Explore the Era

Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.

Los Angeles Filmforum

Despite a humble inaugural show in a living room in Altadena in the mid-1970s, Los Angeles Filmforum is currently the city’s longest running exhibitor of experimental film and video. Conceived of as a non-profit that would bring documentary, avant-garde, and independent cinema to the artistic community of Pasadena, Filmforum soon found a home at a local community arts center and provided a hub for an ever-expanding community of artists and film-lovers to communicate and collaborate.

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