Co-Presentations

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   Call to Action: The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Canyon Cinema present Films for Freedom

   Posted October 31st, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Please join The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Canyon Cinema in support of Fall of Freedom – an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. This fall, our two organizations are reaching out together to the experimental film and media community to be part of a nationwide wave […]

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   Lynne Sachs presents The Washing Society + Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry @ Shapeshifters Cinema, Nov 11, 2025

   Posted October 14th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Lynne Sachs presents The Washing Society + Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry 7pm Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by the Friends of Canyon Cinema Admission: $10 (discount for Shapeshifters members; free for Friends of Canyon) Event tickets here NYC-based filmmaker Lynne Sachs joins us for a deep, poetic dive into laundry—an area of […]

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   Intimate Politics: Carolee Schneemann, Gunvor Nelson, JoAnn Elam @ The Roxie, Oct 22, 2025

   Posted September 24th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Intimate Politics: Carolee Schneemann, Gunvor Nelson, JoAnn Elam 6:15pm Wednesday, October 22, 2025The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Rachel Churner in person! Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon Members Event tickets here Canyon Cinema and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation present the West Coast premiere of newly restored 16mm prints of Schneemann’s Plumb Line and Viet-Flakes, in a program of […]

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   Mike Henderson: Trouble in Mind @ SFMOMA, Aug 24, 2025

   Posted July 23rd, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Mike Henderson: Trouble in Mind Sunday, August 24, 2025 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Screening: 2pm, Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Music: 3:45 pm, Floor 2, Koret Education Center Mike Henderson in person! Free with RSVP This program is presented by Canyon Cinema in collaboration with SFMOMA and co-presented by MoAD. Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI […]

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   Cartoon Girl: The Restored Films of Heather McAdams @ The Roxie, July 20, 2025

   Posted July 10th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Cartoon Girl: The Restored Films of Heather McAdams Sunday, July 20 @ 3:45pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Co-presented by National Film Preservation Foundation & the Chicago Film Society and Canyon Cinema Admission: $15 General / $12 Roxie & Friends of Canyon Members Program info & tickets: roxie.com/film/cartoon-girl-the-restored-films-of-heather-mcadams/#showtimes Heather McAdams is a cartoonist, performance artist, painter, […]

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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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   Canyon Cinema co-presents Trace Elements: Remembering Gunvor Nelson, March 13, 2025

   Posted February 26th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Trace Elements: Remembering Gunvor Nelson Thursday, March 13, 7:30pm The Lab, San Francisco Co-presented with San Francisco CinemathequeEvent tickets here For Nelson, film is a plastic medium whose potential for personal expression demands a denial of conventional film language and syntax on the part of both the maker and the viewer. Her frequently ambiguous and […]

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   Benefit for LA Mutual Aid Network, March 28, 2025

   Posted February 26th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Benefit for LA Mutual Aid NetworkMartial Arts (Oakland)Friday, March 28th at 8pm$5-15 sliding scale For address, contact:martialartsoak@gmail.com music byChris CohenRowan Katz + Canyon Cinema presents:Get Out of the Car, Thom Andersen (2010, 34 minutes, 16mm) Flyer by Zachary Epcar

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   The Spring Invitational, hosted by 500 Capp Street and Berkeley Art Center, with Canyon Cinema

   Posted April 8th, 2024 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   May 3, 4 & 5, 2024 500 Capp Street, San Francisco Join us for an extraordinary weekend of creativity and collaboration, hosted by two vibrant organizations in a shared mission of fostering sustainability and planting seeds within our Bay Area arts ecosystem. Together, 500 Capp Street and Berkeley Art Center are presenting a joint fundraiser […]

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    Contemporary Bay Area Films from Canyon Cinema @ YBCA, 10/14/23

    Posted October 10th, 2023 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    Contemporary Bay Area Films from Canyon CinemaOctober 14, 2023, 3pmYerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Presented in association with Bay Area Now 9 On view at YBCA from October 6, 2023–May 5, 2024 Program info & tickets: ybca.org/event/canyon-cinema-contemporary-bay-area-film/ “Operating at the intersection of exhibition and distribution Canyon Cinema, one of the key foundations of the Bay Area film ecosystem, has presented, preserved, […]

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