Canyon Cinema 50 programming continues this month with a screening of cityscape films curated by local filmmaker Dominic Angerame. The program, Cityscapes with Dominic Angerame, draws on his longtime history as Executive Director of Canyon Cinema and extensive knowledge of the histories and affinities of experimental film to present an evening of meditations on a diverse array of metropolitan milieux.

Canyon Cinema travels to Berkeley this week for a special screening of pivotal works from its collection. As a part of Canyon Cinema 50, its celebration of half a century in continuous operation, and together with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s ongoing series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and the Counterculture, 1964-1974, the distributor will co-present Elegy To Ecstasy, an evening of films made by some of the most influential figures in the history of avant-garde cinema.

Canyon Cinema Foundation will throw a 50th anniversary and benefit party to commence a year-long celebration of the avant-garde and artist-made film distributor. Celebrate the Middle Ages will officially kick-off the 50th anniversary of Canyon Cinema Inc., the famed independent filmmaker owned and operated distribution cooperative. Founded in San Francisco by influential cinema artists including Bruce Baillie, Bruce Conner, Chick Strand, Lawrence Jordan and Robert Nelson.