News / Events

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   Now Available: 15 New Exhibition Files from Pat O’Neill

   Posted November 20th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted November 8th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted October 26th, 2023 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted October 26th, 2023 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted October 20th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted October 17th, 2023 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted October 10th, 2023 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   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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   Now Available: Phil Solomon’s Empire

   Posted October 4th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Empire (Phil Solomon, 2008-2012, 48 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A re-make of Andy Warhol’s Empire from high atop the Manhattan Island of Grand Theft Auto IV (“Liberty City”), far from the madding crowd of thieves, cops, prostitutes and murderers down below. I hijacked a copter, leaped onto the rooftop of an adjacent building, spawned a scooter out of […]

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   October Screenings: Dominic Angerame @ The Roxie, Jeffrey Skoller @ BAMPFA, Illuminations: Jerome Hiler continues

   Posted September 28th, 2023 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   The Soul of Cinema: Films by Dominic AngerameOctober 7, 2023, 1:30pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Co-sponsored by Canyon Cinema Dominic Angerame in person! Program info & tickets: roxie.com/film/the-soul-of-cinema-films-by-dominic-angerame/ Coming soon to The Little Roxie: A screening of new, recent, and enduring films by the San Francisco cine-poet, documentarist, and former Canyon Cinema director Dominic Angerame. Since 1969, Angerame […]

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    Now Available: Three New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky

    Posted September 20th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
    

    Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three new 16mm portrait films by Nathaniel Dorsky, including: Caracole (for Izcali) (2023, 17.5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm, 18fps) In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture. There is always a surprise as to what the […]

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