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Eye on a Director: Canyon Cinema

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 06/07/2016 - 15:22

For the second installment of Eye on a Director, MAD highlights the collection of the legendary film distributor and archive Canyon Cinema. In the late 1950s, Canyon Cinema brought together independent film artists whose work reflected a remarkable diversity in style and content. Variously called avant-garde, underground and experimental, these artists shared a vision of filmmaking as a form of personal expression, free from the demands and constraints of commercial conventions.
Dates:
Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 8, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 15, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 22, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 29, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 4, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 5, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 12, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 19, 2016 - 18:55
Venue:
Museum of Arts and Design - ,
Bruce Baillie Kickstarter project

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 28/04/2016 - 07:41
Preserving Bruce Baillie’s films and legacy: With the publication of a book and a touring retrospective of Bruce Baillie’s films, the project's goal is to share work that constitutes one of the most influential voices in avant-garde cinema. This touring retrospective and bilingual (Spanish/English) book will contribute to wider recognition of Bruce Baillie’s amazing films and expose new generations of filmmakers and film lovers in the US and abroad.

We are planning an international film tour that launched at the Film Society of the Lincoln Center this April. The touring retrospective will travel to Spain (CCCB, La Casa Encendida, Tabakalera), the UK (Tate Modern), Mexico City (Distrital Film Festival) and many cities in the US including Washington D.C., San Francisco/Oakland, Boston, Los Angeles and more this year and in 2017.
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General news
Canyon Cinema Salon: Sandra Davis

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 17/02/2014 - 05:57

Canyon Cinema Foundation is proud to announce its new public programming adventure – the Canyon Cinema Salon. An opportunity for dialogue and exploration, these monthly events are designed as a platform for the community to directly engage and learn from moving image artists in an intimate setting. Artists will have an open forum to present work from their repertoire, discuss creative process, and share their inspirations. Free, open to the public and volunteer run, the Salon series is hosted by New Nothing Cinema (16 Sherman Street, downtown San Francisco).

Join us for the inaugural Canyon Cinema Salon on Monday, February 24th featuring San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker and curator Sandra Davis. She will present a contrasting duo that demonstrate differing avenues of motivation and inspiration in her practice – Ignorance Before Malice (2006, excerpt), a blistering essay film that sheds light on the struggle to heal within the American medical system and coming to terms with one’s own physical limitations and mortality; along with a very personal, short, ode-like work For A Young Cineaste / A Une Jeune Cineaste (2014) which blissfully travels into another, and private, direction.

Dates:
Monday, February 24, 2014 - 19:00 to Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 18:55
Venue:
New Nothing Cinema - San Francisco, United States
Canyon Cinema: Important Message to the Film Community

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 31/03/2011 - 03:12
To the Film Community:

This is a very serious letter. It was emailed to our filmmaker members and we would like to share this with the larger community. It concerns the survival of Canyon Cinema. As most of you probably know, film rentals over the past few years have been steadily declining. This is a result of the proliferation of digital media. Many of Canyon’s major filmmakers who have brought substantial income to the organization have now made their work available in digital formats. Many of our renters, especially in universities, no longer have access to adequate film projection. Often after the purchase of a DVD, instructors of cinema studies continue to use the digital media and forsake the renting of the original 16mm prints. This is partly due to their own dwindling rental budgets and the lack of well functioning projectors.

Read the full letter at Canyon Cinema's website.
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General news
Canyon Cinema Screening March 20, 2009

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 14/03/2009 - 04:09
New Improved Institutional Qualities..
A showcase of preserved films distributed by Canyon Cinema
Sponsored by Ninth Street Independent Film Center

March 20, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
$10 admission, at Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street at Minna in San Francisco.

- Stan Brakhage's Riddle of Lumen (1972, 16mm, color, silent, 13.5 min.)
Preserved by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Saul Levine
- Note to Pati (1969, 16mm, color, silent, 8 min., 18fps)
- Note to Colleen (1974, 16mm, color, silent, 5 min., 18fps)
Restoration 16mm blows-ups of 8mm films by the National Film Preservation Foundation, Anthology Film Archives and BB Optics.

Jules Engel
- Train Landscape (1974, 16mm, color, sound, 3 min.)
- Silence (1968, 16mm, color, silent, 3 min.)
- Shapes & Gestures (1976, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min.)
Preservation by IotaCenter and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Adam Beckett
- Flesh Flows (1974, 16mm, color, sound, 6 min.)
- Sausage City (1974, 16mm, color, sound, 5 min.)
- Dear Janice (1972, 16mm, color, sound, 15 min.)
Preservation by IotaCenter and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

- Paul Sharits' T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968, 16mm, color, sound, 12 min.)
Preservation by Anthology Film Archives.

Curated by Lauren Sorensen.

About Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema has been distributing and presenting the personal 16mm and Super 8mm prints of independent filmmakers around the world for close to 50 years. An organization moving in new directions, Canyon is pleased to present a showcase of films gleaning from that 50 year history. In tonight's program, the gamut of this extraordinary work is represented; from the unsung psychedelic animator to the most celebrated avant-garde filmmaker, no stone goes unturned in the good work performed by these moving image archives.

For more information, please contact Lauren Sorensen ([email protected]) or Dominic Angerame ([email protected]) or call 415-626-2255
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Events
Canyon Cinema publishes Bruce Baillie DVD

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 15/12/2008 - 21:31
Canyon Cinema has just released the first volume of a 5 DVD collection compiling the film works of Bruce Baillie. The DVD is only available in a limited signed & numbered edition of 100 copies for 50$ for home use or 300$ for institutions. The copy numbered #1 will be a special gold DVD contaning extra material that will be sold to the highest bidder and its proceeds will be destinated to a collaborative project.

This first volume includes the films Tung (1966, 16mm, col + b&w, silent, 5 min), Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964, 16mm, b&w, sound, 24 min), Valentin de las Sierras (1967, 16mm, col, sound, 10 min), Castro Street (1966, 16mm, col, sound, 10 min), and All My Life (1966, 16mm, col, sound, 3 min), all of them in newly restored versions.
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Releases
Canyon Cinema: A celebration with Scott MacDonald

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 11/11/2008 - 02:25
Canyon Cinema presents a celebration with Scott MacDonald and (possibly) Bruce Baillie in person!

Sponsored by Ninth Street Independent Film Center & Canyon Cinema
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