16mm

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   Now Available: Three New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky

   Posted September 20th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Three new 16mm portrait films by Nathaniel Dorsky, including: Caracole (for Izcali) (2023, 17.5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm, 18fps) In the last few years I have been making a series of cinematic portraits of young filmmaking friends acting as collaborators in portraiture. There is always a surprise as to what the […]

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   Now Available: Stephanie Barber’s Another Horizon

   Posted August 30th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Another Horizon (Stephanie Barber, 2020, 9 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) the horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, is a promised place where these two elements come together. a metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence. a place where the corporeal and spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart. here, […]

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   Now Available: Four New Films from Nathaniel Dorsky

   Posted June 21st, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Now available from Canyon Cinema: Four new 16mm films by Nathaniel Dorsky made over the past year, including: Place d’Or (2023, 10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, 18fps) A rainy autumn afternoon at North Lake in Golden Gate Park. Perhaps the “Square of Gold” is also the screen itself. – N.D. Dialogues (2022, 17.5 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, […]

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   Now Available: Abigail He’s Measuring 500 Feet

   Posted June 13th, 2023 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   Measuring 500 Feet (Abigail He, 2021, 14 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm) Medium: 16mm filmDimensions: 500 ft. x 5/8 in. x 1/128 in. (15240 x 1.6 x .02 cm) overall: 547 ft. x 5/8 in. x 1/128 in. (16672.6 x 1.6 x .02 cm)

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   Now Available: Four New Titles from Raymond Rea

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

   Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the availability of four new titles from Raymond Rea. A filmmaker and writer, Rea’s work often challenges assumptions, hints at theatricality, and uses a raw LoFi aesthetic to address complexities. His films have screened widely including at the Ann Arbor Film Festival; Light Field, San Francisco; San Francisco International […]

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   Spotlight on Alee Peoples @ The Roxie, May 6 & 7, 2023

   Posted May 4th, 2023 in Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

   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 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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   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: 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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