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WInter 2026

  • Today, by Su Friedrich

    Su Friedrich: Today

    Date: Jan 11, 2026 7:30PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    Filmforum welcomes back acclaimed filmmaker Su Friedrich for the Los Angeles premieres of two of her digital video works!

  • Did You Know Blue Had No Name?, by Elise Rasmussen

    Filmforum 50, program 5: Real Life, with the Millennium Film Journal

    Date: Jan 18, 2026 7:30PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    Over the last half-century, the Millennium Film Journal has charted seismic transformations in the way we create and look at moving pictures—from 16mm celluloid to magnetic videotape to digital “content creation,” and now the strange new world of AI-generated deepfakes and simulations.  Real Life—the latest edition of MFJ—is a study of this diachronic gray zone, and the Journal joins with Los Angeles Filmforum in showcasing a handful of works discussed in its pages, along with others we admire.

  • Shirley Clarke

    Filmforum 50: Embodied Filmmaking: 8 Films by Shirley Clarke + Book Launch and Discussion

    Date: Jan 25, 2026 7:00PM
    Location: Philosophical Research Society

    As part of Dance Camera West, an evening of pioneering experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke’s dance films in celebration of Karen Pearlman’s new book on her work!