Canyon Cinemazine #10: Print Generations
2024-2026
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This issue of the Canyon Cinemazine focuses on Print Generations, Canyon Cinema’s inaugural film commissioning project. Inspired by the 16mm Centenary (1923-2023), and borrowing its title from J.J. Murphy’s astounding structural showpiece, Print Generation (1974), the program supports analog-based filmmaking in the Bay Area. For this first iteration, three filmmakers—Tijana Petrovic, Amy Reid, and TT Takemoto—created new works that engage with the materiality of 16mm film. A new essay by S Topiary Landberg, about the Print Generations project and these newly commissioned films, highlights this tenth issue of the Cinemazine, alongside artist pages and process notes by the participating filmmakers.
 
Editors: S Topiary Landberg and Brett Kashmere


Contributors: Black Hole Collective Film Lab, Brett Kashmere, S Topiary Landberg, Tijana Petrovic, Amy Reid, and TT Takemoto
Layout and design by S Topiary Landberg
Cover design by Ashley Rose Tacheira, based on Print Generations graphic by Helen Shewolfe Tseng
Risograph covers printed by Alayna Tinney at BAMPFA Art Lab
This publication was made possible by the Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and The Friends of Canyon Cinema.


Format: Print ISSN 2837-214X

Format: Online ISSN 2837-2158
52 pages

7 x 8.5 inches

Edition of 300
 

		
		

			

				
			

			

				
			


			

				
			

			

				
			


			

				
			

			

				
			


		

              
            

              

                                
Luther Price in San Francisco: A Remembrance


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Published by San Francisco Cinematheque and Canyon Cinema Foundation, Luther Price in San Francisco: A Remembrance is a visually oriented zine focusing on the renowned filmmakers’ relationship to San Francisco Bay Area film culture. Edited by Brett Kashmere, Director of Canyon Cinema, and Cinematheque’s Steve Polta, Luther Price in San Francisco features brief oral history reflections, film stills, never-before-published photos of Price’s 1992 Meat performance and the equally infamous performance Clown Part II: Scary Transformation (1994), scanned ephemera from Cinematheque’s archives, images of Price’s astonishing hand-collaged film cans (courtesy of Canyon Cinema) and reprints of texts by Michael Wallin and Price himself.
From the introduction: “The radical filmmaker, visual artist and longtime Canyon Cinema member Luther Price (1962–2020) was an inscrutable crucible of cinematic intensity. ‘At turns confessional and enigmatic, sensual and violent, Boston-based artist Luther Price manufactures extreme cinema. From early Super 8 performances to his more recent 16mm found footage excavations, Price’s films are exercises in disfigurement. He manipulates image, stock and soundtrack—with dirt and rot, with markers and scissors, with scalpel precision and chaotic intensity’ (Canyon Cinema Confessions, September 2014). Price—known at the time as Tom Rhoads—began experimenting with Super 8mm in the 1980s, under the tutelage of filmmaker Saul Levine, and continued working with the film medium throughout his artistic career, reimagining and transforming 16mm found footage through visionary expression and roughly-exquisite formal procedures. Price’s burning passion for celluloid and its shifting surfaces evoke a vast range of emotions from anyone who encounters his films, handmade slides, filmstrip objects and collages. Price’s unique, handmade film canisters, which currently reside in Canyon Cinema’s office, are collaged artworks in and of themselves. The following oral history traces Price’s various intersections with the Bay Area film community across several decades, including his many now-legendary San Francisco screenings and performances.” (Brett Kashmere)
 
Contents:
Introduction by Brett Kashmere
Remembering Luther Price by Steve Polta
Reminiscences by Steve Anker, Ken Paul Rosenthal, David Sherman & Rebecca Barten/Total Mobile Home
Photos by Ken Paul Rosenthal
In Defense of Sodom (reprint) by Michael Wallin
“I Want to Keep Truth…” (reprint) by Luther Price
 
Editors: Brett Kashmere and Steve Polta
Design: India Nemer
 
8.5 x 8.5 inches

38 pages

2024