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

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Rajee Samarasinghe: Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Date: Nov 23, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

We welcome back Rajee Samarasinghe with his new feature film Your Touch Makes Others Invisible. As many as 100,000 people, predominantly members of the minority Tamil community, are estimated to have disappeared during the 26-year-long Sri Lankan Civil War. Fifteen years after the end of the war in 2009, families are still looking for their vanished loved ones. Samarasinghe reflects on this harrowing history through a combination of direct interviews, newsclips, dramatic re-enactments and abstract, symbolically coded tableaux.

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Sky Hopinka’s Maɬni--Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore

Date: Nov 28, 2025 7:00PM
Location: Philosophical Research Society

Renowned visual artist Sky Hopinka's stunning debut feature film — a meditative, experimental exploration of the Chinookan death myth. At the Philosophical Research Society Hopinka in conversation with Adam Piron after the film.

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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office, by Courtney Stephens and Michael Almereyda

Date: Nov 30, 2025 7:00PM
Location: Philosophical Research Society

Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens' fascinating experimental doc about the psychonautic scientist who tried to communicate with dolphins. JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (2025) presented by 7th House, Bibliomancers, and Los Angeles Filmforum with Courtney Stephens in person and musical performance by Twig Harper!

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Amy Halpern in Soft Fiction, by Chick Strand

Filmforum 50, program 2: The Women’s Gaze: Chick Strand’s Soft Fiction and Courtney Stephens’s Terra Femme

Date: Dec 7, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Reaching across decades, this program three eras of films made by women: first, travelogues from the first half of the 20^th century, then the 1970s, and then most recently an investigation of those early films. Two fantastic films by Los Angeles filmmakers – Chick Strand and Courtney Stephens, with Stephens in person presenting the live version of Terra Femme after a rare screening of one of Strand’s masterworks, Soft Fiction.

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Reality Frictions

Filmforum 50, program 3: Steve Anderson’s Reality Frictions with Marlon Fuentes’s Bontoc Eulogy

Date: Dec 12, 2025 7:30PM
Location: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

Former Filmforum board member, filmmaker Steve F. Anderson sought to explore this “intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood” with his latest essay feature film, Reality Frictions, which we are pleased to debut in Los Angeles in partnership with the UCLA Film & TV Archive. One of the films referenced in Anderson’s work is Marlon Fuentes’ Bontoc Eulogy, which explores the performative images taken at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904 of displaced and coerced indigenous Filipino communities, whcih we previously featured in a pair of 2007 screenings linked to the book F Is for Phony, and we're not sure if it has played in Los Angeles since then.

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