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   Now Available: Four Videos by Tommy Becker

   Posted October 28th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Let’s Make a Movie (2014, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A love song and tribute to classic cinema. Song for the Lemons (2013, 4.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The lemon, often utilized by famed still-life painters, was rarely the focus of a composition. More typically, it was being abused for its compositional qualities. […]

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   Job Opportunity: Distribution & Collections Manager

   Posted October 10th, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   We are hiring! Canyon Cinema seeks a new Distribution & Collections Manager to oversee the operation of our distribution program for artist-member works as well as the conservation and management of our film print, digital media, and paper collections. This is a full-time, permanent position, based out of our office located in Bayview–Hunters Point in […]

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   Canyon Cinema presents Robert Nelson’s Suite California, October 30, 2024

   Posted October 3rd, 2024 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Robert Nelson’s Suite California Wednesday, October 30, 6:30pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Program & Ticket Info: roxie.com/film/robert-nelsons-suite-california-16mm/ Canyon at The Roxie returns this fall with a special presentation of Robert Nelson’s majestic two-part 16mm film essay, Suite California! “I’m definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information about California. There’s plenty of that everywhere. […]

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   9/20/2024 – A Salon with Philip Hoffman

   Posted September 12th, 2024 in Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   A Salon with Philip Hoffman Friday, September 20, 2024 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm) 16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Philip Hoffman in person! Kicking off a whirlwind weekend of Bay Area events, Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Canadian film experimentalist and longtime artist member Philip Hoffman to 16 Sherman for a screening of his 2019 […]

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   Now Available: Three New Films by Lynne Sachs

   Posted August 26th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that three new films by Lynne Sachs are now available for rent, including: Contractions, which was recently featured on The New York Times’ Op-Docs page; She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes, featuring Barbara Friedman and Laetitia Mikles; and The Jitters, commissioned by Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive for […]

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   Now Available: Four New Films by Malic Amalya

   Posted August 21st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Malic Amalya’s Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023), along with three additional films, are now available for rent: Living Lessons in the Museum of Order (2023, 21 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Tourism in an age of mass incarceration and mass extinction. Living Lessons […]

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   Now Available: Four Films by Philip Hoffman

   Posted August 14th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of four recent handmade films by longtime artist member Philip Hoffman. A film artist of memory and association, Hoffman has long been recognized as Canada’s pre-eminent diary filmmaker. As Karyn Sandlos writes, “For over twenty years he has been straining history through personal fictions, using the material of […]

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   Now Available: Bill Brown’s Mountain State

   Posted August 7th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Mountain State (Bill Brown, 2003, 19 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “History is a ghost, and every historical marker tells a ghost story,” Brown writes about his film; that’s true but also a truism, since every true story must one day become a kind of ghost story. Mountain State is instead a film about absence, […]

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   New Store Item! Tommy Becker’s The Mirror Neuron

   Posted August 5th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, News / Events
   

   Now in stock: Tommy Becker’s The Mirror Neuron, a 36-page color zine featuring an introduction by David Finkelstein and over 30 hi-res stills printed in combination with the poetry and text of the work. A QR code grants access to the full 14:30-minute work online. An optional expanded edition includes a 16″ x 20″ poster […]

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    Now Available: Federica Foglia’s Glitter for Girls

    Posted August 1st, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Glitter for Girls (Federica Foglia, 2023, 4 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP)  Glitter for Girls is a handmade tattoo film that utilizes a camera-less direct-on-film animation approach to collage multiple layers of water tattoos (commonly used by children.) Foglia, known for her tactile work on celluloid, this time intervenes on the 16mm polyester base […]

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