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

Femme Grotesquerie

Date: Mar 8, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Femme Grotesquerie is a collection of ten contemporary experimental animation short films showcasing femininity as something unruly, excessive, and emboldened.

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Cauleen Smith, photo by Joshua Franzos

Filmforum 50, program 10: The Volcano Manifesto: Films by Cauleen Smith

Date: Mar 20, 2026 7:30PM
Location: The Velaslavasay Panorama

One of our city’s leading artists, Cauleen Smith works in a variety of media. We’re delighted to host a set of five films of hers from the past decade, including the Los Angeles premiere of her latest, The Deep West Assembly. The Deep West Assembly is the third in her Volcano Manifesto, in which she mines a realm of imagistic possibilities on geology, vulcanology, cinema, and more.

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Time Being (1991) by Gunvor Nelson

Gunvor Nelson Tribute, program 1: Red Shift

Date: Mar 22, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

The first of three screenings, co-presented by four organizations, in tribute to the late Gunvor Nelson, a pioneer of personal cinema and feminist film. Nelson's innovative films combine painting, collage, and sound experimentation, embodying humor, resistance, intimacy, and tactile sensation.

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My Name Is Oona, by Gunvor Nelson. Image courtesy of Filmform (Sweden)

Gunvor Nelson Tribute, program 2: Moons Pool

Date: Mar 27, 2026 7:30PM
Location: The Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater

The second of three screenings, this program highlights the early classic films that made her reputation, often collaborating with Dorothy Wiley or Robert Nelson. The early films are based around the experiences of a younger woman, culminating in My Name Is Oona (1969), an expressive portrait of her daughter, and “Moons Pool” (1973), an existentially expressive underwater journey which centers on her own body.

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Gunvor Nelson, image courtesy of Filmform

Gunvor Nelson Tribute, program 3: Light Years Expanding

Date: Mar 28, 2026 7:30PM
Location: The UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum,

The third of three screenings, co-presented by four organizations, in tribute to the late Gunvor Nelson, a pioneer of personal cinema and feminist film. Tonight’s program highlights four of her later classic 16mm films from the period 1988-1993, in which she combined animation with live-action in a series of revelatory collage films.

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