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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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Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: George’s Sphere @ SFMOMA, May 2, 2026

Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: George’s Sphere 2pm Saturday, May 2, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Free with RSVP Curator Andrew Lampert in attendance! Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Join us for two screenings from the prodigal twin brothers of underground cinema, George and […]

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Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: Planet Mike @ SFMOMA, April 30, 2026

Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: Planet Mike 6pm Thursday, April 30, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Free with RSVP Filmmaker Mike Kuchar and curator Andrew Lampert in attendance!Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Join us for two screenings from the prodigal twin brothers of […]

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New Artist Member: Tijana Petrović

Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Tijana Petrović‘s work to the collection! Tijana Petrović is a filmmaker and artist born and raised in the former Yugoslavia. Her moving image work includes nonfiction films, and film and video installations which use landscape as a framework to observe and question our relationships to history, place and the natural […]

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Now Available: Emily Chao’s Light Signal + chive pockets

Light Signal (2022, 11 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) A keeper’s log, a score for light, a script for sound. A reconstruction, a slow reclamation. To begin where there is light. chive pockets (2017, 3 minutes, b&w, silent, digital file) A 16mm film documenting my grandmother making chive pockets for the last time.

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Flow State: a reflection on film inspection and archiving @ Shapeshifters Cinema, April 12, 2026

Flow State: a reflection on film inspection and archiving 7pm Sunday, April 12 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Hosted by Autumn Armstrong Admission: $12 General / Discount for Friends of Canyon & Shapeshifters Members Event tickets here Flow State is a celebration of film inspection and archival work. Film archivist and library assistant Autumn Armstrong has curated this program […]

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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Sketch Films #1-5 + Clear Blue Sky

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Tomonari Nishikawa’s Super 8 Sketch Film series (2005-2007) is now available. “As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa explains, “I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public […]

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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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Now Available: Jennifer Reeves’s When It Was Blue + Additional Titles from Re:Voir

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Re:Voir’s recent Blu-ray release, Jennifer Reeves: When It Was Blue, Selected Works 1992-2022, is now in stock. The collection features 10 of Reeves’s stunning handcrafted films, newly remastered, as well as a 40-page booklet in English & French with texts by Michael Sicinski and Laura Staab. Contents: When It Was Blue (2008, […]

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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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