Announcements

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   New Acquisition: Two Films by Brigid McCaffrey

   Posted April 19th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema on 16mm: Two films by Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Brigid McCaffrey, whose work documents environments and people in states of flux. McCaffrey’s films explore extremes of autonomy and coexistence experienced by individuals who have distinct relationships with the land. Often taking shape as nuanced portraits, the films respond to […]

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   Now Available: New Prints and Digitizations of Two Early Films by Naomi Uman!

   Posted April 15th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that two early films by Naomi Uman are now available in 16mm and digital formats! Both films were restored in 2021 by XFR Collective through the initiative of Walter Forsberg and Andrea Callard and with the assistance of the National Film Preservation Foundation. New prints and digitizations were made […]

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   Janis Crystal Lipzin Receives Guggenheim Fellowship!

   Posted April 14th, 2022 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Congratulations to Bay Area filmmaker, educator, and longtime Canyon artist member Janis Crystal Lipzin, who last week was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship! Hailed as “one of the key American media artists of this era,” Lipzin has been making art in virtually every form of reproducible media for nearly 50 years. Utilizing such diverse media […]

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   Remembering Charles Wright (1946-2021)

   Posted April 12th, 2022 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema remembers the San Francisco filmmaker, photo collage artist, and former Canyon staff member and board member Charles Wright (1946-2021), who passed away last April. From 1975-76, Charles served as a co-programmer of the Canyon Cinematheque with Carmen Vigil. Canyon Cinema continues to distribute three of Charles’s 16mm films: Cable Car Melody (1986, 28 […]

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   New Artist Member: Azucena Losana

   Posted April 8th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome Azucena Losana to the collection! Azucena Losana (b. Mexico City, 1977) lives and works in Mexico City and Buenos Aires. Her work in experimental film, installation, and video has been presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, BAFICI, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periferico, La Coruña, España, Kurzfilmtage […]

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   New Acquisition: Three New Films by Rajee Samarasinghe

   Posted April 7th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three new films by Rajee Samarasinghe! Show Me Other Places (2021, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) At the center of this film is a Sri Lankan woman accessing other places in digital form, while situated in her own physical reality. Navigating through a multitude of spaces from […]

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   Canyon at The Roxie returns on March 26 with Pictures You Can Hold: Films by Greta Snider

   Posted February 25th, 2022 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Pictures You Can Hold: Films by Greta Snider Saturday, March 26, 2020, 4pmThe Roxie Theater, San Francisco Greta Snider in person! Canyon at The Roxie returns with a spotlight on acclaimed San Francisco filmmaker and professor Greta Snider. This wide-ranging survey brings together a selection of Snider’s early – now classic – 16mm autoethnographies, found […]

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   Now Available: 14 Digital Files from Alexis Krasilovsky

   Posted February 24th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the arrival of 14 exhibition files from the Los Angeles-based filmmaker Alexis Krasilovsky! As head of her own production company – Rafael Film, LLC – Krasilovsky has written, directed, and produced numerous documentaries, video-poems, and art films. Her global documentary feature, Women Behind the Camera (and the shorter version, Shooting Women – both at […]

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   Now Available: Kirk Tougas’s 1972 Feminist Portraits 2020

   Posted February 22nd, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Kirk Tougas’s 1972 Feminist Portraits 2020. 1972 Feminist Portraits 2020 (2021, 115 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Two moments in history, two documents, 1972 and 2020. Two Vancouver feminist activists speaking directly. Two portraits. Part One – 51 minutes1972: Joan Campana champions collective action on behalf of half the human […]

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    Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

    Posted February 18th, 2022 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Lynne Sachs‘s E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo, which was commissioned for the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre‘s program, “The letters that weren’t and also are,” in 2021. E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo (Lynne Sachs, 2021, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) In a cinema letter to […]

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