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Now Available: Michael Alexander Morris’s First Hermanubis: Initiation

First Hermanubis: Initiation (2023, 40 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic and the occult. This first episode focuses on the […]

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Now Available: New Digital Files of Nine Films by James Broughton and Joel Singer

Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new digital files of nine films by James Broughton and Joel Singer are now available! After meeting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974, Joel Singer and James Broughton spent the next 25 years together, “sharing fully in art and life.” This new acquisition includes seven Broughton-Singer […]

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Now Available: Two Stereoscopic 3D Films by Greta Snider

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two stereoscopic 16mm films by Greta Snider are now available for rent. Please note that these dual projection films require a silver 3D type exhibition screen. Each film rental comes with linear polarizing filters for projectors, and audience polarizing glasses. Sound is played on a separate file. See […]

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Now Available: Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking about All My Life, by Guy Sherwin, David Sherman, and Rebecca Barten

Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking about All My Life (Guy Sherwin, David Sherman and Rebecca Barten, 1995/2024, 3.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) With: Rebecca Barten, David Sherman, Guy Sherwin, Barbara Meter, Ross Lipman, Brian Frye, Mark Wilson and others Camera: Most of the above and Bruce Baillie Concept: Guy Sherwin, Rebecca Barten, […]

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Now Available: Two Films by Raymond Rea

Augmented (2025, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Augmented is an experimental non-fiction short, shot completely on 16mm, that analyzes the commonalities between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment. We are frightening because we’re the future. A Mile and A Half (2022, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The border between North Dakota and Minnesota is physically […]

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Now Available: Three 16mm Films by LeAnn Bartok

Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new 16mm prints of three films by LeAnn Bartok are now available. This new acquisition includes two of Bartok’s renowned Skyworks films, as well as her final film, Film Painting I. A pioneering conceptual visionary artist, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, actress, and inventor (U.S. patent liquid crystal), LeAnn […]

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5/14/2025 – Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal

Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm) Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco Lynne Sachs, Jenni Olson, and MFJ Editor Nicholas Gamso in person! This selection of short moving image pieces—all discussed in recent issues of the Millennium Film Journal—will celebrate the release of MFJ no. 81, “Dedication.” The new […]

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Now Available: Elena Pardo’s Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color)

Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color) (2024, 12.5 min, color, sound, digital file) In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, the women’s organization Poj Kaa maintains a community herbarium. Foraging for plants is a way to share knowledge with grandmothers, midwives, healers and shamans. In Teotitlán del Valle the Ruiz family makes their […]

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Now Available: Jeffrey Skoller’s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary + Four New Digitizations

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of five new exhibition files from longtime artist member Jeffrey Skoller. This deposit includes the latest installment of Skoller’s Unimagined Lives series, Occupation Diary (2025), as well as new 2K digitizations of four 16mm films from the 1980s and 1990s, including Moving In (1982), Topography/Surface Writing (1984), […]

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Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s This Side of Salina

This Side of Salina (2025, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all […]

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Canyon Cinema co-presents Trace Elements: Remembering Gunvor Nelson, March 13, 2025

Trace Elements: Remembering Gunvor Nelson Thursday, March 13, 7:30pm The Lab, San Francisco Co-presented with San Francisco CinemathequeEvent tickets here For Nelson, film is a plastic medium whose potential for personal expression demands a denial of conventional film language and syntax on the part of both the maker and the viewer. Her frequently ambiguous and […]

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Now Available: New Digitizations of Five Films by Sharon Couzin

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new digitizations of five films by Sharon Couzin are now available! Sharon Couzin (1943-2019) was a Chicago experimental filmmaker, painter, and poet who began making films in the early 1970s. Her work is known for its complex visual layering that reflects a personal, autobiographical point of view. The […]

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New Artist Member: Alexandra Cuesta

Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Alexandra Cuesta to the collection! Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and visual artist who combines experimental film traditions with documentary practices. Her 16mm films and videos are portraits of public places, urban landscapes, and the people in them. Reminiscent of documentary practices such as street photography, Cuesta’s work is […]

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Now Available: Jerome Hiler’s Careless Passage

Careless Passage (Jerome Hiler, 2024, 20 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file or DCP) Wandering through the ordinary sights of day and night. How, in this vast cosmos, did all this happen? We live in a world of constant transformations. Somehow, aeons ago, consciousness came about. I’m often drawn to think of the earliest […]

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Introducing the Print Generations Cohort!

Inspired by the 16mm Centenary (1923-2023), Print Generations is a new Canyon Cinema commissioning project that will support the production of four new 16mm films by the following cohort of Bay Area filmmakers! Celina Jade de Leon is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker from the Bay Area. She embraces feminine irreverence through multimedia depictions of mischievous characters. She has a […]

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