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

They Told Me "Apikaan" Means Braid

Eve-Lauryn LaFountain: Conversation Pieces

Date: Mar 1, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

We welcome back Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, visiting fro New Mexico. Her experimental films extinguish mythical ideals of history in the American Southwest, while engaging a troth of interrelated dynamics between the land and those who hear its beauty and history.

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Femme Grotesquerie

Date: Mar 8, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Femme Grotesquerie is a collection of ten contemporary experimental animation short films showcasing femininity as something unruly, excessive, and emboldened.

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Cauleen Smith, photo by Joshua Franzos

Filmforum 50, program 10: The Volcano Manifesto: Films by Cauleen Smith

Date: Mar 20, 2026 7:30PM
Location: The Velaslavasay Panorama

One of our city’s leading artists, Cauleen Smith works in a variety of media. We’re delighted to host a set of five films of hers from the past decade, including the Los Angeles premiere of her latest, The Deep West Manifesto. The Deep West Manifesto is the third in her Volcano Trilogy, in which she mines a realm of imagistic possibilities on geology, vulcanology, cinema, and more.

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Time Being (1991) by Gunvor Nelson

Gunvor Nelson Tribute, program 1: Red Shift

Date: Mar 22, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

The first of three screenings, co-presented by four organizations, in tribute to the late Gunvor Nelson, a pioneer of personal cinema and feminist film. Nelson's innovative films combine painting, collage, and sound experimentation, embodying humor, resistance, intimacy, and tactile sensation.

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Gunvor Nelson, image courtesy of Filmform

Gunvor Nelson Tribute, program 3: Light Years Expanding

Date: Mar 28, 2026 7:30PM
Location: The UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum,

The third of three screenings, co-presented by four organizations, in tribute to the late Gunvor Nelson, a pioneer of personal cinema and feminist film. Tonight’s program highlights four of her later classic 16mm films from the period 1988-1993, in which she combined animation with live-action in a series of revelatory collage films.

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