News & Events
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Now Available: Gloria Chung’s Dark Light
Dark Light (2025, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Regarding the Sun, dead images, sound and etymologies. “DARK LIGHT: the dim cloud of light that is experienced in complete darkness, owing to the spontaneous activity of neurons in the visual system.”
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Lumphini 2552 (35mm)
Lumphini 2552 (2009, 3 minutes, b&w, sound, 35mm) This work was shot with a still camera in Lumphini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. The home-developed film projects the organic patterns present in the memorial park onto the screen, creating a rhythmic yet emotional tempo. At the same time, the images captured by the still camera are […]
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Announcing Cine-Gastronomy: A cinematic culinary soirée and holiday gathering at 500 Capp Street, Dec 6
Cine-Gastronomy: An Evening of Taste, Tones, and Moving Images 5–8pm Saturday, December 6, 2025 500 Capp Street, San Francisco Event tickets here Cine-Gastronomy brings together Bay Area artists and filmmakers for a sensorial evening hosted by 500 Capp Street, Canyon Cinema, and Southern Exposure, celebrating experimental cinema, culinary imagination, and performance. Guests will experience a breathtaking live performance by Roco Córdova and an […]
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Call to Action: The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Canyon Cinema present Films for Freedom
Please join The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Canyon Cinema in support of Fall of Freedom – an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. This fall, our two organizations are reaching out together to the experimental film and media community to be part of a nationwide wave […]
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Now Available: Three Films by Tommy Becker
The Shape of Things to Come (2025, 20 minutes, color, sound, digital file) The Shape of Things to Come is a six-chapter art rock film that delves into themes of nostalgia for the future, uncertainties of technological progress, and the quest for authentic human connection. Through original songwriting, poetry, performance art, and insights of Terence […]
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Lynne Sachs presents The Washing Society + Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry @ Shapeshifters Cinema, Nov 11, 2025
Lynne Sachs presents The Washing Society + Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry 7pm Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by the Friends of Canyon Cinema Admission: $10 (discount for Shapeshifters members; free for Friends of Canyon) Event tickets here NYC-based filmmaker Lynne Sachs joins us for a deep, poetic dive into laundry—an area of […]
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New Artist Member: Kelly Gallagher
Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Kelly Gallagher and her work to the collection! Kelly Gallagher is a filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital award for her feature experimental documentary, By All Your Memories. Her handcrafted films and commissioned animations have screened at […]
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Intimate Politics: Carolee Schneemann, Gunvor Nelson, JoAnn Elam @ The Roxie, Oct 22, 2025
Intimate Politics: Carolee Schneemann, Gunvor Nelson, JoAnn Elam 6:15pm Wednesday, October 22, 2025The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Rachel Churner in person! Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon Members Event tickets here Canyon Cinema and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation present the West Coast premiere of newly restored 16mm prints of Schneemann’s Plumb Line and Viet-Flakes, in a program of […]
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Now Available: New Digitization of Tom Palazzolo’s Love It/Leave It
Love It/Leave It (1973, 15 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “Love It/Leave It is a raucous treatment of patriotic color, football, nudity and parades set to a refrain of ‘Love It’ and coalescing into Tom Palazzolo’s nightmare rendition of America the Awful. It sounds the theme song of this program [at the Whitney] […]
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Now Available: Two New Films by Barron Sherer
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: New Digitization of Deborah Stratman’s In Order Not to Be Here
In Order Not to Be Here (2002, 33 minutes, color/b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file or DCP) An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect […]
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Now Available: Five Films by Anna Kipervaser
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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Mike Henderson: Trouble in Mind @ SFMOMA, Aug 24, 2025
Mike Henderson: Trouble in Mind Sunday, August 24, 2025 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Screening: 2pm, Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater Music: 3:45 pm, Floor 2, Koret Education Center Mike Henderson in person! Free with RSVP This program is presented by Canyon Cinema in collaboration with SFMOMA and co-presented by MoAD. Related Exhibition: People Make This Place: SFAI […]
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Now Available: Paige Taul’s Full Contact
Full Contact (Paige Taul, 2024, 6.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) “Blending found footage with oral interviews, Full Contact offers a personal dive into an unseen student’s spiritual and bodily relationship with Judo. Also featured is the student’s sensei, who discusses their philosophical understanding of Judo.” — Denny Mwuara Interviews provided by Mandela Hudson and Hollis Barnett. […]
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Now Available: Two Stereoscopic 3D Films by Greta Snider
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: Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking about All My Life, by Guy Sherwin, David Sherman, and Rebecca Barten
Bruce Baillie at Total Mobile Home Talking about All My Life (Guy Sherwin, David Sherman and Rebecca Barten, 1995/2024, 3.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) With: Rebecca Barten, David Sherman, Guy Sherwin, Barbara Meter, Ross Lipman, Brian Frye, Mark Wilson and others Camera: Most of the above and Bruce Baillie Concept: Guy Sherwin, Rebecca Barten, […]
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Now Available: Three 16mm Films by LeAnn Bartok
Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new 16mm prints of three films by LeAnn Bartok are now available. This new acquisition includes two of Bartok’s renowned Skyworks films, as well as her final film, Film Painting I. A pioneering conceptual visionary artist, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, actress, and inventor (U.S. patent liquid crystal), LeAnn […]
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Now Available: New Digitizations of Five Films by Sharon Couzin
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new digitizations of five films by Sharon Couzin are now available! Sharon Couzin (1943-2019) was a Chicago experimental filmmaker, painter, and poet who began making films in the early 1970s. Her work is known for its complex visual layering that reflects a personal, autobiographical point of view. The […]
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Now Available: Jerome Hiler’s Careless Passage
Careless Passage (Jerome Hiler, 2024, 20 minutes, color, silent, 16mm or digital file or DCP) Wandering through the ordinary sights of day and night. How, in this vast cosmos, did all this happen? We live in a world of constant transformations. Somehow, aeons ago, consciousness came about. I’m often drawn to think of the earliest […]
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Introducing the Print Generations Cohort!
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 […]
Spotlight on Wenhua Shi
the Rose
The Rose, Shi's most recent experimental piece, alters the space, where a newly planted rose is overgrown through iron fence.... More »