Canyon Cinema Screening March 20, 2009

From: DOMINIC ANGERAME (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 13 2009 - 21:30:02 PDT


For Immediate Release

  

“New Improved Institutional Qualities..”

A showcase of preserved films distributed by Canyon Cinema

  

Sponsored by Ninth Street Independent Film Center

  

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.

  

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's  “Note to Pati” 1969, 16mm, color, silent, 8 min. (18 frames per second) and

“Note to Colleen” 1974, 16mm, color, silent, 5 min. (18 frames per second)

  

Restoration 16mm blows-ups of 8mm films by the National Film Preservation Foundation, Anthology Film Archives and BB Optics.

  

Jules Engel's “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's “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.

  

For more information, please contact Lauren Sorensen
(email suppressed) or Dominic Angerame
(email suppressed)  or call  415-626-2255

  

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