Announcements

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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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6. 

   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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8. 

   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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9. 

   Now Available: Four New Films by Malic Amalya

   Posted August 21st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Malic Amalya’s Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023), along with three additional films, are now available for rent: Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023, 21 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Tourism in an age of mass incarceration and mass extinction. Living Lessons […]

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    Now Available: Four Films by Philip Hoffman

    Posted August 14th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of four recent handmade films by longtime artist member Philip Hoffman. A film artist of memory and association, Hoffman has long been recognized as Canada’s pre-eminent diary filmmaker. As Karyn Sandlos writes, “For over twenty years he has been straining history through personal fictions, using the material of […]

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