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

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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Now Available: Four New Films by Toney W. Merritt

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that four new films by Toney W. Merritt are now available for rent. Fragments One (2024, 1 minute, color, sound, digital file) Vague Question: Vague Answer Summer’s End (2024, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Something that used to bug me.” In Our Sky (2023, 0.5 minutes, color, sound, […]

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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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Benefit for LA Mutual Aid Network, March 28, 2025

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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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: 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: 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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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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