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

Our Heavenly Bodies

Experimentations 11: Our Heavenly Bodies (Rescheduled)

Date: Mar 7, 2025 7:30PM
Location: Brain Dead

Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film, Program 11. Three silent films from the 1920s demonstrate the state-of-the-art of the time. Two educational films from 1920, “If We Lived on the Moon” by Max Fleischer, later of Betty Boop and Superman cartoon fame, and “Tides and the Moon” show basic illustrative educational films of the time. Live music by Dave Harrington and Friends! Rescheduled from January 10 and February 27.

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Wrought, by Anna Sigrithur & Joel Penner

Experimentations 13: Natural History in Experimental and Artist Animation (Rescheduled)

Date: Mar 9, 2025 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film, Program 13, rescheduled. It is impossible to overestimate the influence of scientific knowledge on artists’ investigations of the world, and nowhere is this influence more apparent than in contemporary moving image artists’ responses to the climate crisis. In the context of mass extinction and global climate change, the science of ecology underlies key issues currently facing humanity, and, thus, ecological considerations are understandably pervasive in contemporary moving image artworks. This program presents a selection of works that engage with aspects of ecology in the form of natural history.

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Tomorrowland 明日樂園 by Goang-Ming YUAN

Then<·>Now: Taiwan Experimental Film and Video Arts, Part 2

Date: Mar 9, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Part 2 in our series focuses on "events": events in history, events outside of history, the moments when events are recorded, and the moments when events are screened, watched, and discussed. Communicating these events is like retelling history in a non-linear way. Some of the stories here are closely related to Taiwan, such as the life fragments of Kinmen soldiers in 03:04 by Ting-Fu Huang, while others revolve around the artist’s personal reflections, on migration, memory, and the symbiotic moments of life and cinema.

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Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen Again: The Films of Victoria Vincent

Date: Mar 16, 2025 7:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

A fever dream stitched together from hyperpop absurdism, DIY grit, and existential dread, Victoria Vincent’s films paint a world where the distant horizon line never gets any closer, and the only certainty is drinking alone at a curved bar. Victoria Vincent, known online as Vewn, has been animating and posting for over a decade, drawing over 1.5 million subscribers into her ever-evolving distortions.

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