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Canyon Cinema Foundation Canyon Cinema Foundation is an advocate for artist-made, independent films. Canyon is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Canyon Cinema Foundation is an advocate for independent moving-image media artists, dedicated to providing continued and meaningful access to the groundbreaking and innovative works in our collection. The Foundation manifests this commitment by:
- Nurturing scholarship and awareness with public programming at universities and cultural organizations worldwide.
- Partnering with other nonprofit organizations to further visibility of the works in the collection.
- Maintaining the quality of the collection by abiding to the highest standards of care and handling.
- Serving the artists we represent by providing resources that support preservation as well as the creation of new moving-image media that expands the boundaries and reception of cinema.

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Christopher Harris's b/w (2023)Shot on a single 100-foot roll of film and edited in-ca...
10/20/2026

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Christopher Harris's b/w (2023)

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 by reading the paint names aloud.

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/10/20/now-available-christopher-harriss-b-w/

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that digital exhibition files of Jane (1977/2025) and Pattern Impulse (1979), by th...
10/15/2026

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), and Today is Sunday (1987), previously available on 16mm film, to the collection.

In addition, we’re delighted to relay the news that Chicago Film Society has embarked on a new project to restore five of Sousa’s films on their original 16mm format, including Summer Medley (1977), Ellen on the Rope (1978), Pattern Impulse, What Am I Doing Here, and Swish, with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/10/15/now-available-jean-sousas-jane-and-pattern-impulse-additional-digital-files/

A sweet little notecard from Peter Hutton
10/14/2026

A sweet little notecard from Peter Hutton

Next Week!49 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality: The City Envisioned by Canyon Cinema 6:15pm Wednesday, Oct 14Roxie Thea...
10/09/2026

Next Week!

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

6:15pm Wednesday, Oct 14
Roxie Theater, San Francisco

Dominic Angerame, Zachary Epcar, Toney W. Merritt, and Linda Izcali Scobie in person!

In celebration of The Roxie Theater’s 50th year as an Arthouse, this program assembles films made by former and current Canyon staffers, offering manifold views of our shared Bay Area home. Urban landscapes familiar and defamiliarized; flipped upside down, reversed, layered, blurred, shrouded, screwed and glued, but unmistakably SF. Together, these irreverent depictions evince the city’s charm, complexity, and transformation across five decades.

Featuring work by: Dominic Angerame, Abigail Child, Zachary Epcar, Toney W. Merritt, Linda Izcali Scobie, David Sherman, and Charles Wright.

Program info & tickets: roxie.com/film/arthouse-50-49-square-miles-surrounded-by-reality-the-city-envisioned-by-canyon-cinema/

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Tommy Becker's De-escalation Tactics (2026)We are a species at war with our own narrat...
10/08/2026

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Tommy Becker's De-escalation Tactics (2026)

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.

Original soundtrack and visuals by Tommy Becker with spoken contributions from Reverend Billy (Church of Stop Shopping) and author Yuval Noah Harari.

canyoncinema.com/2026/10/02/now-available-tommy-beckers-de-escalation-tactics/

Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that Lynn Marie Kirby‘s 16mm installation C to C: Several Centuries After the Dou...
10/07/2026

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 titles that are new to the collection, as well as recent digitizations of nine 16mm films, and new digital files of Kirby’s Translation Series (1997-2003) and Latent Light Excavations Series (2003-2007).

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/10/06/now-available-lynn-marie-kirbys-c-to-c-plus-24-new-digital-files/

📣 We’re thrilled to announce that Canyon Cinema is the recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Arts Impact Endowmen...
10/06/2026

📣 We’re thrilled to announce that Canyon Cinema is the recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Arts Impact Endowment grant for FY26 as well as a Grants for the Arts (GFTA) General Operating Support grant for FY27! 🎉

The Arts Commission and Grants for the Arts recently announced a combined investment in the arts totaling over $25 million, supporting nearly 400 local artists and arts organizations.

This investment will directly support Canyon Cinema’s programs and operations over the next year, as we continue creating, connecting and contributing to San Francisco’s vibrant arts community. Learn more about our work at: www.canyoncinema.com

We’re grateful for this investment in our organization and in the city’s vibrant arts and cultural ecosystem. Thank you, SFAC and GFTA!

