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   Flow State: a reflection on film inspection and archiving @ Shapeshifters Cinema, April 12, 2026

   Posted April 2nd, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   Flow State: a reflection on film inspection and archiving 7pm Sunday, April 12 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Hosted by Autumn Armstrong Admission: $12 General / Discount for Friends of Canyon & Shapeshifters Members Event tickets here Flow State is a celebration of film inspection and archival work. Film archivist and library assistant Autumn Armstrong has curated this program […]

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   The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street @ Shapeshifters Cinema, March 13, 2026

   Posted February 18th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street 7pm Friday, March 13, 2026 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Admission: $14 General / Discount for Friends of Canyon & Shapeshifters Members Event tickets here NYC-based filmmaker Mark Street presents a program of recent short films rooted in the tradition of street photography. These films toggle between representation and abstraction […]

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   Now Available: New 16mm Preservation Print of Carolee Schneemann’s Plumb Line

   Posted January 29th, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Plumb Line (1972, 18 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) Breaking down, splitting apart, burning up: a relationship and the film itself. Edited from scrap diary footage shot in 8mm, hand printed as 16mm. PLUMB LINE is a moving and powerful subjective chronicle of the breaking up of a love relationship. The film is a devastating exorcism, […]

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   Now Available: Lawrence Jordan’s Dreamscape I

   Posted January 21st, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Dreamscape I (2025, 8 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) Is a series of scenes, dissolving one into another, each highly different, but held together by the irony and possibilities of dreams. They also have some of the aggressiveness of surrealism, and the lyricism of fairytale. We see goddesses and a blue boy on […]

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   Now Available: 16mm Print of Al Wong’s Screen, Projector & Film

   Posted December 16th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Screen, Projector & Film (1977, 14 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file) IMPORTANT:With this work, the primary experience is the concern. In order to exhibit this work, you need to have a screen with a three legged tripod base. You also need to fit the projected image perfectly on the screen. Also available: video […]

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   Now Available: Two New Films by Barron Sherer

   Posted September 5th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two new 16mm films by Barron Sherer are now available for rent. Barron Sherer is a Miami-based media artist with a background in moving image archival practice and research. Taking the form of hybrid film/video remediations and projection-based media installations, Sherer’s work focuses on repurposing and manipulating found […]

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   Now Available: Five Films by Anna Kipervaser

   Posted August 26th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five films by Anna Kipervaser, made between 2021 and 2023, are now available. Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and nonhuman animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a […]

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   Now Available: Michael Alexander Morris’s First Hermanubis: Initiation

   Posted June 17th, 2025 in New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
   

   First Hermanubis: Initiation (2023, 40 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file) First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic and the occult. This first episode focuses on the […]

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   Now Available: Two Stereoscopic 3D Films by Greta Snider

   Posted June 3rd, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that two stereoscopic 16mm films by Greta Snider are now available for rent. Please note that these dual projection films require a silver 3D type exhibition screen. Each film rental comes with linear polarizing filters for projectors, and audience polarizing glasses. Sound is played on a separate file. See […]

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    Now Available: Two Films by Raymond Rea

    Posted May 14th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
    

    Augmented (2025, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Augmented is an experimental non-fiction short, shot completely on 16mm, that analyzes the commonalities between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment. We are frightening because we’re the future. A Mile and A Half (2022, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The border between North Dakota and Minnesota is physically […]

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