Winter-Spring 2023
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Alas, Departing (2022) , by Dicky Bahto
Hand Made: Recent Films by Dicky Bahto
Start Date: Jan 8, 2023 7:30PM
End Date: Jan 8, 2023 9:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesFilmforum is thrilled to showcase the work of its longtime friend and periodic collaborator, as we present a program of recent work by Dicky Bahto, including pieces made in collaboration with musicians Sarah Davachi and Raum (Liz Harris + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma). The evening will conclude with a new expanded cinema collaboration with Tashi Wada.
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Alphabet Movie (1994), by Nanny Lynn, World Theatrical Premiere
Teddy Bears and Little Friends: The films of “Nanny" Lynn Ochberg
Start Date: Jan 22, 2023 1:00PM
End Date: Jan 22, 2023 3:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesThirty years ago, VHS tapes containing striking Commodore Amiga animations started showing up at parties, micro cinemas, and living rooms across the country. Each copy was made to satisfy the audience's thirst for more of these narratively diverse films showcasing fairy tales, dinosaurs, consumption, play, politics, and even the Bosnian War. Those holding their tapes were left hungry in their pursuit of figuring out the true identity of its creator, Nanny Lynn....Filmforum is excited to showcase a program of "Nanny" Lynn Ochberg's animated films. Following the program, there will be a Q&A with Ochberg and animator James Thacher.
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The Fragmentations Only Mean …
The Fragmentations Only Mean …
Date: Feb 19, 2023 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives,The Los Angeles premiere of a new documentary film by Jesse Lerner and Sara Harris, an audiovisual landscape of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum, located in the California high desert.
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Cruce Postal: Del otro nuevo viaje, by Valentina Alvarado
Valentina Alvarado Matos: Collage Traces and Shards
Start Date: Mar 26, 2023 7:30PM
End Date: Mar 26, 2023 9:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesFor the two-day symposium Precarity in Cinema, coming later this week, the artist Valentina Alvarado will be coming to Los Angeles from Spain. Filmforum and L.A. OLA are delighted to to host her first solo program in the United States. Filming the outer (landscape/territories/geographies) and the inner (studio life, hands, affections) is a constant conversation Valentina Alvarado has with her camera. Her practice focuses on collage, understood as a vessel that houses elements like paper, film, ceramics, and multiple media. She thinks from and with the image and its materiality, always traversed from a look that revolves around the landscape, belongingness, and matter.
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Celaje, by Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Precarity in Film: Experimental Ecologies - The Vulnerable Gaze
Start Date: Mar 29, 2023 4:30PM
End Date: Mar 29, 2023 6:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives“Precarity in Film: Experimental Ecologies” features experimental, alternative, independent, and underground films from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain that engage with ecological, racial, and material precarity. The works selected depict and distort, exhibit and expose the extreme conditions facing communities and landscapes of their home territories, as well as the precarious quality of the production and preservation of experimental film.
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"Altiplano" by Malena Szlam
Precarity in Film: Experimental Ecologies - Trembling Landscapes
Start Date: Mar 29, 2023 8:00PM
End Date: Mar 29, 2023 10:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives“Precarity in Film: Experimental Ecologies” features experimental, alternative, independent, and underground films from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain that engage with ecological, racial, and material precarity. The works selected depict and distort, exhibit and expose the extreme conditions facing communities and landscapes of their home territories, as well as the precarious quality of the production and preservation of experimental film.
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Amy Halpern, by Adam Hyman
Amy Halpern: Plausible Light Sources
Start Date: Apr 2, 2023 7:30PM
End Date: Apr 2, 2023 9:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archivesin 2022 we lost our great and good friend, filmmaker Amy Halpern. On occasion of her 70th birthday, tonight’s program is the first of three exploring Amy’s work. Additional programs will take place at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum (April 16) and the Ted Mann Theatre at the Academy Museum (April 20). The program includes works both old and new, with a few Los Angeles premieres.
