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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! 

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Newt Leaders, by Amy Halpern

Upcoming Screenings

  • Five Days Til Tomorrow, by Lewis Klahr

    Lew Klahr: From 45 To 33 -- Part 1: Fable by the Door

    Date: Sep 13, 2026 1:00PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    World premiere! Lew Klahr in person!  "This new series is a cinema of shifting moods and engagements that offers a tactile exploration of elliptical narrative and poetic montage. Like a waking dream, what can be clearly described in words is less significant than what can be felt." — Lew Klahr

  • Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

    Date: Sep 19, 2026 1:00PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    LA Premiere with Negativland in person!  “Much of the film layers eviscerated visuals into a vaudevillian media kaleidoscope.” - Marc Weidenbaum, The Wire

  • The 21st Century Century: A Durational Performance Conceived by Barbara T. Smith

    Filmforum 50, program 14: The 21st Century Odyssey

    Start Date: Oct 17, 2026 1:00PM
    End Date: Oct 17, 2026 5:00PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    Rescheduled from June.  The 21st Century Odyssey is a video travelogue through love, liberatory technology, social and personal mythology, and the pleasures and rigors of making life into art told in part through the pixelated beauty of the videophone. Though rarely screened, it is a rich and resonant chapter in the legendary Barbara T. Smith’s career-long experiments with machine innovation. Co-director Barbara T. Smith in conversation with Michael J. Masucci!