News & Events
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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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Now Available: Five New Films by Dominic Angerame
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five new films by Dominic Angerame are now available for rent. A Small Fragment of a Day That Belongs to 20 Years Ago (2025, 7.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Memories of lovers past. A glimpse of the erotic emotions that linger in the mind as it changes with each […]
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Now Available: Jack Walsh’s Dear Rock and The Lost Generation
Dear Rock (Jack Walsh, 1993, 18 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Dear Rock is a posthumous fan letter to Rock Hudson that uses Hudson as a springboard for an exploration of AIDS and homophobia. Using the contrived form of the fan letter, Dear Rock employees digression as its structure, beginning with elements of Hudson’s life that open onto […]
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Now Available: New Exhibition Files from Leandro Katz
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new exhibition files of Leandro Katz‘s Splits and El Día Que Me Quieras are now available for rent. These high-resolution digital scans replace the previous files that were in distribution. Splits (1978, 27 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The story of a young factory worker who in an act of […]
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Now Available: Four New Poetry Films by Alexis Krasilovsky
Rafael (2023, 1.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) Videopoem based on “Rafael”, a poem about the angel, by Rodger Kamenetz, from his book, The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022. This microfilm (with embedded English subtitles) includes several photocollages by Alexis Krasilovsky as well as sand video filmed by Zell Lundberg. Positive Thinking (2023, 1.5 […]
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Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s The Egg
Now available from Canyon Cinema: The latest cut-out animation from the prolific avant-garde maestro, Lawrence Jordan! The Egg (Lawrence Jordan, 2024, 8 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) The egg rolls, tumbles and flies from jungles to Desert glasses in a rollicking adventure, accompanied by the music of Eric Satie.
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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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1/26/2025 – Straight from the Haight (and other Microcinemas in Mid-Sixties San Francisco)
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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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 Our New Staff Members: Zachary Epcar and Ashley Rose Tacheira
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the addition of two new staff members: Zachary Epcar, as Distribution & Collections Manager, and Ashley Rose Tacheira, as Distribution Assistant. Zachary Epcar is an accomplished filmmaker working across platforms using 16mm and digital technologies. His award-winning films have been included in the international film festivals of Toronto, New York, […]
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New Board Member: Syd Staiti
Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome Syd Staiti to our Board of Directors! Syd Staiti is a poet and film programmer living in South Berkeley. He received a BA at Binghamton University in 2001 and an MFA at Mills College in 2007. He has presented readings and video work at BAMPFA, SF State Poetry Center, the Poetry […]
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Now Available: Toney W. Merritt’s APART – A PART
APART – A PART (2024, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “The title itself contains a Buddhist-like koan. Fascinating how breaking ‘apart’ the word brings us into coherence as ‘a part of nature.’ A linguistic mystery visualized, eyes wide open. This must be the footage from the Amazon (?) you mentioned some months ago that […]
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Now Available: Azucena Losana’s Aliados
Aliados (2024, 8 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Beyond the giant trees, the subtle ferns, the hungry caverns, and the generous ravines, in the forests, there are voices that root those who visit these landscapes. They are the echoes of a more bestial and just time, where lightning is a divine finger and a cloud […]
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Now Available: Four Videos by Tommy Becker
Let’s Make a Movie (2014, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A love song and tribute to classic cinema. Song for the Lemons (2013, 4.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The lemon, often utilized by famed still-life painters, was rarely the focus of a composition. More typically, it was being abused for its compositional qualities. […]
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Now Available: Three New Films by Lynne Sachs
Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that three new films by Lynne Sachs are now available for rent, including: Contractions, which was recently featured on The New York Times’ Op-Docs page; She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes, featuring Barbara Friedman and Laetitia Mikles; and The Jitters, commissioned by Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive for […]
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Now Available: Four New Films by Malic Amalya
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Malic Amalya’s Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023), along with three additional films, are now available for rent: Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023, 21 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Tourism in an age of mass incarceration and mass extinction. Living Lessons […]
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Now Available: Gloria Chung’s True Places and Ommatidia
True Places (2022, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Places that exist at the border(s) of memory and physical terrain. Ommatidia (2022, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Each compound eye of a large dragonfly is composed of up to 30,000 ommatidia. Each ommatidium collects visual information through photoreceptors, and together the thousands of ommatidia […]
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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 […]
Spotlight on Toney W. Merritt
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