presented in association with San Francisco International Film Festival and the Canyon Cinema Foundation
in celebration of Canyon Cinema 50

Director of Canyon Cinema Antonella Bonfanti and filmmaker Guy Maddin in person

Admission: $15 General Admission/$14 Students and Seniors/$13 Cinematheque Members
note: Cinematheque Members please email christine@sfcinematheque.org for discount ticket code.
Advance tickets here.

This program will only screen on April 15th.

The purveyor of some of the most hallucinatory experiments in modern cinema, Guy Maddin turns his eye for the delectably idiosyncratic to the collection of Canyon Cinema.  Boasting a catalog of over 3,200 artist-made film and media works, Canyon Cinema has, for 50 years, been an incubator of the avant-garde, catalyzing artists and viewers to explore the outer limits of cinema. In conjunction with Canyon Cinema 50, a year-long celebration of the organization’s historic anniversary, Maddin presents a handful of delightful diversions from its catalog. Ripe with rambling charm, Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley's ’s inspired classic of the West Coast avant-garde, The Great Blondino, anchors the program, which eschews realism in favor of the ecstatic. Like Maddin’s own work, each film is a handcrafted microcosmos characterized by its artist's singular—and peculiar—vision and guaranteed to leave an indelible mark in each viewer's memory. —Kathleen Maguire

Mesmer (Gary Goldberg, 1991, 10min, 16mm)

Perils (Abigail Child, 1986, 5min, 16mm)

The Great Blondino (Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley, 1967, 42min, 16mm)

The Divine Miracle (Diana Krumins, 1973, 5min, 16mm)

image above: The Great Blondino (1967) by Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley