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Now available: Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus
Peter Tscherkassky’s most recent film The Exquisite Corpus draws from found soft-core pornography, advertising rushes, and long-forgotten B movies to conjure an erotic and delirious seaside dream. It is now available to rent. The Exquisite Corpus (2015 | 19 minutes | B&W | SOUND) In 1925 Surrealists in Paris started to use a writing and […]
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New Brakhage Prints: Mothlight, Scenes from Under Childhood & The Dead
The National Gallery of Art in Wasington, D.C. has generously provided funding for new distribution prints of Mothlight, Scenes From Under Childhood (I, II, III, & IV), and The Dead, which are now in distribution. Scenes From Under Childhood Part 1 (1967 | 25 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Scenes From Under Childhood Part 2 […]
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Now available: digital versions of 13 works by Mark Street
Thirteen works by Mark Street are now available as digital files. “My interests in filmmaking are restless and peripatetic. I’ve made films about the American flag, soft-core pornography, a Brooklyn walk, a trip to Mexico, abstract shapes on black leader, and day-to-day life in Tampa, Florida. Each new project sends me spinning in a new […]
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10/25/18 // A Salon with Lynne Sachs
A Salon with Lynne Sachs Thursday, October 25th, 2018 // 7:30 PM (doors 7:00 PM) 16 Sherman Street Facebook Event Please join Canyon Cinema for the next installment of our Salon series with filmmaker and Canyon board member Lynne Sachs, who will be presenting A Biography of Lilith (1997). A prismatic and deeply personal meditation on the […]
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6/15/18 // A Salon with Jason Halprin
A Salon with Jason Halprin Friday, June 15th, 2018 // 8:00 PM Artists’ Television Access Facebook Event Please note that this Canyon Cinema Salon will take place at Artists’ Television Access on Valencia Street. Just before he leaves the Bay Area, please join current Oakland and soon to be Montréal resident Jason Halprin for a Salon with Canyon […]
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New print: Book of Dead by Victor Faccinto
A new print of Book of Dead, transgressive animator Victor Faccinto’s journey to hell, is now in distribution. Book of Dead (1978 | 15 minutes | B&W | SILENT) “In BOOK OF DEAD, no human image can hide from the secrets the animator chooses to reveal. Figures walking on a beach grow satanic horns and tails; tiny […]
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In case you missed it: Curt McDowell packaged programs
As of Fall 2016, camp king Curt McDowell’s films are available through Canyon as specially curated programs featuring newly struck 16mm prints. “Curt McDowell worked in San Francisco from the late 1960s until his death in 1987- a period that witnessed the Summer of Love, gay liberation, and the onset of AIDS, to which he […]
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Now available: six films by Jon Behrens on Blu-Ray
Six films produced between 1996 and 2013 by Seattle-based programmer, filmmaker, sound manipulator, and educator Jon Behrens are now available for individual sale on a Blu-Ray disc designed by the artist. 6 Films, Volume 1 (1996-2013 | 44 minutes) Collection on of six 16mm films on Blu-Ray blu-ray disc designed and produced by the artist. Includes […]
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Three new films available from Lawrence Jordan
Three new works from indomitable animator and former Canyon president Lawrence Jordan are now available in our catalog. Night Light (2016 | 1o minutes | COLOR/B&W | SOUND) This is a classic Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that subtle variations in tone are […]
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Canyon Cinema Salon with Sky Hopinka – 5/11/18
A Salon with Sky Hopinka Friday, May 11th, 2018 // 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) 16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Facebook Event Just confirmed! As part of his upcoming trip to the Bay Area, Sky Hopinka will present a Salon with Canyon Cinema on Friday, May 11 at 16 Sherman Street. His recent film Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary will screen alongside works […]
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Office Suite
(2007) 16mm, 14:30
Appearing: Light, shadow, in-between.
Image and sound by Robert Todd
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