Announcements

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   Canyon Cinema and The Roxie Theater to Launch New Programming Partnership 

   Posted July 30th, 2021 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Two long-standing San Francisco film purveyors are thrilled to announce a new programming partnership. Beginning this August, Canyon Cinema and The Roxie Theater embark on a monthly collaboration: Canyon at The Roxie, bringing into focus visionary Bay Area film artists of past and present. Taking place in the Little Roxie, and in compliance with CDC, […]

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   Canyon Cinema Response to the Elimination of SFMOMA’s Film Program

   Posted July 23rd, 2021 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   SFMOMA’s recent decision to eliminate its Film Program (among other vital, inclusive, and community-focused programs) is a stunning disavowal of its own history. Moreso, it is a shocking divestment from SFMOMA’s stated commitment to “exhibiting film as an essential medium of modern and contemporary art” and to fostering a vibrant film culture in San Francisco. […]

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   New Artist Member: Barron Sherer

   Posted July 13th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Miami-based media artist Barron Sherer to the collection! Taking the form of hybrid film/video remediations and projection-based media installations, Sherer’s work focuses on repurposing and manipulating found film, slides, video, and photographs through formal experimentation; utilizing social media platforms such as Instagram as both a source of material and […]

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   New Acquisition: Three Exhibition Files from Kate McCabe

   Posted June 14th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three new exhibition files from Joshua Tree-based artist and filmmaker Kate McCabe! This acquisition includes the addition of a new film to the catalog, 2018’s There Are No Shadows in East Berlin, as well as new digital copies of McCabe’s debut feature Sabbia (2006), a visual album for stoner rock prince, Brant […]

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   Now Available: Jeffrey Skoller’s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors

   Posted June 11th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that an exhibition file of Jeffrey Skoller‘s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors (2019) is now available for rent.  “[A] first-person remembrance from one of the first US sailors on the ground in post-atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki… the tale-telling comes across in a riveting minimal mode, foregrounding the witnessing, the fragile personal narration […]

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   Introducing the Canyon Cinema Discovered Fellows!

   Posted June 2nd, 2021 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Following a review of nearly 200 outstanding applications by our group of project advisors, it is with great excitement that we introduce the 2021-22 Canyon Cinema curatorial fellows:  Aaditya Aggarwal is a writer, editor, and film curator based in Toronto and New Delhi. He has contributed writing to Canadian Art, The New Inquiry, Ethnic Aisle, Trinity Square Video, South Asian Visual […]

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   Now Available in Digital Format: Dorothy Wiley’s Miss Jesus Fries on Grill

   Posted May 28th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that an exhibition file of Dorothy Wiley‘s Miss Jesus Fries on Grill is now available for rent. Digital scanning provided by our friends at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Miss Jesus Fries on Grill (Dorothy Wiley, 1973, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file or 16mm) “Miss […]

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   New Artist Member: Mónica de Miranda

   Posted May 26th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome Lisbon-based artist Mónica de Miranda to the collection! Mónica de Miranda is a Portuguese visual artist and filmmaker of Angolan ancestry. Working in photography, mixed media, and video, de Miranda deals with themes of geography and identity, expressing quiet visions of personal history and exploring the poetics of belonging. She received her PhD in Visual […]

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   Now Available: New Digital Files from Naomi Uman

   Posted May 18th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that a number of assiduous, handcrafted films by Naomi Uman are now available to rent or license as digital files. The scanning and post-production work is courtesy of Seattle’s Lightpress, and was supported by an Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant, awarded to Uman in January 2021. This suite of new transfers […]

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    New Acquisition: Four Exhibition Files from Greta Snider

    Posted May 7th, 2021 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Four new exhibition files from the SF cinema great Greta Snider! This acquisition includes the addition of a new film to the catalog, 2019’s A Small Place, as well as stunning new digitizations of Snider-staples Hard Core Home Movie (1989), No-Zone (1993), and Flight (1996). A Small Place (Greta Snider, […]

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