News / Events
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4 new prints from Gordon Ball at Canyon !
Sitting (1977 | 2 minutes | COLOR | SILENT) Sitting meditation study. First work after I laid down camera seven years – thus newskin concentration on breath-body precise rhythm attention. Awards: Honorable Mention, North Carolina Film Festival, 1977; Third Int’l Avant-Garde Film Festival, London, 1978. Father Movie (1978 | 10 minutes | COLOR | SILENT ) Made spontaneously […]
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Sophie Michael’s The Watershow Extravaganza now available
Sophie Michael is a London based artist working across film, photography and installation. Her 16mm films examine ideas around nostalgia and innocence, drawing on early experimental filmmaking and mid-twentieth century design to question our relationship to the past through the lens of the present. We are pleased to offer The Watershow Extravaganza for rental on […]
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Two films from Mariah Garnett now available
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Mariah Garnett to the catalog. Garnett moves freely between documentary, narrative, and experimental modes to create cinematic allegories that codify and locate identity. Her films Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin and Signal are now available to rent. Encounters I May or May Not […]
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11/29/17 // Silence and Sanctuaries
Silence and Sanctuaries Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 // 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive // 2155 Center Street, Berkeley $12.00 General Admission / $7.00 BAMPFA Members Buy Tickets / Facebook Event add this event to your calendar Read the full press release for this event here. Nathaniel Dorsky in person. Nathaniel Dorsky served on Canyon’s […]
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Canyon Cinema welcomes Jodie Mack to the collection
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce the addition of fifteen films by Jodie Mack to the catalog. Jodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those […]
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New filmmaker at Canyon : Sandy Ding
In 2016 Canyon Cinema was delighted to welcome new filmmaker Sandy Ding to the catalog. Now three films on 16mm, one work on 35mm, and a new DVD collection issued by Re:Voir are available from Canyon. Sandy Ding is a experimental filmmaker from Beijing China. He graduated from CalArts Film and Video MFA in 2007, and […]
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11/16/17 // Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley: Short Films 1967-1973
Short Films 1967-1973 (Center of Gravity: Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley, program two) Thursday, November 16th, 2017 // 7:30 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts // 701 Mission Street, San Francisco $10.00 General Admission / $7.00 Cinematheque Members Buy Tickets / Facebook Event add this event to your calendar Presented in association with San […]
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11/1/17 // Coding and Decoding
Coding and Decoding Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 // 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive // 2155 Center Street, Berkeley $12.00 General Admission / $7.00 BAMPFA Members Buy Tickets / Facebook Event add this event to your calendar Read the full press release for this event here. Introduction by David Sherman. Dominic Angerame and Greta […]
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10/24/17 // Women Take Off
Women Take Off Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 // 7:30pm California College of the Arts // 1111 8th Street, San Francisco Free admission Presented in association with CCA Film’s Cinema Rendezvous Series. Read a full press release for this event here. This program is a collaboration between two curators, Tess Takahashi and Denah Johnston, each of whom have […]
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10/17/17 // Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob
Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 // 7:00pm San Francisco Art Institute // 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco $10.00 General Admission (free for Cinematheque members and SFAI students, staff and faculty) Facebook Event Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Art Institute’s Graduate Lecture Series. Part of SF Cinematheque’s fall series Center […]

