Canyon Cinema
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Canyon Cinema is a San Francisco based filmmakers' cooperative specializing in the distribution of avant-garde and experimental film. The organization was officially founded in Canyon, California in 1967 by Bruce Conner, Larry Jordan, Robert Nelson, and other underground filmmakers looking for an organizational structure to distribute their work. Previous to this Canyon Cinema had existed for a number of years as a "floating cinematheque," a series of informal screenings that were held in the backyard of filmmaker Bruce Baillie, and soon moved to the basements and backyards of other Bay Area artists and filmmakers. Today Canyon Cinema stands alongside The Film Makers Cooperative as one of the only major sources for prints of avant-garde and experimental film in America.
