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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!

10/07/2026

History from Below: The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors, Three Film Portraits - ft. 2 LA premieres!- comes to 2220 Arts + Archives with Jeffrey Skoller in person!

Sunday 10/11 7:30pm at 2220 Arts + Archives

Preceded by Uprising in Jazak (1973) by Zelimir Zelnik

“What are the experiences that shape the long lives of those we live among? Today, fascism, invasion, and the horrors of political violence have once again become part of our daily life. The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors is a series of film portraits of nonagenarians recounting their own experiences in history changing events that shaped the world and the rest of their own lives. Our communities are filled with the elderly who live quietly among us—often discarded, ignored and seen as valueless. Cloaked in an aura of frailty, we have little idea of the people they once were. Neither agents nor victims, these portraits are an attempt to give voice and memory to those who are still part of our communities and whose experiences in history altering events help enlarge and give personal dimension to our understanding of such past events.” - Jeffrey Skoller

10/04/2026

History from Below: The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors, Three Film Portraits comes to 2220 Arts + Archives with Jeffrey Skoller in person!

Sunday 10/11 7:30pm at 2220 Arts + Archives - ft. 2 LA Premieres

The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors is a series of film portraits of nonagenarians recounting their own experiences in history-changing events that shaped the world and the rest of their own lives.

“The activity of witnessing,” Jeffrey Skoller writes, “constantly moves from the witness, as the one who attempts to speak to the listener, who bears witness to this process as one who is between the survivors and the dead, and ultimately to the viewer, who becomes a part of the process.”

09/18/2026

Going to tonight’s sold out Negativland show? Missing it? Either way, we’ll see you tomorrow for a very special screening of Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland!

LA Premiere with Negativland in person! Negativland Buddy Runyan

Featuring short films and music videos by Tim Maloney, Alan Resnick, and Ryan Worsley with Maloney and Resnick in person! alan resnick Tim Maloney Ryan Worsley

“Every bit as mind-altering as its subjects.”- Oscar Goff, Boston Hassle

“Much of the film layers eviscerated visuals into a vaudevillian media kaleidoscope.” - Marc Weidenbaum, The Wire

Join us for this 2220 Arts + Archives matinee 9/19 at 1pm

09/07/2026

This Sunday! A very special matinee with Lew Klahr in person for the World Premiere of From 45 To 33 — Part 1: Fable by the Door

“This 10-film collage work, like many other film series I’ve created since the early 1980’s, is a “media autobiography”. To clarify— this is not a memoir, but rather a personalized repurposing of my diverse and voluminous source materials into a cinematic collage that explores “the pastness of the present”
— Lew Klahr Lewis Klahr

Image from Five Days Till Tomorrow featuring music by Michael Pisaro-Liu Michael Pisaro-Liu

9/13 at 1pm at 2220 Arts + Archives

08/24/2026

Lew Klahr: From 45 To 33 — Part 1: Fable by the Door — World Premiere with Klahr in person!

“… This… is a cinema of shifting moods and engagements that offers a tactile exploration of elliptical narrative and poetic montage. Like a waking dream, what can be clearly described in words is less significant than what can be felt.”
— Lew Klahr

9/13 at 1pm at 2220 Arts + Archives !

07/29/2026

Floribunda, an outdoor garden screening, in collaboration with The Livonian Cinema comes to the Arlington Garden on Saturday, 8/8, at 8:30pm!

We are thrilled to return to Pasadena (where Filmforum was founded) for a lovely set of films set in this beautiful space. A very special chapter of our 50th anniversary celebrations!

Contemplative, whimsical, analytical, reverential, materialist, political or diaristic - the garden has been the colorful source for a bounty of cinematic approaches. We have chosen to share a range of contemporary short experimental films all looking closely at the life and realms of gardens.

Tix + info about seating on our site. Lineup TBA!

07/27/2026

Sunday matinee! Jeff Perkins presents the LA Premiere of his film George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus, a feature documentary as mercurial as its subject.

8/2 at 2pm at 2220 Arts + Archives with Perkins in person

Fascinatingly contradictory interviews with artists, including Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik, and inventive sound and screen design, shape this rich portrait of a visionary artist. Dedicated to cooperative methods and expanded processes, everything could be Fluxus: kits, shops, festivals, islands, weddings, food, or Flux Lofts–the first network of artist-owned lofts in SoHo, New York. The iconoclastic Maciunas and the spirit of Fluxus provoke questions still critical to artists working today.

07/25/2026

Sunday matinee! Films by Yoko Ono featuring an introduction by Sarah Loyer, curator at The Broad Museum!

We invite you to bring small musical instruments to play along with Film No. 5 (Smile), as Ono and Lennon originally called for in the film’s world premiere in Chicago in November 1968.

In conjunction with The Broad’s exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Filmforum presents some films of hers not included in the exhibition, along with a couple of her Flux films.

“All Ono’s films are fundamentally conceptual, and are characterized by the same concerns that underpin her work in other media: the body, duration, ephemerality, seriality, measurement, language, an active engagement of the viewer as participant, a performative structure, attention to the properties of the material, and a break with the autonomous work of art.” — Chrissie Iles

2pm matinee at 2220 Arts + Archives

07/21/2026

Sunday! Films by Yoko Ono featuring an introduction by Sarah Loyer, curator at The Broad Museum!

In conjunction with The Broad’s exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Filmforum presents some films of hers not included in the exhibition, along with some of her Flux films.

We invite you to bring small musical instruments to play along with Film No. 5 (Smile), as Ono and Lennon originally called for in the film’s world premiere in Chicago in November 1968.

The films of Yoko Ono demand that one slows down to view them. They might be humorous or rarified, reserved or unruly, precise or uncontrolled.

2pm matinee at 2220 Arts + Archives - 7/26

07/19/2026

Don’t miss International Documentary Association (IDA) ‘s Getting Real ’26, a biennial conference on the art & industry of documentary filmmaking.

The industry’s most influential figures gather online and in L.A. July 20-23 for networking and workshops that tackle everything from financing and distribution to the role of AI.

Use code INVITEAAGR26 for a discounted all access pass (20% off)

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