Announcements

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   A Letter from Denah Johnston

   Posted July 27th, 2015 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Dear friends, collaborators, community at large: I am moved to write a letter to let everyone know that I am stepping down from my position as Executive Director to take on a tenure-track teaching position in the Cinema Department at San Francisco City College and that my last day in the office will be Wednesday July 29th. This was one […]

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   Now Available on Blu Ray: Janie Geiser’s The Hummingbird Wars

   Posted July 6th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   We are pleased to announce that The Humming Bird Wars, the latest work from filmmaker Janie Geiser, is now available to rent on BluRay! The Humming Bird Wars (2014 | 10 minutes | color | sound) “A theatrical fiction, collapsing time and place: turn-of-the-last-century performers apply stage makeup as if for war, to engage in […]

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   6/29/15 Canyon Cinema Salon, Betwixt and Between with Kate McCabe

   Posted June 24th, 2015 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of June 29th, 2015 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment of our 2015 Salon series. This month, we’re pleased to welcome independent filmmaker Kate McCabe who will premiere her new film “You and I Remain”, a lovely apocalyptic lullaby about the Anthropocene, alongside films from the Canyon collection that have greatly […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: 8 Films by Saul Levine

   Posted June 18th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We at Canyon Cinema are beyond excited to announce 8 films now available to rent on 16mm by Saul Levine! Falling Notes Unleaving (2013 | 13 minutes | color | sound) Made almost fifty years after his debut film, Saul Levine’s FALLING NOTES UNLEAVING presents the filmmaker returning to the inspiration of Stan Brakhage and […]

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   New on 16mm: Nursing History by Marian McMahon

   Posted June 17th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is honored to offer Nursing History by the late, great Marian McMahon for loan on 16mm. Marian McMahon’s contributions to Canadian critical film and video practice have had a substantial impact on contemporary art discourse in Canada. Her work created a dialogue for women’s experiences, interlacing personal and shared subjectivities to examine the […]

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   New on 16mm: Lawrence Jordan’s Entr’acte II

   Posted June 15th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We are pleased to announce that Entr’acte II, the latest work from filmmaker Lawrence Jordan, is now available to rent on 16mm! Entr’acte II (2015 | 2 minutes | color | sound) In ENTR’ACTE II the walls come tumbling down. The wheels come off the wagon: Thunder, Lightning, Explosive meditations. Everything seems tobe happening at […]

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   New on 16mm: Two Films from Mark Toscano

   Posted June 11th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is happy to announce the acquisition of two new films by our friend, preservationist extraordinaire and former board member,  filmmaker Mark Toscano! Certain Things (2014 | 4 minutes | color | sound) Certain things you remember. These are two of them, remembered by my father, as we drove north on S. Las Vegas […]

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8. 

   Co-Presentation of Paul Sharits Documentary June 5th and 6th at SF DocFest

   Posted June 3rd, 2015 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema Foundation is proud to co-present the US Premiere of Paul Sharits by François Miron at SF DocFest at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco Friday June 5th at 9:15pm Saturday June 6th at 2:30pm Tickets available through the DocFest film page OR day of the screening(s) at The Roxie Theatre. PAUL SHARITS is […]

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   5/31/15: AVANT-GARDE PARIS at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival

   Posted May 26th, 2015 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema Foundation is happy co-present a program with The Silent Film Festival this year! Head over to the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco at 12:30PM on May 31 for AVANT-GARDE PARIS, a program that explores two seminal films from two great visionaries of the Avant-Garde working in one of the most important cultural […]

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    05/22/15: Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus Premiere at Cannes Film Festival!

    Posted May 14th, 2015 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    We’re excited to announce that Canyon Cinema filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky’s latest film, The Exquisite Corpus, will premiere at Cannes Film Festival at the Director’s Fortnight. Read on for screening dates and a description of the film. And be sure to check out Peter’s filmmaker page and official website for more info about the artist and his body of work. […]

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