Canyon Cinemazine

Beginning in 1962, and continuing intermittently through the mid-1990s, Canyon Cinema published the Canyon Cinemanews (also known as Canyon Cinema News, Foundation for Art in Cinema Cinema News, The Cinemanews, and The New Cinema News). The eclectic, photocopied newsletter, which included a cornucopia of announcements, letters, classifieds, how-to information, call-outs, and more, was later described by the Stanford University Archives as “the main organ of the independent filmmaking community.” Abandoned due to a lack of resources, the demise of the Canyon Cinemanews left a hole in the Bay Area experimental film and art scene.

With the goal of filling this gap, and to commemorate the first 50 years of Canyon Cinema, the Canyon Cinemazine was conceived by Courtney Fellion in 2012. As Fellion explains, “Drawing inspiration from mail art and ephemeral media, the Canyon Cinemazine harkens back to the days of typewriter correspondences between avant-garde artists in the 1960s.” Like its predecessor, the Cinemazine seeks to ignite and foster discussion of underground and independent film/video practice and theory by putting Bay Area artists in dialogue with the larger experimental media community.

Produced with the aid of an Alternative Exposure grant from the San Francisco nonprofit arts organization Southern Exposure, and with encouragement and support from Canyon staff, the inaugural issue of the Cinemazine was composed of Canyon member submissions; edited and designed by Fellion. Since then, the zine has continued to fulfill Fellion’s goal, to “carry on the experimental and community-oriented tradition of the Cinema News.” In 2019, the Cinemazineproject was passed on to Canyon Cinema to continue as an annual publication. 

The Cinemazine is currently available as a reward for Friends of Canyon Cinema members. Selected back issues are also available for purchase via Canyon’s online store.

Format: Print ISSN 2837-214X
Format: Online ISSN 2837-2158

For more information about the Cinemazine’s history and past issues, please visit: http://www.cinemazine.net  

For more on the early history of the Canyon Cinemanews, check out Max Goldberg’s “Make It News: Canyon Cinema in Print, 1962-1967”

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Cinemazine #10: Print Generations
2025-2026

Edited by: Topiary Landberg and Brett Kashmere

Contributors: Black Hole Collective Film Lab, Brett Kashmere, Topiary Landberg, Tijana Petrović, Amy Reid, TT Takemoto

Layout and Design: S Topiary Landberg

Cover Design: Ashley Tacheira, based on Print Generations graphic by Helen Shewolfe Tseng 

Risograph covers printed by Alayna Tinney at BAMPFA Art Lab

Edition of 300
7 x 8.5 inches

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Cinemazine #6: Missed Connections
2019

Letters are written from a distance and go unanswered. I am trying to describe a place I have never been. The camera sees something that the person using it does not. A luminous detail or furtive glance, a chance moment found only in retrospect. Did you feel the connection too? We met 7:30 Sun 1/4 M15 bus stop 79th & 2nd. The dream gets hopelessly lost in waking. We were interrupted. You were not there, or else it’s changed. 

Contributors: Michael Betancourt, Alex Clausen & Ryan White, Jon Davies, Zachary Epcar, Adrianne Finelli, Max Goldberg, Santino Gonzalez, Peter Hutton (front and back covers), Seth Mitter (insert), tamara suarez porras, Justin Clifford Rhody, Rebekah Rutkoff, Talena Sanders, Chick Strand, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Editors: John Schmidt, Alix Blevins, Antonella Bonfanti, Courtney Fellion, Seth Mitter, and Max Goldberg 

This publication was generously supported by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposures program.

Printed at the BAMPFA Art Lab

Edition of 100
32 pages
5 x 7.5 inches

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Cinemazine #5: Loose Ends
2017/2018

Dedicated to Paul Clipson

Contributors: Faith Arazi, arc, Bruce Baillie, Anthony Buchanan, Paul Clipson, John Davis, Ryanaustin Dennis, Nazlı Dinçel, Zachary Epcar, Linda Fenstermaker, Gerry Fialka, Lawrence Jordan, Pablo Marín, Arte Matu, Bill Nichols, Belinda Cherie Perez, Natalie Tsui, Michael Walsh, Leila Weefur, and excerpts from a panel featuring B. Ruby Rich and Karen Fiss

Editors: Courtney Fellion, Kyle Wilhite, Linda Scobie
Design: Agnes Wyman
With assistance from: F. O’Neill

Cover design: Linda Scobie
Risograph prints: John Schmidt

This publication was generously supported by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposures program.

Riso-printed with color film stills
44 pages
7 x 8.5 inches

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Cinemazine #4: Manifesto
2016

Contributors: Bruce Baillie, Craig Baldwin, Canyon Cinema, Jon Dieringer, Amir George and Erin Christovale, Bryan Konefsky, JD Molero, No.w.here (James Holcombe, Karen Mirza, and Brad Butler), Nothing to See Here (Christina Battle and Adán De La Garza), Rick Prelinger, Lili White

This publication was generously supported by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposures program.

11 broadsides
Variable dimensions

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Cinemazine #3: On Sound
2014/2015

Download PDF (16 MB)

Contributors: Bruce Baillie, Michael Betancourt, Brian Darr, John Davis, Michael Daye, Clint Enns, Gerry Fialka, Walter Forsberg, Paul Glabicki, Max Goldberg, Barbara Hammer, Emma Hurst, Joey Izzo w/John Zorn, Taryn Jones, Janis Crystal Lipzin, A.G. Nigrin, Michael Walsh, Roger D. Wilson

Online Contributors: Jaime Cleeland, D. Jesse Damazo, Robert Edmondson, Trevor Jahner, Philip Mantione, Petri Kuljuntausta, Michael Reisinger for Sleeping Giant, Glossolalia, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Phil Solomon, Ashley Swendsen

Editor/Design: Courtney Fellion

This publication was generously supported by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposures program.

First printing, sold out. 
Second printing, edition of 100.
40 pages, featuring special flexi-disc insert
7 x 8.5 inches

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Cinemazine #2: Non/Fictions
2013

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Cinemazine #1: 50th Anniversary
2012/2013 

This issue is a special, limited-edition gift for Canyon Cinema filmmakers in celebration of the organization’s 50th Anniversary in 2011.

Contributors: Dominic Angerame, Bruce Baillie, Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, Sandra Davis, Tom Ditto, Victor Faccinto, Anna Geyer, Paul Glabicki, Barbara Hammer, Robert Huot, Lynn Marie Kirby, George Kuchar, Albert G. Nigrin, Tom Palazzolo, Lynne Sachs, Carolee Schneemann, Linda Scobie, Mark Street

This publication was generously supported by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposures program.

Editor/Designer: Courtney Fellion
Collaborator: Linda Scobie
Assistant: Joseph Yonker

Printed by Colpa Press, San Francisco

Edition of 400, hand-numbered
24 pages, with Risograph cover
7 x 8.5 inches

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