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New and Now Available from Canyon: Mark Toscano’s The Song Remains the Same
The Song Remains The Same (2014 | 4.5 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) When feelings are reduced to keywords, it’s a lot easier to find just the right soundtrack. And when an emotional response can be so readily activated via musical triggers, it’s a lot easier to make a moving film. Prix DeVarti Award for Funniest […]
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Now available for rent on 16mm : Los Ojos, by Gary Beydler
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new 16mm print of this 1975 work by Gary Beydler is now available for rental. Los Ojos ( 1975 | 1.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Only slightly over a minute in length, Gary Beydler’s LOS OJOS, like GLASS FACE, demonstrates a whimsical side of Beydler which, […]
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New filmmaker in the Canyon Cinema catalog: James Sansing
Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome the work of filmmaker James Sansing. New to Canyon but already well known to the film-going public in the Bay Area and beyond, Canyon is pleased to offer these two recent works on celluloid by Sansing: Verses (2012 | 4 minutes | B&W | SILENT | 35mm) Verses is a film […]
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Bruce Baillie’s Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?) – new 16mm print now available
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new print of Bruce Baillie’s film Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?) is now available for rental. This beautiful new print is the result of recent preservation work conducted by the Academy Film Archive, in collaboration with filmmaker Bruce Baillie. Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True?) (1974 | […]
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Films by Kerry Laitala now distributed by Canyon Cinema
It is an honor to announce that the 16mm and 35mm films of San Francisco-based filmmaker Kerry Laitala are now distributed by Canyon Cinema. Secure the Shadow… ‘Ere the Substance Fade (1997 | 9 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “… steeped in melancholia, involuntary schadenfreude and a sense of spoil that is both anachronistic and transcendental. […]
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Canyon Cinema 50 // February 16th // Changing the Shape of Film: An evening with Barbara Hammer at Exploratorium
Thursday, February 16th, 2017 7:30pm Kanbar Forum, Exploratorium – Pier 15, San Francisco Buy Tickets Facebook event add this event to your calendar Join us Thursday, February 16th for an evening of transmuted cinema, where images break through the traditional rectangular screen and emerge as unexpected and amorphous shapes. Working since the late 1960s, Barbara Hammer’s career […]
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New on 35mm – Traces/Legacy, by Scott Stark
We are pleased to announce that Scott Stark’s most recent 35mm film is now available from Canyon Cinema Traces/Legacy (2015 | 9 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) A follow-up to my 2012 film Traces, Traces/Legacy uses a device called a film recorder to print a series of digital still images onto 35mm film. Discarded Christmas trees, […]
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Canyon Cinema to receive a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a $6000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Canyon Cinema Foundation Board of Directors and Staff are thrilled to announce that we will receive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts AND National Endowment for the Humanities in 2017. These generous grants will support the Canyon Cinema 50 project and a Preservation Assessment of Canyon Cinema’s circulating film and historical document collections respectively. This […]
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December 15 // Canyon Cinema Salon with Adele Horne
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of Thursday, December 15th, 2016 at 16 Sherman St for the next installment in our Salon series. We’re pleased to welcome filmmaker Adele Horne who will present an evening of films set in gardens and forests. “I am honored to come up with this dream program showing my films alongside work by Ernie […]
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Now available in 16mm at Canyon : Prima Materia by Charlotte Pryce !
Charlotte Pryce’s stunning hand processed Prima Materia is now available from Canyon Cinema. \ Prima Materia (2015 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Hand Processed. Delicate threads of energy spiral and transform into mysterious microscopic cells of golden dust: these are the luminous particles of the alchemist’s dream. Prima Materia is inspired by the haunting wonderment […]
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Unseen Cinema CollectionRhythm in Light - Mary Ellen Bute
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Co-makers: Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Nemeth, and Melville Webber
Original Format: 35mm sound film 1.33:1
Music: Edvard Grieg
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