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

Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

Date: Sep 19, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

LA Premiere with Negativland in person! “Much of the film layers eviscerated visuals into a vaudevillian media kaleidoscope.” - Marc Weidenbaum, The Wire Also showing a few Negativland music videos!

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Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices)

Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices) by Maxime Jean-Baptiste

Date: Sep 21, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Human Resources

Part of Cinema Land at Human Resources Los Angeles Premiere plus a pre-recorded Q&A with filmmaker Maxime Jean-Baptiste! An elegy, but also a celebration, Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices) portrays a family and a community as they experience grief, joy, and reconciliation in the wake of tragedy.

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Pond Life Spring, by Amy Lockhart

Mercy for the Messy: The films of Amy Lockhart

Date: Sep 27, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Amy Lockhart in person! Amy Lockhart is one of the defining voices in contemporary independent animation. Her influence stretches across independent animation, contemporary art, and studio television, with artists and filmmakers regularly citing her as an inspiration. Lockhart’s work is DIY without being slight, punk without being precious, and funny without ever filing down the weird. Across paper, pencil, 16mm, collage, puppets, cheap software, and whatever else is around, she has built a body of work that is crude, sharp, and completely her own.

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A note on the ruins for visitors

Dicky Bahto: A note on the ruins for visitors

Date: Oct 4, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts & Archives

A note on the ruins for visitors is a deeply personal portrait of the Assyrian community from fragments of material drawn from Bahto's family history, ancient artifacts, and collaborations with contemporary artists working across the diaspora. The film features visual artwork, music, and writing by, as well as portraits of, Assyrian, Chaldean, and other artists drawing on Assyrian culture, language, and music, including Esther Elia, Maryam Yousif, Lolita Emmanuel, Tenise Marie, Sami Seif, Monette Eiliazadeh, Deena Ana, Andrew Najor, Anna Kingsley, Rami Kingsley, Enanna Sheena, and more.

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The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary (2025), by Jeffrey Skoller

History from Below: The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors, Three Film Portraits

Date: Oct 11, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Jeffrey Skoller in person! Los Angeles premieres! The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors is a series of film portraits of nonagenarians recounting their own experiences in history changing events that shaped the world and the rest of their own lives.

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