Join us tonight @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome Ben Rivers for the LA premiere of BOGANCLOCH, a sequel to the landmark TWO YEARS AT SEA (2011), featuring filmmaker’s friend Jake Williams as a hermit in the Scottish wilderness. Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/q1c820beef1c

@lafilmforum.bsky.social presents 2 programs from our 10th anniversary series, In Another Light: Cinema of Memory. Join us October 5th at 7:30pm @2220arts.bsky.social - 2220 Beverly Blvd, LA 90057. #lgbtqfilms #actup #amateurfilm #homevideo #jimhubbard

This week at 2220: portraits of exile, political struggle and self-determination, from Senegal to Argentina to Scotland and home, however we define it.

Tonight!⚡️ Everything Is Now: A Night of 1960s NY Avant-Garde with J. Hoberman 7pm: Book signing 📕🖊️ 8pm: 16mm shorts program 🎥 🎞️ @2220arts.bsky.social Featuring rarely screened films by Ken Jacobs, Ron Rice, Michael Snow, and Jud Yalkut! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/ca3f6ea4c66f

Tonight at 2220. 8pm.

Thursday! 🎥 🎞️ The LA launch of legendary critic J. Hoberman’s new book on the 1960s New York avant-garde with a book signing and 16mm shorts program featuring rarely screen films by Ken Jacobs, Ron Rice, Michael Snow, and Jud Yalkut at @2220arts.bsky.social! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/ca3f6ea4c66f

This week at 2220: visits from legendary film critic J Hoberman and London-based film artist Ben Rivers, the conclusion of Mezzanine's 8-part Luc Moullet retrospective, and three distinct concerts exploring improvisation from different angles and approaches, incl a visit from NYC's Charmaine Lee!

One week from today! 🎥 🎞️ Join us Sept 25 @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome J. Hoberman for the LA launch of his new book on the 1960s avant-garde, Everything Is Now, featuring a book signing at 7pm, followed by a program of 16mm shorts and a Q&A w/ Hoberman! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/ca3f6ea4c66f

Friday at 3pm and 7pm, we present two programs of poetry films to benefit the Poetic Research Bureau, currently celebrating its 25th year of presenting literature in Los Angeles.

Announcing! 📣 Kevin Jerome Everson: Eclipse Films On October 20 @2220arts.bsky.social we welcome Kevin Jerome Everson for a double bill of the artist’s eclipse films, including the Los Angeles premiere of his latest, WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (CHI’BAL K’IIN)! 🌗 🎟️: link.dice.fm/b0faa048f2d0

This week at 2220 we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Poetic Research Bureau with a live poetry film anthology and a marathon reading, while adding three programs of cinema experiments and an inventive piano recital as fellow travelers.

2220 Arts hosts five screening programs this week, including two from Mezzanine's Luc Moullet retrospective, and a Saturday night concert from Erin Durant, Tara Jane O'Neil and others.

Announcing! 📣 Urthworks: 3 Films by Ben Rivers UK, 2010-2019, 82min + Bogancloch dir. Ben Rivers UK, Germany, Iceland, 2024, 85 min Excited to partner w/ Los Angeles Filmforum for two screenings with British artist Ben Rivers—Sept 28 and 30 @2220arts.bsky.social! 🎟️: acropoliscinema.com

Coming this week to 2220 Arts.

"Maybe the last great master of Japanese film history." —Kiyoshi Kurosawa THE FRIENDS directed by Shinji Sômai Japan, 1994, 113 min LA premiere of new 4K restoration—Tuesday @2220arts.bsky.social! 📷: link.dice.fm/lbaeb1b84748...

Announcing! 📣 Everything Is Now: A Night of 1960s NY Avant-Garde with J. Hoberman On 9/25 @2220arts.bsky.social we celebrate J. Hoberman’s Everything Is Now w/ a book signing, Q&A, and 16mm shorts program featuring films by Ken Jacobs, Ron Rice, & Michael Snow! acropoliscinema.com/films/everyt...

2220 wraps up August with a summer-themed screening and reading, plus a quartet of warm & considered concerts spanning cosmic country, creative jazz, Brazilian guitar and modular synth. A half dozen that's anything but incomplete.

This week at 2220.

Next up at 2220.

"Everyone involved seems to be having a great time, and the filmmakers never pass at any idea, be it comic or dramatic.” - @filipefurtado.bsky.social Ícaro Martins & José Antonio Garcia's radical sex comedy ONDA NOVA (1983) has its first-ever US screening, newly restored! 8/17 @2220arts.bsky.social

This week at 2220, an anarchic, apocalyptic, roguish, near-biblical, near-hellish quartet of events for the end of time.

This week at 2220.

