Los Angeles Filmforum is the longest-running organization in Southern California dedicated exclusively to the ongoing, non-commercial exhibition of independent, experimental, and progressive media art.

Filmforum is proud to be in the center of the cultural programming of a city with a rich history of avant-garde filmmaking and programming. Now in our 50th year, we celebrate personal, hand-crafted and non-commercial work. Read more about our various programs, purchase tickets for upcoming screenings, explore our archives, or learn more about volunteering or making a tax-deductible donation on our website!

Upcoming Screenings

The Inheritance, by Ephraim Asili

The Inheritance, with filmmaker Ephraim Asili

Date: Aug 17, 2025 7:00PM
Location: Billy Wilder Theater, Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum

After nearly a decade exploring the African diaspora, Ephraim Asili makes his feature debut with this vibrant ensemble film, set almost entirely in a West Philadelphia rowhome where young Black artists and activists form a collective. “‘The Inheritance’ feels like poetry visualized,” writes Lovia Gyarkye in The New York Times. Blending scripted drama with documentary reflection on the 1985 MOVE bombing, the film reimagines home as a political and spiritual inheritance. Part of the series (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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"Brilliant Noise" by Semiconductor

Envisioning the Skies: A Short History of Astronomical Films

Date: Aug 23, 2025 3:00PM
Location: Mt. Wilson Observatory Auditorium

Some highlights from the visual history of astronomy and ideas of the planets and stars, from the 1874 transit of Venus by Pierre Jules César Janssen and a 1900 solar eclipse by Nevil Maskelyne, through the Eames Studio "Powers of Ten" excerpts from other films, and recent digital work by NASA, all in a most appropriate location, at the Mt. Wilson Observatory!

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"Tabula Rasa" by Vincent Grenier

Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 2)

Date: Sep 7, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Over his fifty-year career, Vincent Grenier created a body of work unlike any other in contemporary experimental cinema. Utilizing many approaches, his 16mm films and videos move fluidly between modes of abstraction and documentary, sound and silence, spectral superimposition and stark clarity. The second of two tribute programs.

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