News / Events
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New Artist Member: TT Takemoto
Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome the San Francisco-based artist TT Takemoto to the collection! TT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American filmmaker exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Their experimental films delve into hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and trauma that exist within Asian and Asian American archives. Takemoto interacts with found footage […]
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Now in Stock: Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!
Now available on Canyon Cinema’s online store: A new publication on the work and life of acclaimed Bay Area filmmaker and longtime Canyon artist member Craig Baldwin! Meticulously detailed, with contributions from over 50 writers, artists, illustrators, and ideologues, Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! is the first critical text to examine the artist’s films analytically as a […]
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Now Available: Louise Bourque’s Bye Bye Now
Bye Bye Now (2022, 9.5 minutes, color, sound, 35mm or DCP) The very gesture of waving HELLO to the movie camera in itself (re)presents a recurring GOODBYE to a fleeting moment. Made in homage to my father, this film traces past lives lived in these personal 8mm family archives he left me.
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Now Available: 12 Exhibition Files from Ben Russell
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce a major new deposit of digital files from Ben Russell. Included amongst this acquisition are 9 titles that are new to Canyon’s catalog (see below), as well as exhibition files for three films that were previously only available on 16mm: Black and White Trypps Number Three, Trypps #5 (Dubai), […]
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Now Available: Priyanka Das’s Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden
Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden (2023, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Suspended in moments When our surroundings (aka nature) are an extension of our internal landscapes Forming, rapturous Conversing to re-connect Declaration, involved, a state of “ACTIVE BEING”
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Spotlight on Alee Peoples @ The Roxie, May 6 & 7, 2023
Spotlight on Alee Peoples Co-presented by Film on Film Foundation, Canyon Cinema, and SF Cinematheque Saturday, May 6 @ 4pm & Sunday, May 7 @ 1pm The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Program info & tickets: roxie.com/film/spotlight-on-alee-peoples/ “We welcome Peoples up from Los Angeles to present her complete body of 16mm films along with selections from the Canyon Cinema collection. Alee’s films are brim-ful of bold gestures, pointedly […]
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New Artist Member: Margaret Rorison
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome the Baltimore-based filmmaker, projectionist, educator, and curator Margaret Rorison to the collection! Rorison’s work aims to support and preserve contemporary filmmakers and film culture. Her current work focuses on portraiture, memory, and the precarity and beauty of nature. Her work has been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, Miami PULSE […]
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Now in Stock: Three New Blu-rays from Black Zero
Founded by Canyon artist member Stephen Broomer, Black Zero is a new multimedia publisher specializing in Canadian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present. Black Zero’s first three releases – Palace of Pleasure by John Hofsess, Everything Everywhere Again Alive by Keith Lock, and Strange Codes by Arthur Lipsett – are now available for individual-use […]
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New Artist Members: John and James Whitney
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
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 […]