Harry Smith’s Film #18, Mahagonny

Experimental filmmaker, anthropologist, painter, and musicologist Harry Smith’s final film, Mahagonny, was an epic four-screen projection. 

Harry Smith’s Film #18, Mahagonny in 4K

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Film Program

Ongoing Series

Barbara Hammer: History Lessons

World Building in Experimental Animation

★ by Johann Lurf 

Strain Andromeda The

Latent Image: Three Films on Space, Time, and Change

Images of the World and the Inscription of War 

An Evening with Christopher Harris: New Restorations  - still/here

35mm

Color

Animation from Another World: Chronopolis and Shorts by Piotr Kamler

Digital

16mm

Sally Cruikshank & Vince Collins: Cartoons for Convoluted Craniums!

A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Mike Henderson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth

THOM ANDERSEN

Mar4 BEHINDERT Available-Space-(1)

Three Minute Hells

Harry Gamboa Jr.

Made in Hollywood by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

You & Me & the Cosmos Makes Three: An Evening with Deborah Stratman

James Benning: ALLENSWORTH

The Tawdry Visions of George and Mike Kuchar

Early and Late Brakhage: Academy Restorations

Maureen Selwood

Derek Jarman’s Blue  

Welcome to the West Coast Underground 

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So Dreamy, So Sinister: Animation by Suzan Pitt 

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Los Angeles Site Seeing: Views of the City from the Academy Film Archive

Special Guests

Betzy Bromberg Transparency

Afterlife by Ishu Patel

The Lateness of the Hour

March14 Narcisa Hirsch Aida 1976

Apr25 Avail Space Nao John Waters

6 Honda Color Correction (reel 1 cue 10)

Railway Sleepers (2016)

Kind of a Drag: Experimental Films, Documentaries, and Scratch Animation by Heather McAdams, 1980-1995

The Tube Thieves (2023)

Sep2025 Out In the Garden

Oct2025 Memories of milk city

Girls on Film: Two by Su Friedrich

  Glimmers and Ghosts: The Cinema of Tomonari Nishikawa 

  Moons Pool

Reverse Shadow 
2019. 8 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital  

Reverse Shadow  2019. 8 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital  

Bearing Witness

Pride

The Uncles

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Harry Smith’s Film #18, Mahagonny in 4K

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