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

Collective Monologue (Monólogo Colectivo)

Collective Monologue

Date: Jul 8, 2025 8:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Acropolis Cinema and Filmforum present Collective Monologue (Monólogo Colectivo), directed by Jessica Sarah Rinland (2024), in person for the screening. At the film’s core are the animals and staff in various Argentinian zoos and shelters—including the Buenos Aires Ecopark, established as a zoo in the late 19th century—capturing not just tender moments of interspecies interaction but also administrative and infrastructural details.

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Chris & Heather’s Big Screen Blowout

Date: Jul 16, 2025 8:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Artist/filmmaker Heather McAdams and songwriter husband Chris Ligon have assembled one of the most impressive, private collections of short-form 16mm films we know of, focusing on music films, commercials, movie previews and other true oddities which usually fall through the cracks at large, institutional film archives. For this special event, Chris and Heather present some of the very best of their 16mm film collection for a unique and inspiring evening of nonstop laughs and entertainment in their inimitable style.

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Spring Night Summer Night, with Ross Lipman

Date: Jul 19, 2025 4:00PM
Location: Los Feliz Theatre

Book signing with archivist, author and filmmaker Ross Lipman for his new book The Archival Impermanence Project prior to the screening at 3:30pm at the Los Feliz 3, in partnership with Skylight Books! Italian neorealism meets the coal-mining country of southeast Ohio in this little-seen wonder of 1960s, American independent cinema.

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The Book of Paradise Has No Author

The Book of Paradise Has No Author, with Ross Lipman

Date: Jul 19, 2025 7:00PM
Location: Los Feliz Theatre

In this eclectic spin on the concert film, Ross Lipman transforms footage of one of his celebrated live documentary performances into a new video essay that’s at once an archeological dig and a riveting history. Its underlying subject is the origin of civilization – as comprised entirely of media clips. Book signing with archivist, author and filmmaker Ross Lipman for his new book The Archival Impermanence Project prior to the screening at 6:30pm at the Los Feliz 3, in partnership with Skylight Books. Film introduction & Q&A with Lipman, moderated by David Marriott.

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Inauguration

Developing China: Films from the Beijing International Short Film Festival, Program 1

Date: Jul 20, 2025 5:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Beijing International Short Film Festival and Filmforum present Developing China, two programs showcasing eight works from the festival between 2020 and 2024. Program 1 centers on “searching” as a gesture that crosses temporal boundaries. The program will be followed by a conversation with Iris Sang, curator of BISFF, and Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, moderator and curator from Los Angeles Filmforum, and filmmakers.

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