Afterlife by Ishu Patel

Internationally esteemed for his stunning animated shorts, two-time Oscar nominee Ishu Patel has influenced and inspired generations of fans and fellow animators with his gorgeously crafted and exquisitely realized films.

The Divine Visions of Ishu Patel 

Screenings

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

Harry Smith’s Film #18, Mahagonny

Special Guests

Betzy Bromberg Transparency

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

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