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Daniel Barnett’s Loose Ends Trilogy DVD available at Canyon
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce newly available DVDs from filmmaker Daniel Barnett. The Loose Ends trilogy includes Endless (1987-1990), Untoward Ends (1969-1971), and Dead End, Dead End (1981) “Untoward Ends, along with Dead End, Dead End and Endless are a kind of cross between diaries and structural films and span the main part of my career […]
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2016 was a remarkable year. 2017 will be even better (but only with your help).
2016 has been a momentous year of growth and new opportunities at Canyon Cinema! New works, new artists, free screenings, new programs and exciting partnerships! As we embark on our 50th year as one of the world’s preeminent sources for artist-made moving image work, we will strive towards expanding access to our collection of 3,400 […]
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November 14 // Canyon Cinema Salon with Toney W. Merritt
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of Monday November 14, 2016 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment in our Salon series. We’re pleased to welcome filmmaker Toney W. Merritt. Toney’s selection of his personal films span from his time at the San Francisco Art Institute to an excerpt of a current film-in-progress. Merritt and other local […]
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2 new films by Nathaniel Dorksy are now available ~ The Dreamer and Autumn
We are pleased to announce that Nathaniel Dorsky’s most recent films – The Dreamer and Autumn (2016) – are now available through Canyon Cinema. Autumn (2016 | 26 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy […]
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November 8 // Gibson + Recoder present La Région Decentrale (2016): A Prepared Projection Performance for Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale (1971)
La Région Decentrale (2016): A Prepared Projection Performance for Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale (1971) by Gibson + Recoder Artists in person! Kanbar Forum, Exploratorium – Pier 15, San Francisco Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:30 p.m Bernard and Barbro Osher West Gallery (please enter the museum through the historic Pier 15 bulkhead entrance) FREE + All […]
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Now available on 16mm : 9 new films by Amy Halpern
Nine brand new 16mm prints of films by Amy Halpern are available to rent from Canyon Cinema! Amy Halpern is a New York filmmaker, living & working in Los Angeles. Since childhood she has been composing with movement and light, and making 16mm abstract films since 1972. She is the co-founder of two film screening organizations: The Collective for […]
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September 23 – 25 // Bruce Baillie is coming to San Francisco!
Legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie, founder of Canyon Cinema and San Francisco Cinematheque, will be visiting the Bay from September 23-25 and there will be films, fun and festivities in his honor and in celebration of his 85th Birthday. Event Schedule – Friday, September 23 at New Nothing – 7:30pm – Screening Bruce Baillie visits the Bay. We have a […]
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8/10/2016 – Peter Hutton Tribute – Canyon Cinema Salon, led by Steve Anker
“…For thirty years now, Peter Hutton has been building a radical and singular body of work. A sort of primitive documentary, silent, which celebrates the beauty of the world without forgetting to observe people, the conditions they live and work under…” – Cahiers du cinéma The loss of Peter Hutton in June robbed personal independent […]
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MAD presents “Eye on a Director: Canyon Cinema’ July 7 – August 18 // NYC
NYC – JULY 7 – AUGUST 18th — MAD | Museum of Arts and Design in NYC will be featuring Canyon Cinema Foundation in their “Eye on a Director” series this summer — 7 events on consecutive Thursdays beginning July 7th through August 18th including 6 programs of rarely screened works from Canyon’s catalog all […]
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Peter Hutton Dies at 71
We are deeply saddened by the untimely passing of filmmaker Peter Hutton. He produced a remarkable filmic oeuvre over nearly half a century. Starting out as a sculptor, painter and photographer, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1960s where he was influenced by Bruce Baillie, Bruce Conner, Bruce Nauman and Robert Nelson. Writing […]
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