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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

  • Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome. Stills © Kenneth Anger Estate. No reproduction without permission.

    Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome on 16mm, w/ Brian Butler

    Date: Aug 1, 2025 7:30PM
    Location: Philosophical Research Society

    An extraordinary and rare presentation of Kenneth Anger’s experimental occult classic on vibrant 16mm film!

  • ¡Aoquic iez in Mexico! Mexico will no longer exist!

    Date: Aug 3, 2025 7:00PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    A Contemporary Mexico City City Symphony, like chapters in a book, plunges our senses into a bubbling city scape, a historical kaleidoscope shuddering and ushering in the megalopolis’ breath and figures populating its landscape frame by frame. Filmmaker Annalisa D. Quaglita Blanco in person!

  • The Shadow Lands Yonder | 虛無鄉遠 by Lee Kai-Chung

    Restoring Memory: East Asian Narratives in Non-Fiction Shorts

    Date: Aug 10, 2025 1:30PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the program, Restoring Memory: East Asian Narratives in Non-Fiction Shorts, showcases three non-fiction essay films by Changmin Lee, Kyuri Jeon, and Lee Kai-Chung that explore the layered interplay of history, memory, and identity in East Asia’s wartime legacies.

  • Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (1980) + Spaceways (1968)

    Date: Aug 10, 2025 7:00PM
    Location: Philosophical Research Society

    The great interstellar visionary SUN RA and his Arkestra on film in Robert Mugge's remarkable 1980 doc + a rare experimental 1968 short film.  Note the change in location.

  • The Inheritance, by Ephraim Asili

    The Inheritance, with filmmaker Ephraim Asili

    Date: Aug 17, 2025 7:00PM
    Location: Billy Wilder Theater, Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum

    After nearly a decade exploring the African diaspora, Ephraim Asili makes his feature debut with this vibrant ensemble film, set almost entirely in a West Philadelphia rowhome where young Black artists and activists form a collective. “‘The Inheritance’ feels like poetry visualized,” writes Lovia Gyarkye in The New York Times. Blending scripted drama with documentary reflection on the 1985 MOVE bombing, the film reimagines home as a political and spiritual inheritance.  Part of the series (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.