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Now Available: New Prints and Digital Files from James Otis

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the addition of seven films by longtime artist member James Otis to the collection. This new deposit includes five films made between 1990 and 1995 on Super 8, and subsequently transferred to 16mm or digital video, as well as 1979’s No Art of Memory and 2003’s The Last Bite. […]

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Now Available: Christopher Harris’s b/w

b/w (2023, 3 minutes, b&w, silent with audience participation for sound, 16mm or digital file) Shot on a single 100-foot roll of film and edited in-camera, b/w uses close focus cinematography of text from commercial house paint samples to suggest a mythology of light and shadow. The audience is asked to participate during the screening […]

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Rock Ross: Go Like This @ The Roxie, Nov 11

Rock Ross: Go Like This … and other “frivolous and socially irresponsible films” 6pm Wednesday, November 11, 2026 The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Presented by Canyon Cinema Event tickets here Rock Ross in person! “Film as art has no bounds… For me its potential is as exciting as pure white noise.” – Rock Ross Canyon at […]

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Now Available: Jean Sousa’s Jane and Pattern Impulse + Additional Digital Files

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that digital exhibition files of Jane (1977/2025) and Pattern Impulse (1979), by the Chicago-based artist Jean Sousa, are now available. Along with these two titles that are new to the catalog, we’ve added new digital files of Sousa’s The Circus (1977), What Am I Doing Here (1978), Swish (1982), […]

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Now Available: Lynn Marie Kirby’s C to C, Plus 24 New Digital Files

Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that Lynn Marie Kirby‘s 16mm installation C to C: Several Centuries After the Double Slit Experiment (1995) and new digital files of 24 of Kirby’s film and video works, spanning the years 1976 to 2025, are now available. This major deposit by the longtime Canyon artist member includes 14 […]

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Now Available: Tommy Becker’s De-escalation Tactics

De-escalation Tactics (2026, 11.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) We are a species at war with our own narratives. The stories and structures we inherit – political, cultural and ecological have become traps, cycling us through conflict rather than carrying us forward. De-Escalation Tactics is a thematic-visual-song-cycle that sits inside this tension, contemplating alternative pathways. […]

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Now Available: Emily Chao’s 100 Years

100 Years (2023, 3 minutes, color, silent,16mm) An exercise in patience; made hastily while in love with an AI bot who tried but couldn’t love me back. Some mistakes were made. Commissioned by Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive for Century of 16mm, marking the 100-year anniversary of non-flammable 16mm safety motion picture film.

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New Artist Member: Amy Reid

Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Amy Reid to the collection! Amy Reid is a filmmaker whose work examines the intersections between gender, national identity, and labor. Exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid’s work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form through feature length films, […]

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New Board Member: TT Takemoto

Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome TT Takemoto to our Board of Directors! TT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American artist and scholar exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Their work delves into hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and trauma existing within Asian and Asian American archives. A Canyon artist member since 2023 and […]

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Now Available: New Digitization of Scott Bartlett’s Moon 1969

Moon 1969 (1969, 15 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) “The interrelated convolutions and spasms of image, color, and sound that filmmaker Bartlett creates is the cumulative effect of his pioneer work using negative images, polarization, television techniques, computer-film, and electronic patterns all compressed into a visual punch that directs one where he normally […]

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New Artist Member: Linda Izcali Scobie

Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Linda Izcali Scobie and her work to the collection! Linda Izcali Scobie is a filmmaker, programmer, and projectionist living in San Francisco. Her films have been exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals and venues such as LA Film Forum, Antimatter, Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City, XCENTRIC […]

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Now Available: C Applewhaite’s I AM THE WORLD + let me breathe

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that C Applewhaite‘s I AM THE WORLD (2022) and let me breathe (2021) are now available. I AM THE WORLD screens at London’s Barbican Centre on July 30th, as part of videoclub’s UK touring program Selected 16. The program includes artists nominated by those shortlisted for the Film London […]

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Now Available: Greta Snider’s In the Maritime Frequencies

In the Maritime Frequencies (2025, 16 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file or DCP) “We’ll remember the earth as if it were a dream.” This film is an exploration of the coastal landscapes of San Francisco, using darkroom developers made from the solutions of our times — bay water, hand sanitizer and “safe” detergent […]

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Now Available: New 2K Digitizations of Three Films by Robert Nelson (and Friends)

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new high-resolution digital files of three films by Robert Nelson, including collaborations with William T. Wiley and Mike Henderson, are now available. These 2K digitizations of The Off Handed Jape (1967), Worldly Woman (1973), and Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley […]

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Now Available: New Preservation Prints and 2K Digitizations of Michael Wallin’s Black Sheep Boy and Decodings

Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that the initial phase of our multi-faceted Michael Wallin restoration project is now complete. Thanks to the support of a National Film Preservation Foundation – Avant-Garde Masters Grant, new 16mm preservation prints and 2K digitizations of Wallin’s landmark autobiographical essays Decodings (1988) and Black Sheep Boy (1995) are now available from Canyon Cinema. […]

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New Artist Member: Ayanna Dozier

Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Ayanna Dozier‘s work to the collection! Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental and narrative film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. Her current research and artwork examine how transactional intimacy (like sex work) redistributes care from the private sector into the public, social politics […]

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