Announcements

1. 

   Films by Kerry Laitala now distributed by Canyon Cinema

   Posted May 15th, 2017 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
   

   It is an honor to announce that the 16mm and 35mm films of San Francisco-based filmmaker Kerry Laitala are now distributed by Canyon Cinema. Secure the Shadow… ‘Ere the Substance Fade (1997 | 9 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “… steeped in melancholia, involuntary schadenfreude and a sense of spoil that is both anachronistic and transcendental. […]

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   November 14 // Canyon Cinema Salon with Toney W. Merritt

   Posted November 14th, 2016 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of Monday November 14, 2016 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment in our Salon series. We’re pleased to welcome filmmaker Toney W. Merritt. Toney’s selection of his personal films span from his time at the San Francisco Art Institute to an excerpt of a current film-in-progress. Merritt and other local […]

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3. 

   Now available on 16mm : 9 new films by Amy Halpern

   Posted October 9th, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Nine brand new 16mm prints of films by Amy Halpern are available to rent from Canyon Cinema! Amy Halpern is a New York filmmaker, living & working in Los Angeles. Since childhood she has been composing with movement and light, and making 16mm abstract films since 1972. She is the co-founder of two film screening organizations: The Collective for […]

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4. 

   8/10/2016 – Peter Hutton Tribute – Canyon Cinema Salon, led by Steve Anker

   Posted August 1st, 2016 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   “…For thirty years now, Peter Hutton has been building a radical and singular body of work. A sort of primitive documentary, silent, which celebrates the beauty of the world without forgetting to observe people, the conditions they live and work under…” – Cahiers du cinéma The loss of Peter Hutton in June robbed personal independent […]

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5. 

   Peter Hutton Dies at 71

   Posted June 27th, 2016 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   We are deeply saddened by the untimely passing of filmmaker Peter Hutton. He produced a remarkable filmic oeuvre over nearly half a century. Starting out as a sculptor, painter and photographer, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1960s where he was influenced by Bruce Baillie, Bruce Conner, Bruce Nauman and Robert Nelson. Writing […]

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6. 

   Now available: Josephine Massarella’s Light Study

   Posted May 23rd, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
   

   Canyon is pleased to announce this latest addition to Massarella’s films in distribution – beautifully photographed on 16mm and available for distribution in high definition digital formats. Josephine Massarella | 2013 | 12.5 minutes | COLOR/B&W | STEREO Rental Format(s): Digital File (Quicktime ProRes 1920×1080) Sale Format(s): Blu-Ray Disc   Light Study is a poetic examination of the wetlands, forests, […]

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   Films by Jean Sousa now distributed by Canyon Cinema

   Posted May 18th, 2016 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films
   

   We’re pleased to announce that the 16mm films of Chicago-based filmmaker and photographer Jean Sousa are now distributed by Canyon Cinema. Excellent 16mm prints of films made from 1977-1987 received from the filmmaker are for the first time available from Canyon, Sousa’s films are a welcome addition to the Canyon Cinema catalog. Seven of Sousa’s films are now […]

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8. 

   4/1-4/3 \\ Canyon Cinema salutes CROSSROADS

   Posted March 26th, 2016 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema salutes CROSSROADS, San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual artist-made film, video and performance work: 75 films by 71 filmmakers from around the world! Congratulations to featured Canyon filmmakers Craig Baldwin, Stephen Broomer, Paul Clipson, Janie Geiser, William E. Jones, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Julie Murray, Michael Robinson, Ben Russell and Robert Todd. We are especially proud […]

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9. 

   Fandor Keyframe article: The Canyon Cinema Experiment

   Posted January 19th, 2016 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Much has changed in San Francisco in the last fifty four years, summers of love, bubbles of tech, the current wave of uber-gentrification making it difficult for independent artists and the organizations that support and exhibit their work to survive here, and yet Canyon Cinema, one of the most significant repositories of independent, non-commercial, experimental, […]

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10. 

    Now Available – New Work by Tomonari Nishikawa

    Posted December 4th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Tomonari Nishikawa’s recent 35mm film sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars is now available to rent at Canyon Cinema!  The film is currently screening at film festivals worldwide – most recently at the Singapore International Film Festival. sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars (2014 |2 minutes |COLOR | […]

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