View the full list of FY26-27 grantees at: sf.gov/artscommission

Graphic courtesy of SFAC

I STILL AM: A WOMAN, PISSED-OFF AND CURIOUS, a new travel memoir by longtime Canyon artist member Su Friedrich, is now a...
10/05/2026

I STILL AM: A WOMAN, PISSED-OFF AND CURIOUS, a new travel memoir by longtime Canyon artist member Su Friedrich, is now available!

Published by Seven Stories Press, and featuring 175+ b&w photographs, drawings, and archival images, I STILL AM takes us on an intimate and visually rich autobiographical journey through Friedrich's personal journals and letters, showing her artistic influences, sense of humor, and flair for adventure as she describes a trip she took through West Africa in 1976 at the age of 21.

“This book is for/about every woman on every continent who still wants, or who still fights, to be free from the bu****it proffered by the patriarchy, and to all the women who have wandered the world to find the world.” — Su Friedrich

“A young le***an feminist’s casually daring, low-budget trip through Africa in the mid 1970s—that set an impressive filmmaking career on its path—has given birth decades later to a unique book, an eccentric collage of stunning photographs and detailed accounts of places, friends, encounters, and challenges. I STILL AM is honest, unembellished, empathetic, and impossible to summarize.” — Lucy R. Lippard

Info: sevenstories.com/books/4793-i-still-am

Upcoming Screening!49 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality: The City Envisioned by Canyon Cinema6pm Wednesday, October 14R...
09/29/2026

Upcoming Screening!

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

6pm Wednesday, October 14
Roxie Theater, San Francisco

Part of The Roxie’s Arthouse 50 series

Featuring work by: Dominic Angerame, Abigail Child, Zachary Epcar, Toney W. Merritt, Linda Izcali Scobie, David Sherman, and Charles Wright

In celebration of The Roxie Theater’s 50th year as an Arthouse, this program assembles films made by former and current Canyon staffers, offering manifold views of our shared Bay Area home. Urban landscapes familiar and defamiliarized; flipped upside down, reversed, layered, blurred, shrouded, screwed and glued, but unmistakably SF. Together, these irreverent depictions evince the city’s charm, complexity, and transformation across five decades.

Canyon Cinema is proud to partner with San Francisco Film Preserve on its inaugural Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration an...
09/23/2026

Canyon Cinema is proud to partner with San Francisco Film Preserve on its inaugural Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery, which opens tomorrow night at Roxie Theater!

A new digitization of ROSEBLOOD, by Canyon artist member Sharon Couzin, screens this Sunday, Sept 27 at 1:20pm, alongside Karen Sperling's THE WAITING ROOM, recently preserved by Block Cinema at The Block Museum Art

Karen Sperling in person!

ABOUT THE FILMS

Created by a 35-woman film crew working in the deserted wing of a psychiatric facility on Manhattan’s Ward Island, THE WAITING ROOM (1973) moves in constant flux through elliptical camerawork, tonal ambiguity, and genre-agnosticism. Against drab interiors, women share profound dreams with blasé serenity, dissecting the chameleon processes by which they protect or share their energies with men. Contemplating the many relational prerequisites for life fulfillment, THE WAITING ROOM accumulates dread in murmurs and non sequiturs on a path toward non-arrival. The film is punctuated by ringing phones, disquieting tableaus, and abiding humor.

In ROSEBLOOD (1974), legendary Chicago experimental filmmaker Sharon Couzin superimposes dancer Carolyn Chave Kaplan in a cresting wave of cities, gardens, and beachcomber treasure. ROSEBLOOD is a choppy symphony of exposure and knifework, a run with scissors toward feminine epiphany. Drama plays out as sliced interiority, stabbed worlds, and the frenzied suture of filmmaking. The film image convulses as fish-eye expansion and kaleidoscopic crushing while the music of Stockhausen and Enesco soundtracks glimmering gestures.

Program notes by Elise Schierbeek

Info & tickets: roxie.com/film/revision-the-waiting-room/

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