In person: Jesse Lerner, Sara Harris -- Los Angeles Premiere

Tickets: $12 general, $8 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members at https://link.dice.fm/C0da148031a9  

Artist, curator, and educator Dicky Bahto is not only widely known for his extensive practice in photography, film, installation, performance, and his numerous collaborations with luminaries of experimental music, but also as an educator and curator who has inspired and influenced many years of students and audiences alike with his profound appreciation and passion for the time-based arts and beyond.  His varied and complex engagement with moving image and photographic media is steeped in a deeply felt humanity and empathy, manifesting through his inspired photographic eye and frequently direct interaction with and appreciation of the material vitality of film and cinema.  His films achieve heightened emotional states of great intimacy and poetry, often channeling the uniquely aleatory qualities of film to carry a sensuality and spirituality hovering in the space between loving depiction and vaporous abstraction.

Melinda McDowell in person!

LA premieres of 16mm restorations from the Academy Film Archive!

McDowell’s first short feature Peed Into The Wind is a hilarious satire on stardom and desire, steeped in comic intrigue and DIY melodrama.  Starring a whole cavalcade of his regular company of performers, Peed anchors a program that also features the metatextual Truth for Ruth, his beloved musical short Boggy Depot, and the wonderfully charming and nearly-never-seen absurdity The Mean Brothers “Get Stood Up”.

Los Angeles Filmforum presents Lewis Klahr: Circumstantial Pleasures

We’re happy to welcome back Lewis Klahr with the long-overdue Los Angeles premiere of his feature film Circumstantial Pleasures!