Announcements

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   1/26/2025 – Straight from the Haight (and other Microcinemas in Mid-Sixties San Francisco)

   Posted January 15th, 2025 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   STRAIGHT FROM THE HAIGHT (and other Microcinemas in Mid-Sixties San Francisco) Sunday, January 26, 2025 @ 3:40pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco  Presented by Canyon Cinema With the emergence of Canyon Cinema, that foundational film presenter and distributor, in the early Sixties, there was a visible upsurge of interest in experimental and artisanal filmmaking in the Bay […]

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   Now Available: Jerome Hiler’s Careless Passage

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

   Careless Passage (Jerome Hiler, 2024, 20 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file or DCP) Wandering through the ordinary sights of day and night. How, in this vast cosmos, did all this happen? We live in a world of constant transformations. Somehow, aeons ago, consciousness came about. I’m often drawn to think of the earliest […]

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   Introducing Our New Staff Members: Zachary Epcar and Ashley Rose Tacheira

   Posted December 6th, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the addition of two new staff members: Zachary Epcar, as Distribution & Collections Manager, and Ashley Rose Tacheira, as Distribution Assistant. Zachary Epcar is an accomplished filmmaker working across platforms using 16mm and digital technologies. His award-winning films have been included in the international film festivals of Toronto, New York, […]

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   New Board Member: Syd Staiti

   Posted November 13th, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome Syd Staiti to our Board of Directors! Syd Staiti is a poet and film programmer living in South Berkeley. He received a BA at Binghamton University in 2001 and an MFA at Mills College in 2007. He has presented readings and video work at BAMPFA, SF State Poetry Center, the Poetry […]

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   Now Available: Toney W. Merritt’s APART – A PART

   Posted November 13th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   APART – A PART (2024, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “The title itself contains a Buddhist-like koan. Fascinating how breaking ‘apart’ the word brings us into coherence as ‘a part of nature.’ A linguistic mystery visualized, eyes wide open. This must be the footage from the Amazon (?) you mentioned some months ago that […]

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   Now Available: Azucena Losana’s Aliados

   Posted November 8th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Aliados (2024, 8 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Beyond the giant trees, the subtle ferns, the hungry caverns, and the generous ravines, in the forests, there are voices that root those who visit these landscapes. They are the echoes of a more bestial and just time, where lightning is a divine finger and a cloud […]

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   Now Available: Four Videos by Tommy Becker

   Posted October 28th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Let’s Make a Movie (2014, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A love song and tribute to classic cinema. Song for the Lemons (2013, 4.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The lemon, often utilized by famed still-life painters, was rarely the focus of a composition. More typically, it was being abused for its compositional qualities. […]

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8. 

   Job Opportunity: Distribution & Collections Manager

   Posted October 10th, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   We are hiring! Canyon Cinema seeks a new Distribution & Collections Manager to oversee the operation of our distribution program for artist-member works as well as the conservation and management of our film print, digital media, and paper collections. This is a full-time, permanent position, based out of our office located in Bayview–Hunters Point in […]

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   Canyon Cinema presents Robert Nelson’s Suite California, October 30, 2024

   Posted October 3rd, 2024 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Robert Nelson’s Suite California Wednesday, October 30, 6:30pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Program & Ticket Info: roxie.com/film/robert-nelsons-suite-california-16mm/ Canyon at The Roxie returns this fall with a special presentation of Robert Nelson’s majestic two-part 16mm film essay, Suite California! “I’m definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information about California. There’s plenty of that everywhere. […]

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10. 

    Now Available: Three New Films by Lynne Sachs

    Posted August 26th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that three new films by Lynne Sachs are now available for rent, including: Contractions, which was recently featured on The New York Times’ Op-Docs page; She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes, featuring Barbara Friedman and Laetitia Mikles; and The Jitters, commissioned by Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive for […]

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