Summer-Fall 2026
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Star Spangled to Death
Filmforum 50, program 16: Star Spangled to Death
Date: Jul 5, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, and in honor of the late Ken Jacobs, we present his epic tribute to the United States of America.
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"RAPE" by Yoko Ono, Directed by John Lennon & Yoko Ono, (c) Yoko Ono, courtesy of the artist
Yoko Ono’s film “RAPE” with a talk by Jennifer Doyle
Date: Jul 12, 2026 7:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesIn conjunction with The Broad’s exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Filmforum presents her rarely screened film “RAPE” followed by a talk on the film by writer and educator Jennifer Doyle. The film is not included in the exhibition, so this is your only chance to see it currently.
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L.A.X.
Fabrice Ziolkowski's L.A.X. (1980)
Date: Jul 17, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Philosophical Research SocietyA rare screening of a landmark of Los Angeles avant garde cinema, a hypnotically drifting afternoon-to-evening cruise through a bygone LA. Sold out
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Yoko Ono Fluxfilm No. 9: Eye Blink, 1966. (c) Yoko Ono, courtesy of the artist
Films by Yoko Ono
Date: Jul 26, 2026 2:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesIn conjunction with The Broad’s exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Filmforum presents some films of hers not included in the exhibition, along with a couple of her Flux films. Introduced by Sarah Loyer, curator at The Broad.
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George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus, by Jeff Perkins
Date: Aug 2, 2026 2:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesJeff Perkins presents the LA Premiere of his film George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus, a feature documentary as mercurial as its subject, George Maciunas. Fascinatingly contradictory interviews with artists including Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik, on the heels of our two programs of Yoko Ono films, help provide a broader
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Petal to the Metal, by Emily Pelstring
Filmforum 50, Program 17: Floribunda, an outdoor garden screening
Date: Aug 8, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Arlington GardenContemplative, whimsical, analytical, reverential, materialist, political or diaristic - the garden has been the colorful source for a bounty of cinematic approaches. In this outdoor summer screening, we have chosen to share a range of contemporary short experimental films all looking closely at the life and realms of gardens. Filmforum returns to Pasadena for this lovely set of films set in the beautiful space of Arlington Garden.
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Stranded in Canton © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York
Stranded in Canton, by William Eggleston
Date: Sep 7, 2026 7:30PM
Location: WhammyAs part of Whammy’s SOV September, The Philosophical Research Society’s 7th House Screenings & LA Filmforum are proud to present a rare theatrical screening of STRANDED IN CANTON (1974/2005), quintessential American photographer William Eggleston’s mesmerizing, unruly and disarmingly intimate lone foray into filmmaking.
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Five Days Til Tomorrow, by Lewis Klahr
Lew Klahr: From 45 To 33 -- Part 1: Fable by the Door
Date: Sep 13, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesWorld premiere! Lew Klahr in person! "This new series is a cinema of shifting moods and engagements that offers a tactile exploration of elliptical narrative and poetic montage. Like a waking dream, what can be clearly described in words is less significant than what can be felt." — Lew Klahr
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Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland
Date: Sep 19, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesLA Premiere with Negativland in person! “Much of the film layers eviscerated visuals into a vaudevillian media kaleidoscope.” - Marc Weidenbaum, The Wire Also showing a few Negativland music videos!
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Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices)
Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices) by Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Date: Sep 21, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Human ResourcesPart of Cinema Land at Human Resources Los Angeles Premiere plus a pre-recorded Q&A with filmmaker Maxime Jean-Baptiste! An elegy, but also a celebration, Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices) portrays a family and a community as they experience grief, joy, and reconciliation in the wake of tragedy.
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Pond Life Spring, by Amy Lockhart
Mercy for the Messy: The films of Amy Lockhart
Date: Sep 27, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesAmy Lockhart in person! Amy Lockhart is one of the defining voices in contemporary independent animation. Her influence stretches across independent animation, contemporary art, and studio television, with artists and filmmakers regularly citing her as an inspiration. Lockhart’s work is DIY without being slight, punk without being precious, and funny without ever filing down the weird. Across paper, pencil, 16mm, collage, puppets, cheap software, and whatever else is around, she has built a body of work that is crude, sharp, and completely her own.
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A note on the ruins for visitors
Dicky Bahto: A note on the ruins for visitors
Date: Oct 4, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts & ArchivesA note on the ruins for visitors is a deeply personal portrait of the Assyrian community from fragments of material drawn from Bahto's family history, ancient artifacts, and collaborations with contemporary artists working across the diaspora. The film features visual artwork, music, and writing by, as well as portraits of, Assyrian, Chaldean, and other artists drawing on Assyrian culture, language, and music, including Esther Elia, Maryam Yousif, Lolita Emmanuel, Tenise Marie, Sami Seif, Monette Eiliazadeh, Deena Ana, Andrew Najor, Anna Kingsley, Rami Kingsley, Enanna Sheena, and more.
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The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary (2025), by Jeffrey Skoller
History from Below: The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors, Three Film Portraits
Date: Oct 11, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesJeffrey Skoller in person! Los Angeles premieres! The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors is a series of film portraits of nonagenarians recounting their own experiences in history changing events that shaped the world and the rest of their own lives.
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The 21st Century Century: A Durational Performance Conceived by Barbara T. Smith
Filmforum 50, program 14: The 21st Century Odyssey
Start Date: Oct 17, 2026 1:00PM
End Date: Oct 17, 2026 5:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesRescheduled from June. The 21st Century Odyssey is a video travelogue through love, liberatory technology, social and personal mythology, and the pleasures and rigors of making life into art told in part through the pixelated beauty of the videophone. Though rarely screened, it is a rich and resonant chapter in the legendary Barbara T. Smith’s career-long experiments with machine innovation. Co-director Barbara T. Smith in conversation with Michael J. Masucci!
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Swing Swish Sway, by TT Takemoto
The Festival of (In)appropriation #14
Date: Oct 24, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + ArchivesCurators Jaimie Baron and Jennifer Proctor in person! World premiere of this festival program! Founded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a preeminent international showcase for experimental, found-media film and video. Every year, the Festival attracts artists working across an astonishing array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of collage, machinima, re-mix, détournement, mash-up, and more.