New Artist Member: Linda Izcali Scobie
Posted August 3rd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
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 – de Barcelona, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival; receiving the 2026 Susan Dise Best Experimental Film Award. In 2018, she was the Artist in Residence at White Leaves Residency in New Mexico. She is currently a Senior Projectionist at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley and co-founder of CERTAIN WOMEN – a monthly film series at The Orinda Theater that highlights the work of women directors.
Five of Scobie’s films are now available for rent, including:
PROJECTIONIST PLEASE FOCUS (2026, 1 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
a film in which there appears START, FOCUS and END leader
Crystal Palace (2024, 8.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP)
Two films align as a languid meditation on motion, color, pattern and joy. A collaboration between filmmaker Linda Izcali Scobie and musician John Davis for John’s 2024 LP release “Landlines.”
The Pendulum (2021, 2 minutes, color, sound, 16mm)
a tendency to stay in motion
Decked Out (2014, 1 minute, color, sound, 16mm)
seconds at sea
Craig’s Cutting Room Floor (2011, 1 minutes, color, sound, 16mm)
a fragmented journey through cinema’s history taken right off the cutting room floor
