New Artist Member: Tijana Petrović

Posted April 22nd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

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 world. Tijana works with essayistic and analog approaches to examine connections between landscapes, materials and media technologies.

Tijana’s work has screened at film festivals and exhibition venues internationally including International Film Festival Rotterdam, True/False, Images Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Dok Leipzig, SFMoMA, Anthology Film Archives, and the Pacific Film Archive among others. She has received support from various institutions including SFFILM, New York Foundation for the Arts, University Film and Video Association, and The Enersen Foundation, among others. Tijana is a graduate of the Documentary Film & Video MFA program at Stanford University. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches in the Film and Media Department at UC Berkeley.

Tijana’s Flow Attachment is now available from Canyon Cinema.

Flow Attachment (2026, 8.5 minutes, color/b&w, sound, digital file)

A coastal sand dune is transformed and reshaped into digital ether. The film focuses closely on sand as a material, which is composed of silica, the mineral that is a primary ingredient in manufacturing silicon chips, lenses, binoculars, microscopes and mirrors — devices that extend our vision. The film uses these to visually capture the sand dune and evoke the transformation of materials that goes into their production. Through 16mm analog techniques, elemental forces of a sand dune merge with the physical properties of the celluloid.

Commissioned for Canyon Cinema’s Print Generations project.