Lye’s ‘rhythms’

   Posted November 18th, 2013 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

         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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