News & Events
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Now Available: New Digitization of Abigail Child’s Mercy
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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Announcing the Philip Hoffman Digital Collection
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Now Available: New Digitization of Alexis Krasilovsky’s End of the Art World
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new digitization of Alexis Krasilovksy‘s 1971 documentary End of the Art World, about the New York art scene, is now available. Recently preserved by Yale Film Archive, End of the Art World was the first film made by an undergraduate woman at Yale, and features artists such […]
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Now Available: New Digital Files of Nine Films by James Broughton and Joel Singer
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new digital files of nine films by James Broughton and Joel Singer are now available! After meeting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974, Joel Singer and James Broughton spent the next 25 years together, “sharing fully in art and life.” This new acquisition includes seven Broughton-Singer […]
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Now Available: Two Stereoscopic 3D Films by Greta Snider
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two stereoscopic 16mm films by Greta Snider are now available for rent. Please note that these dual projection films require a silver 3D type exhibition screen. Each film rental comes with linear polarizing filters for projectors, and audience polarizing glasses. Sound is played on a separate file. See […]
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Now Available: Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking about All My Life, by Guy Sherwin, David Sherman, and Rebecca Barten
Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking about All My Life (Guy Sherwin, David Sherman and Rebecca Barten, 1995/2024, 3.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) With: Rebecca Barten, David Sherman, Guy Sherwin, Barbara Meter, Ross Lipman, Brian Frye, Mark Wilson and others Camera: Most of the above and Bruce Baillie Concept: Guy Sherwin, Rebecca Barten, […]
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Now Available: Two Films by Raymond Rea
Augmented (2025, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Augmented is an experimental non-fiction short, shot completely on 16mm, that analyzes the commonalities between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment. We are frightening because we’re the future. A Mile and A Half (2022, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The border between North Dakota and Minnesota is physically […]
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Now Available: Three 16mm Films by LeAnn Bartok
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new 16mm prints of three films by LeAnn Bartok are now available. This new acquisition includes two of Bartok’s renowned Skyworks films, as well as her final film, Film Painting I. A pioneering conceptual visionary artist, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, actress, and inventor (U.S. patent liquid crystal), LeAnn […]
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Now Available: Elena Pardo’s Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color)
Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color) (2024, 12.5 min, color, sound, digital file) In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, the women’s organization Poj Kaa maintains a community herbarium. Foraging for plants is a way to share knowledge with grandmothers, midwives, healers and shamans. In Teotitlán del Valle the Ruiz family makes their […]
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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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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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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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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 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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