Announcements

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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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2. 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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   Now Available: New Digitization of Deborah Stratman’s In Order Not to Be Here

   Posted September 3rd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   In Order Not to Be Here (2002, 33 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file or DCP) An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect […]

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   Now Available: Five Films by Anna Kipervaser

   Posted August 26th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five films by Anna Kipervaser, made between 2021 and 2023, are now available. Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and nonhuman animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a […]

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   Now Available: Dominic Angerame’s Cuban iMAL

   Posted August 26th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Cuban iMAL (2025, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) No animals were harmed during the making of this film. This film contains iPhone footage that I shot when I was in Cuba in 2024, late December. The safari footage was also shot on an iPhone by Alanna Zrimsek when she was on a safari in […]

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   Mike Henderson: Trouble in Mind @ SFMOMA, Aug 24, 2025

   Posted July 23rd, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Mike Henderson: Trouble in Mind Sunday, August 24, 2025 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Screening: 2pm, Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Music: 3:45 pm, Floor 2, Koret Education Center Mike Henderson in person! Free with RSVP This program is presented by Canyon Cinema in collaboration with SFMOMA and co-presented by MoAD. Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI […]

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   Now Available: Paige Taul’s Full Contact

   Posted July 23rd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Full Contact (Paige Taul, 2024, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Blending found footage with oral interviews, Full Contact offers a personal dive into an unseen student’s spiritual and bodily relationship with Judo. Also featured is the student’s sensei, who discusses their philosophical understanding of Judo.” — Denny Mwuara Interviews provided by Mandela Hudson and Hollis Barnett. […]

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    Cartoon Girl: The Restored Films of Heather McAdams @ The Roxie, July 20, 2025

    Posted July 10th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    Cartoon Girl: The Restored Films of Heather McAdams Sunday, July 20 @ 3:45pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Co-presented by National Film Preservation Foundation & the Chicago Film Society and Canyon Cinema Admission: $15 General / $12 Roxie & Friends of Canyon Members Program info & tickets: roxie.com/film/cartoon-girl-the-restored-films-of-heather-mcadams/#showtimes Heather McAdams is a cartoonist, performance artist, painter, […]

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