News & Events
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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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Job Opportunity: Distribution & Collections Manager
We are hiring! Canyon Cinema seeks a new Distribution & Collections Manager to oversee the operation of our distribution program for artist-member works as well as the conservation and management of our film print, digital media, and paper collections. This is a full-time, permanent position, based out of our office located in Bayview–Hunters Point in […]
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Canyon Cinema presents Robert Nelson’s Suite California, October 30, 2024
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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9/20/2024 – A Salon with Philip Hoffman
A Salon with Philip Hoffman Friday, September 20, 2024 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm) 16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Philip Hoffman in person! Kicking off a whirlwind weekend of Bay Area events, Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Canadian film experimentalist and longtime artist member Philip Hoffman to 16 Sherman for a screening of his 2019 […]
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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: Four Films by Philip Hoffman
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of four recent handmade films by longtime artist member Philip Hoffman. A film artist of memory and association, Hoffman has long been recognized as Canada’s pre-eminent diary filmmaker. As Karyn Sandlos writes, “For over twenty years he has been straining history through personal fictions, using the material of […]
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Now Available: Bill Brown’s Mountain State
Mountain State (Bill Brown, 2003, 19 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “History is a ghost, and every historical marker tells a ghost story,” Brown writes about his film; that’s true but also a truism, since every true story must one day become a kind of ghost story. Mountain State is instead a film about absence, […]
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New Store Item! Tommy Becker’s The Mirror Neuron
Now in stock: Tommy Becker’s The Mirror Neuron, a 36-page color zine featuring an introduction by David Finkelstein and over 30 hi-res stills printed in combination with the poetry and text of the work. A QR code grants access to the full 14:30-minute work online. An optional expanded edition includes a 16″ x 20″ poster […]
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Now Available: Federica Foglia’s Glitter for Girls
Glitter for Girls (Federica Foglia, 2023, 4 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) Glitter for Girls is a handmade tattoo film that utilizes a camera-less direct-on-film animation approach to collage multiple layers of water tattoos (commonly used by children.) Foglia, known for her tactile work on celluloid, this time intervenes on the 16mm polyester base […]
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Now Available: Ten Digital Files from Mark Street
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that ten new digital files from longtime artist member Mark Street, encompassing work completed since 2019, are now available. “For many years Mark Street has been making small, observational films of the details and energies of public spaces in urban settings. City blocks, parking spaces, and storefronts (and the […]
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Now Available: A Roll for Peter
A Roll for Peter (multiple filmmakers, 2016, 56 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm, digital file, or DCP) A collective film by: Dominic Angerame, Roddy Bogawa, Cassandra Bull, Jacob Burckhardt, Jesse Cain, David Gatten, Richard Max Gavrich, George Griffin, Eve Heller, Mott Hupfel, Nikolas Jaeger, Amanda Katz & Josh Lewis, Theodore Rex King, Robbie Land, rebecca (marks) leopold, […]
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke (2023, 6 min, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) The visual shows the alternation of the shots of fireworks filmed at a summer festival in Japan, producing a distinctive yet organic rhythm, as well as a gap in time between the visual and sound, both of which are […]
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Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Lotus-Eyed Girl
Lotus-Eyed Girl (2023, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) Loosely based on the erotic poem “Caurapañcasika” by Bilhana, which was written in prison upon discovery of the poet’s clandestine affair with Princess Yaminipurnatilaka. The verses were written while awaiting judgment, not knowing if he was to be executed or exiled — his fate […]
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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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Now Available: New Digital Files and Prints from Jerome Hiler
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new digital files and 4K DCPs of Jerome Hiler‘s films are now available for rent. Revised 16mm versions of New Shores (1971-87) and In the Stone House (2012) are also now available from Canyon. In addition, from May 9–16, 2024, the Museum of Modern Art in New York […]
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Canyon Cinema presents Toney W. Merritt: As I Am, May 16 & 18, 2024
Toney W. Merritt: As I Am Thursday, May 16, 6:30pm & Saturday, May 18, 3:40pmThe Roxie Theater, San Francisco Toney W. Merritt in person!Q&A to follow both screenings Program & Ticket Info: roxie.com/film/toney-w-merritt-as-i-am/ The Bay Area–based independent filmmaker Toney W. Merritt has been creating work for over 50 years. His unique corpus of personal films and […]
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Now Available: Eve Heller’s Singing in Oblivion
Singing in Oblivion (2021, 13 minutes, b&w, sound, 35mm) “A magnificent visual and musical poem, simultaneously timeless and in delicate synchronicity with our devastated present.” — Nicole Brenez “Films that uncompromisingly deal in (and with) death necessarily seem to have fallen out of time, like the dead themselves. Singing in Oblivion takes this idea as its point […]
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Now Available: Azucena Losana’s Primitiva
Primitiva (2023, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) From the “light bugs” series, this is the portrait of Doña Vivi, maker and alchemist of the original light that is offered to the souls that come to visit every year. This is her home and ceremonial beeswax candle factory, in Teotitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Now Available: 18 Digital Files from Janis Crystal Lipzin
Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce the acquisition of 18 exhibition files from longtime artist member Janis Crystal Lipzin. Spanning six decades of work, this deposit includes recent digital transfers of Lipzin’s 16mm films of the 1970s and 1980s, new digital copies of videos from the 2000s, as well as several born-digital works that are […]
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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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Now Available: 7 New Exhibition Files from John Smith
Canyon Cinema is excited to announce the acquisition of 7 exhibition files from longtime member John Smith. This deposit includes recent digitizations of 16mm experimental film classics such as The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), The Black Tower (1987), and Associations (1975), among others. John Smith was born in Walthamstow, London in 1952. He studied at North-East London Polytechnic and the Royal […]
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Now Available: Nathaniel Dorsky’s O Death
O Death (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2023, 5 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, 18fps) In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… – N.D.
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New Artist Member: Tommy Becker
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome San Francisco-based artist Tommy Becker to the collection! Tommy Becker attended the San Francisco Art Institute before receiving an MFA in Film/Video/Performance from the California College of Arts. In 2001, he began his work on “Tape Number One,” a never-ending mix tape that acts as a depository for his […]
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New Artist Member: Jenni Olson
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome Jenni Olson to the collection! Jenni Olson is a queer film historian and archivist, writer, and non-fiction filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. Her two feature-length essay films — The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015) — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and, like her many short films, have screened internationally […]
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