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- Thu, Apr 04Apr 04, 2024, 7:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAWe are thrilled to present our inaugural film festival, featuring a curated selection of 12 narrative and documentary features, all premiering exclusively in Los Angeles for the first time.
- Tue, Mar 12Mar 12, 2024, 7:30 PMBrain Dead Studios, 611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAIndependent filmmaker Nathan Silver joins us in person to present a rare 35mm print screening of his boldest experiment to date, followed by a conversation with author Jonathan Lethem.
- Wed, Feb 21Feb 21, 2024, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAAn incredible rediscovery of independent cinema, this newly restored film fuses verité and New Wave styles to capture the political and social environment of the Bay Area in the 1960s.
- Wed, Feb 14Feb 14, 2024, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAAs a Valentine’s Day counter-program, we present Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami's swan song: an elliptical study of identity and one of the most beguiling recent films about love.
- Tue, Feb 06Feb 06, 2024, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAAmong the most infamous independent films to emerge from Utah—and never commercially available on home video—Trent Harris’s cult masterpiece that deserves its reputation.
- Sun, Jan 28Jan 28, 2024, 7:30 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAA mesmerizing work of meticulous archival research, Teichner's essay film explores the unlikely crossover between the history of Hollywood and early-20th-century anarchist thought.
- Fri, Jan 26Jan 26, 2024, 7:30 PMLandmark Nuart, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USAThe directorial debut from American independent film stalwart Sean Price Williams is a shapeshifting road movie for the 21st century.
- Tue, Jan 23Jan 23, 2024, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAA rare L.A. screening of this modern classic of Armenian cinema: an astonishingly original debut from 27-year-old Maria Saakyan.
- Mon, Jan 08Jan 08, 2024, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USADirty Looks' Bradford Nordeen will lead a visual lecture of images and clips from the queer icon's always-fervent roles in the films of John Waters, No Wave New York classics and '80s art videos.
- Tue, Dec 19Dec 19, 2023, 7:30 PMBrain Dead Studios, 611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USANewly released by Elara Pictures and The Film Desk, this MiniDV street epic is gonzo-verité filmmaking at its finest, delivering the unbridled id of Giuliani’s New York.
- Tue, Dec 12Dec 12, 2023, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAThis highly entertaining, all-archival documentary recalls the phenomenon of the “Y2K bug” and the potential technological and societal breakdown it might have caused.
- Sun, Dec 10Dec 10, 2023, 7:00 PMWHAMMY! Analog Media, 2514 Sunset Blvd Rear, Los Angeles, CA 90026, USAThe first Palestinian narrative feature to receive international distribution, Michel Khleifi’s 1987 Cannes-prize winner is a remarkably layered and intimate portrait of Palestinian life.
- Mon, Dec 04Dec 04, 2023, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAAmerican filmmaker and artist Elisabeth Subrin has spent three decades playfully subverting conventional forms of female biography on screen.
- Sun, Nov 19Nov 19, 2023, 7:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAThe U.S. theatrical premiere of a series of shorts shot by Éric Rohmer, directed by and starring one of his longtime collaborators, the actress Rosette.
- Tue, Oct 24Oct 24, 2023, 7:30 PMLight Industry, 361 Stagg St Suite 407, Brooklyn, NY 11206, USAAn unjust orphan of the fruitful period of 1970s independent cinema, Jorge's film is an open celebration of queer nightlife and a daydream of a woman’s interior life.
- Sat, Oct 21Oct 21, 2023, 7:30 PMRoxy Cinema Tribeca, 2 6th Avenue Cellar Level, New York, NY 10013, USAOur first NYC program features a lineup of noted artists, writers and filmmakers, including a live performance by Amalia Ulman, readings by Alissa Bennett and Stephanie LaCava and others.
- Wed, Oct 11Oct 11, 2023, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAThis art-horror cult classic is a trance-like tale of teenage idolatry and angst, set to a mesmerizing original synth soundtrack by Rheingold.
- Tue, Sep 26Sep 26, 2023, 8:00 PM2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USAOne of the key independent Japanese films of the '80s, we present Somai's seminal teenage cult film in a new restoration, voted 10th-best Japanese film of all time in a Kinema Junpo poll.
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