Announcements

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   Hiler // Dorsky Dual Retrospective at the New York Film Festival

   Posted September 10th, 2015 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   NYFF53 Will Feature Retrospectives of Works by Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky This Month at Lincoln Center New York Film Festival Retrospective LUMINOUS INTIMACY: THE CINEMA OF NATHANIEL DORSKY AND JEROME HILER Sept. 28th – Oct. 2nd      For the last six decades, Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, partners in life and in cinema, have […]

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   Now Available on DVD: Four Films by Tom Palazzolo

   Posted August 19th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Tom Palazzolo’s Street Scene, I Married a Munchkin, Lily’s World of Wax, and Marquette Park Pts. 1 & 2 on DVD now available for purchase from Canyon Cinema! Street Scene (2012 | 42 min | COLOR/B&W | SOUND) Includes Vivian Maier: Photographer and Down Clark Street Vivian Maier: Photographer (2012, 12min, B&W, Sound)This 12-minute video by Tom Palazzolo and Chicago writer Jack Helbig tells […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: New Print of James Otis’ On Your Own

   Posted August 14th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   We have a beautiful new 16mm print of James Otis’ On Your Own available to rent from Canyon Cinema! On Your Own (1981 | 2 minutes | B&W | SOUND) Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, I undertook a distillation, editing […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: New Print of Standish Lawder’s Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie

   Posted August 5th, 2015 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   A brand-spankin’ shiny new print of Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie is available to rent from Canyon Cinema! Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie (1973 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) In the early 70’s, a New York cat-lover and film-maker named Pola Chapelle produced a “Cat Film Fesitval:” which was shown in a large downtown […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: Kate McCabe’s You and I Remain

   Posted August 4th, 2015 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that after its premier at the Canyon Cinema Salon “Betwixt and Between,” You and I Remain is now available on 16mm! You and I Remain (2015 | 15 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) In this portrait of a world askew, filmmaker McCabe composes an apocalyptic lullaby, a landscape film meditating […]

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6. 

   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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8. 

   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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