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   Now Available: Two New Films by Barron Sherer

   Posted September 5th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two new 16mm films by Barron Sherer are now available for rent. Barron Sherer is a Miami-based media artist with a background in moving image archival practice and research. Taking the form of hybrid film/video remediations and projection-based media installations, Sherer’s work focuses on repurposing and manipulating found […]

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   Now Available: New Digitization of Deborah Stratman’s In Order Not to Be Here

   Posted September 3rd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   In Order Not to Be Here (2002, 33 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file or DCP) An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect […]

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   Now Available: Five Films by Anna Kipervaser

   Posted August 26th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five films by Anna Kipervaser, made between 2021 and 2023, are now available. Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and nonhuman animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a […]

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   Now Available: Dominic Angerame’s Cuban iMAL

   Posted August 26th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Cuban iMAL (2025, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) No animals were harmed during the making of this film. This film contains iPhone footage that I shot when I was in Cuba in 2024, late December. The safari footage was also shot on an iPhone by Alanna Zrimsek when she was on a safari in […]

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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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   Now Available: Paige Taul’s Full Contact

   Posted July 23rd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Full Contact (Paige Taul, 2024, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Blending found footage with oral interviews, Full Contact offers a personal dive into an unseen student’s spiritual and bodily relationship with Judo. Also featured is the student’s sensei, who discusses their philosophical understanding of Judo.” — Denny Mwuara Interviews provided by Mandela Hudson and Hollis Barnett. […]

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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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   Now Available: New Digitization of Alexis Krasilovsky’s End of the Art World

   Posted July 1st, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new digitization of Alexis Krasilovksy‘s 1971 documentary End of the Art World, about the New York art scene, is now available. Recently preserved by Yale Film Archive, End of the Art World was the first film made by an undergraduate woman at Yale, and features artists such […]

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   Now Available: Michael Alexander Morris’s First Hermanubis: Initiation

   Posted June 17th, 2025 in New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   First Hermanubis: Initiation (2023, 40 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic and the occult. This first episode focuses on the […]

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    Now Available: New Digital Files of Nine Films by James Broughton and Joel Singer

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

    Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new digital files of nine films by James Broughton and Joel Singer are now available! After meeting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974, Joel Singer and James Broughton spent the next 25 years together, “sharing fully in art and life.” This new acquisition includes seven Broughton-Singer […]

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