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“From Vault to Screen” ends this weekend!

Posted August 25th, 2014 in Events and Screenings, News / Events

This summer, the National Gallery of Art has reached deeply into the our collection to present “From Vault to Screen,” an eight-part series that serves as historical overview and ongoing testament to Canyon Cinema and its filmmakers. The program concludes this weekend with […]

“From Vault to Screen” at the National Gallery of Art continues!

Posted August 21st, 2014 in News / Events

The National Gallery of Art’s eight-part collaboration with Canyon, “From Vault to Screen,” continues this week with a screening of rarely screened/rarely seen works from our collection. For full program information, click here! Archival Finds August 23 at 2:30 West Building Lecture […]

Big Joy Screening SEP 4th–TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Posted August 17th, 2014 in Events and Screenings, News / Events

Join us on September 4th at 7:00 PM when we co-present Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton with our friends at The Roxie Theatre! From Roxie’s announcement: “Big Joy serves as a chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution. Broughton’s groundbreaking […]

“From Vault to Screen” continues this weekend at National Gallery of Art

Posted August 15th, 2014 in News / Events

For the entire summer, our friends at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are going to be sketching a kaleidoscopic history of the Canyon Cinema Foundation with their eight-part program “From Vault to Screen.” The series continues this week with two […]

Kinder Kino with Canyon Cinema at Exploratorium – Saturday, August 16th

Posted August 15th, 2014 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events

Cinema Arts at Exploratorium presents, Saturday Cinema: Kinder Kino with Canyon Cinema Saturday, August 16, 2014 • 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. Location: Exploratorium Pier 15, Kanbar Forum Admission: Included with museum admission. Buy Tickets → For more than 45 years, San Francisco–based Canyon Cinema has been a key resource of avant-garde and artist-made films. For […]

Now Available in 35mm: Coming Attractions (Tscherkassky, 2010)

Posted August 12th, 2014 in New Acquisitions, New Films

35mm prints of Peter Tscherkassky’s newest film, Coming Attractions, are now available to rent! “Tscherkassky’s recent, most beautiful film Coming Attractions creates a complex mosaic of cross-references – both formal, between shots, and historical, between periods and genres. This film demonstrates the extreme textual density found footage can achieve, interweaving early cinema, the avant-garde and […]

Now Available on DVD: Robert Huot’s Rolls: 1971

Posted August 11th, 2014 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs

Excerpts from Robert Huot’s Rolls: 1971 are now available to rent on DVD! Rolls: 1971 (1971-1972 | 48 minutes | Color/B&W | Sound) “Rolls: 1971 is so powerful and so unusual in its emotional effects that I find it difficult to discuss.” – Scott MacDonald Click here for more information and to rent this title!

Canyon Cinema Foundation achieves 501(c)(3) status!

Posted July 31st, 2014 in News / Events

Canyon Cinema Foundation is pleased to announce it has achieved Federal 501(c)(3) status. We would like to thank the large team who has made this possible: staff, our filmmakers and community, Board Members past and present and our pro-bono legal team at Fenwick & West. In our time of need, many organizations, individuals and institutions […]