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

Duke Ellington and Orchestra 1963

Filmforum 50, program 13: Improvisations 2026: An Evening with Mark Cantor

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

A fantastic array of jazz films, presented by Mark Cantor, who did his first public programs of his jazz film collection at Pasadena Filmforum in February 1977! Including performances by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, World Saxophone Quartet, Dizzy Gillespie and Helen Humes, Miles Davis, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Phil Woods (recreating Bird with Strings), Blind Boys of Mississippi, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, and Dinah Washington!

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Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock’n’Roll

Date: Jun 11, 2026 6:30PM
Location: Brand Library

Through the eyes, words and songs of its popular music stars of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA’S LOST ROCK AND ROLL examines and unravels Cambodia’s tragic past. Combining interviews with surviving musicians and never-before-seen archival material and rare songs, the film tracks the winding course of Cambodian music as it morphs into a unique style of rock and roll. In person conversation after the show with Chhom Nimol and Senon Williams from the band Dengue Fever and Filmforum director Adam Hyman

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The 21st Century Century: A Durational Performance Conceived by Barbara T. Smith

Filmforum 50, program 14: The 21st Century Odyssey

Start Date: Jun 14, 2026 1:00PM
End Date: Jun 14, 2026 5:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Barbara T. Smith's 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. With co-director Barbara T. Smith in conversation with Michael J. Masucci in person!

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The Decay of Fiction

Filmforum 50, program 15: The Decay of Fiction in 35mm and the World Premiere of a new Pat O'Neill film!

Date: Jun 17, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Brain Dead Studios

Filmforum continues its 50^th anniversary screenings with a rare 35mm screening of Pat O’Neill’s classic feature film The Decay of Fiction, a multi-layered reverie of the abandoned Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, of ghosts of old Hollywood, and film noir. In addition, we’re hosting the world premiere of Skies, a new Pat O’Neill film! We’re also going to have the DVD-Rom Tracing the Decay of Fiction available, in tribute to the late Marsha Kinder, who was behind the Labyrinth Project that created it.

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The Old Sorceress and the Valet

A Night of Films by Julius-Amédée Laou

Date: Jun 24, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Los Angeles Filmforum, Black Revivalist, and CaribbeanLens Film Festival are proud to present a double feature of films by French-Martinican playwright and filmmaker Julius-Amédée Laou. We’ll be screening Laou’s 2002 film French Wedding, Caribbean Style along with his 1987 film The Old Sorceress and the Valet. Both films will feature a pre-recorded introduction by the filmmaker!

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