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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! 

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Newt Leaders, by Amy Halpern

Upcoming Screenings

  • Petal to the Metal, by Emily Pelstring

    Filmforum 50, Program 17: Floribunda, an outdoor garden screening

    Date: Aug 8, 2026 7:30PM
    Location: Arlington Garden

    Contemplative, whimsical, analytical, reverential, materialist, political or diaristic - the garden has been the colorful source for a bounty of cinematic approaches.  In this outdoor summer screening, we have chosen to share a range of contemporary short experimental films all looking closely at the life and realms of gardens. Filmforum returns to Pasadena for this lovely set of films set in the beautiful space of Arlington Garden.  

  • Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

    Date: Sep 19, 2026 1:00PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    LA Premiere with Negativland in person!  “Much of the film layers eviscerated visuals into a vaudevillian media kaleidoscope.” - Marc Weidenbaum, The Wire