News / Events

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   7/19 to 7/21 – Missed Connections at the 2019 San Francisco Art Book Fair

   Posted July 15th, 2019 in Events and Screenings
   

   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

   Posted June 24th, 2019 in Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   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 […]

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   New consignment DVDs from Re:Voir

   Posted June 18th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Re:Voir publishes beautiful DVD editions of classic and contemporary experimental cinema, with the goal of introducing the broadest possible audience to rare, under-seen, and important artist-made films. Canyon Cinema is an American distributor of Re:Voir releases, and we are pleased to share work by Patrick Bokanowski, Stephen Dwoskin, Anne Maregiano, François Miron, Suzan Pitt, Jürgen […]

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   Now available: additional Jonathan Schwartz prints

   Posted June 17th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Jonathan Schwartz (1973-2018) was a filmmaker, teacher, and source of inspiration for all his friends and students. Jonathan incorporated found and collected materials in many of his films, and simultaneously developed his unique 16mm vision through intimate exchanges with his subjects, handheld gestures, in-camera superimpositions, and a profound attention to the transient qualities of the […]

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   Newly available Robert Todd prints and files

   Posted June 17th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Robert Todd (1963-2018) was a profoundly creative and compassionate person who expressed raw emotion through the medium of film. He was a prolific filmmaker, a dedicated mentor and educator, a painter of dark wonders, and a musical prodigy. His cinema had a profound influence on the international experimental film community, embracing the deep complexity of […]

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   Now available: seventeen exhibition files from Jon Behrens

   Posted June 12th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Jon Behrens is a Seattle-based filmmaker, curator, photographer, sound manipulator and teacher. Seventeen of his films, produced between 1993 and 2018, are now available to rent as digital files from Canyon Cinema. Light Coins (2018 | 4 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) This film is a collaboration between myself, Caryn Cline and Luke Sieczek. We made […]

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   6/19/19 // A Salon with Zachary Epcar

   Posted June 11th, 2019 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   A Salon with Zachary Epcar Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 // 7:30 PM (doors 7:00 PM) 16 Sherman Street Facebook Event We are pleased to welcome filmmaker and dear friend Zachary Epcar back to San Francisco for a very special summertime Salon. Repurposing massage-chair unboxing videos algorithmically scraped from the internet’s endless depths, posthuman luxury condominium fly-through tours, […]

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   Now available: six exhibition files from Sandra Davis

   Posted June 10th, 2019 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   For all its tactility and materiality, filmmaker Sandra Davis’ use of 16mm film is rarely left a question of form. Throughout a body of work produced from the late 1970s through the present – an oeuvre at once intimate and elusive – Davis has repeatedly returned to physicality and touch as key themes activated by […]

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   6/15/19 // The Decay of Fiction

   Posted May 28th, 2019 in Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   The Decay of Fiction Saturday, June 15th, 2019 // 2:00 PM Roxie Theater // 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA “The Decay of Fiction is an intersection of fact and hallucination in an abandoned luxury hotel. The hotel is in Hollywood. The walls of the Ambassador are cracked and peeling, the lawns are brown, and mushrooms grow […]

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    6/6/19 // Kenneth Anger & Morgan Fisher

    Posted May 22nd, 2019 in Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
    

    Kenneth Anger / Morgan Fisher Reception & Performance Thursday, June 6, 2019 // 7:00 PM Slash Art San Francisco // 687 Minna Street, San Francisco Facebook Event (Kenneth Anger / Morgan Fisher runs May 17 through June 23, 2019) Laurence Rickels in The Case of California tells us that music is the ghost noise of identification, a […]

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