Announcements

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   Now Available: Three 16mm Films by LeAnn Bartok

   Posted May 13th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new 16mm prints of three films by LeAnn Bartok are now available. This new acquisition includes two of Bartok’s renowned Skyworks films, as well as her final film, Film Painting I. A pioneering conceptual visionary artist, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, actress, and inventor (U.S. patent liquid crystal), LeAnn […]

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   5/14/2025 – Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal

   Posted April 29th, 2025 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm) Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco Lynne Sachs, Jenni Olson, and MFJ Editor Nicholas Gamso in person! This selection of short moving image pieces—all discussed in recent issues of the Millennium Film Journal—will celebrate the release of MFJ no. 81, “Dedication.”  The new […]

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   Now Available: Tyler Turkle’s War of the Worlds

   Posted April 28th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   War of the Worlds (2022, 14 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Gators, snakes, spiders, ticks, mosquitos, lightning, sharks, jellyfish and more! Threats to humans are abundant throughout North Florida and South Georgia. See and hear about actual encounters with many of these dangerous and deadly enemies as they are described by a cast of those […]

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   Now Available: Four Films by Tommy Becker

   Posted April 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the addition of four films by Tommy Becker to the catalog, including: Animal, Animal (Song for the Fate of Animals) (2018, 2.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A celebration of the wild mixes with icons of the inhumane. A war chant heard bellowing from the mouths of animals is […]

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   Now Available: Elena Pardo’s Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color)

   Posted April 16th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Por dentro somos color (On the inside we are color) (2024, 12.5 min, color, sound, digital file) In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, the women’s organization Poj Kaa maintains a community herbarium. Foraging for plants is a way to share knowledge with grandmothers, midwives, healers and shamans. In Teotitlán del Valle the Ruiz family makes their […]

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   Now Available: Jeffrey Skoller’s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary + Four New Digitizations

   Posted April 9th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of five new exhibition files from longtime artist member Jeffrey Skoller. This deposit includes the latest installment of Skoller’s Unimagined Lives series, Occupation Diary (2025), as well as new 2K digitizations of four 16mm films from the 1980s and 1990s, including Moving In (1982), Topography/Surface Writing (1984), […]

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   Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s This Side of Salina

   Posted March 25th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   This Side of Salina (2025, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all […]

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   Canyon Cinema presents Lynn Marie Kirby: the insufficient frame, March 30, 2025

   Posted March 5th, 2025 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Lynn Marie Kirby: the insufficient frame Sunday, March 30, 3:40pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Presented by Canyon Cinema in association with San Francisco Cinematheque Lynn Marie Kirby in person Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon & SF Cinematheque Members Event tickets here By calling attention to the screen as more than a blank […]

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   Now Available: Four New Films by Toney W. Merritt

   Posted March 4th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that four new films by Toney W. Merritt are now available for rent. Fragments One (2024, 1 minute, color, sound, digital file) Vague Question: Vague Answer Summer’s End (2024, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Something that used to bug me.” In Our Sky (2023, 0.5 minutes, color, sound, […]

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    Canyon Cinema co-presents Trace Elements: Remembering Gunvor Nelson, March 13, 2025

    Posted February 26th, 2025 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    Trace Elements: Remembering Gunvor Nelson Thursday, March 13, 7:30pm The Lab, San Francisco Co-presented with San Francisco CinemathequeEvent tickets here For Nelson, film is a plastic medium whose potential for personal expression demands a denial of conventional film language and syntax on the part of both the maker and the viewer. Her frequently ambiguous and […]

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