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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

  • Entanglement, by Larry Gottheim

    Larry Gottheim: Entanglements

    Date: Nov 2, 2025 7:30PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    Renowned filmmaker Larry Gottheim returns to Los Angeles Filmforum with a classic film and the LA premieres of two new digital works!

  • Filmforum at 50, program 1: Classics of Los Angeles Experimental Film

    Date: Nov 16, 2025 7:30PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    We 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!

  • Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

    Rajee Samarasinghe: Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

    Date: Nov 23, 2025 7:30PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    We 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. 

  • Amy Halpern in Soft Fiction, by Chick Strand