New Films

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   Print Generations – Premiere Screening @ SFMOMA, Feb 22

   Posted January 15th, 2026 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, New Films, News / Events
   

   Print Generations – Premiere Screening! 2pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free with RSVP Canyon Cinema’s inaugural film commissioning project! Borrowing its title from J.J. Murphy’s astounding structural showpiece, Print Generation (1974), and inspired by the centennial of 16mm film (1923–2023), Print Generations was conceived to support analog-based filmmaking in the Bay […]

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   Now Now Available: 16mm Print of Al Wong’s Screen, Projector & Film

   Posted December 16th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Screen, Projector & Film (1977, 14 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) IMPORTANT:With this work, the primary experience is the concern. In order to exhibit this work, you need to have a screen with a three legged tripod base. You also need to fit the projected image perfectly on the screen. Also available: video […]

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   Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Lumphini 2552 (35mm)

   Posted November 17th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Lumphini 2552 (2009, 3 minutes, b&w, sound, 35mm) This work was shot with a still camera in Lumphini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. The home-developed film projects the organic patterns present in the memorial park onto the screen, creating a rhythmic yet emotional tempo. At the same time, the images captured by the still camera are […]

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   Now Available: Two New Films by Barron Sherer

   Posted September 5th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two new 16mm films by Barron Sherer are now available for rent. Barron Sherer is a Miami-based media artist with a background in moving image archival practice and research. Taking the form of hybrid film/video remediations and projection-based media installations, Sherer’s work focuses on repurposing and manipulating found […]

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   Now Available: Five Films by Anna Kipervaser

   Posted August 26th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five films by Anna Kipervaser, made between 2021 and 2023, are now available. Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and nonhuman animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a […]

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   Now Available: Michael Alexander Morris’s First Hermanubis: Initiation

   Posted June 17th, 2025 in New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   First Hermanubis: Initiation (2023, 40 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic and the occult. This first episode focuses on the […]

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   Now Available: Two Stereoscopic 3D Films by Greta Snider

   Posted June 3rd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two stereoscopic 16mm films by Greta Snider are now available for rent. Please note that these dual projection films require a silver 3D type exhibition screen. Each film rental comes with linear polarizing filters for projectors, and audience polarizing glasses. Sound is played on a separate file. See […]

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   Now Available: Three 16mm Films by LeAnn Bartok

   Posted May 13th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new 16mm prints of three films by LeAnn Bartok are now available. This new acquisition includes two of Bartok’s renowned Skyworks films, as well as her final film, Film Painting I. A pioneering conceptual visionary artist, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, actress, and inventor (U.S. patent liquid crystal), LeAnn […]

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   Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s The Egg

   Posted January 28th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: The latest cut-out animation from the prolific avant-garde maestro, Lawrence Jordan! The Egg (Lawrence Jordan, 2024, 8 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) The egg rolls, tumbles and flies from jungles to Desert glasses in a rollicking adventure, accompanied by the music of Eric Satie.

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    New Artist Member: Alexandra Cuesta

    Posted January 22nd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Alexandra Cuesta to the collection! Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and visual artist who combines experimental film traditions with documentary practices. Her 16mm films and videos are portraits of public places, urban landscapes, and the people in them. Reminiscent of documentary practices such as street photography, Cuesta’s work is […]

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