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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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   Canyon Cinema presents Lynn Marie Kirby: the insufficient frame, March 30, 2025

   Posted February 23rd, 2025 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Lynn Marie Kirby: the insufficient frame Sunday, March 30, 3:40pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Presented by Canyon Cinema Lynn Marie Kirby in person Program & Ticket Info coming soon By calling attention to the screen as more than a blank reflective surface, Kirby insists that “screen” is a complex set of meanings and uses—the […]

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   Now Available: New Digitizations of Five Films by Sharon Couzin

   Posted February 13th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new digitizations of five films by Sharon Couzin are now available! Sharon Couzin (1943-2019) was a Chicago experimental filmmaker, painter, and poet who began making films in the early 1970s. Her work is known for its complex visual layering that reflects a personal, autobiographical point of view. The […]

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   Now Available: Five New Films by Dominic Angerame

   Posted February 11th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five new films by Dominic Angerame are now available for rent. A Small Fragment of a Day That Belongs to 20 Years Ago (2025, 7.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Memories of lovers past. A glimpse of the erotic emotions that linger in the mind as it changes with each […]

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   Now Available: Jack Walsh’s Dear Rock and The Lost Generation

   Posted February 6th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Dear Rock (Jack Walsh, 1993, 18 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Dear Rock is a posthumous fan letter to Rock Hudson that uses Hudson as a springboard for an exploration of AIDS and homophobia. Using the contrived form of the fan letter, Dear Rock employees digression as its structure, beginning with elements of Hudson’s life that open onto […]

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   Now Available: New Exhibition Files from Leandro Katz

   Posted February 4th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new exhibition files of Leandro Katz‘s Splits and El Día Que Me Quieras are now available for rent. These high-resolution digital scans replace the previous files that were in distribution. Splits (1978, 27 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The story of a young factory worker who in an act of […]

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   Now Available: Four New Poetry Films by Alexis Krasilovsky

   Posted January 31st, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Rafael (2023, 1.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) Videopoem based on “Rafael”, a poem about the angel, by Rodger Kamenetz, from his book, The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022. This microfilm (with embedded English subtitles) includes several photocollages by Alexis Krasilovsky as well as sand video filmed by Zell Lundberg. Positive Thinking (2023, 1.5 […]

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   Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s The Egg

   Posted January 28th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: The latest cut-out animation from the prolific avant-garde maestro, Lawrence Jordan! The Egg (Lawrence Jordan, 2024, 8 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) The egg rolls, tumbles and flies from jungles to Desert glasses in a rollicking adventure, accompanied by the music of Eric Satie.

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    New Artist Member: Alexandra Cuesta

    Posted January 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Alexandra Cuesta to the collection! Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and visual artist who combines experimental film traditions with documentary practices. Her 16mm films and videos are portraits of public places, urban landscapes, and the people in them. Reminiscent of documentary practices such as street photography, Cuesta’s work is […]

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