Announcing! 📣 On August 26 @2220arts.bsky.social we present the LA premiere of the new 4K restoration of Japanese director Shinji Sômai’s late-period masterpiece THE FRIENDS, a comic coming-of-age chronicle about the emotional complexities of adolescence. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/lbaeb1b84748...

This week at 2220.

Wednesday! ✨ Join us @2220arts.bsky.social for a special one-night-only presentation of artist-filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich‘s acclaimed debut THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE, about a film crew coming to grips with the legacy of the surrealist French writer. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W97e5f34d1e9

This week at 2220.

Tonight in the 2220 Archives.

Tonight, doors at 8pm!

Next up at Acropolis! ✨ Join us on July 23 @2220arts.bsky.social for a special one night only screening of visual artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's debut THE BALLED OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE, a highlight of last year's Rotterdam, New York, and Toronto film festivals! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W97e5f34d1e9

A busy week continues at 2220 A+A.

This week at 2220 Arts + Archives. Full calendar at: dice.fm/venue/2220-a...

Announcing! 📣 On July 23 @2220arts.bsky.social we present Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE, in which a film crew grapples with the legacy of writer Suzanne Césaire, whose achievements have been overshadowed by the work of her poet husband. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W97e5f34d1e9

"Both a grand culmination of Bohdanowicz’s past decade of filmmaking and a bold leap forward." — Desistfilm MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz Canada, 2024, 142 min Los Angeles premiere: this Sunday @2220arts.bsky.social. Director in person! 🎻 link.dice.fm/nabec52b6fe8

And tonight!

Coming this week to 2220: four musical and venturesome screenings, a sprawling market dedicated to analog media, and an LP release from Harry the Nightgown with a very special guest appearance from Chengdu!

Sunday, doors at 12:30pm.

On 6/29 @2220arts.bsky.social, director Sofia Bohdanowicz joins us for the LA premiere of MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL, starring Deragh Campbell as an academic who restages a composition by violinist Kathleen Parlow, who was Bohdanowicz’s grandfather’s violin teacher. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/nabec52b6fe8

Just announced! 📣 On July 8 @2220arts.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ Los Angeles Film Forum, we welcome Jessica Sarah Rinland for the LA premiere of COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE, her latest immersive exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/xbe4b2e28fae

Tonight, doors at 7:30. A quartet of guitar-based music: solo, with electronics, with violin. Cole Berliner w/ Laena Myers, Jas Stade, June Youngblood, dognoises. 30 min sets. Tix at the door and on DICE.

Tonight, doors at 7:30!

Sunday! ✨ Join us this weekend @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome Jon Jost and James Benning for a double feature of Jost’s COMING TO TERMS and BLUE STRAIT, the former starring Benning as an aging father who asks his family to help him pass on with dignity. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/Wdecdb053948

Coming this week to 2220.

Tonight at 7:30pm: a group reading and book launch for Diana Arterian's latest, Agrippina the Younger. Free in the 2220 Archives.

THE OTHER SIDE directed by Roberto Minervini Italy, France, 2015, 92 min 10th anniversary screening: Sunday, June 15 @2220arts.bsky.social. Q&A with Minervini and film critic Tim Grierson (@timgrierson.bsky.social) to follow the film. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/qf50b920d25b

LA Friends! The Roberto Minervini retrospective begins on Friday, 6/13, at 8pm @2220arts.bsky.social with a screening of the director's latest, The Damned! Minervini will be in attendance for this weekend's films. We reviewed The Damned back in May for @ink19.bsky.social ink19.com/2025/05/maga...

My album release show is next Wed, June 18th at @2220arts.bsky.social! I’ll be playing songs from my new album Supraliminal, & my friends Joe Berry & Jeremiah Chiu will also be performing. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door 🎟️: link.dice.fm/Y76b05851ba4

Just added!🚨 On 6/22 @2220arts.bsky.social we welcome Jon Jost and James Benning for a double bill of COMING TO TERMS and BLUE STRAIT, two rarely-screened Jost masterpieces—the former starring Benning as a father who asks his family to carry out an unspeakable act. link.dice.fm/Wdecdb053948

This week at 2220: pairwise promise throughout the week. Two nights of Zola Jesus at the piano. Two screenings of recent work by Roberto Minervini. Two group readings curated by Diana Arterian. And two dancers and two musicians in collaboration to begin it all Tuesday night.

Produced by Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon, the brilliant, newly restored OREOS WITH ATTITUDE (1991) follows a young affluent black couple who take social climbing to new heights by adopting a white child. Screens next Tues 6/17 @2220arts.bsky.social in a shorts program curated by Brandon Harris.

Don’t forget to get tickets to see me live for my album release show! June 18th at @2220arts.bsky.social, presented by Late Breakfast. With additional performances from Joe Berry and Jeremiah Chiu. 7:30pm. Tickets here: link.dice.fm/Y76b05851ba4 ❤️‍🔥