Announcements

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    Now Available: Phil Solomon’s Yes, I Said Yes, I Will, Yes

    Posted October 26th, 2023 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Phil Solomon’s exquisite 1999 miniature, Yes, I Said Yes, I Will, Yes. The film screens on November 9, 2023 at Anthology Film Archives in Program 3 of the upcoming series “Lost and Found, You Still Remain There”: A Phil Solomon Retrospective, curated by Mark McElhatten. The three-program retrospective is presented […]

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    Now Available: Kerry Laitala’s Fire Fly EYE

    Posted October 20th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Fire Fly EYE (2020, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Fire Fly EYE is my response to the devastating re-making of the world brought on by anthropogenic climate change and corporate ‘stewardship’ of our natural resources. A ritual of reclamation in the face of overwhelming destruction, invoked through filming discarded consumer products, sifting spectacle out of […]

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    Canyon Cinema Awarded NFPF Avant-Garde Masters Grant to Preserve Two Films by Michael Wallin

    Posted October 17th, 2023 in Announcements, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that we have received a National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) – Avant-Garde Masters grant to preserve two films by Bay Area filmmaker Michael Wallin. A pioneer in San Francisco’s queer avant-garde cinema scene, Wallin began making films in 1968 while studying under experimental film legend, and Canyon Cinema co-founder, Bruce […]

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    Contemporary Bay Area Films from Canyon Cinema @ YBCA, 10/14/23

    Posted October 10th, 2023 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    Contemporary Bay Area Films from Canyon CinemaOctober 14, 2023, 3pmYerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Presented in association with Bay Area Now 9 On view at YBCA from October 6, 2023–May 5, 2024 Program info & tickets: ybca.org/event/canyon-cinema-contemporary-bay-area-film/ “Operating at the intersection of exhibition and distribution Canyon Cinema, one of the key foundations of the Bay Area film ecosystem, has presented, preserved, […]

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    Now Available: Phil Solomon’s Empire

    Posted October 4th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Empire (Phil Solomon, 2008-2012, 48 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A re-make of Andy Warhol’s Empire from high atop the Manhattan Island of Grand Theft Auto IV (“Liberty City”), far from the madding crowd of thieves, cops, prostitutes and murderers down below. I hijacked a copter, leaped onto the rooftop of an adjacent building, spawned a scooter out of […]

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    October Screenings: Dominic Angerame @ The Roxie, Jeffrey Skoller @ BAMPFA, Illuminations: Jerome Hiler continues

    Posted September 28th, 2023 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events

    The Soul of Cinema: Films by Dominic AngerameOctober 7, 2023, 1:30pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Co-sponsored by Canyon Cinema Dominic Angerame in person! Program info & tickets: roxie.com/film/the-soul-of-cinema-films-by-dominic-angerame/ Coming soon to The Little Roxie: A screening of new, recent, and enduring films by the San Francisco cine-poet, documentarist, and former Canyon Cinema director Dominic Angerame. Since 1969, Angerame […]

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    Now Available: Three New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky

    Posted September 20th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three new 16mm portrait films by Nathaniel Dorsky, including: Caracole (for Izcali) (2023, 17.5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm, 18fps) In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture. There is always a surprise as to what the […]

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    Now Available: Stephanie Barber’s Another Horizon

    Posted August 30th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events

    Another Horizon (Stephanie Barber, 2020, 9 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) the horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, is a promised place where these two elements come together. a metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence. a place where the corporeal and spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart. here, […]

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    Now Available: A New Digital Restoration of Lynne Sachs’s Investigation of a Flame

    Posted August 29th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon is pleased to announce that a new digital restoration of Lynne Sachs’s Investigation of a Flame (2001), an intimate, experimental documentary portrait of the Catonsville Nine, is now available. Praised by The Los Angeles Times as “A complex rumination on the power of protest,” and hailed by The Village Voice‘s Phillip Lopate as the best […]

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    Now Available: 20 Films + 3 Digital Videos by Amy Halpern

    Posted August 25th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the acquisition of 23 films and videos by longtime artist member Amy Halpern, all of which are new to Canyon’s collection. Highlights of this major deposit, spanning 50 years of Halpern’s career, include the early suite Opus I (Three Preparations / A Glance / Peach Landscape) (1972-73); 1978’s Cigarette […]

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