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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

  • The American Sector

    The American Sector, by Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez

    Date: Apr 1, 2026 7:30PM
    Location: Philosophical Research Society

    Join us in screening Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez’s 2020 documentary The American Sector, following the array of paths that fragments of the Berlin Wall have taken across the USA.

     

  • Conical Intersect (1975), courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

    The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark

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

    Gordon Matta-Clark, the artist, urban explorer, and “anarchitect” most famous for the “building cuts” he performed on various decomposing structures in the 1970s, made 18 short films before his untimely death from cancer in 1978.  This program collects six of his films shot between 1972 and 1976, documenting four building cuts, one formal experiment, and one car crash. Special guests Jessamyn Fiore, Director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, and critic Dylan Adamson.