Events and Screenings
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Canyon Cinema presents Toney W. Merritt: As I Am, May 16 & 18, 2024
Toney W. Merritt: As I Am Thursday, May 16, 6:30pm & Saturday, May 18, 3:40pmThe Roxie Theater, San Francisco Toney W. Merritt in person!Q&A to follow both screenings Program & Ticket Info: roxie.com/film/toney-w-merritt-as-i-am/ The Bay Area–based independent filmmaker Toney W. Merritt has been creating work for over 50 years. His unique corpus of personal films and […]
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The Spring Invitational, hosted by 500 Capp Street and Berkeley Art Center, with Canyon Cinema
May 3, 4 & 5, 2024 500 Capp Street, San Francisco Join us for an extraordinary weekend of creativity and collaboration, hosted by two vibrant organizations in a shared mission of fostering sustainability and planting seeds within our Bay Area arts ecosystem. Together, 500 Capp Street and Berkeley Art Center are presenting a joint fundraiser […]
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1/26/2024 – Cine-Espacios Book Release and Screening
Cine-Espacios Book Release and ScreeningFriday, January 26, 2024 @ 7pmArtists’ Television Access, San Francisco Cine-Espacios co-editor Tzutzu Matzin in person from Mexico City! To celebrate the publication of our latest Canyon Cinemazine issue, we are hosting a release party and screening at ATA in San Francisco’s Mission District. Years in the making, the bilingual, 200+ page […]
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1/18/2024 – Portraits and Short Visual Diaries: A Salon with Margaret Rorison
Portraits and Short Visual Diaries: A Salon with Margaret RorisonThursday, January 18, 2024 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Curated and introduced by Margaret Rorison “This selection of 10 short films celebrates the mobile nature of the 16mm camera, and the limitations of its mechanism that allow for true experimentation and play. The […]
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Canyon Cinema Across Time and Space @ YBCA, November 1-30, 2023
Throughout the month of November, as part of YBCA’s Bay Area Now 9 triennial exhibition, you can experience Canyon Cinema Across Time and Space. This selection of films from the Canyon Cinema collection traces six decades of experimental filmmaking in the Bay Area; from Canyon’s original home in the East Bay hamlet of Canyon, California, to San Francisco’s frenetic […]
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Now Available: Phil Solomon’s Yes, I Said Yes, I Will, Yes
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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Contemporary Bay Area Films from Canyon Cinema @ YBCA, 10/14/23
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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October Screenings: Dominic Angerame @ The Roxie, Jeffrey Skoller @ BAMPFA, Illuminations: Jerome Hiler continues
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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Canyon Cinema presents Al Wong: Still Moving, August 27, 2023
Al Wong: Still Moving Sunday, August 27, 2023, 3:45pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Al Wong in person! Program & Ticket Info: roxie.com/film/al-wong-still-moving/ Canyon at The Roxie returns with a spotlight on the distinguished San Francisco artist Al Wong. This program traces the arc of Wong’s varied engagement with the moving image form, from his […]
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Spotlight on Alee Peoples @ The Roxie, May 6 & 7, 2023
Spotlight on Alee Peoples Co-presented by Film on Film Foundation, Canyon Cinema, and SF Cinematheque Saturday, May 6 @ 4pm & Sunday, May 7 @ 1pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Program info & tickets: roxie.com/film/spotlight-on-alee-peoples/ “We welcome Peoples up from Los Angeles to present her complete body of 16mm films along with selections from the Canyon Cinema collection. Alee’s films are brim-ful of bold gestures, pointedly […]