News / Events

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   Now Available: New 2K Digitization of Coni Beeson’s Firefly

   Posted June 23rd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Firefly (Coni Beeson, 1974, 5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) A short expressive dance film, featuring Carrie Mae Weems. Scan courtesy of UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

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   Now Available: TT Takemoto’s For Jina and Swing Swish Sway

   Posted June 22nd, 2026 in News / Events
   

   For Jina (2024, 3 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Honoring the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and the legacy of Mahsa Amini, known as “Jina.” Swing Swish Sway (2026, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) “Inspired by Rosalie ‘Rose’ Bamberger (1921-1990), the mixed-race Filipina American paintbrush maker and co-founder of the Daughters of Bilitis […]

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   Now Available: Ten Videos by Azian Nurudin

   Posted May 19th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of ten videos by the Bay Area-based Malaysian-American artist Azian Nurudin. Made between 1986 and 2001, these videos “feature leather and whips in the streets and S&M havens in the sheets. While Azian’s contemporaries from a ‘brat pack’ of insurgent women artists like Cecilia Dougherty and Leslie […]

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   Michael Wallin, Outside In @ SFMOMA, June 7, 2026

   Posted May 5th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Michael Wallin, Outside In 2pm Sunday, June 7, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Free with RSVP Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories Join us as we celebrate the work of longtime Canyon Cinema artist member Michael Wallin (1948-2016). A stalwart figure of the […]

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   Now Available: Tulapop Saenjaroen’s Local Sensations

   Posted May 4th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Local Sensations (2025, 25.5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file or DCP) Shot on black-and-white 16mm film, Local Sensations opens a loose, playful dialogue with Chatri Prakitnonthakan’s essay, “How to Design a Modern Monument That Won’t Become a Shrine.” Rather than illustrating the text, the film generates pluralities — unraveling the dichotomy of object and subject — and […]

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   Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: George’s Sphere @ SFMOMA, May 2, 2026

   Posted April 27th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: George’s Sphere 2pm Saturday, May 2, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Free with RSVP Curator Andrew Lampert in attendance! Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Join us for two screenings from the prodigal twin brothers of underground cinema, George and […]

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   Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: Planet Mike @ SFMOMA, April 30, 2026

   Posted April 27th, 2026 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: Planet Mike 6pm Thursday, April 30, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Free with RSVP Filmmaker Mike Kuchar and curator Andrew Lampert in attendance!Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Join us for two screenings from the prodigal twin brothers of […]

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   New Artist Member: Tijana Petrović

   Posted April 22nd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Tijana Petrović‘s work to the collection! Tijana Petrović is a filmmaker and artist born and raised in the former Yugoslavia. Her moving image work includes nonfiction films, and film and video installations which use landscape as a framework to observe and question our relationships to history, place and the natural […]

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   Now Available: Emily Chao’s Light Signal + chive pockets

   Posted April 9th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Light Signal (2022, 11 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) A keeper’s log, a score for light, a script for sound. A reconstruction, a slow reclamation. To begin where there is light. chive pockets (2017, 3 minutes, b&w, silent, digital file) A 16mm film documenting my grandmother making chive pockets for the last time.

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    Flow State: a reflection on film inspection and archiving @ Shapeshifters Cinema, April 12, 2026

    Posted April 2nd, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    Flow State: a reflection on film inspection and archiving 7pm Sunday, April 12 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Hosted by Autumn Armstrong Admission: $12 General / Discount for Friends of Canyon & Shapeshifters Members Event tickets here Flow State is a celebration of film inspection and archival work. Film archivist and library assistant Autumn Armstrong has curated this program […]

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