Canyon Cinema

Independent, Avant-Garde, Experimental, and Artist-made Films

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Calling all Canyon Cinema filmmakers, board members, staff members, interns, volunteers, and enthusiasts, past and present!

In recognition of our 65th year, we invite brief personal reflections on the organization’s history, community, and impact.

Info: https://t.co/7rpk7WdFnh

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Program info & tickets: https://t.co/70ZQtUiRgV

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Upcoming Screening!

49 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality:
The City Envisioned by Canyon Cinema

6pm Wednesday, October 14
@roxietheater, San Francisco

Part of The Roxie’s Arthouse 50 series

Images: Cable Car Melody (Charles Wright, 1986)

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Info and tickets: https://t.co/rSa9ivIiJu

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Canyon Cinema is proud to partner with SF Film Preserve on its inaugural Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery!

ROSEBLOOD (1974), by Canyon artist member Sharon Couzin, screens with Karen Sperling's THE WAITING ROOM (1973) this Sunday, Sept 27 at 1:20pm @roxietheater

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Program info & tickets: https://t.co/kYZKC5A2WD

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This weekend! @AnthologyFilm presents the first extensive East Coast retrospective devoted to Toney W. Merritt's 16mm films + digital video work

The three-part series spans 50+ years, with Q&As moderated by Peggy Ahwesh, @mayascade, @jasminprix, @LynneSachs1, and David Sherman

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safe passage to Patricio Guzmán

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Images: Swing Swish Sway (TT Takemoto, 2026, 7 min); Bay Area Sampler Quilt (Amy Reid, 2026, 10 min); Flow Attachment (Tijana Petrović, 2026, 9 min). Courtesy of the artists.

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This Saturday!

Canyon Cinema's Print Generations
Indexical, Santa Cruz
7pm (doors at 6:30)

Tijana Petrović, Amy Reid, and TT Takemoto in person!

Co-presented by Canyon Cinema

Info & tickets: https://t.co/LNTMcpbShS

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A delight to share: CINEINFINITO presents films by Nathaniel Dorsky in Santander, Spain, on Monday, September 21 at 18:00, as part of Puntos de Fuga 2026.
Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo
Free admission, until capacity. https://t.co/NkFcu7nPko

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Now Available from Canyon: Emily Chao's 100 YEARS (2023, 3 min)

"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." (EC)

Our Benevolent Benefactor members will be receiving a print of the film soon!

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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A YOUNG WOMAN (City Point Press), a new novel by longtime Canyon artist member Alexis Krasilovsky, is now available!

The novel follows an aspiring woman filmmaker navigating forces that threaten to redirect or diminish her work.

https://t.co/lJV5upGrz3

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Images: Black Seas (Erin Weisgerber, 2026); Projectionist Please Focus (Linda Izcali Scobie, 2026); Swing Swish Sway (TT Takemoto, 2026); A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth (Rajee Samarasinghe, 2026)

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Canyon Cinema is proud to partner with @SFCinematheque on CROSSROADS 2026!

Program 3 — "we name no heroes" screens 2:30pm Saturday, Sept 5 @GrayAreaorg, San Francisco

Info & tickets: https://t.co/D5vr5pdh78

#XRDS26

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Nathaniel’s Arboretum Cycle (2017, 137 min) may sell out at the @BAMPFA .
A rare screening of the entire #ArboretumCycle will take place on Saturday, August, 29th at 3 pm in the afternoon at the Berkeley Art Museum.
https://t.co/cCotWaWMl3 #analogfilm #dorskyfilmscreening

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Image: Original Canyon Cinema "Exothematic Man" logo, by Bruce Baillie

[Canyon Cinema @canyoncinema]

Calling all Canyon Cinema filmmakers, board members, staff members, interns, volunteers, and enthusiasts, past and present!

In recognition of our 65th year, we invite brief personal reflections on the organization’s history, community, and impact.

Info: https://t.co/7rpk7WdFnh

[Canyon Cinema @canyoncinema]

Images (courtesy of the artist): Amy Reid; Bay Area Sampler Quilt (2026, 9.5 min); The Saguache Crescent (2025, 7.5 min).

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Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome Amy Reid's work to the collection!

Exploring observational approaches & expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure & narrative, Reid’s projects question how labor is constructed in the filmic form.

https://t.co/1WN8Ajztzf

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Images: The Off Handed Jape (Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley, 1967, 8 min); Moon 1969 (Scott Bartlett, 1969, 15 min); Crystal Palace (Linda Izcali Scobie, 2024, 8.5 min)

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#NowStreaming

CANYON CINEMA: RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Summer 2026

Featuring films and videos by: C Applewhaite, Scott Bartlett, Coni Beeson, Brice Bowman, Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley, Margaret Rorison, James Sansing, and Linda Izcali Scobie

🔗 https://t.co/tUYFwxNHDE