Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Formation -- Portfoloio: Announcement of Publication of Canyon Cinema News, 1962 -- Saul Landau: An Essay on Censorship [1964] -- Bruce Baillie: Report from on the Road, Filming...[1964] -- Gregoary Markopoulos: Denunciation of the Ann Arbor Film Festival [1965] -- George Manupelli: Letter from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, April 1, 1965 -- George Manupelli: On His Blindness [1965] -- 2. Incorporation -- Conservation with Edith Kramer, July 2001 -- Portfolio: Bruce Baillie: Letter from Chapala, Mexico, January 1967 -- Bruce Conner: Letter from San Francisco, February 18, 1967 -- Robert Nelson: Open Letter to Film-makers, June 12, 1967 -- Bruce Baillie: Letter [1967] -- Robert Pike: Rebuttal to Robt. Nelson's "Open Letter to Film-makers" [1967] -- Bruce Baillie: Bruce Baillie's Prejudiced Guide to Film Festivals [1967] -- Emory Menefee: Review of Sheldon Renan's "An Introduction to the American Underground Film" [1967] -- Will Hindle: Letter [1967] -- Robert Nelson: The Brussels Festival [1968] -- Robert Nelson: The Swedish Proposal for New American Cinema, and Some Miscellaneous Notes [1968] -- Will Hindle: Letter from San Francisco, April 1968 -- Robert Pike: Notes from the Creative Film Society: Pros and Cons of Theatrical Bookings [1968] -- News from the Austrailian Undependents [1968] -- Barry Spinello: Letter to John Schofill [1968] -- Bruce Conner: Letter, August 6, 1968, and Emory Menefee's response -- Robert Pike: The Story of a Closet Cine-Drama...or...From Isolation to Immorality [1968] -- Robert Nelson: Some Thoughts about the Bellevue Film Festival Two Weeks after Judging It [1968] -- Will Hindle: Letter, September 10 [1968] -- Bruce Baillie: Letter, "August, Beginning of September" [1968] -- Will Hindle: Letter [1969] -- John Lennon: Fan Letter to Bruce Conner [1969].

Barry Spinello: Letter from Oakland, California [1969] -- Bruce Conner and Jonas Mekas: Exchanges (Letters) [1969] -- Ed Emshwiller: Letter [1969] -- Stan Brakhage: Letter [1970] -- Will Hindle: Letter from Alabama, January 1970 -- Jon Jost: I Lost It at the Movies or Electro-Videograph Interface Meets Mr. Natural [1970] -- Bruce Braillie: Letter [1970] -- Canyon Cinema Board of Directors' Meeting Minutes [May 20, 1970] -- Arthur Cantrill: Right Back to the Billabong [1970] -- Scott Bartlett: Poem [1970] -- Robert Nelson: Letter [1970] -- Bruce Conner: Letter [1972] -- Chick Strand: Letter [1972] -- Jon Jost: Underground Myths and Cinema Cooperrative Realities (Some Conrete Policy Suggestions) [1972] -- Bruce Conner: Eight Drawings [1972] -- Don Lloyd: Whatever Became of Canyon Cinema Co-operative? [1972] -- Peter Hutton: Letter from Bangkok [1972] -- Ken Defloux: Canyon Cinema, What Next? [1973] -- 3. Revitalization -- Conservation with Diane Kitchen, Marchh 2002 -- Portfolio: Peter Kubelka at the Cinematheque, October 3, 1974 -- Will Hindle: Recuperating at His Forest Place in the Mountains of North Alabama, September 1974 -- Stan Brakhage: Remarks Following at Screening of "The Text of Light" at the San Francisco Art Institute on November 18, 1974 -- Bruce Baillie: Letter, March 1975 -- Lyle Pearson: Waiting for Godard at the Front: The Palestinian Cinema Institution [1975] -- James Broughton: How to Cope with the Question Period [1975] -- Albie Thorns: Australian Coop News [1975] -- Lyle Pearson: Prayag in 35mm: The Film and Television Institute of India [1975] -- Diane Kitchen and Gunvor Nelson: Chick Strand's Recollections of Canyon Cinema's Early Beginnings with Added Commentary from Chick Callenbach [1976] -- Will Hindle: Letter from Lower Appalachians, Late June 1976.

