News / Events

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   New Artist Members: John and James Whitney

   Posted March 14th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to welcome the films of John and James Whitney to the collection! John Whitney (1917-1995) is considered one of the fathers of computer animation. His works include the opening title sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo (1958), which is a collaboration work with Saul Bass; Catalogue (1961), assembled record of visual […]

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   3/14/2023 – Dispersed Renderings: A Salon with Patricia Ledesma Villon

   Posted March 6th, 2023 in Announcements, Canyon Cinema Salon, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Dispersed Renderings: A selection of Bay Area works from the Canyon Cinema collection Tuesday, March 14, 2023 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Curated by Patricia Ledesma Villon Familiar sights and inhabitants materialize and depart from the region known as the San Francisco Bay Area; we start anew while certain constants remain. Connections […]

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   New Artist Member: Malic Amalya

   Posted March 1st, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Boston-based filmmaker Malic Amalya to the collection! Malic Amalya (b. 1980 – Burlington, VT) is a white, transgender filmmaker working across 16mm, video, and performance. His films are situated between formal avant-garde traditions, the anti-assimilation subculture of queercore, and intersectional feminism. His creative framework is informed by prison […]

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   Now Available: Rajee Samarasinghe’s Agantukayan / Strangers

   Posted February 24th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Agantukayan / Strangers (2022, 11 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file or DCP) As a child, my mother was sent away to live with other relatives for a number of years, away from her own parents and siblings. This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s […]

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   3/3/2023 – Canyon Cinema’s Cine-Espacios x ¡Viva el cine!

   Posted February 21st, 2023 in Canyon Cinemazine, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings
   

   Canyon Cinema’s Cine-Espacios Co-presented with CAFILM Education as part of ¡Viva el cine! Friday, March 3, 2023 @ 7:30pm Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, CA Program Info & Tickets: cfieducation.cafilm.org/viva/ In collaboration with CAFILM Education’s ¡Viva el cine! mini-festival taking place this March 2-4, Canyon Cinema presents a special glimpse of experimental cinema in […]

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   Now Available: Five Works by Lawrence Jordan

   Posted February 13th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Five works by Lawrence Jordan, spanning 1956 to 2022. This new acquisition includes Jordan’s latest 16mm cut-out animation, Harper’s Bazar (2022), 2021’s Alchemy, 2007’s Silent Sonata, as well as new digitizations of two early films from the 1950s: the psychodrama Three (1956) and the collage film Minerva Looks Out Into […]

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   Now Available: Three Works by Al Wong

   Posted February 10th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three works by Al Wong, including the expanded cinema pieces Screen, Projector & Film (1977) and Puddle (1982), as well as a new video, Paper Sister (2023). Paper Sister (Al Wong, 2023, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) This work is a response to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was […]

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   Now Available: Stephanie Barber’s oh my homeland

   Posted February 9th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Stephanie Barber‘s oh my homeland, a minimalist, single-shot portrait of the renowned African American soprano Leontyne Price. In addition, we’ve also added exhibition files of eight of Barber’s 16mm films to Canyon’s digital collection, including: 3 peonies (2017), the parent trap (2017), Catalog (2005), Total Power, dead dead dead (2005), […]

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   Announcing New Streaming Partnership with Projectr EDU

   Posted December 16th, 2022 in Announcements, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is excited to collaborate with our friends at Grasshopper Film on their new Projectr EDU streaming service! Partnering with the New York Public Library and educational institutions across North America, the free platform features nearly 1000 independent and artist-made films, archival restorations, and documentaries.  A sampling of these films includes over 100 titles from Canyon’s collection; the complete restored films of pioneering […]

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    Canyon Cinema Supports the ExFM Graduate Student Essay Award!

    Posted December 13th, 2022 in Announcements, News / Events
    

    Canyon Cinema is proud to support the inaugural ExFM Graduate Student Essay Award competition! ExFM is the Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS); a forum for scholars and students interested in all forms of experimental film and media, to meet, share ideas and resources, and […]

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