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

"Tabula Rasa" by Vincent Grenier

Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 2)

Date: Sep 7, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Over his fifty-year career, Vincent Grenier created a body of work unlike any other in contemporary experimental cinema. Utilizing many approaches, his 16mm films and videos move fluidly between modes of abstraction and documentary, sound and silence, spectral superimposition and stark clarity. The second of two tribute programs.

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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 + Archives

Los 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 + Archives

Sandra 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 + Archives

The 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 + Archives

Ben 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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