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

The Concrete River, by Nora Sweeney. World Premiere!

Nora Sweeney

Date: Apr 21, 2024 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

The subtle and absorbing camera of Nora Sweeney unfolds with care and wonder the extraordinary of our ordinary everyday. Her films ask us to create a relationship with reality. Her choice of using 16mm film to bring out the colors and textures of people and places she engages, serve as a slow reveal that frames into portraits and landscapes the life-lived by many in and around the confines of Los Angeles County, and beyond. Nora will be with us in person to discuss her work.

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Easyout, by Pat O'Neill

Muscle Beach to Berlin: Classic and New Films by Pat O'Neill with Golia/ Feeney/King/ LeVeque

Date: Apr 28, 2024 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Classic films by Pat O’Neill with live music by Vinny Golia, Holden King, Tim Feeney, and Matt LeVeque! Pat O’Neill first had a solo screening at Filmforum in 1979, and Vinny Golia played a concert at Filmforum in 1980! And they are back and raring to go!

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Self Portrait Across the Borderline 1 Self Portrait

Self-Portrait Along the Borderline, by Anna Dziapshipa

Crossing Distance: Family, Archive, and Legacy in short films from Eastern Europe

Date: May 5, 2024 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Filmforum hosts a program from the 19^th Annual SEEfest to present wonderful short films from Eastern Europe. Looking at how images play a role in connecting people across distances or generations, the films utilize a variety of direct and archival documentary approaches to find emotional riches.

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Progress by Andres Garza

Andres Garza and Francisco Romero

Date: May 19, 2024 7:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Progress (Andres Garza, 2003) is a rare example of Los Angeles neorealism that takes the commonplace as its subject and presents a version of Los Angeles rarely seen in film. Andres Garza's portrait of a young Mexican American working as a busboy and aspiring to become a writer in a working class suburb extends the geography and tradition of films like The Exiles, Killer of Sheep and Bless Their Little Hearts into the early 2000s. Andres Garza and Francisco Romero in person. Including the World premiere of Francisco Romero's two films, Filter and Self Portrait.

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