Events and Screenings
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Lawrence Jordan and John Davis at THE LAB June 18th
Lawrence Jordan performing in person with John Davis Thursday, June 18, 2015 at THE LAB 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 7:30pm doors, screening starts promptly at 8pm $8 general / free for members. Drawing on a deep knowledge of classical mythology and a wide variety of esoteric philosophies and traditions, yet propelled by his own personalized form of […]
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Co-Presentation of Paul Sharits Documentary June 5th and 6th at SF DocFest
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
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!
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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5/4/15 Canyon Cinema Salon, Next To You with Claire Bain
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of May 4th, 2015 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment of our Spring 2015 Salon series. This month, artist and filmmaker Claire Bain will present a selection of 16mm films from Canyon’s collection that function within systems of identity, representation, persona, and power. On her program, Bain says: “These films demonstrate that […]
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Dominic Angerame–Mini European Tour!
Canyon’s friends across the pond will soon have the chance to catch a screening of Dominic Angerame’s work! Dominic, one of our longest-running filmmakers, will be touring with a program that includes Continuum, Deconstruction Sight, Premonition, In the Course of Human Events, Line of Fire, and The Soul of Things, in addition to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s film Notes […]
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April 10–12: See New Works from Canyon Cinema Filmmakers at CROSSROADS 2015
This weekend, San Francisco Cinematheque will open its annual CROSSROADS* film festival! This year’s lineup promises to be unmissable, with 9 programs ranging in theme from “forward reverse read write: conjectures about the animal” to “haunted house: a catalog of the small and ecstatic“, and much much more! Advance tickets can now be purchased for […]
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3/30/2015 Canyon Cinema Salon, Nathaniel Dorsky on Stan Brakhage pt II
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of March 30, 2015 at New Nothing Cinema for the first installment of our 2015 Salon series. This month, filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky will return to present Stan Brakhage’s The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him on 16mm. Dorksy writes: This evening’s Canyon Cinema Salon blooms out of the joy and desire to continue […]
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Closing 2014 Salon: Nathaniel Dorsky on Stan Brakhage
A full house filled the small hand made theater at New Nothing Cinema to enjoy an evening of discussion surrounding the topic of form and meaning in union, using Visions of Meditation Parts two and three as a bases. Denah Johnston of Canyon Cinema introduced the program and Antonella Bonfanti ran the projectors. There was […]
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12/15/2014 Canyon Cinema Salon, Nathaniel Dorsky on Stan Brakhage
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of December 15th, 2014 at New Nothing Cinema for the final installment of our Fall 2014 Salon series. This month, filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky will present a program of 16mm films from the Canyon Cinema catalog made by Stan Brakhage. Dorksy writes: I would like to show two films from Canyon’s collection by Stan Brakhage. […]

