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   2/8/18 // Stephen Broomer’s Potamkin

   Posted February 8th, 2018 in Canyon Cinema 50, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Stephen Broomer’s Potamkin Thursday, February 8th, 2018 // 7:30pm Artists’ Television Access // 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco Buy Tickets ($10.00 General Admission / $5.00 Cinematheque members) Facebook Event add this event to your calendar Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque.  “Sooner or later all delicate things/Are butterflies with severed wings.” In 1933, at age 33, […]

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   Canyon Cinema Foundation to receive $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

   Posted February 7th, 2018 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $25 million in grants as part of the NEA’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $25,000 to Canyon Cinema Foundation to support its film and media distribution program. The Art Works category is the […]

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   1/30/18 // Red Shift + Daughters of Chaos

   Posted January 26th, 2018 in Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Red Shift + Daughters of Chaos Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 // 7:00pm Little Roxie Theater // 3117 16th Street, San Francisco $11.00 General Admission Facebook Event The personal and poetic cinema of Gunvor Nelson’s Red Shift and Marjorie Keller’s Daughters of Chaos explore relationships between mothers and daughters, the mysteries of growing up and growing old. Red Shift + Daughters of […]

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   1/21/18 // New Beginnings: Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Sadie Benning, Nina Fonoroff

   Posted January 21st, 2018 in Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   New Beginnings: Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Sadie Benning, Nina Fonoroff Thursday, January 25th, 2018 // 7:30pm Artists’ Television Access // 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco $10.00 General Admission / $5.00 Cinematheque members Facebook Event Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque. “New Beginnings is a recurring curatorial endeavor oriented to the presentation of historic works of international […]

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   1/20/18 // Reinscriptions for Line Describing a Cone

   Posted January 13th, 2018 in Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Reinscriptions for Line Describing a Cone Saturday, January 20th, 2018 // 3:00pm Kanbar Forum — Exploratorium // Pier 15, San Francisco Facebook Event Edition #2 of Prepared Projection Performances by Gibson + Recoder. For information about the first edition, La Région Decentrale, click here. Part of a series of works collectively referred to as solid light films, Anthony McCall’s Line […]

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   1/13/18 // Soft Fiction @ Untitled Art Fair

   Posted January 2nd, 2018 in Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Soft Fiction @ Untitled Art Fair Saturday, January 13th, 2018 // 3:00pm Palace of Fine Arts // 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco $26.00 – Day Pass Facebook Event Presented as a part of UNTITLED, San Francisco. For a complete schedule of events, click here. “Chick Strand’s SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the […]

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   Now from Larry Gottheim: Chants and Dances for Hand

   Posted December 28th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Chants and Dances for Hand, Larry Gottheim’s exploration of Haitian Vodou, is now available to rent or purchase on DVD, or as a digital file for exhibition. Chants and Dances for Hand (2016 | 40 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) The material was shot in Haiti about 25 years ago. Some sections are formed out […]

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   Septuagenarian Collaborations now available on DVD

   Posted December 27th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   Jerry Orr and Gary Adlestein’s six-year joint project Septuagenarian Collaborations is now available on DVD for rental and sale. Septuagenarian Collaborations (2010-2016 | 49 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) By Gary Adlestein and Jerry Orr Three non-narrative tales based on literary classics (by way of 1950’s Classic Comics) and an experimental meditation on how fast, […]

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   Now available: Newt Pauses by Amy Halpern

   Posted December 26th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Amy Halpern’s biological study Newt Pauses is now available to rent on 16mm. Newt Pauses (2016 | 7.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Notopthalmus viridescens Endangered species on an endangered medium. The timing is unaltered, the animals’ own.

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    New print: James Broughton’s The Bed

    Posted December 20th, 2017 in New Acquisitions, News / Events
    

    A new print of James Broughton’s erotic counterculture classic The Bed is now available to rent–just in time for the film’s fiftieth anniversary! The Bed (1968 | 20 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) Camera, Bill Desloge; Music, Warner Jepson. “One of the most lyrically erotic of independent films, THE BED is a merry allegory which […]

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