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   Now Available: New Preservation Prints and 2K Digitizations of Michael Wallin’s Black Sheep Boy and Decodings

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that the initial phase of our multi-faceted Michael Wallin restoration project is now complete. Thanks to the support of a National Film Preservation Foundation – Avant-Garde Masters Grant, new 16mm preservation prints and 2K digitizations of Wallin’s landmark autobiographical essays Decodings (1988) and Black Sheep Boy (1995) are now available from Canyon Cinema. […]

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   Now Available: Julie Murray’s Estuary

   Estuary (2025, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A poem of patterns and pictures captured onto photo sensitive film. Photograms and fragments of found film footage combine with shapes and textures fixed from detritus often found drifting on shorelines. Using hand-cranked film rewinds, these film strips are wound back and forth generating braided rhythmic variations, […]

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   Now Available: New 2K Digitization of Coni Beeson’s Firefly

   Firefly (Coni Beeson, 1974, 5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) A short expressive dance film, featuring Carrie Mae Weems. Scan courtesy of UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

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   Now Available: TT Takemoto’s For Jina and Swing Swish Sway

   For Jina (2024, 3 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Honoring the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and the legacy of Mahsa Amini, known as “Jina.” Swing Swish Sway (2026, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) “Inspired by Rosalie ‘Rose’ Bamberger (1921-1990), the mixed-race Filipina American paintbrush maker and co-founder of the Daughters of Bilitis […]

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   Now Available: Ten Videos by Azian Nurudin

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of ten videos by the Bay Area-based Malaysian-American artist Azian Nurudin. Made between 1986 and 2001, these videos “feature leather and whips in the streets and S&M havens in the sheets. While Azian’s contemporaries from a ‘brat pack’ of insurgent women artists like Cecilia Dougherty and Leslie […]

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   Michael Wallin, Outside In @ SFMOMA, June 7, 2026

   Michael Wallin, Outside In 2pm Sunday, June 7, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Free with RSVP Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories Join us as we celebrate the work of longtime Canyon Cinema artist member Michael Wallin (1948-2016). A stalwart figure of the […]

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   Now Available: Tulapop Saenjaroen’s Local Sensations

   Local Sensations (2025, 25.5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file or DCP) Shot on black-and-white 16mm film, Local Sensations opens a loose, playful dialogue with Chatri Prakitnonthakan’s essay, “How to Design a Modern Monument That Won’t Become a Shrine.” Rather than illustrating the text, the film generates pluralities — unraveling the dichotomy of object and subject — and […]

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   Canyon Cinema presents Single Spark Film: We Are the Palestinian People, April 14, 2026

   Single Spark Film: We Are the Palestinian People 6:30pm Tuesday, April 14 The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Presented by Canyon Cinema Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon Members Event tickets here Canyon at The Roxie returns with a look at the timely activist cinema of Single Spark Film. Emerging from the San Francisco-based […]

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   New Artist Member: Ayanna Dozier

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Ayanna Dozier‘s work to the collection! Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental and narrative film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. Her current research and artwork examine how transactional intimacy (like sex work) redistributes care from the private sector into the public, social politics […]

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    Print Generations – Premiere Screening @ SFMOMA, Feb 22

    Print Generations – Premiere Screening! 2pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free with RSVP Canyon Cinema’s inaugural film commissioning project! Borrowing its title from J.J. Murphy’s astounding structural showpiece, Print Generation (1974), and inspired by the centennial of 16mm film (1923–2023), Print Generations was conceived to support analog-based filmmaking in the Bay […]

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    Now Available: Eight Digital Files from Barry Spinello

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that eight films by longtime artist member Barry Spinello are now available in digital formats. The deposit includes several of Spinello’s signature cameraless animations, as well as his documentaries Erica: Not in Vain (1983) and Film Graphics: Abstract Aspects of Editing (1972), and his hybrid live-action and hand-painted Daylight […]

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    Now Available: James Sansing’s A Light Unseen

    A Light Unseen (2025, 10 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Light glinting off spider webs, seem unremarkable, but there is a world of color and composition invisible to the human eye revealed by this experimental film. These are not artifacts caused by camera optics, this is the natural world.

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