News & Events
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Sketch Films #1-5 + Clear Blue Sky
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Tomonari Nishikawa’s Super 8 Sketch Film series (2005-2007) is now available. “As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa explains, “I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public […]
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Canyon Cinema presents Single Spark Film: We Are the Palestinian People, April 14, 2026
Single Spark Film: We Are the Palestinian People 6:30pm Tuesday, April 14 The Roxie Theater, San Francisco Presented by Canyon Cinema Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon Members Event tickets here Canyon at The Roxie returns with a look at the timely activist cinema of Single Spark Film. Emerging from the San Francisco-based […]
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An Evening with Sky Hopinka @ Slash, April 4, 2026
An Evening with Sky Hopinka 7pm Saturday, April 4 Slash, 1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco Co-presented by Canyon Cinema with Slash and San Francisco Cinematheque Free event with limited capacity Register here (registration not required but appreciated) Slash’s exhibition Sonic Transmissions (January 10 – April 18, 2026) explores and highlights the sonic aspects of Sky Hopinka’s artistic […]
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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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Now Available: Jennifer Reeves’s When It Was Blue + Additional Titles from Re:Voir
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Re:Voir’s recent Blu-ray release, Jennifer Reeves: When It Was Blue, Selected Works 1992-2022, is now in stock. The collection features 10 of Reeves’s stunning handcrafted films, newly remastered, as well as a 40-page booklet in English & French with texts by Michael Sicinski and Laura Staab. Contents: When It Was Blue (2008, […]
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The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street @ Shapeshifters Cinema, March 13, 2026
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: Lawrence Jordan’s Dreamscape I
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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Print Generations – Premiere Screening @ SFMOMA, Feb 22
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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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: Three New Titles from Alexis Krasilovsky
The Celery Saga (2025, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital file) A micro videopoem in haiku addressing injustices to veggies. (We’re all in hot water.) INDIGESTION (2025, 1 minute, color, sound, digital file) A micro videopoem about a rotten orange. Best Gal in the West (1992, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file) This is a music […]
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