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

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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In Another Light: Cinema of Memory: A 10 Year Celebration of Home Movies

Date: Oct 5, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

The 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

Date: Oct 12, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

The films of Santiago Torres 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 from Mexico with his films from 2008-2022.

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