Announcements

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   Now Available: New Prints and Digital Files from James Otis

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

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the addition of seven films by longtime artist member James Otis to the collection. This new deposit includes five films made between 1990 and 1995 on Super 8, and subsequently transferred to 16mm or digital video, as well as 1979’s No Art of Memory and 2003’s The Last Bite. […]

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   Now Available: Christopher Harris’s b/w

   Posted October 20th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   b/w (2023, 3 minutes, b&w, silent with audience participation for sound, 16mm or digital file) Shot on a single 100-foot roll of film and edited in-camera, b/w uses close focus cinematography of text from commercial house paint samples to suggest a mythology of light and shadow. The audience is asked to participate during the screening […]

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   Rock Ross: Go Like This @ The Roxie, Nov 11

   Posted October 19th, 2026 in Announcements, Canyon at The Roxie, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Rock Ross: Go Like This … and other “frivolous and socially irresponsible films” 6pm Wednesday, November 11, 2026 The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Presented by Canyon Cinema Event tickets here Rock Ross in person! “Film as art has no bounds… For me its potential is as exciting as pure white noise.” – Rock Ross Canyon at […]

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   Now Available: Jean Sousa’s Jane and Pattern Impulse + Additional Digital Files

   Posted October 15th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that digital exhibition files of Jane (1977/2025) and Pattern Impulse (1979), by the Chicago-based artist Jean Sousa, are now available. Along with these two titles that are new to the catalog, we’ve added new digital files of Sousa’s The Circus (1977), What Am I Doing Here (1978), Swish (1982), […]

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5. 

   Now Available: Lynn Marie Kirby’s C to C, Plus 24 New Digital Files

   Posted October 6th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that Lynn Marie Kirby‘s 16mm installation C to C: Several Centuries After the Double Slit Experiment (1995) and new digital files of 24 of Kirby’s film and video works, spanning the years 1976 to 2025, are now available. This major deposit by the longtime Canyon artist member includes 14 […]

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   Now Available: Tommy Becker’s De-escalation Tactics

   Posted October 2nd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   De-escalation Tactics (2026, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) We are a species at war with our own narratives. The stories and structures we inherit – political, cultural and ecological have become traps, cycling us through conflict rather than carrying us forward. De-Escalation Tactics is a thematic-visual-song-cycle that sits inside this tension, contemplating alternative pathways. […]

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   49 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality: The City Envisioned by Canyon Cinema @ The Roxie, Oct 14

   Posted September 22nd, 2026 in Announcements, Canyon at The Roxie, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   49 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality: The City Envisioned by Canyon Cinema 6:15pm Wednesday, October 14, 2026 The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Part of The Roxie’s Arthouse 50 series Event tickets here In celebration of The Roxie Theater’s 50th year as an Arthouse, this program assembles films made by former and current Canyon staffers, offering […]

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   Canyon Cinema’s Print Generations @ Indexical, Santa Cruz, Sept 19

   Posted September 15th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema’s Print Generations 7pm, Saturday, September 19, 2026 Indexical, Santa Cruz Event tickets here Tijana Petrović, Amy Reid, and TT Takemoto in person! Co-presented by Canyon Cinema This program highlights work from 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 16mm […]

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   Now Available: Emily Chao’s 100 Years

   Posted September 14th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   100 Years (2023, 3 minutes, color, silent,16mm) An exercise in patience; made hastily while in love with an AI bot who tried but couldn’t love me back. Some mistakes were made. Commissioned by Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive for Century of 16mm, marking the 100-year anniversary of non-flammable 16mm safety motion picture film.

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    New Artist Member: Amy Reid

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

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Amy Reid to the collection! Amy Reid is a filmmaker whose work examines the intersections between gender, national identity, and labor. Exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid’s work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form through feature length films, […]

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