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

Swing Swish Sway, by TT Takemoto

The Festival of (In)appropriation #14

Date: Oct 24, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Curators Jaimie Baron and Jennifer Proctor in person! World premiere of this festival program! Founded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a preeminent international showcase for experimental, found-media film and video. Every year, the Festival attracts artists working across an astonishing array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of collage, machinima, re-mix, détournement, mash-up, and more.

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Una Esquina Del Mundo (2004), by Francisco Romero

Francisco Romero: Local Reconstructions

Date: Nov 1, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Inside Southern California, our landscapes have been sculpted by massive capital - our homes, our neighborhoods, & even our memories constantly resist being minoritized & made insignificant. Francisco Romero's current film essays, and turn of the century docu-dramas, unearth needed poetic & political context to equip us against this sculpting.

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