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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 50th 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! 

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Newt Leaders, by Amy Halpern

Upcoming Screenings

  • Su Friedrich: Today

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

    Filmforum welcomes back Su Friedrich after multiple years for the Los Angeles premieres of two of her digital video works!

  • 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.