News / Events

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   Now Available: New 16mm Preservation Print of Carolee Schneemann’s Plumb Line

   Posted January 29th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Plumb Line (1972, 18 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) Breaking down, splitting apart, burning up: a relationship and the film itself. Edited from scrap diary footage shot in 8mm, hand printed as 16mm. PLUMB LINE is a moving and powerful subjective chronicle of the breaking up of a love relationship. The film is a devastating exorcism, […]

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   Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s Dreamscape I

   Posted January 21st, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Dreamscape I (2025, 8 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Is a series of scenes, dissolving one into another, each highly different, but held together by the irony and possibilities of dreams. They also have some of the aggressiveness of surrealism, and the lyricism of fairytale. We see goddesses and a blue boy on […]

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   Print Generations – Premiere Screening @ SFMOMA, Feb 22

   Posted January 15th, 2026 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, New Films, News / Events
   

   Print Generations – Premiere Screening! 2pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free with RSVP Canyon Cinema’s inaugural film commissioning project! Borrowing its title from J.J. Murphy’s astounding structural showpiece, Print Generation (1974), and inspired by the centennial of 16mm film (1923–2023), Print Generations was conceived to support analog-based filmmaking in the Bay […]

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   Visions of Unearthly Splendor with Stephen Kaltenbach and Jordan Stein @ SFMOMA, Jan 22, 2026

   Posted January 8th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Visions of Unearthly Splendor with Stephen Kaltenbach and Jordan Stein6pm Thursday, January 22, 2026San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free with RSVP Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories Experience an evening of otherworldly, enchanting, and psychedelic California film and video works inspired by Stephen Kaltenbach: Portrait of My Father, a new publication by San Francisco curator […]

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   Now Now Available: 16mm Print of Al Wong’s Screen, Projector & Film

   Posted December 16th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Screen, Projector & Film (1977, 14 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) IMPORTANT:With this work, the primary experience is the concern. In order to exhibit this work, you need to have a screen with a three legged tripod base. You also need to fit the projected image perfectly on the screen. Also available: video […]

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   Now Available: Brice Bowman’s Museum Closed

   Posted December 15th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Museum Closed (2023, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Museum Closed is an audio-visual phenomenological interference pattern.

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   Now Available: Gloria Chung’s Dark Light

   Posted December 10th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Dark Light (2025, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Regarding the Sun, dead images, sound and etymologies. “DARK LIGHT: the dim cloud of light that is experienced in complete darkness, owing to the spontaneous activity of neurons in the visual system.”

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   Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Lumphini 2552 (35mm)

   Posted November 17th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Lumphini 2552 (2009, 3 minutes, b&w, sound, 35mm) This work was shot with a still camera in Lumphini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. The home-developed film projects the organic patterns present in the memorial park onto the screen, creating a rhythmic yet emotional tempo. At the same time, the images captured by the still camera are […]

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   Announcing Cine-Gastronomy: A cinematic culinary soirée and holiday gathering at 500 Capp Street, Dec 6

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

   Cine-Gastronomy: An Evening of Taste, Tones, and Moving Images 5–8pm Saturday, December 6, 2025 500 Capp Street, San Francisco Event tickets here Cine-Gastronomy brings together Bay Area artists and filmmakers for a sensorial evening hosted by 500 Capp Street, Canyon Cinema, and Southern Exposure, celebrating experimental cinema, culinary imagination, and performance. Guests will experience a breathtaking live performance by Roco Córdova and an […]

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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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