Fall 2016
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Peter Hutton, In Memory
Date: Sep 8, 2016 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson AuditoriumLos Angeles Filmforum at MOCA will honor Hutton’s life and work with a screening of five of his most memorable films and personal reflections from fellow filmmakers and colleagues, including James Benning and Steve Anker.
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Huntington Drive Segment by Kate Lain, from The Spaces Between Cities
The Spaces Between Cities
Date: Sep 9, 2016 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterAn exquisite corpse road trip across four continents, twenty one international experimental filmmakers, using a range of analog and digital mediums collaborate on a feature film.
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Incident Reports, by Mike Hoolboom
Mike Hoolboom: Incident Reports
Date: Sep 18, 2016 7:30PM
Location: At the Spielberg Theatre at The EgyptianMike Hoolboom has forged a singular artistic and curatorial identity over the past few decades. Filmforum is honored to welcome Toronto-based artist, writer, curator, poet, thinker, and filmmaker for the Los Angeles premiere of his brand new feature, Incident Reports.
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Videofilia
New Peruvian Cinema: Videofilia
Date: Sep 23, 2016 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterThe Los Angeles premiere of a psychedelic tragicomedy that takes place in a Lima of spiritual decay, media overload, glitches and pre-Inca ruins. Filmmaker Juan Daniel F. Molero in person from Peru!
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We Chose the Milky Way (2015) by Eva Marie Rødbro
The Films of Eva Marie Rødbro
Date: Sep 25, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)For her first ever in-person program in Los Angeles, Eva Marie Rødbro presents films made over the past eight years, showcasing her remarkable ability to construct intoxicating narratives from acutely recorded observations, and marked by a startling intimacy with her subjects.
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The Unpainted Woman (2016, 4 min.)
Kathy Rose: Performances and Rituals
Date: Oct 9, 2016 7:30PM
Location: The Velaslavasay PanoramaKathy Rose is considered one of the world’s leading animation and video artists. Her current surreal performance video spectacles and installations, and videos are influenced by symbolist art and the Japanese Noh theater. We are screening an array of work, focusing primarily on her performance-based videos of recent years, most of which will be making their Los Angeles premieres!
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A Million More Lights: The Short Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, programs 1&2
Date: Oct 21, 2016 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Bill Wilder TheaterIn this unprecedented, complete retrospective of Weerasethakul’s short work, his unique and personal cinema takes complex form, defined by images and ideas of mysterious sensuality and poetry, heightened states of emotion and awareness, and a blurring of boundaries between reality, dream, and myth. Apichatpong Weerasethakul in person!
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Anthem
A Million More Lights: The Short Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, programs 3 & 4
Date: Oct 22, 2016 6:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder TheaterThe second night of our complete retrospective of Weerasethakul’s short work. His unique and personal cinema takes complex form, defined by images and ideas of mysterious sensuality and poetry, heightened states of emotion and awareness, and a blurring of boundaries between reality, dream, and myth. Weerasethakul in person!
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Montañas ardientes que vomitan fuego (Burning mountains that spew flame) by Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón
Mysteries Inside Facts: A Selection of International Contemporary Short Films
Date: Nov 6, 2016 7:30PM
Location: AutomataThe remnants of a prehistoric ocean, volcanic tunnels, and depiction of rituals that can be seen and those that cannot are in this program of recent non-fiction films from Sweden, Spain, Brazil, Canada and the US. With filmmakers Elizabeth Lo and Christina Nguyen in attendance and introduction by programmer David Dinnell.
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And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead
Billy Woodberry: And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead
Date: Nov 10, 2016 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson Auditorium“AND WHEN I DIE, I WON’T STAY DEAD, title lifted from a line in one of Kaufman’s poems, is director Billy Woodberry’s inspired, moving meditation on Kaufman’s work and legacy. A seamless marriage of director and subject, the film is not only scored by but also moves to the rhythms of jazz and is itself a kind of poetry. —Ernest Hardy, CRAVE
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GRAUER REIHER II / GREY HERON II (c) Helga Fanderl
Helga Fanderl: Serendipities, Program I
Date: Nov 17, 2016 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterWith more than 1,000 remarkable films in her oeuvre, Berlin-based filmmaker Helga Fanderl makes a long-overdue first-time visit to Los Angeles to present two personally curated programs of her exquisite Super 8mm films for Los Angeles Filmforum.
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LAUB, by Helga Fanderl
Helga Fanderl: Serendipities, Program 2
Date: Nov 20, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianWith more than 1,000 remarkable films in her oeuvre, Berlin-based filmmaker Helga Fanderl makes a long-overdue first-time visit to Los Angeles to present two personally curated programs of her exquisite Super 8mm films at Filmforum.
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The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Date: Dec 4, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmforum welcomes filmmaker Brett Story in person for the Los Angeles premiere of her award-winning film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes.
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Marjorie Keller
Intimate Observer: Family Portrayals by Marjorie Keller
Date: Dec 10, 2016 7:00PM
Location: The Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist ChurchIn conjunction with the Los Angeles Nomadic Division’s exhibition, On the Verge of an Image: Considering Marjorie Keller, at The Gamble House in Pasadena, this special free program presents several of Keller's rarely screened films.
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Apocalypsis, by Eric Leiser
Apocalypsis, by Eric Leiser
Date: Dec 11, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianEric Leiser returns to Filmforum to introduce and discuss his new feature, Apocalypsis, along with a new animated short film, Land Dream.