Announcements

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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 with 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 […]

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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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   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 General / Discount for Friends of Canyon & Shapeshifters Members Event tickets here 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 […]

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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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