News & Events
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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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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: 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: 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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