News / Events

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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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   Now Available: Three Films by Tommy Becker

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

   The Shape of Things to Come (2025, 20 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The Shape of Things to Come is a six-chapter art rock film that delves into themes of nostalgia for the future, uncertainties of technological progress, and the quest for authentic human connection. Through original songwriting, poetry, performance art, and insights of Terence […]

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   Now Available: New Digitization of Robert Nelson’s Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again

   Posted October 14th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978, 47 minutes, color and b&w, 16mm or digital file) “I’m definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information about California. There’s plenty of that everywhere. I’m trying to get at some feeling state.” – Robert Nelson, from A […]

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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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   New Artist Member: Kelly Gallagher

   Posted October 8th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Kelly Gallagher and her work to the collection! Kelly Gallagher is a filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital award for her feature experimental documentary, By All Your Memories. Her handcrafted films and commissioned animations have screened at […]

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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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   Now Available: New Digitization of Scott Stark’s Degrees of Limitation

   Posted September 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Degrees of Limitation (1982, 3 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) A single 100′ roll shot with a hand-wound 16mm Bolex. For each shot the camera was wound one additional time, allowing me to make it a little bit farther up the hill. Will I reach the top before the film runs out? A […]

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    Now Available: New Digital Files of Gary Beydler’s Hand Held Day and Pasadena Freeway Stills

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

    Hand Held Day (1975, 6 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) “Beydler’s magical Hand Held Day is his most unabashedly beautiful film, but it’s no less complex than his other works. The filming approach is simple, yet incredibly rich with possibilities, as Beydler collapses the time and space of a full day in the […]

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