Fall 2025
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Still from “CORAL” (2024) by Matt Town, 16mm film, black & white, silent, 11 minutes Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery, New York
Coral & Florida-Structuralism: New Works by Matt Town
Date: Sep 14, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesLos Angeles Filmforum welcomes local artist & experimental filmmaker Matt Town to screen films and videos from his latest show “Coral”, as well as select older works. Town, who frequently addresses social issues in his work, turns his attention in “Coral” to themes of chemical addiction in the US, drawing upon the experiences of and at times collaborating with his family members. His new 16mm and video works form a strikingly intense, poetic, and personal response to the opioid epidemic, alcoholism, and methods of addiction treatment.
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Gibson + Recoder performing Backlight
Gibson + Recoder: Projection Performance for Single and Dual 16mm Film Projection
Date: Sep 21, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesSandra Gibson and Luis Recoder return to Filmforum for a special evening of projection performances. In this program of 16mm film performances for single and dual projection, film is not the exclusive object of attraction but the occasion for potentially disclosing the art of projection. The “performance” in our title refers to the success or failure of the film to articulate the beauty of projected light on a screen.
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Look Then Below, by Ben RIvers
Urthworks: 3 Films by Ben Rivers
Date: Sep 28, 2025 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesThe first of two screenings with Ben Rivers in person, Urthworks is a trilogy of short films by Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments.
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Jake Williams, the subject of Bogancloch, and filmmaker Ben RIvers
Bogancloch, by Ben Rivers, Los Angeles Premiere
Date: Sep 30, 2025 8:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesBen Rivers returns to present the LA Premiere of Bogancloch. Bogancloch is where modern day hermit Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. At the heart a song, an argument between life and death, each stating their case to rule over the world.
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In Another Light: Cinema of Memory: A 10 Year Celebration of Home Movies
Date: Oct 5, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesThe Al Larvick Conservation Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sharing the rich heritage of amateur motion pictures, presents this screening series across key venues in 2025–26 in celebration of its 10th anniversary. Home movie delights and wonderful films by Jim Hubbard!
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Of Time and Memory, by Santiago Torres
Santiago Torres
Date: Oct 12, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesThe films of Santiago Torres observe the urban harmony inherent in the chaos, while also engaging the painful sprawl embedded within its cacophony. His films are an inventory of various sociological-ecological investigations into loneliness, isolation, the way we remember and see the world around us, and how media and cinema find their way as interventions into our consciousness and reality. Please join us for the World Premieres of “Sobre el amor y la soledad” & “Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park”, and the US Premiere of “Habitantes,” “Of Time and Memory”, and “Embodied Knowledge” - and in welcoming Santiago Torres from Mexico with his films from 2008-2022.