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  • Cine-Espacios Book Release and Screening

    Canyon Cinema presents: Cine-Espacios Book Release and Screening

    Cine-Espacios co-editor Tzutzu Matzin in person from Mexico City!

    To celebrate the publication of our latest Canyon Cinemazine issue, we are hosting a release party and screening at ATA in San Francisco’s Mission District. Years in the making, the bilingual, 200+ page Cine-Espacios book compiles cinematic artifacts and ephemera, newly-translated reprints of previously-buried historical texts, and a dozen new first-person testimonials about Mexican microcinemas, independent experimental film spaces, cinephilia, and cinema-going. The volume concludes with a landmark mediagraphy inventory and accounting of films made by current and former Canyon filmmakers in Mexico.

    Stop by to pick up a copy, enjoy a beverage, and watch a selection of artist-made cinema filmed in Mexico; including work by Canyon Cinema co-founders Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand, recent films by CDMX-based Canyon members Elena Pardo and Azucena Losana, and more! This event is free and open to the public.

    In light of the current COVID surge, and in the interests of community safety, well-fitting masks (N95 or KN95) are strongly encouraged. 

    Friends of Canyon Cinema members can retrieve their complimentary copy at the event.

    In addition, for Friends members at the Luminous Associate level and above, signed copies of Illuminated Hours: The Early Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler will also be available for pick-up at ATA.

    Canyon Cinemazine #8: Cine-Espacios

    Editado por Walter Forsberg y Tzutzu Matzin en la Ciudad de México, 2021-2023. Edited by Walter Forsberg and Tzutzu Matzin in Mexico City, 2021-2023.

    With contributions from: José de la Colina, Ximena Cuevas, Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco, Walter Forsberg, Viviana García Besné, Rita González, Emmanuel Guerrero Ramírez, Brett Kashmere, Betty Kirk, Jesse Lerner, Jorge Laso de la Vega, Azucena Losana, Tzutzu Matzin, Seth Mitter, Salvador Novo, Elena Pardo, Tomás Pérez Turrent, Gregorio Rocha, Emiliano Rocha Minter, Isabel Rojas, Francisco Jose Serrano, Aisel Wicab, Federico Windhausen.

    Layout and co-design by Denia Nieto García and Amanda García Martín. Illustrations of covers and replicas of articles by Tzutzu Matzin. Translations by Francisco Carillo Martín, Byron Davies, Walter Forsberg, Tzutzu Matzin, and Paulina Suárez.

    Los editores y Canyon Cinema Foundation agradecen el apoyo financiero de Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Foundation y The Friends of Canyon Cinema para la publicación de Canyon Cinemazine. The editors and Canyon Cinema Foundation gratefully recognize financial support from the Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Foundation and The Friends of Canyon Cinema for the publication of Canyon Cinemazine.

    Expanded editions include stickers, a dossier on Gelsen Gas’s 1968 experimental feature film ANTICLÍMAX, and an audio cassette reissue of the ANTICLÍMAX soundtrack.

    Edition of 1000
    216 pages
    Full color, perfect bound
    8.5 x 11 inches

    Link to purchase: https://canyon-cinema-foundation.square.site/product/cinemazine-8/114

  • OC: AVANT TO LIVE

    BECKER + DAVIS/EVANS + N.E.W.

    A mini-fest of innovation in film form, this season’s NEW Night boasts 15 cine-initiatives, with 12 artists in person! As to “Embodied Exhibition”, in fact a live film-performance anchors each of the two halves of the show: Tommy Becker‘s Elective Artand John Davis and Keith Evans‘ 3rdAttractor: Profile, Chorus, Break. AND Others in the flesh are Ellie Vanderlip with Elephant’s Foot, Kathleen Quillian‘s Ten-Dollar Bill, Linda Scobie‘s Tana, Max Oginz’ House of Imaginary Objects, Anthony Buchanan‘s Cutting Up Winston, T.T. Takemoto’sAlways Wanting, Josh Harper‘s The Green Hand,Ivy Woods‘ Handled Handmade-Handfilm, and Luis Booth‘s T,O,N,G,U,E (with guitar accompaniment). PLUS Mark Street’s Long Ago, Far Away, Salise Hughes‘ Education of Lulu, Jake Scott‘s Cloud Studies, and Alex Miller‘s Incubate.Free pencils! $13

  • Final works by CCSF Advanced Cinematography Class

    Join us for a screening of collaborative work by CCSF students’ in the Advanced Cinematography class:

    Leslie Alarcon Garces, Emmanuele Allamani, Steven Anguiano, Hannah Burhorn, Christopher Cano, Anthony Chiappetta, Billy Ching, Nicholas Da Silva, Justin Laundre, Rui Liao, Claire Mann, Trevor Pluck, Erika Schroeder, Logan Shelton, Peter Stickney, Caleb Stokes, Charlie Wittke

    Free. Doors: 6:30p, Screening: 7p