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  Essential SF: Nov. 6

  Nov 6, 2011

  Essential SF shines a light on the Bay Area’s legendary, idiosyncratic and multifaceted contributions to the filmmaking world at SF Film Society | New People Cinema, 7:00 pm. An outgrowth of SF360.org’s Essential SF column, the event this year also pays tribute to the half-decade-plus SF360.org project.

  
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  Essential SF: Nov. 6

  Nov 6, 2011

  Essential SF shines a light on the Bay Area’s legendary, idiosyncratic and multifaceted contributions to the filmmaking world at SF Film Society | New People Cinema, 7:00 pm. An outgrowth of SF360.org’s Essential SF column, the event this year also pays tribute to the half-decade-plus SF360.org project.

  
• November 3, 2011
  
  

  Essential SF: Nov. 6

  Nov 6, 2011

  Essential SF shines a light on the Bay Area’s legendary, idiosyncratic and multifaceted contributions to the filmmaking world at SF Film Society | New People Cinema, 7:00 pm. An outgrowth of SF360.org’s Essential SF column, the event this year also pays tribute to the half-decade-plus SF360.org project.

  
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  Essential SF: Canyon Cinema

  Michael Fox
  Oct 26, 2011

  For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.

  
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  Essential SF: Canyon Cinema

  Michael Fox
  Oct 26, 2011

  For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.

  
• November 3, 2011
  
  

  Essential SF: Canyon Cinema

  Michael Fox
  Oct 26, 2011

  For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.

  
• October 28, 2011
  
  

  Essential SF: Canyon Cinema

  Michael Fox
  Oct 26, 2011

  For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.

  
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  David Sherman and Wasteland Utopias

  Michael Fox
  Nov 30, 2009

  In town for the premiere of Wasteland Utopias, the artist, curator and administrative director of Canyon Cinema gives us the scoop on Wilhelm Reich and other shadowy figures.

  
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  Remembering Chick Strand

  Max Goldberg
  Oct 23, 2009

  Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.

  
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  Remembering Chick Strand

  Max Goldberg
  Oct 23, 2009

  Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.

  
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  Scott MacDonald's 'Canyon Cinema' Book--Both History and How-to

  Michael Fox
  Nov 17, 2008

  Scott McDonald's Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor, details the formation of the revered Bay Area artists' collective in the early 1960s.

  
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  Canyon Cinema's Dominic Angerame

  Erika Young
  Aug 4, 2008

  A conversation with the executive director of an experimental/avant-garde film distribution company, who both runs a profitable business and creates dynamic art.

  
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  "Alternative Visions" at the PFA

  Johnny Ray Huston
  Feb 15, 2007

  The Pacific Film Archive's standing as a cinema-centric educational institution brings the avant-garde into conversation with a broad program of film history.

  
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  City Poet Bruce Baillie Returns

  Johnny Ray Huston
  Oct 10, 2006

  When onlookers or bystanders disparagingly refer to experimental film as torturous or a bore, it’s a safe bet that they’ve never seen anything by Bruce Baillie.