Announcements

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   9/24/2022 – Canyon Cinema, Hello Benjamin Films, and Los Angeles Filmforum present New Black Wave, Vol. 2

   Posted September 16th, 2022 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   New Black Wave, Vol. 2 Presented by Canyon Cinema, Hello Benjamin Films, and Los Angeles Filmforum Saturday, September 24, 2022 @ 4pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Ticket info: bit.ly/nbw-vol2-sf VIEW ONLINE: Films will also be available for online screening on Saturday, Sept. 24 from 4 pm to midnight (PST) at: watch.eventive.org/newblackwave2/play/632be0e7992af100a13ba4bf Curated by Solomon Turner […]

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   Now Available: Barbara Hammer’s Pictures 4 Barbara

   Posted September 16th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: A newly accessioned restoration print of Barbara Hammer’s Pictures 4 Barbara, courtesy of friends at the Academy Film Archive! This long-overlooked and underseen Hammer film is a new addition to our catalog. Pictures 4 Barbara (Barbara Hammer, 1981, 8 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) In this layered epistolary short, letters written between […]

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   9/15/2022 – Urban Nature: A Salon with S Topiary Landberg

   Posted September 12th, 2022 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Urban Nature: A Salon with S Topiary LandbergThursday, September 15, 2022 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Facebook Event The Canyon Cinema Salon returns to 16 Sherman for the first time in nearly three years, for a program of urban landscape films selected by Bay Area media artist, curator, and writer S Topiary […]

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   Now Available: New Stan VanDerBeek Prints + Files

   Posted September 1st, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce a major new deposit from the Stan VanDerBeek Archive. This incredible trove of recently preserved works by the prolific multimedia artist, scientist, and inventor includes 12 new 16mm prints and 8 new digital files. New Prints + Files: Who Ho Rays (1972, 8 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital […]

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   New Artist Member: Leandro Katz

   Posted August 29th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome the Argentinian/American filmmaker, author, and visual artist Leandro Katz to the collection! Known for his films and photographic installations, Katz’s works include long-term projects that deal with Latin American subjects and incorporate historical research, anthropology, and visual arts. These include The Catherwood Project, a photographic reconstruction of the two 1850s expeditions of […]

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   New Acquisition: Three Exhibition Files from Al Wong

   Posted August 19th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is excited to announce the return of three additional films by Al Wong to the catalog! Included in this acquisition are new exhibition files for 24 Frames Per Second (1977), Discount House (1971), and 69 cents a pound (1969). More Al Wong titles coming soon – stay tuned for details! 24 Frames Per […]

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   Now Available: New Films by Dominic Angerame

   Posted August 12th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Two new films by Dominic Angerame! Luminae (2022, 4 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) For years I had been shooting with an iris attached to my lens creating a circle. The sun seemed to be a natural progression of the circle, especially its revolutions. The film is an accession into […]

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   Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s Swerve

   Posted August 11th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Swerve, a new film by Lynne Sachs featuring poetry by Paolo Javier. As Herbert Gambill writes for Mystery Catalogue, “Swerve is a cinematic meditation on postmodern/avant-garde/post-colonial poetry construction in general and specifically it’s a terrific incitement to read Javier’s book and seek out more of Sachs’s fascinating body of work.”  Swerve […]

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   Now Available: Paige Taul’s Goat

   Posted August 10th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Goat (Paige Taul, 2021, 3 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) About a girl and her j’s. A meditation on the politics of style, collectivity, and personal taste.

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    Now Available: Jodie Mack’s Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons

    Posted July 28th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: “The third film in Jodie Mack’s Wasteland series, Moons, Sons, observes the rapid thaw of natural forms. A world tender and unhatched; future chaos in repose, in slumber.” (IFFR) Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (Jodie Mack, 2021, 5 min, color, silent, 16mm) A world tender and unhatched, Future chaos in repose, […]

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