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 48th 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

Pwdre Ser, the rot of stars, By Charlotte Pryce

Experimentations 1: Feminist Film Experiments with Science

Date: Sep 15, 2024 3:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

The first program of Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film, Filmforum’s expansive film series and upcoming publication that investigates the ways that experimental and scientific films produce and question the visualization of the world. Combining artist films utilizing scientific imagery, science and natural history films, and films of indigenous and traditional knowledge, the series examines how science, nature, and technology films shape our understanding of humans, nature, gender, knowledge, and progress. Part of the Getty Foundation initiative PST Art: Art & Science Collide!

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How Old Are You? How Old Were You? 入世 By Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu

Experimentations 2: Rethinking Bodies, Rethinking Gender: Biology’s Expansive Otherworlds

Date: Sep 15, 2024 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film, Program 2: Bodies in flight, bodies in stasis. Our bodies are bound by both the current reality and aspirational future of science, but expand even further in the search for an otherwise. This program takes as its jumping-off point questions, experiments, and memories of the body, wrestling with history, memory, gender, social institutions. Part of the Getty Foundation initiative PST Art: Art & Science Collide!

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Brilliant Noise, by Semiconductor

Experimentations 3: Between Land and Sky, Accounting for the In-Between

Date: Sep 19, 2024 7:30PM
Location: Eagle Theatre at Vidiots

Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film, program 3. Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light will be preceded by Solar Eclipse, the first known moving image captured of space as a way to orient the audience towards the wonders of our solar system before challenging the way it is romanticized in popular media, and Brilliant Noise, a granular and intimate look at the Sun. Part of the Getty Foundation initiative PST Art: Art & Science Collide!

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The Battle Over Mazepa, by Mykola Ridnyi

Mykola Ridnyi: The Past, Present

Date: Sep 22, 2024 7:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Filmforum partners with Kyiv to LA to welcome the Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi. Ridnyi’s video work finds powerful and widely-varying approaches to explore the impact of conflicts in Ukraine, from the distant past, through the Soviet era, to the conflicts of 2014 and today. Throughout, he makes clear how the past suffuses the landscape and people caught in war.

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