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!

Upcoming Screenings

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 + Archives

Rescheduled 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 + Archives

Curators 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.

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Una Esquina Del Mundo (2004), by Francisco Romero

Francisco Romero: Local Reconstructions

Date: Nov 1, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Inside Southern California, our landscapes have been sculpted by massive capital - our homes, our neighborhoods, & even our memories constantly resist being minoritized & made insignificant. Francisco Romero's current film essays, and turn of the century docu-dramas, unearth needed poetic & political context to equip us against this sculpting.

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