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

Filmforum at 50, program 1: Classics of Los Angeles Experimental Film

Date: Nov 16, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

We hope you will join us for this special event, the launch of our celebration of Filmforum’s 50^th year! Starting with some classics all on 16mm: Invocation, by Amy Halpern; Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren; Introspection by Sara Kathryn Arledge, Lapis, by James Whitney; Kitsch In Synch, by Adam Beckett; Twelve, by Beth Block; Cartoon Le Mousse, by Chick Strand; Foregrounds, by Pat O'Neill; and more!

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The Innerview

Richard Beymer’s The Innerview

Date: Nov 20, 2025 7:00PM
Location: Philosophical Research Society

Film preservationist Ross Lipman presents the restoration Richard Beymer's long lost psychedelic masterwork + a Q&A with star Joanna Frank!

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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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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

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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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