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Whispers in the Water, By Onyou Oh (2020)
The Margins of Dream Language: Contemporary Korean Female Experimental Filmmakers
Start Date: Apr 23, 2023 1:00PM
End Date: Apr 23, 2023 3:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesPresented by Los Angeles Filmforum, GYOPO, and LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division)
When image and language are paired together, written and spoken words can reposition the image’s hierarchical role and create an opportunity for a new point of view. In this program, Korean female filmmakers use text itself as a material—either directly burned into the film or inserted as voice over—to push cinema towards a radical location or realm, engaging with an expansive legacy of colonial power dynamics. With the understanding that translated language with subtitles always creates a gap, this series welcomes and engages with it as an act of defiance, insisting on opacity and being unexplainable.
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Wavelength, courtesy Michael Snow/Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
Snow in Springtime: A Michael Snow Tribute in three films, including Wavelength
Start Date: Apr 30, 2023 7:30PM
End Date: Apr 30, 2023 9:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesCo-presented with Mezzanine. When Michael Snow passed away on January 5 at the age of 94, the world lost a tremendous artist, who worked with rigor and humor in film, music, photography, sculpture, and more. His classic film Wavelength hasn’t played in Los Angeles for several years, so we are bringing it with two other short films, Standard Time (1967) and See You Later (1990) all screening on 16mm.
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Man with a Movie Camera, with live score by Montopolis
Start Date: May 12, 2023 7:30PM
End Date: May 12, 2023 9:00PM
Location: Secret Movie Club TheaterWe are excited and honored to partner with the Secret Movie Club to present a special screening of Dziga Vertov’s montage/documentary/experimental masterpiece Man With A Movie Camera with live original score by Austin, Texas indie chamber group Montopolis.
One of the most influential documentaries ever made, the film recently placed 8th on the 2022 Sight and Sound Greatest films of all time poll. The live score by Montopolis has been called "stunning and transcendent" by the Austin Chronicle.
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Wyvernwood: The Garden City, by Diego Robles
The Wyvernwood Chronicles: Part 1
Date: Jun 11, 2023 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesFilmforum welcomes local filmmaker Diego Robles with two of the films he has made with the residents of the Wyvernwood Garden Apartment Complex in East Los Angeles. Robles quietly but firmly asks the viewer if they can “show up” to the discomfort of the colloquial, creating a portal into the very real experiences of people in Los Angeles living outside of the culture of individualism.
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A Bigger Splash. Courtesy Metrograph Pictures
A Bigger Splash
Date: Jun 25, 2023 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesLA Filmforum and Other Aspects come together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jack Hazan's creative docufiction and artist film, A Bigger Splash.
As summer weather finally comes on, we revisit the creation of one of David Hockney's legendary California poolside works alongside the agonizing breakup with boyfriend (and LA native) Peter Schlesinger, the muse and subject of some of Hockney’s best-known works. -
People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose
John Torres: US Premiere of People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose
Date: Jun 30, 2023 7:30PM
Location: Whammy! AnalogFilmforum has commissioned five artists to make new work, generously funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, and over the next year will be presenting the premieres of the works, including discussions with the artists. We are delighted to welcome John Torres from the Philippines for two public screenings, one at Whammy! Analog on June 30, and one at 2220 Arts on Sunday July 2. The screening at Whammy! is the US premiere of his latest feature film. People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose. The screening at 2220 Arts will include the newly commissioned film and additional shorts.
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John Torres: Poet of Philippine Cinema
Date: Jul 2, 2023 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesFilmforum has commissioned five artists to make new work, generously funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, and over the next year will be presenting the premieres of the works, including discussions with the artists. We are delighted to welcome John Torres from the Philippines for two public screenings. The screening at 2220 Arts will include the newly commissioned film, Room in a crowd, a recent short, and a work-in-progress.
“John Torres is the poet of Philippine cinema. A poet with his own rules and ways of working.” -International Film Festival Rotterdam
"...Torres is not only one of the best Filipino directors of his generation, but also one of the (already fulfilled) promises of contemporary cinema." -Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM