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   Now Available: New Digitization of Robert Nelson’s Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again

   Posted October 14th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978, 47 minutes, color and b&w, 16mm or digital file) “I’m definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information about California. There’s plenty of that everywhere. I’m trying to get at some feeling state.” – Robert Nelson, from A […]

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   Lynne Sachs – The Washing Society + Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry @ Shapeshifters Cinema, Nov 11, 2025

   Posted October 14th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Lynne Sachs – The Washing Society + Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry 7pm Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by the Friends of Canyon Cinema Admission: $10 (discount for Shapeshifters members; free for Friends of Canyon) Event tickets here NYC-based filmmaker Lynne Sachs joins us for a deep, poetic dive into laundry—an area of […]

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   New Artist Member: Kelly Gallagher

   Posted October 8th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Kelly Gallagher and her work to the collection! Kelly Gallagher is a filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital award for her feature experimental documentary, By All Your Memories. Her handcrafted films and commissioned animations have screened at […]

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   Intimate Politics: Carolee Schneemann, Gunvor Nelson, JoAnn Elam @ The Roxie, Oct 22, 2025

   Posted September 24th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Intimate Politics: Carolee Schneemann, Gunvor Nelson, JoAnn Elam 6:15pm Wednesday, October 22, 2025The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Rachel Churner in person! Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon Members Event tickets here Canyon Cinema and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation present the West Coast premiere of newly restored 16mm prints of Schneemann’s Plumb Line and Viet-Flakes, in a program of […]

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   Now Available: New Digitization of Scott Stark’s Degrees of Limitation

   Posted September 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Degrees of Limitation (1982, 3 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) A single 100′ roll shot with a hand-wound 16mm Bolex. For each shot the camera was wound one additional time, allowing me to make it a little bit farther up the hill. Will I reach the top before the film runs out? A […]

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   Now Available: New Digital Files of Gary Beydler’s Hand Held Day and Pasadena Freeway Stills

   Posted September 15th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Hand Held Day (1975, 6 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) “Beydler’s magical Hand Held Day is his most unabashedly beautiful film, but it’s no less complex than his other works. The filming approach is simple, yet incredibly rich with possibilities, as Beydler collapses the time and space of a full day in the […]

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   Now Available: New Digitization of Abigail Child’s Mercy

   Posted September 11th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Mercy (1989, 10 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Mercy, the last in Child’s Is This What You Were Born For? series, is encyclopedic ephemera, exploring public visions of technological and romantic invention, dissecting the game mass media plays with our private perceptions. “You could say the sound plays the part of the page, […]

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8. Announcing the Philip Hoffman Digital Collection

   Posted September 8th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of 20+ digital files by longtime artist member Philip Hoffman. With works spanning from 1978 to 2024, this new deposit represents nearly the entire output of Hoffman’s filmmaking career. Canyon’s Philip Hoffman Digital Collection now includes 26 films in all, from early 16mm film diaries such as […]

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   Now Available: New Digitization of Tom Palazzolo’s Love It/Leave It

   Posted September 8th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Love It/Leave It (1973, 15 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “Love It/Leave It is a raucous treatment of patriotic color, football, nudity and parades set to a refrain of ‘Love It’ and coalescing into Tom Palazzolo’s nightmare rendition of America the Awful. It sounds the theme song of this program [at the Whitney] […]

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    Now Available: Two New Films by Barron Sherer

    Posted September 5th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two new 16mm films by Barron Sherer are now available for rent. Barron Sherer is a Miami-based media artist with a background in moving image archival practice and research. Taking the form of hybrid film/video remediations and projection-based media installations, Sherer’s work focuses on repurposing and manipulating found […]

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