Print Generations

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    Now Available: TT Takemoto’s For Jina and Swing Swish Sway

    Posted June 22nd, 2026 in News / Events

    For Jina (2024, 3 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Honoring the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and the legacy of Mahsa Amini, known as “Jina.” Swing Swish Sway (2026, 7 minutes, color, sound, digital file or DCP) “Inspired by Rosalie ‘Rose’ Bamberger (1921-1990), the mixed-race Filipina American paintbrush maker and co-founder of the Daughters of Bilitis […]

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    New Artist Member: Tijana Petrović

    Posted April 22nd, 2026 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Tijana Petrović‘s work to the collection! Tijana Petrović is a filmmaker and artist born and raised in the former Yugoslavia. Her moving image work includes nonfiction films, and film and video installations which use landscape as a framework to observe and question our relationships to history, place and the natural […]

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    Print Generations – Premiere Screening @ SFMOMA, Feb 22

    Posted January 15th, 2026 in Announcements, Events and Screenings, New Films, News / Events

    Print Generations – Premiere Screening! 2pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free with RSVP Canyon Cinema’s inaugural film commissioning project! Borrowing its title from J.J. Murphy’s astounding structural showpiece, Print Generation (1974), and inspired by the centennial of 16mm film (1923–2023), Print Generations was conceived to support analog-based filmmaking in the Bay […]

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    Introducing the Print Generations Cohort!

    Posted March 5th, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events

    Inspired by the 16mm Centenary (1923-2023), Print Generations is a new Canyon Cinema commissioning project that will support the production of four new 16mm films by the following cohort of Bay Area filmmakers! Celina Jade de Leon is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker from the Bay Area. She embraces feminine irreverence through multimedia depictions of mischievous characters. She has a […]

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    Announcing Print Generations: A Canyon Cinema Commissioning Project

    Posted January 4th, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events

    Canyon Cinema Foundation invites applications for Print Generations, a new film commissioning project. Inspired by the 16mm Centenary (1923-2023), this project will support the production of four new 16mm films by an intergenerational cohort of Bay Area artists, comprising two current Canyon members and two non-members. The program is supported by the Owsley Brown III […]

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