Events and Screenings

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

   Posted April 29th, 2025 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   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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   Canyon Cinema presents Lynn Marie Kirby: the insufficient frame, March 30, 2025

   Posted March 5th, 2025 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Lynn Marie Kirby: the insufficient frame Sunday, March 30, 3:40pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Presented by Canyon Cinema in association with San Francisco Cinematheque Lynn Marie Kirby in person Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon & SF Cinematheque Members Event tickets here By calling attention to the screen as more than a blank […]

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

   Posted February 26th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   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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   Benefit for LA Mutual Aid Network, March 28, 2025

   Posted February 26th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Benefit for LA Mutual Aid NetworkMartial Arts (Oakland)Friday, March 28th at 8pm$5-15 sliding scale For address, contact:martialartsoak@gmail.com music byChris CohenRowan Katz + Canyon Cinema presents:Get Out of the Car, Thom Andersen (2010, 34 minutes, 16mm) Flyer by Zachary Epcar

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   1/26/2025 – Straight from the Haight (and other Microcinemas in Mid-Sixties San Francisco)

   Posted January 15th, 2025 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   STRAIGHT FROM THE HAIGHT (and other Microcinemas in Mid-Sixties San Francisco) Sunday, January 26, 2025 @ 3:40pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco  Presented by Canyon Cinema With the emergence of Canyon Cinema, that foundational film presenter and distributor, in the early Sixties, there was a visible upsurge of interest in experimental and artisanal filmmaking in the Bay […]

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    Canyon Cinema presents Robert Nelson’s Suite California, October 30, 2024

    Posted October 3rd, 2024 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    Robert Nelson’s Suite California Wednesday, October 30, 6:30pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Program & Ticket Info: roxie.com/film/robert-nelsons-suite-california-16mm/ Canyon at The Roxie returns this fall with a special presentation of Robert Nelson’s majestic two-part 16mm film essay, Suite California! “I’m definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information about California. There’s plenty of that everywhere. […]

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