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

Thru the CRT (1985)

EZTV Avant Video: Works by Video Innovators

Date: Mar 31, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

When the EZTV Video Gallery first opened in the summer of 1983, founder John Dorr envisioned the space as presenting “an alternative vision of contemporary culture and reality, a vision in no way controlled by the mass media, lowest-common-denominator ethic.” This was done through EZTV’s wildly varied programming, which featured everything from more traditional narrative video to live performance and cutting-edge video and computer art—and often works that incorporated multiple elements from all of the above. For this program, we’ll present three mid-length works that were originally packaged together in August 1985 as Avant Video: New Works by Video Innovators, along with a handful of shorter pieces spanning the breadth of EZTV’s history.

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Voices of Our Mothers: Transcending Time and Distance (2016)

FORMATIONS: Selected Works by Francis Almendárez, 2013-2025

Date: May 4, 2025 7:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

These selected works by Francis Almendárez delve into the everyday in distinct ways, displaying a Los Angeles hardly ever seen. Intimate and personal, yet abstract and poetic - Almendárez toggles between showing us reflections of his lived reality, and embodying the images and sounds of the lived reality as it is shown. Including the World Theatrical Premieres of six videos!

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