Canyon Cinema Foundation

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 orga

nizations 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.

CANYON CINEMA: RECENT ACQUISITIONS Summer 2026 Featuring films and videos by: C Applewhaite, Scott Bartlett, Coni Bees...
08/22/2026


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

🔗 vimeo.com/ondemand/ccfaug2026

08/20/2026

CANYON-ON-DEMAND: RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Summer 2026

The latest edition of our Canyon-on-Demand series highlights recent additions to the Canyon Cinema collection, new digitizations of longtime favorites, and films by new artist members.

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

Now Streaming through Aug 27
🔗 vimeo.com/ondemand/ccfaug2026

Free for Friends of Canyon Cinema:
patreon.com/canyoncinema

𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵CROSSROADS 2026 — PROGRAM 3we name no heroesSaturday, September 5 at 2:30pmGray Area, 2665 Mission Stre...
08/20/2026

𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵
CROSSROADS 2026 — PROGRAM 3
we name no heroes

Saturday, September 5 at 2:30pm
Gray Area, 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco

More missives from the rotting archive. Nothing is documentary. Nothing is fiction. Onyeka Igwe’s Penkelemes, on Nigeria’s University of Ibadan, anchors this program of fragmented and fragmentary films considering familial history, colonial legacies and the boundaries between representation and re-presentation, films which question objectivity in favor of speculative exploration of the materiality of the archive.

Works by: Linda Izcali Scobie • TT Takemoto • Erin Weisgerber • Allison Chhorn • Rajee Samarasinghe • Hogan Seidel • Onyeka Igwe

Program community partner: Canyon Cinema Foundation

PROGRAM DETAILS:
https://www.sfcinematheque.org/screening/crossroads-2026-program-3/

TICKETS:
https://tickets.grayarea.org/events/019fd89f-d66e-6622-89bb-4463d67cfacc

CROSSROADS 2026
September 4–6
All programs presented in person at Gray Area

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Margaret Rorison's emergence (2024, 2.5 min)A series of summer occurrences, an observa...
08/13/2026

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Margaret Rorison's emergence (2024, 2.5 min)

A series of summer occurrences, an observation of life cycles.

Shot on 16mm BW Reversal film and hand-processed by the artist.

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/08/05/now-available-margaret-rorisons-emergence/

Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome TT Takemoto to our Board of Directors!TT Takemoto is a q***r Japanese American art...
08/06/2026

Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome TT Takemoto to our Board of Directors!

TT Takemoto is a q***r 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 a member of our inaugural Print Generations cohort, Takemoto interacts with found footage and archival materials through performance and labor-intensive processes of painting, lifting, and manipulating 16mm/35mm film emulsion using clear tape, razor blades, and nail polish. By engaging with tactile and sensory dimensions of q***r histories, Takemoto conjures up immersive fantasies featuring butch surgeons and ho******ic breadmaking. Their work honors q***r Asian Americans who lived, loved, and labored together during the prewar era and beyond.

Takemoto has exhibited at Gwangju Biennale (South Korea), Documenta 15, Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong), Vargas Museum (Philippines), Asian Art Museum, de Young Museum, Chinese Culture Center, National Portrait Gallery USA, Oakland Museum of California, Peabody Essex Museum, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Catharine Clark Gallery, with a recent solo exhibition at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center (2024-25).

Takemoto was awarded Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Film at Slamdance Film Festival, Jury Award for Best Experimental Film at Q***rCine International Film Festival (Belguim), and Best Experimental Film Jury Award at Austin LGBTQ+ International Film Festival (Agliff). Their film screenings include Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, BFI Flare (London), CROSSROADS, MIX Milano, MIX Mexico, Marseille Underground Film Festival, Outfest, Q***r Forever! (Hanoi), Rio Gay Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, TranScreen (Amsterdam), and Xposed International Q***r Film Festival (Berlin).

Over the past two decades, Takemoto has worked at California College of the Arts, where they are interim provost and professor. They were a member of the Q***r Cultural Center's Board of Directors (2008-2023) and co-founder of Q***r Conversations on Culture and the Arts. Takemoto lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

For more info: canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=509

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: New Digitization of Scott Bartlett's MOON 1969 (1969, 15 min)“The interrelated convolu...
08/05/2026

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: New Digitization of Scott Bartlett's MOON 1969 (1969, 15 min)

“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 would not go with a film – on a trip in search of the human soul.” – Paul Brawley, The Booklist, American Library Association

Scan courtesy of Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/08/04/now-available-new-digitization-of-scott-bartletts-moon-1969/

Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Linda Izcali Scobie and her work to the collection!Linda Izcali Scobie is a filmmake...
08/04/2026

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 Los Angeles Filmforum, Antimatter Media Art, Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City, XCENTRIC – de Barcelona, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival; receiving the 2026 Susan Dise Best Experimental Film Award. In 2018, she was the Artist in Residence at White Leaves Residency in New Mexico. She is currently a Senior Projectionist at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and co-founder of CERTAIN WOMEN – a monthly film series at The Orinda Theater that highlights the work of women directors.

Five of Scobie’s films are now available for rent, including:

PROJECTIONIST PLEASE FOCUS (2026)
Crystal Palace (2024)
The Pendulum (2021)
Decked Out (2014)
Craig's Cutting Room Floor (2011)

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/08/03/new-artist-member-linda-izcali-scobie/

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that C Applewhaite's I AM THE WORLD and LET ME BREATHE are now available.I AM THE W...
07/22/2026

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that C Applewhaite's I AM THE WORLD and LET ME BREATHE are now available.

I AM THE WORLD (2022, 9 min) is a speculative video that explores how an archive of networked moving images, featuring famed ballroom hosts Selvin "MC Debra" Mizrahi and Kelly Gorgeous Gucci, enables worldly ways of seeing.

LET ME BREATHE (2021, 4 min) is a ghostly short film narrating the experiential archives of a black mother from St. Louis, Missouri whose father and son breathe once more.

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/07/22/now-available-c-applewhaites-i-am-the-world-let-me-breathe/

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 Jarman Award and will also travel to Cornwall, Brighton, Cardiff, Nottingham, Glasgow, Bristol, and Eastbourne in September and October.

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Greta Snider's IN THE MARITIME FREQUENCIES (2025, 16 min)“We’ll remember the earth as ...
07/20/2026

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Greta Snider's IN THE MARITIME FREQUENCIES (2025, 16 min)

“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 — in a conversation about how we internalize our climate emergency, letting mortalities large and small emerge only when the night puts our guard down. Inspired by the San Francisco Bay, dreams and novelist Octavia Butler’s vision of a future California. (Greta Snider)

Featuring Bill Basquin, Ivy Jeanne, Juan Aguirre, Annalise Velasquez, Valerie Soe, Mark Klatte and Mayuran Tiruchelvam.

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/07/16/now-available-greta-sniders-in-the-maritime-frequencies/

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that new high-resolution digital files of three films by Robert Nelson, including c...
07/14/2026

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 (1976) are supported by the Interbay Cinema Society’s ICS Grant program. Since its inception in 2016, ICS has given over $200,000 in $1000 grants to filmmakers to have their work digitized at Colormatters, a transfer house based in Seattle.

With thanks to: Caryn Cline (Interbay Cinema Society), Eric Rosen (Colormatters), Oona Nelson, Steve Nelson, Ethan Wiley, Mike Henderson, and Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive).

Info: canyoncinema.com/2026/07/14/now-available-new-2k-digitizations-of-three-films-by-robert-nelson-and-friends/

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