Canyon Cinema Salon

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    5/14/2025 – Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal

    Posted April 29th, 2025 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm) Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco Lynne Sachs, Jenni Olson, and MFJ Editor Nicholas Gamso in person! This selection of short moving image pieces—all discussed in recent issues of the Millennium Film Journal—will celebrate the release of MFJ no. 81, “Dedication.”  The new […]

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    9/20/2024 – A Salon with Philip Hoffman

    Posted September 12th, 2024 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    A Salon with Philip Hoffman Friday, September 20, 2024 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm) 16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Philip Hoffman in person! Kicking off a whirlwind weekend of Bay Area events, Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Canadian film experimentalist and longtime artist member Philip Hoffman to 16 Sherman for a screening of his 2019 […]

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    1/18/2024 – Portraits and Short Visual Diaries: A Salon with Margaret Rorison

    Posted January 4th, 2024 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    Portraits and Short Visual Diaries: A Salon with Margaret RorisonThursday, January 18, 2024 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Curated and introduced by Margaret Rorison “This selection of 10 short films celebrates the mobile nature of the 16mm camera, and the limitations of its mechanism that allow for true experimentation and play. The […]

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    3/14/2023 – Dispersed Renderings: A Salon with Patricia Ledesma Villon

    Posted March 6th, 2023 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    Dispersed Renderings: A selection of Bay Area works from the Canyon Cinema collection Tuesday, March 14, 2023 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Curated by Patricia Ledesma Villon Familiar sights and inhabitants materialize and depart from the region known as the San Francisco Bay Area; we start anew while certain constants remain. Connections […]

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    9/15/2022 – Urban Nature: A Salon with S Topiary Landberg

    Posted September 12th, 2022 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    Urban Nature: A Salon with S Topiary LandbergThursday, September 15, 2022 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Facebook Event The Canyon Cinema Salon returns to 16 Sherman for the first time in nearly three years, for a program of urban landscape films selected by Bay Area media artist, curator, and writer S Topiary […]

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    I Know the End: A Salon with Light Field

    Posted February 1st, 2021 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    Thursday, February 11th @ 7pm PST Co-presented by PARACME Livestream on Twitch Free; no RSVP required Q&A will follow Films by: Barbara Hammer, Toney W. Merritt, Julie Murray, Dana Plays, Sarah Pucill, Rajee Samarasinghe, and Paige Taul Screening line-up: Anathema (Julie Murray, 1995, 7 minutes, color, sound) Doubt assails the doctor and his assistants, who, through […]

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    Kerry Laitala and Jonathan Walley on Expanded Cinema and Cinema Expanded

    Posted January 15th, 2021 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    A Canyon Cinema Salon, co-hosted by Shapeshifters CinemaSunday, January 31st @ 7pm PSTLivestream on YouTube (free) Artist and filmmaker Kerry Laitala (San Francisco) and cinema scholar Jonathan Walley (Columbus, OH) engage in an illustrated conversation about expanded cinema, including Laitala’s recent 16mm film projection performance Fire Fly EYE (hand-processed 16mm Ektachrome and B&W film, dual […]

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    Sporting Blackness with Samantha N. Sheppard

    Posted September 19th, 2020 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    A Canyon Cinema Salon, co-hosted by Screen SlateThursday, September 17 @ 8pm EST / 5pm PSTLivestream on Twitch (free, no account or RSVP required)View archived discussion here Inspired by Samantha N. Sheppard‘s new book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen , this program – the first of Canyon Cinema’s relaunched (Virtual) Salon series – brings together […]

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    11/1/2019 – A Salon with Lana Z Caplan

    Posted October 22nd, 2019 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings

    A Salon with Lana Z Caplan Friday, November 1st, 2019 // 7:30 PM (doors 7:00 PM) 16 Sherman Street Facebook Event We are delighted to welcome multimedia artist Lana Z Caplan to present a Canyon Cinema Salon screening at 16 Sherman Street in San Francisco. Caplan has curated a program that elegantly weaves films from Canyon’s deep catalog along […]

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    6/19/19 // A Salon with Zachary Epcar

    Posted June 11th, 2019 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    A Salon with Zachary Epcar Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 // 7:30 PM (doors 7:00 PM) 16 Sherman Street Facebook Event We are pleased to welcome filmmaker and dear friend Zachary Epcar back to San Francisco for a very special summertime Salon. Repurposing massage-chair unboxing videos algorithmically scraped from the internet’s endless depths, posthuman luxury condominium fly-through tours, […]

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