Events and Screenings
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Canyon-on-Demand: Between Pop Culture and the Avant-Garde, now streaming until Nov 2
Between Pop Culture and the Avant-Garde: Little-Seen Films by Women from the Collection of Canyon Cinema October 26 – November 2, 2020 Co-presented with Lightbox Film Center Ranging from 1970 to 1996, the films gathered here display unexpected images by women that comment on how we present and perform ourselves, both in private and in […]
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Sporting Blackness with Samantha N. Sheppard
A Canyon Cinema Salon, co-hosted by Screen SlateThursday, September 17 @ 8pm EST / 5pm PSTLivestream on Twitch (free, no account or RSVP required)View archived discussion here Inspired by Samantha N. Sheppard‘s new book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen , this program – the first of Canyon Cinema’s relaunched (Virtual) Salon series – brings together […]
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POSTPONED – Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera, screening and book party with author Joel Schlemowitz
Book Party and Screening for Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera, with author Joel Schlemowitz Thursday, March 19th, 2020 – 7:30pm – POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE. Artists’ Television Access – 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Tickets – $7 – $10 sliding scale Co-presented with San Francisco Cinematheque Visit our Facebook Event Page Experimental […]
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1/23/2020 – Interludes: New and Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky
Still from Nathaniel Dorsky’s Apricity (2019) Interludes: New and Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020 — 7:30 PM YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 701 Mission Street (at Third St) San Francisco, CA 94103 – MAP Co-presented with San Francisco Cinematheque SOLD OUT Visit our Facebook Event Page An active filmmaker since childhood, Nathaniel Dorsky is one […]
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11/1/2019 – A Salon with Lana Z Caplan
A Salon with Lana Z Caplan Friday, November 1st, 2019 // 7:30 PM (doors 7:00 PM) 16 Sherman Street Facebook Event We are delighted to welcome multimedia artist Lana Z Caplan to present a Canyon Cinema Salon screening at 16 Sherman Street in San Francisco. Caplan has curated a program that elegantly weaves films from Canyon’s deep catalog along […]
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Microcosmic Cinema: A Benefit for Canyon Cinema
Microcosmic Cinema: A Benefit for Canyon Cinema Thursday, August 15, 2019 – 7:30 Balboa Theatre Facebook Event Tickets $15 – available now! The Balboa Theatre, Owsley Brown & S.F. Cultural History Museum present Microcosmic Cinema: A Benefit For Canyon Cinema featuring 16mm projector performances by Kerry Laitala who will be presenting four works from her City […]
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8/8/2019 // Still Dreaming: Remembering Phil Solomon
Still Dreaming: Remembering Phil Solomon Thursday, August 8, 2019 – 7:30 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Facebook Event Tickets – $10.00 General Admission ($6.00 Cinematheque members) Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque, program curated and presented by Steve Anker. Phil Solomon (January 3, 1954—April 20, 2019) was among the great avant-garde filmmakers of this era. Solomon’s more […]
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7/25/2019 // For a Winter: Remembering Jonathan Schwartz
For a Winter: Remembering Jonathan Schwartz Thursday, July 25th, 2019 – 7:30pm Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Facebook Event Tickets – $10.00 General Admission ($6.00 Cinematheque members) Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque. In his short life, filmmaker Jonathan Schwartz (1973-2018) created a striking body of 16mm and digital video works of deep lyrical sensitivity and […]
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7/19 to 7/21 – Missed Connections at the 2019 San Francisco Art Book Fair
The SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications, presented at San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project, July 19–21, 2019. SFABF features artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists’ multiples presented by over 100 exhibitors—independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors and enthusiasts. Over the weekend, the fair hosts a diverse range of talks, […]
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6/27/19 // Remembering Barbara Hammer
Remembering Barbara Hammer Thursday, June 27th, 2019 // 7:30 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Facebook Event Tickets – $10.00 General Admission ($6.00 Cinematheque members) Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque. On Thursday, June 27, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, we are proud to present a special memorial screening in honor of the recently […]