Fall 2025
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Still from “CORAL” (2024) by Matt Town, 16mm film, black & white, silent, 11 minutes Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery, New York
Coral & Florida-Structuralism: New Works by Matt Town
Date: Sep 14, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesLos Angeles Filmforum welcomes local artist & experimental filmmaker Matt Town to screen films and videos from his latest show “Coral”, as well as select older works. Town, who frequently addresses social issues in his work, turns his attention in “Coral” to themes of chemical addiction in the US, drawing upon the experiences of and at times collaborating with his family members. His new 16mm and video works form a strikingly intense, poetic, and personal response to the opioid epidemic, alcoholism, and methods of addiction treatment.
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Gibson + Recoder performing Backlight
Gibson + Recoder: Projection Performance for Single and Dual 16mm Film Projection
Date: Sep 21, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesSandra Gibson and Luis Recoder return to Filmforum for a special evening of projection performances. In this program of 16mm film performances for single and dual projection, film is not the exclusive object of attraction but the occasion for potentially disclosing the art of projection. The “performance” in our title refers to the success or failure of the film to articulate the beauty of projected light on a screen.
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Look Then Below, by Ben RIvers
Urthworks: 3 Films by Ben Rivers
Date: Sep 28, 2025 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesThe first of two screenings with Ben Rivers in person, Urthworks is a trilogy of short films by Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments.
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Jake Williams, the subject of Bogancloch, and filmmaker Ben RIvers
Bogancloch, by Ben Rivers, Los Angeles Premiere
Date: Sep 30, 2025 8:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesBen Rivers returns to present the LA Premiere of Bogancloch. Bogancloch is where modern day hermit Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. At the heart a song, an argument between life and death, each stating their case to rule over the world.
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In Another Light: Cinema of Memory: A 10 Year Celebration of Home Movies
Date: Oct 5, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesThe Al Larvick Conservation Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sharing the rich heritage of amateur motion pictures, presents this screening series across key venues in 2025–26 in celebration of its 10th anniversary. Home movie delights and wonderful films by Jim Hubbard!
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Of Time and Memory, by Santiago Torres
Santiago Torres Pérez
Date: Oct 12, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesThe films of Santiago Torres Pérez observe the urban harmony inherent in the chaos, while also engaging the painful sprawl embedded within its cacophony. His films are an inventory of various sociological-ecological investigations into loneliness, isolation, the way we remember and see the world around us, and how media and cinema find their way as interventions into our consciousness and reality. Please join us for the World Premieres of “Sobre el amor y la soledad” & “Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park”, and the US Premiere of “Habitantes,” “Of Time and Memory”, and “Embodied Knowledge” - and in welcoming Santiago Torres Pérez from Mexico with his films from 2008-2022.
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Made by Hand: Thirty-one Years of Film-Farmmaking
Date: Oct 18, 2025 8:00PM
Location: Whammy!With Film Farm founder Philip Hoffman in person! Some highlights from Film Farm, celebrating its 31st year of existence and integral contribution to the experimental film world!
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Entanglement, by Larry Gottheim
Larry Gottheim: Entanglements
Date: Nov 2, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesRenowned filmmaker Larry Gottheim returns to Los Angeles Filmforum with a classic film and the LA premieres of two new digital works!
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Filmforum at 50, program 1: Classics of Los Angeles Experimental Film
Date: Nov 16, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesWe hope you will join us for this special event, the launch of our celebration of Filmforum’s 50th year! Starting with some classics all on 16mm: Invocation, by Amy Halpern; Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren; Introspection by Sara Kathryn Arledge, Lapis, by James Whitney; Kitsch In Synch, by Adam Beckett; Twelve, by Beth Block; Cartoon Le Mousse, by Chick Strand; Foregrounds, by Pat O'Neill; and more!
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The Innerview
Richard Beymer’s The Innerview
Date: Nov 20, 2025 7:00PM
Location: Philosophical Research SocietyFilm preservationist Ross Lipman presents the restoration Richard Beymer's long lost psychedelic masterwork + a Q&A with star Joanna Frank!
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Your Touch Makes Others Invisible
Rajee Samarasinghe: Your Touch Makes Others Invisible
Date: Nov 23, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesWe welcome back Rajee Samarasinghe with his new feature film Your Touch Makes Others Invisible. As many as 100,000 people, predominantly members of the minority Tamil community, are estimated to have disappeared during the 26-year-long Sri Lankan Civil War. Fifteen years after the end of the war in 2009, families are still looking for their vanished loved ones. Samarasinghe reflects on this harrowing history through a combination of direct interviews, newsclips, dramatic re-enactments and abstract, symbolically coded tableaux.
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office, by Courtney Stephens and Michael Almereyda
Date: Nov 30, 2025 7:00PM
Location: Philosophical Research SocietyDetails coming soon!
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Amy Halpern in Soft Fiction, by Chick Strand
Filmforum 50, program 2: The Women’s Gaze: Chick Strand’s Soft Fiction and Courtney Stephens’s Terra Femme
Date: Dec 7, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesReaching across decades, this program three eras of films made by women: first, travelogues from the first half of the 20th century, then the 1970s, and then most recently an investigation of those early films. Two fantastic films by Los Angeles filmmakers – Chick Strand and Courtney Stephens, with Stephens in person presenting the live version of Terra Femme after a rare screening of one of Strand’s masterworks, Soft Fiction.
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Reality Frictions
Filmforum 50, program 3: Steve Anderson’s Reality Frictions with Marlon Fuentes’s Bontoc Eulogy
Date: Dec 12, 2025 7:30PM
Location: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer MuseumFormer Filmforum board member, filmmaker Steve F. Anderson sought to explore this “intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood” with his latest essay feature film, Reality Frictions, which we are pleased to debut in Los Angeles in partnership with the UCLA Film & TV Archive. One of the films referenced in Anderson’s work is Marlon Fuentes’ Bontoc Eulogy, which explores the performative images taken at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904 of displaced and coerced indigenous Filipino communities, whcih we previously featured in a pair of 2007 screenings linked to the book F Is for Phony, and we're not sure if it has played in Los Angeles since then.
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Filmforum 50, program 4: Three Sparks, by Naomi Uman
Date: Dec 14, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesDetails to come!