Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, this annual festival offers a selection of some of the most compelling dance for camera and dance media works from around the world | Click here

When the world’s most remarkable practitioners of the art of toy theater and miniature puppetry converge on the Los Angeles Music Center for a two-day festival for young audiences, REDCAT joins the whirlwind with a special night-time program -- for adults | 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

This presentation showcases the work of teenage photographers, animators and video artists in CalArts CAP programs | 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

This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school students | 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

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

REDCAT and its neighbors invite all of Southern California for this lively annual day of art for the whole family | Click here

This special tribute looks back at the life and work of beloved experimental animation artist, filmmaker and activist Helen Hill, whose murder in New Orleans earlier this year sent shock-waves through independent film communities far and wide and sparked huge protests by residents in her adopted home | Click here

"Between May 2005 and January 2007 I made 16 trips to the Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork located on the Great Salt Lake, Utah. casting a glance maps the Jetty back onto its 37-year history" | 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

Pushing the creative envelope for new animation, the inaugural Platform festival held this past June in Portland, Oregon, presented a dizzying lineup of innovative work that ran the gamut from theatrical films and videos to live performance, from installation to animation for mobile phones and the Internet | Click here

Live performers orchestrate onscreen characters through an original mix of film, live theater and Toni Dove’s unique system of motion sensing technology that serves as a cinematic "instrument" | Click here

Shot in 2005–06 in Damascus, Syria, the latest piece from The Speculative Archive, the duo of Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, deals with competing visions of the future | Click here

To celebrate the launch of Afterall 16, please join us for a screening of German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s first feature film, Madame X: An Absolute Ruler. | Click here

The dynamic creative exchange between the Berlin-based artists-in-residence of Villa Aurora -- and their Los Angeles counterparts -- is showcased in a series of "film couplets"—a unique screening program that reflects the mutual influences and reciprocal relationships between Berliners and Angelenos, but also their productive oppositions | Click here

Harry Smith (1923–91) was a unique visionary whose art and interests moved freely between music (most notably, with the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music), film, painting and the occult | Click here

Poets from Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York gather at REDCAT to offer a fresh take on the Japanese tradition of “benshi”—a writer or actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside silent films | Click here

The latest opus from Peter Hutton chronicles, in short, the birth, life and death of a colossal container ship | Click here

Colorful kitsch expert Charles Phoenix supercharges the classic living room slideshow into a laugh-out-loud celebration of the way America decorated, dressed, dined and drank during the holidays throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s | Click here

This program tracks the history and legacy of the Black Panther Party, its revolutionary politics, grassroots ideology, irrepressible leaders and the struggle for justice that continues today | Click here

Known for prankster experimentalism and on-the-spot invention, the films of San Francisco native Robert Nelson are among the defining landmarks of the post-Beat American underground of the 1960s and ’70s | Click here

Formed at the height of the Reagan era to "smash the myths of the information industry," Paper Tiger Television is a collective of artists and activists whose raucous public-access shows are some of the quirkiest and most compelling alternative media ever to hit the airwaves | Click here

If you’ve ever imagined a place beyond the sunset, or a parallel universe where the rules don’t apply and dreams come true, then this program of animated and live action shorts is for you! | Click here

World-renowned Claymation pioneer Will Vinton continues to break new ground under the banner of his new company Freewill Entertainment | Click here

Best friends laugh with us, listen to us, and help us discover the best in ourselves | Click here

One of the most singular and provocative voices in German cinema is on hand for a screening of her latest extravaganza, Prater | Click here

Sometimes it seems like kids grow taller overnight. Other times growth isn’t measured in inches, but in how young hearts and minds expand | Click here

This collection of legends, myths, and fables takes a journey around the globe to unearth powerful tales about life and its mysteries | Click here

Here is an animation program filled with the unexpected: surfing penguins, hares that chase after snowmen’s noses, and monsters that aren’t scary at all | Click here

Some days are easier than others, but life’s challenges can show us what we’re made of | Click here

For decades films from Sweden have been a mainstay of children’s film festivals worldwide | Click here

Like our favorite little kids, this series of animations is sweet, funny, and full of songs | Click here

Two boys set out to catch the wild robber Hotzenplotz in this fantasy-filled film that brings to life the adventures of the world’s most hilarious thief | Click here

In a delightful film and performance mash-up, Mitchell Rose combines a selection of his award-winning comic short films with original performance pieces that feature choreographed audience participation | Click here

Fourteen years after beginning The Blindness Series, Tran T. Kim-Trang completed Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life (2006, 14 min.) -- inspired by the exhibition Memoirs of the Blind, curated by Jacques Derrida for the Louvre Museum | Click here

A film landmark of the 1990s becomes one of the cinematic highlights of 2008 with the release of this gorgeously remastered version of The Living End | Click here

This special screening offers Los Angeles audiences the first theatrical presentation of videos from Caribbean Pirates, the McCarthy studio’s sprawling simulacrum of “Pirattitude” across American popular culture | Click here

For the past 15 years, the idiosyncratic Berlin filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has created a series of films documenting the work of certain 20th-century architects for whom he feels a special affinity | Click here

Carolee Schneemann has never ceased to cross mediums and boundaries to make work that resonates with raw poetic power | Click here

Now in its 32nd year, the Ottawa International Animation Festival is the largest animation showcase in North America and one of the most highly regarded festivals in the world | Click here

The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new live-action works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the Film Directing Program. | Click here

After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten (2002), and then witnessing her outstanding debut as a feature film director in 20 Fingers (2004), Abbas Kiarostami urged Akbari to direct a sequel to Ten | Click here