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. Now in its 48th year Filmforum is at the center of the cultural programming of a city with a rich history of avant-garde filmmaking, celebrating personal, hand-crafted and non-commercial work.
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Scott Portingale, Chemical Somnia 6, 2022.
Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze and Amy Wilson, DZATA: The Institute of Technological Consciousness, 2022.
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, How Old Are You? How Old Were You? 入世,, 2017. Original format: 16mm / Partially hand-tinted, OP, and lab processed and printed, 15:50.
Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Jackson Polys, The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets, 2018.
Jean Painlevé, La Pieuvre [The Octopus], 1928.
Catherine Chalmers, We Rule, 2022.
1966
Warhol’s film Chelsea Girls is a commercial success, offering an unedited glimpse into the daily lives of several Factory Superstars. Later it is considered an influential forerunner of reality TV.