News & Events
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Now Available: Lynn Marie Kirby’s C to C, Plus 24 New Digital Files
Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that Lynn Marie Kirby‘s 16mm installation C to C: Several Centuries After the Double Slit Experiment (1995) and new digital files of 24 of Kirby’s film and video works, spanning the years 1976 to 2025, are now available. This major deposit by the longtime Canyon artist member includes 14 […]
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Now Available: Tommy Becker’s De-escalation Tactics
De-escalation Tactics (2026, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) We are a species at war with our own narratives. The stories and structures we inherit – political, cultural and ecological have become traps, cycling us through conflict rather than carrying us forward. De-Escalation Tactics is a thematic-visual-song-cycle that sits inside this tension, contemplating alternative pathways. […]
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49 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality: The City Envisioned by Canyon Cinema @ The Roxie, Oct 14
49 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality: The City Envisioned by Canyon Cinema 6:15pm Wednesday, October 14, 2026 The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Part of The Roxie’s Arthouse 50 series Event tickets here In celebration of The Roxie Theater’s 50th year as an Arthouse, this program assembles films made by former and current Canyon staffers, offering […]
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Canyon Cinema’s Print Generations @ Indexical, Santa Cruz, Sept 19
Canyon Cinema’s Print Generations 7pm, Saturday, September 19, 2026 Indexical, Santa Cruz Event tickets here Tijana Petrović, Amy Reid, and TT Takemoto in person! Co-presented by Canyon Cinema This program highlights work from 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 16mm […]
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Now Available: Emily Chao’s 100 Years
100 Years (2023, 3 minutes, color, silent,16mm) An exercise in patience; made hastily while in love with an AI bot who tried but couldn’t love me back. Some mistakes were made. Commissioned by Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive for Century of 16mm, marking the 100-year anniversary of non-flammable 16mm safety motion picture film.
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New Artist Member: Amy Reid
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Amy Reid to the collection! Amy Reid is a filmmaker whose work examines the intersections between gender, national identity, and labor. Exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid’s work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form through feature length films, […]
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New Board Member: TT Takemoto
Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome TT Takemoto to our Board of Directors! TT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American artist and scholar exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Their work delves into hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and trauma existing within Asian and Asian American archives. A Canyon artist member since 2023 and […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Scott Bartlett’s Moon 1969
Moon 1969 (1969, 15 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “The interrelated convolutions and spasms of image, color, and sound that filmmaker Bartlett creates is the cumulative effect of his pioneer work using negative images, polarization, television techniques, computer-film, and electronic patterns all compressed into a visual punch that directs one where he normally […]
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New Artist Member: Linda Izcali Scobie
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Linda Izcali Scobie and her work to the collection! Linda Izcali Scobie is a filmmaker, programmer, and projectionist living in San Francisco. Her films have been exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals and venues such as LA Film Forum, Antimatter, Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City, XCENTRIC […]
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Now Available: C Applewhaite’s I AM THE WORLD + let me breathe
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that C Applewhaite‘s I AM THE WORLD (2022) and let me breathe (2021) are now available. I AM THE WORLD screens at London’s Barbican Centre on July 30th, as part of videoclub’s UK touring program Selected 16. The program includes artists nominated by those shortlisted for the Film London […]
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Now Available: Greta Snider’s In the Maritime Frequencies
In the Maritime Frequencies (2025, 16 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file or DCP) “We’ll remember the earth as if it were a dream.” This film is an exploration of the coastal landscapes of San Francisco, using darkroom developers made from the solutions of our times — bay water, hand sanitizer and “safe” detergent […]
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Now Available: New 2K Digitizations of Three Films by Robert Nelson (and Friends)
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new high-resolution digital files of three films by Robert Nelson, including collaborations with William T. Wiley and Mike Henderson, are now available. These 2K digitizations of The Off Handed Jape (1967), Worldly Woman (1973), and Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley […]
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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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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 […]
Spotlight on Lawrence Jordan
Beyond Enchantment
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