Willlie Varela: Letter and Excerpts from a Conservation with Stan Brakhage [On Death and "The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, 1977] -- Herman Berlandt: What is a Poetry Film? [1977] -- Commodore Sloat: A Bit of Scuttlebutt...[1977] -- James Broughton: Three Poems (A Rune for Jerome Hill, Tomfool for President, and A Prelude for Brakhage) [1977] -- Steve Ellman: Discussion with George Landow [1977] -- Commodore Sloat: Letter, April 22, 1977 -- James Broughton: Windowmobile [1977] -- 4. Intellectualization -- Conservation with Bruce Conner, July 2001 -- Portfolio: Joe Gibbons: An Art Liberation Front Dis'course on Avant-Garde Films [1977] -- Henry Hills: Hyper Kinetic Stan/dards [1977] -- Hollis Frampton in San Franscisco [April 21/29, 1977] -- Barbara Hammer: Body-Centered Film [1977] -- George Kuchar: Thundercrack (cartoon) [1977] -- Abigail Child: Matinee [1978] -- George Kuchar: The Dietrich Dossier (cartoon) [1978] -- Joe Gibbons: ALF Communique [1978] -- Stan Brakhage: Letter to Henry Hills, January 13, 1978 -- David White: Letter [1978] -- Henry Hills: George Kuchar in Europe (an interview) [1978] -- Jonas Mekas: Aunt Kastune [1978] -- Tony Conrad in San Francisco, February 28, 1978 -- Henry Hills: Child Labor [1978] -- Commodore Sloat: Letter, February 18, 1978 -- Bruce Conner: Letter, September 22, 1968 -- Henry Hills: Robert Nelson Interview [1978] -- George Landow at the Cinematheque, May 18, 1978 -- Hollis Frampton in San Francisco, part 2 [1977] -- Yvonne Rainer at the Cinematheque, April 6, 1978 -- Abigail Child: Violence [1978] -- James Broughton: Some Unseen Lights [1978] -- Art Spiegelman: Sketchbook (November-December 1977) -- Diana Barrie: To Whom It . . . [1979] -- Larry Jordan: Survival in the Independent-Non-Commercial-Avant-Garde-Experimental-Personal-Expressionistic Film Market of 1979 -- Peter Seaton: How to Read II [1979].

Jackson Mac Low: 1st Milarepa Gatha [1979] -- Warren Sonbert: Film Syntax [1979] -- Abigail Child: The Films of Aline Mayer [1979] -- Gary Doberman: Letter, December 24, 1979, and New York Cut the Crap [1980] -- Warren Sonbert: Film Syntax (Continued) [1980] -- Caroline Savage Lee: "What's a Picnic without Potato Salad!" [1980] -- Freude Bartlett: Letter, May 16, 1980 -- Bruce Baillie: Letter, Late June [1980] -- Chick Strand at the Cinematheque, March 6, 1980 -- Gunvor Nelson: Conversation with Chick Strand [1980] -- Ben Van Meter: Letter, c. 1980 -- Henry Hills: Letter, September 10, 1980 -- Chick Strand: Letter, September 18, 1980 -- 5 : Maintenance -- Conversation with Dominic Angerame, August 2002 and May 2006 -- Portfolio: Letters to Canyon Cinema Sent during the Film/Video Debate of 1994 (fromTom DeWitt, George Kuchar, Robert Nelson, and Stan Brakhage) -- Bruce Baillie: Letter from Camano Island, October 10, 1994 -- Appendix 1: Canyon Cinema Employees, 1969 to the Present -- Appendix 2: Canyon Cinema's Gross Rentals and Sales, from 1966 until 2006-2007 -- Acknowledgments of Permissions -- Index.