Announcements

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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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   The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street @ Shapeshifters Cinema, March 13, 2026

   Posted February 18th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street 7pm Friday, March 13, 2026 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Admission: $14 (discount for Shapeshifters and Friends of Canyon members) NYC-based filmmaker Mark Street presents a program of recent short films rooted in the tradition of street photography. These films toggle between representation and abstraction as he uses […]

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   Now Available: New 16mm Preservation Print of Carolee Schneemann’s Plumb Line

   Posted January 29th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Plumb Line (1972, 18 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) Breaking down, splitting apart, burning up: a relationship and the film itself. Edited from scrap diary footage shot in 8mm, hand printed as 16mm. PLUMB LINE is a moving and powerful subjective chronicle of the breaking up of a love relationship. The film is a devastating exorcism, […]

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   Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s Dreamscape I

   Posted January 21st, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Dreamscape I (2025, 8 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Is a series of scenes, dissolving one into another, each highly different, but held together by the irony and possibilities of dreams. They also have some of the aggressiveness of surrealism, and the lyricism of fairytale. We see goddesses and a blue boy on […]

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   Print Generations – Premiere Screening @ SFMOMA, Feb 22

   Posted January 15th, 2026 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, New Films, News / Events
   

   Print Generations – Premiere Screening! 2pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free with RSVP Canyon Cinema’s inaugural film commissioning project! Borrowing its title from J.J. Murphy’s astounding structural showpiece, Print Generation (1974), and inspired by the centennial of 16mm film (1923–2023), Print Generations was conceived to support analog-based filmmaking in the Bay […]

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   Visions of Unearthly Splendor with Stephen Kaltenbach and Jordan Stein @ SFMOMA, Jan 22, 2026

   Posted January 8th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Visions of Unearthly Splendor with Stephen Kaltenbach and Jordan Stein6pm Thursday, January 22, 2026San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free with RSVP Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories Experience an evening of otherworldly, enchanting, and psychedelic California film and video works inspired by Stephen Kaltenbach: Portrait of My Father, a new publication by San Francisco curator […]

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   Now Now Available: 16mm Print of Al Wong’s Screen, Projector & Film

   Posted December 16th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Screen, Projector & Film (1977, 14 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) IMPORTANT:With this work, the primary experience is the concern. In order to exhibit this work, you need to have a screen with a three legged tripod base. You also need to fit the projected image perfectly on the screen. Also available: video […]

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   Now Available: Brice Bowman’s Museum Closed

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

   Museum Closed (2023, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Museum Closed is an audio-visual phenomenological interference pattern.

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    Now Available: Gloria Chung’s Dark Light

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

    Dark Light (2025, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Regarding the Sun, dead images, sound and etymologies. “DARK LIGHT: the dim cloud of light that is experienced in complete darkness, owing to the spontaneous activity of neurons in the visual system.”

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