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Filmforum is the city's longest running organization that screens experimental and avant-garde film and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation.

Hand-crafted, non-commercial films!

06/16/2026

A rare 35mm screening of Pat O’Neill’s classic feature film The Decay of Fiction!

Also featuring an interactive copy of O’Neill’s DVD-Rom Tracing the Decay of Fiction

“The film takes place in a building about to be destroyed, those walls contain (by dint of association) a huge burden of memory: cultural and personal, conscious and unconscious. To make the film was to trap a few of its characters and some of their dialog, casting them together within the confines of the site. The structure and its stories are decaying together, and each seems to be a metaphor for the other.”
– Pat O’Neill

In tribute to Marsha Kinder

Wednesday 6/17 at BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS — 7:30pm — Free for first 10 Filmforum members!

06/13/2026

Join us for a rare 35mm screening of Pat O’Neill’s classic feature film The Decay of Fiction! This Wednesday!

A multi-layered reverie of the abandoned Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, of ghosts of old Hollywood, and film noir.

We will have the DVD-Rom Tracing the Decay of Fiction available to interact with.

In tribute to the late Marsha Kinder, who was behind the Labyrinth Project that created Tracing.

7:30pm at BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS

06/10/2026

Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock’n’Roll comes to the Brand Library Thursday, 6/11!

Featuring an in person conversation with Chhom Nimol and Senon Williams (from the band Dengue Fever) and Adam Hyman (Filmforum director)

During the 60s and early 70s, as the war in Vietnam threatened its borders, a new music scene emerged in Cambodia that took Western rock and roll and stood it on its head – creating a sound like no other. But as Cambodian society - young creative musicians in particular - embraced western culture and flourished under its influence, the rest of the country was rapidly moving to war.

Presented with Brand Associates REEL ART Film Series. Free and open to the public!

06/05/2026

Improvisations 2026: An Evening with Mark Cantor - 7:30pm at this Sunday, 6/7!

Celluloid Improvisations is an archive of jazz (and jazz influenced and/or related) music preserved on 16mm sound film, videotape, laserdisc, DVD and various digital formats. The collection includes more than 4,000 separate performances, and while the archive’s holdings focus on jazz, they also include such related forms of American music as blues, Swing, Western Swing, “pop,” rhythm and blues, country-western, vernacular dance, vaudeville and variety arts, etc.

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!

06/02/2026

Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock’n’Roll comes to the Brand Library Thursday, 6/11!

Featuring an in person conversation with Chhom Nimol and Senon Williams (from the band Dengue Fever) and Adam Hyman (Filmforum director)

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.

Presented with Brand Associates REEL ART Film Series. Free and open to the public!

05/30/2026

Improvisations -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, comes to on Sunday, 6/7

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!

05/20/2026

Coming Sunday 6/7 to - join us for Improvisations 2026: An Evening with Mark Cantor - a fantastic array of jazz films, presented by Cantor, who did his first public programs of his jazz film collection at Pasadena Filmforum in February 1977!

Featuring many rarities and performances by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington (pictured), Dinah Washington, and more!

Celluloid Improvisations is an archive of jazz (and jazz influenced and/or related) music preserved on 16mm sound film, videotape, laserdisc, DVD and various digital formats. The collection includes more than 4,000 separate performances, and while the archive’s holdings focus on jazz, they also include such related forms of American music as blues, Swing, Western Swing, “pop,” rhythm and blues, country-western, vernacular dance, vaudeville and variety arts, etc.

05/07/2026

Kevin James Everson joins us this Tuesday, 5/12, at for Watching the Way You Move: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson — featuring 1 World Premiere and 5 West Coast Premieres!

Every time we host Everson, we share in the beauty and energy of the ever-growing project of his film artistry.

Kevin Jerome Everson is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art, Director of Studio Arts, University of Virginia. Everson’s art practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, photography and film, including 13 features and over 300 solo & collaborative shorts. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Berlin Prize, Heinz Award, Alpert Award, and Rome Prize, & grants and commissions from Ford Foundation/Just Films, Knight Foundation, The Brick & Creative Capital among others.

There will be an additional (different) program with Kevin Jerome Everson on Saturday May 9, 2026 at the Academy Museum

Special Thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, Kate Lain, the Academy Museum.

05/01/2026

Watching the Way You Move: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson comes to on Tuesday 5/12 — a very special evening featuring 1 World Premiere and 5 West Coast Premieres with Everson in person!

We welcome back Everaon with a compelling array of recent work. An artist, not a documentarian, he erases the line between staging and verité, and, through his films, insists on and deliberately enacts the presence and importance of family, labor, athletics, art-making, politics, and community. He listens to the echoes of people in empty spaces, revalorizes almost-forgotten historical figures, and arranges performances for the camera of actions that are regularly carried out without being recorded or appreciated.

There will be an additional (different) program with Kevin Jerome Everson on Saturday May 9, 2026 at the Academy Museum

Special Thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, Kate Lain, the Academy Museum

04/20/2026

Coming this Sunday, 4/26, to — Flaming Creatures: The Films of Jack Smith - a Filmforum 50th anniversary event co-presented with Dirty Looks

An all-16mm show of 5 wild, indeterminable Smith classics including a new print of Flaming Creatures!

“Jack Smith was an underground visionary in every sense of the word. Jack poured glitter into everything he made: pasty creatures, plastic fantasias and moldy monsters. He was a performance artist, filmmaker, playwright, photographer, socialist, aesthete, installation artist, scene-stealer, writer, interventionist. He built a theater and movie-studio in his rickety loft out of street debris; an intricate and child-like universe, Cinemaroc, was equal parts Baroque and broke. For a contingency of art and theater f**s and dolls, Jack, as Charles Ludlam once eloquently put it, “is the daddy of us all.” And quixotically, the fact that he remains a somewhat underground or cult figure, as opposed to canonized creature, attests to his legacy.” —

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