Fans of improvised music are in for a special treat as New York avant-garde stalwarts Ikue Mori (laptop) and Zeena Parkins (electric harp) team up with legendary guitarist Fred Frith for a first-ever joint appearance in Los Angeles | Click here

This first comprehensive retrospective in North America of work by the Portuguese filmmaker invites spectators to discover a major auteur of contemporary cinema | Click here

Pan-Chinese cinema is coming of age now, with an explosion of genres, formats, themes and talents. Exploring new and exhilarating artistic paths or alternative sexualities, giving voice to a colorful array of people from metropolises to remote provinces, the films featured in this series bear witness to the tremendous changes experienced by Chinese society | Click here

Internationally acclaimed independent animator Suzan Pitt, who first took the film world by storm in 1979 with the landmark short Asparagus, is back with a new gem, El Doctor | Click here

Drawing from the sweeping array of film, video and animation featured in MoMA’s blockbuster retrospective in New York earlier this year, this unique four-day program offers Los Angeles filmgoers a rich panorama of some of the most innovative and artistically daring work made at CalArts over the past 35 years. | Click here

All of Southern California is invited to downtown Los Angeles for a day of arts and family fun | Click here

Nancy Buchanan has invited a group of artists and filmmakers to use copyright-free stock video and audio to create new works that question how commercial suppliers define subjects such as “family,” “business” and “history.” | Click here

Independent filmmaker Lewis Klahr works with cutout animation because of his love for materials that give him access to memory and history, and the kinetic interspace they create between the personal and the cultural | Click here

Combining vérité footage, interviews and archival material, Meena Nanji has fashioned a harrowing, thought-provoking, yet intimate portrait of the plight of Afghan women in the last 30 years | Click here

Ahead of Strand’s 75th birthday in December, this program highlights the multiple facets of her rich and captivating career | Click here

A major new video work by the Los Angeles artist, Day Is Done is a feature-length musical that examines American subcultures and folk events through the restaging of 31 carnivalesque productions intermixed into a meandering semi-narrative | Click here

When China’s central government allowed local elections to proceed in 2005, Wu Wenguang, one of the main exponents of the Beijing-based New Documentary Movement, offered villagers in remote areas of the country DV cameras and technical training so that they could document this historic event | Click here

New York avant-garde filmmaker and installation artist Jeanne Liotta is known for work -- both found and made -- that embraces the sensuousness of natural phenomena as much as the physical aspects of her chosen media | Click here

Leading intellectuals, artists and social scientists from across the Americas come together for CalArts’ third annual symposium on artistic production, social criticism and political discourse in the Western Hemisphere | Click here

Noted for his poetic reworking of decaying archival footage, the Alpert Award winner shows a selection of shorts, ranging from the early Footprints (1992, 6 min., b/w and color, 16mm) to The Highwater Trilogy (2006, 31 min., 35mm) | Click here

Following the opening of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this film series examines the impact of the 1970s and 1980s on women filmmakers since | Click here

Recently honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art last year, Su Friedrich pays a rare visit to the West Coast to showcase a selection of old and new works, including two Los Angeles premieres | Click here

Documentary footage and conventionally scripted narrative alternate in this engrossing and lush portrait of African American drag racers | Click here

Internationally recognized for his work in experimental and narrative cinema such as Mysterious Objects at Noon (2000), Blissfully Yours (2002), Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and A Century (2006), Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents his first solo exhibition in the United States | click here

This special program, guest-curated by Mark McElhatten, features a selection of rarely shown works by Mark LaPore, the daring experimental documentarian who died in 2005 | Click here

This program surveys the trailblazing career of one of America’s foremost avant-garde masters | Click here

Screenings of works by students in CalArts School of Film/Video featuring the Film Directing Program and the Program in Film and Video long form screenings | Click here

An art opening, a real estate developer, a resolute gallery owner and a cataclysmic cyclone form the key coordinates of this dramatic film that reveals in no uncertain terms that we’re not in Dorothy’s Kansas anymore | Click here

French filmmaker Danièle Huillet died last October, putting an end to her remarkable collaboration with Jean-Marie Straub | Click here

The ensemble directed by guitarist John Schneider continues its multimedia survey of the far-ranging and iconoclastic body of work created by American composer and raconteur Harry Partch | Click here

Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, the festival showcases the most innovative examples of dance for camera and dance media from around the world | Click here

Long before Cathy Rigby slipped into a harness and struck a perky pose, J.M. Barrie insisted on handpicking the star of the first-ever film version of his famous play. After viewing screen tests by Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish, Barrie chose Betty Bronson, an unknown and inexperienced teenager from New Jersey, to play the part of Peter Pan | click here

Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, the festival showcases the most innovative examples of dance for camera and dance media from around the world | Click here

Join us for a rare theatrical screening of a selection of short films by Pixar Animation Studios. This screening will include some of Pixar's earliest iconic shorts as well as Pixar's Academy Award-winning shorts | click here

Award-winning international short films take you to Madagascar, England, Mail and Iran to meet determined, brave and resourceful kids whose stories you’ll never forget. They play hard, live large and sometimes learn the hard way how to do the right thing | click here

Michael Sporn’s award-winning children’s films run the gamut from gentle, minimalist animation for preschoolers, to searing explorations of social issues facing urban kids | click here

Fasten your seat belts for some rollicking acrobatics and animated adventures. This 10-ring circus features a fabulous crew of critters and tiny creatures! | click here

In anticipation of the Los Angeles Film Festival premiere of Syndromes and a Century, REDCAT will present a selection of Weerasethakul’s films. Screenings include Mysterious Object at Noon, Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady, and Worldly Desires and other shorts selected by the artist | click here

Brave kids, incredible adventures and one very cranky grown-up! | click here

Magical international short films take you on a whirlwind trip around the globe, with breathtaking animation, awe-inspiring poetry, belly laughs, action, adventure and even some surprising love stories! | click here

Experience new animation and video by middle school students from across Los Angeles County. This free program features the creative work of young artists in the CalArts Community Arts Partnership and Sony Pictures Media Arts Program. | click here

Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, the festival showcases the most innovative examples of dance for camera and dance media from around the world | Click here