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Now Available: Alexis Krasilovsky’s Nancy Spero: A Conversation with the Artist
Nancy Spero: A Conversation with the Artist (1991, 8 minutes, color, sound, digital file) One of the foremost political and feminist artists of our time, Nancy Spero talks about the Women Artists’ movement and images of women in her own work, during a 1989 retrospective at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York […]
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New Artist Member: Harry Smith
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the films of Harry Smith to the collection! “Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid 20th-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his […]
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New Artist Member: Gloria Chung
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome New York-based artist Gloria Chung to the collection! Gloria Chung’s films explore places “not down in any map”; liminal places defined by time, light, and memory. Her films have screened at festivals and galleries in the U.S. and internationally. Chung holds degrees from the University of Michigan (BA Anthropology) […]
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Now Available: 15 New Exhibition Files from Pat O’Neill
Canyon Cinema is excited to announce the acquisition of 15 exhibition files from the West Coast film maestro, Pat O’Neill. This deposit includes recent digital transfers of avant-garde classics such as Water and Power (1989), Trouble in the Image (1996), and 7362 (1967), among others, as well as two video works that are new to […]
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Now Available: Jodie Mack’s All Stars
All Stars (Jodie Mack, 2006, 0.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A bite-sized star punch exercise in direct animation with colored acetate.
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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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Now Available: Kerry Laitala’s Fire Fly EYE
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
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
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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