News / Events
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New Artist Member: Jenni Olson
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome Jenni Olson to the collection! Jenni Olson is a queer film historian and archivist, writer, and non-fiction filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. Her two feature-length essay films — The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015) — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and, like her many short films, have screened internationally […]
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1/26/2024 – Cine-Espacios Book Release and Screening
Cine-Espacios Book Release and ScreeningFriday, January 26, 2024 @ 7pmArtists’ Television Access, San Francisco Cine-Espacios co-editor Tzutzu Matzin in person from Mexico City! To celebrate the publication of our latest Canyon Cinemazine issue, we are hosting a release party and screening at ATA in San Francisco’s Mission District. Years in the making, the bilingual, 200+ page […]
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1/18/2024 – Portraits and Short Visual Diaries: A Salon with Margaret Rorison
Portraits and Short Visual Diaries: A Salon with Margaret RorisonThursday, January 18, 2024 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Curated and introduced by Margaret Rorison “This selection of 10 short films celebrates the mobile nature of the 16mm camera, and the limitations of its mechanism that allow for true experimentation and play. The […]
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Announcing Print Generations: A Canyon Cinema Commissioning Project
Canyon Cinema Foundation invites applications for Print Generations, a new film commissioning project. Inspired by the 16mm Centenary (1923-2023), this project will support the production of four new 16mm films by an intergenerational cohort of Bay Area artists, comprising two current Canyon members and two non-members. The program is supported by the Owsley Brown III […]
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New Artist Member: Azian Nurudin
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the San Francisco-based artist Azian Nurudin to the collection! Azian Nurudin was born on Penang Island in Malaysia. She received a BA from Mills College in Oakland, California and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her works have been screened at film/video festivals, galleries, and museums throughout […]
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Job Posting: Cataloging Intern for Michael Wallin Collection
Canyon Cinema is currently seeking a Cataloging Intern to inventory, describe, and arrange our Michael Wallin paper collection. This is a paid, limited-term, part-time position to begin in January 2024. Work will take place onsite at Canyon Cinema’s office in the Bayview district of San Francisco. The ideal candidate will have working knowledge of library […]
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Now Available: Alexis Krasilovsky’s Nancy Spero: A Conversation with the Artist
Nancy Spero: A Conversation with the Artist (1991, 8 minutes, color, sound, digital file) One of the foremost political and feminist artists of our time, Nancy Spero talks about the Women Artists’ movement and images of women in her own work, during a 1989 retrospective at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York […]
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New Artist Member: Harry Smith
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the films of Harry Smith to the collection! “Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid 20th-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his […]
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New Artist Member: Gloria Chung
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome New York-based artist Gloria Chung to the collection! Gloria Chung’s films explore places “not down in any map”; liminal places defined by time, light, and memory. Her films have screened at festivals and galleries in the U.S. and internationally. Chung holds degrees from the University of Michigan (BA Anthropology) […]
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Now Available: 15 New Exhibition Files from Pat O’Neill
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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