Announcements

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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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   Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Sketch Films #1-5 + Clear Blue Sky

   Posted March 26th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Tomonari Nishikawa’s Super 8 Sketch Film series (2005-2007) is now available. “As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa explains, “I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public […]

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   Canyon Cinema presents Single Spark Film: We Are the Palestinian People, April 14, 2026

   Posted March 24th, 2026 in Announcements, Canyon at The Roxie, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Single Spark Film: We Are the Palestinian People 6:30pm Tuesday, April 14 The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Presented by Canyon Cinema Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon Members Event tickets here Canyon at The Roxie returns with a look at the timely activist cinema of Single Spark Film. Emerging from the San Francisco-based […]

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   An Evening with Sky Hopinka @ Slash, April 4, 2026

   Posted March 17th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   An Evening with Sky Hopinka 7pm Saturday, April 4 Slash, 1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco Co-presented by Canyon Cinema, Slash, and San Francisco Cinematheque Free event with limited capacity Register here (registration not required but appreciated) Slash’s exhibition Sonic Transmissions (January 10 – April 18, 2026) explores and highlights the sonic aspects of Sky Hopinka’s artistic practice. […]

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   Now Available: Three New Titles from Alexis Krasilovsky

   Posted March 16th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   The Celery Saga (2025, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A micro videopoem in haiku addressing injustices to veggies. (We’re all in hot water.) INDIGESTION (2025, 1 minute, color, sound, digital file) A micro videopoem about a rotten orange. Best Gal in the West (1992, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) This is a music […]

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   New Artist Member: Ayanna Dozier

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

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Ayanna Dozier‘s work to the collection! Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental and narrative film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. Her current research and artwork examine how transactional intimacy (like sex work) redistributes care from the private sector into the public, social politics […]

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   Now Available: Four New Films by Toney W. Merritt

   Posted March 9th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Laurette At 100: Four Sketches For My Mother (2025, 30 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Composer Lenny Carlson wrote four musical sketches dedicated to the memory of his mother, Laurette Carlson Boarman (1922-2024). The sketches were performed by members of the AURIO Trio, Rufus Olivier, Jr. – Bassoon, Zachariah Spellman – Tuba, and Karen Hutchinson […]

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   Now Available: Dominic Angerame’s Bigger Than Us, The Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana

   Posted March 5th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Bigger Than Us, The Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana (2026, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) This is an environmental film. A visual essay of a superfund site located in Butte Montana. An acid lake formed as a result of an abandoned strip mine. “In Bigger Than Us, Dominic Angerame brings us closer to what looks […]

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   Now Available: Jennifer Reeves’s When It Was Blue + Additional Titles from Re:Voir

   Posted February 26th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Re:Voir’s recent Blu-ray release, Jennifer Reeves: When It Was Blue, Selected Works 1992-2022, is now in stock. The collection features 10 of Reeves’s stunning handcrafted films, newly remastered, as well as a 40-page booklet in English & French with texts by Michael Sicinski and Laura Staab. Contents: When It Was Blue (2008, […]

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    Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Manhattan One Two Three Four

    Posted February 24th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Manhattan One Two Three Four (2014, 3 minutes, b&w, silent, digital file) “A study in visual rhythm with images of architecture in Manhattan, New York, using the technique I did for the first sequence in Sketch Film #3. All edited in-camera and hand-processed afterwards. This film was commissioned by Echo Park Film Center for the […]

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