WInter 2026
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Today, by Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich: Today
Date: Jan 11, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesFilmforum welcomes back acclaimed filmmaker Su Friedrich for the Los Angeles premieres of two of her digital video works!
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Did You Know Blue Had No Name?, by Elise Rasmussen
Filmforum 50, program 5: Real Life, with the Millennium Film Journal
Date: Jan 18, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesOver the last half-century, the Millennium Film Journal has charted seismic transformations in the way we create and look at moving pictures—from 16mm celluloid to magnetic videotape to digital “content creation,” and now the strange new world of AI-generated deepfakes and simulations. Real Life—the latest edition of MFJ—is a study of this diachronic gray zone, and the Journal joins with Los Angeles Filmforum in showcasing a handful of works discussed in its pages, along with others we admire.
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Shirley Clarke
Filmforum 50: Embodied Filmmaking: 8 Films by Shirley Clarke + Book Launch and Discussion
Date: Jan 25, 2026 7:00PM
Location: Philosophical Research SocietyAs part of Dance Camera West, an evening of pioneering experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke’s dance films in celebration of Karen Pearlman’s new book on her work!
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Persian Series, by Stan Brakhage
Filmforum 50, program 7: Vision of the Fire Tree
Date: Feb 1, 2026 8:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesA very special evening, with classic films by Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon with live performance by beloved LA composers and musicians, Ulrich Krieger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Eyvind Kang. All films will be screened in 16mm. Note the slightly later start time.
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Step Across the Border
Filmforum 50, program 8: Step Across the Border, with Fred Frith in person
Date: Feb 8, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesFred Frith in person! Restoration sneak preview! Filmed from 1987 to 1990 in rich black & white film, Step Across the Border is a fantastic portrait of the extended improvised art music world of the time, with other musicians such as Joey Baron, Ciro Battista, Arto Lindsay, René Lussier, Haco, Kevin Norton, Bob Ostertag, Zeena Parkins, Lawrence Wright, and John Zorn, and that world’s intersections with artists working in other forms. A very distinctive and beautiful film, described by the makers as "A ninety-minute celluloid improvisation." Precede by the World Premiere of a new short film featuring Shelley Burgon, Fred's collaborator and co-performer on Saturday night!
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The Love Tapes
Wendy Clarke’s Love Tapes
Date: Feb 12, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Philosophical Research SocietyJust in time for Valentine's Day, 7th House and Los Angeles Filmforum are proud to present a rare theatrical program of selections one of the most singular, affecting, and long running works of video art ever made – Wendy Clarke's THE LOVE TAPES (1977–present)!
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"The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)"
Filmforum 50, program 9: An Evening with Morgan Fisher
Date: Feb 15, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesFilmforum welcomes back Morgan Fisher with some of the highlights of his film work as part of our 50th anniversary celebration!
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They Told Me "Apikaan" Means Braid
Eve-Lauryn LaFountain: Conversation Pieces
Date: Mar 1, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesWe welcome back Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, visiting fro New Mexico. Her experimental films extinguish mythical ideals of history in the American Southwest, while engaging a troth of interrelated dynamics between the land and those who hear its beauty and history.
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Femme Grotesquerie
Femme Grotesquerie
Date: Mar 8, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesFemme Grotesquerie is a collection of ten contemporary experimental animation short films showcasing femininity as something unruly, excessive, and emboldened.
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Cauleen Smith, photo by Joshua Franzos
Filmforum 50, program 10: The Volcano Manifesto: Films by Cauleen Smith
Date: Mar 20, 2026 7:30PM
Location: The Velaslavasay PanoramaOne of our city’s leading artists, Cauleen Smith works in a variety of media. We’re delighted to host a set of five films of hers from the past decade, including the Los Angeles premiere of her latest, The Deep West Assembly. The Deep West Assembly is the third in her Volcano Manifesto, in which she mines a realm of imagistic possibilities on geology, vulcanology, cinema, and more.
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Time Being (1991) by Gunvor Nelson
Gunvor Nelson Tribute, program 1: Red Shift
Date: Mar 22, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesThe first of three screenings, co-presented by four organizations, in tribute to the late Gunvor Nelson, a pioneer of personal cinema and feminist film. Nelson's innovative films combine painting, collage, and sound experimentation, embodying humor, resistance, intimacy, and tactile sensation.
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My Name Is Oona, by Gunvor Nelson. Image courtesy of Filmform (Sweden)
Gunvor Nelson Tribute, program 2: Moons Pool
Date: Mar 27, 2026 7:30PM
Location: The Academy Museum, Ted Mann TheaterThe second of three screenings, this program highlights the early classic films that made her reputation, often collaborating with Dorothy Wiley or Robert Nelson. The early films are based around the experiences of a younger woman, culminating in My Name Is Oona (1969), an expressive portrait of her daughter, and “Moons Pool” (1973), an existentially expressive underwater journey which centers on her own body.
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Gunvor Nelson, image courtesy of Filmform
Gunvor Nelson Tribute, program 3: Light Years Expanding
Date: Mar 28, 2026 7:30PM
Location: The UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum,The third of three screenings, co-presented by four organizations, in tribute to the late Gunvor Nelson, a pioneer of personal cinema and feminist film. Tonight’s program highlights four of her later classic 16mm films from the period 1988-1993, in which she combined animation with live-action in a series of revelatory collage films.
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The American Sector
The American Sector, by Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez
Date: Apr 1, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Philosophical Research SocietyJoin us in screening Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez’s 2020 documentary The American Sector, following the array of paths that fragments of the Berlin Wall have taken across the USA.
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Conical Intersect (1975), courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark
Date: Apr 19, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesGordon Matta-Clark, the artist, urban explorer, and “anarchitect” most famous for the “building cuts” he performed on various decomposing structures in the 1970s, made 18 short films before his untimely death from cancer in 1978. This program collects six of his films shot between 1972 and 1976, documenting four building cuts, one formal experiment, and one car crash. Special guests Jessamyn Fiore, Director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, and critic Dylan Adamson.