San Francisco Cinematheque is a San Francisco-based film society for artist-made cinema. It was created in 1961 by a group of filmmakers, including Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand. This screening program grew into Canyon Cinema before being split off into a sister organization, originally named the Foundation for Art in Cinema, during the 1970s. San Francisco Cinematheque is one of the Bay Area's longest-running outlets for exhibiting experimental film. It produces the annual film festival Crossroads. Canyon Cinema began as a film exhibition outlet in Canyon, California. Its early programs were programmed Bruce Baillie, Chick Strand, and Emory Menefee and featured a mixture of experimental work and conventional narrative films. After starting in Baillie's backyard, they struggled to find a regular venue until Stiles Hall at UC Berkeley became its first long-term venue. As Canyon grew during the 1960s to include a distribution office and nationwide newsletter, its exhibition program came to focus on experimental film and appeared at new venues around the Bay Area. It moved into a church on Union Street in 1967 and took on the name Canyon Cinematheque. The film department at San Francisco Art Institute had a theater built in 1969, which became the primary venue for Cinematheque screenings for several decades. More information...
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