News / Events
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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 […]
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New Artist Member: Malic Amalya
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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!
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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New Artist Member: Jim Jennings
Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome the films of prolific New York filmmaker Jim Jennings to the collection. This major new acquisition includes 32 titles made between 1969 and 2008, all on 16mm. For a full list of the Jennings films currently in distribution at Canyon, see: https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=506 About Jim Jennings James Robertson Jennings, usually […]