News / Events
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New Artist Member: Linda Izcali Scobie
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Linda Izcali Scobie and her work to the collection! Linda Izcali Scobie is a filmmaker, programmer, and projectionist living in San Francisco. Her films have been exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals and venues such as LA Film Forum, Antimatter, Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City, XCENTRIC […]
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Now Available: C Applewhaite’s I AM THE WORLD + let me breathe
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that C Applewhaite‘s I AM THE WORLD (2022) and let me breathe (2021) are now available. I AM THE WORLD screens at London’s Barbican Centre on July 30th, as part of videoclub’s UK touring program Selected 16. The program includes artists nominated by those shortlisted for the Film London […]
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Now Available: Greta Snider’s In the Maritime Frequencies
In the Maritime Frequencies (2025, 16 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file or DCP) “We’ll remember the earth as if it were a dream.” This film is an exploration of the coastal landscapes of San Francisco, using darkroom developers made from the solutions of our times — bay water, hand sanitizer and “safe” detergent […]
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Now Available: New 2K Digitizations of Three Films by Robert Nelson (and Friends)
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new high-resolution digital files of three films by Robert Nelson, including collaborations with William T. Wiley and Mike Henderson, are now available. These 2K digitizations of The Off Handed Jape (1967), Worldly Woman (1973), and Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley […]
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Now Available: Eight Digital Files from Barry Spinello
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that eight films by longtime artist member Barry Spinello are now available in digital formats. The deposit includes several of Spinello’s signature cameraless animations, as well as his documentaries Erica: Not in Vain (1983) and Film Graphics: Abstract Aspects of Editing (1972), and his hybrid live-action and hand-painted Daylight […]
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Now Available: New Preservation Prints and 2K Digitizations of Michael Wallin’s Black Sheep Boy and Decodings
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that the initial phase of our multi-faceted Michael Wallin restoration project is now complete. Thanks to the support of a National Film Preservation Foundation – Avant-Garde Masters Grant, new 16mm preservation prints and 2K digitizations of Wallin’s landmark autobiographical essays Decodings (1988) and Black Sheep Boy (1995) are now available from Canyon Cinema. […]
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Now Available: James Sansing’s A Light Unseen
A Light Unseen (2025, 10 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Light glinting off spider webs, seem unremarkable, but there is a world of color and composition invisible to the human eye revealed by this experimental film. These are not artifacts caused by camera optics, this is the natural world.
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Now Available: Julie Murray’s Estuary
Estuary (2025, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A poem of patterns and pictures captured onto photo sensitive film. Photograms and fragments of found film footage combine with shapes and textures fixed from detritus often found drifting on shorelines. Using hand-cranked film rewinds, these film strips are wound back and forth generating braided rhythmic variations, […]
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Now Available: New 2K Digitization of Coni Beeson’s Firefly
Firefly (Coni Beeson, 1974, 5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) A short expressive dance film, featuring Carrie Mae Weems. Scan courtesy of UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Now Available: TT Takemoto’s For Jina and Swing Swish Sway
For Jina (2024, 3 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Honoring the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and the legacy of Mahsa Amini, known as “Jina.” Swing Swish Sway (2026, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) “Inspired by Rosalie ‘Rose’ Bamberger (1921-1990), the mixed-race Filipina American paintbrush maker and co-founder of the Daughters of Bilitis […]
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