This week at 2220: a quartet of experimental documentary, experimental and international arthouse films, from IDA, Rotations and LA Filmforum.

This week at 2220.

This week at 2220, Sunday to Sunday, from Ken Jacobs to Yoko Ono, cinematic declarations of independence, plus textual and sonic exploration of every frontier.

Join us next week as we welcome director James N. Kienitz Wilkins for three screenings (including one in 35mm) of his new 3D-rendered feature THE MISCONCEIVED (2026), plus a special matinee revival @2220arts.bsky.social of that film's prequel, THE PLAGIARISTS (2019)! 🎟️: acropoliscinema.com

Tonight! ✨ Escape directed by Masao Adachi Japan, 2025, 114 min Los Angeles premiere—8pm @2220arts.bsky.social. One night only! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/zdad40198d63

Filmforum 50, program 16: Star Spangled to Death Sunday July 5, 2026, 1:00 pm @2220arts.bsky.social

Filmforum 50: Ken Jacobs – Star Spangled to Death Tickets | From $10 | 5 Jul @ 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles | DICE

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Filmforum 50, program 16: Star Spangled to Death*. Program notes and complete info at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/ ∆ In c...

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This week at 2220: two underseen gems from Japanese auteurs, Ken Jacobs' grand American epic Star Spangled to Death, plus a July 1st concert with cinematic sweep and depth.

One week from today! ✨ ESCAPE, a radical biopic about Japan’s most wanted fugitive directed by 85 year-old master Masao Adachi, comes to @2220arts.bsky.social next Tuesday, June 30. One night only! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/zdad40198d63

A fantastic jazz duo of legendary players, a quartet of screening programs, and an all day Saturday media fair dedicated to books, periodicals, vinyl and analog media. This week at 2220.

Tonight! ✨ AN INJURY TO ALL directed by Travis Wilkerson US, 2026, 90 min World premiere sneak preview presented as a singular live documentary—8pm @2220arts.bsky.social! Screening to be followed by a conversation w/ Wilkerson and filmmaker Courtney Stephens. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/D40ed7420a22

Announcing! 📣 Acropolis welcomes James N. Kienitz Wilkins for 3 screenings of his new feature THE MISCONCEIVED—once on 35mm, on 7/9 Brain Dead Studios, and twice digitally, on 7/10 & 11 at Now Instant—as well as a matinee of THE PLAGIARISTS on 7/11 @2220arts.bsky.social! acropoliscinema.com

LA! I'm doing a Q&A with director Caroline Golum after the screening of her new film, "Revelations of Divine Love," about your favorite anchoress and mine, Julian of Norwich, on June 23rd @2220arts.bsky.social --come see it! rotations-la.net/screenings/c...

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This week at 2220.

Named one of the Best Experimental Films of the 2000s by Film Comment, Travis Wilkerson's landmark 2001 feature AN INJURY TO ONE returns next Saturday, June 20 @2220arts.bsky.social in a new 4K reconstruction! ✨ 🎟️: link.dice.fm/o86a0273f2b7

From the director of DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN? Join us one week from today @2220arts.bsky.social for a preview of Travis Wilkerson’s new feature AN INJURY TO ALL, presented as a multi-channel experience w/ live narration! Q&A moderated by Courtney Stephens. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/D40ed7420a22

It's a deep week of record releases (Annabelle Freedman, Serpentine Transmission), adventurous guitar (Rafiq Bhatia, Shane Parish), questing cinema (Akinola Davies Jr, Barbara T Smith) and radical movement art from an all femme ensemble. Brimming, unspooling, odyssey + catharsis. This week at 2220.

LOS ANGELES June 16 𝗞𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚 album release show at @2220arts.bsky.social with opening set by 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗽𝗮, tickets here: link.dice.fm/wTq1lbsDM3b

Two deep archival digs into 16mm prints with Lightstruck and Filmforum this week, two immersive ambient + multimedia showcases in the theater, and some summery folk balladry in the bar to open the month. Welcome to June at 2220.

Announcing! 📣 Escape directed by Masao Adachi 2025, 110 min Join us 6/30 @2220arts.bsky.social for the LA premiere of the new film by master Japanese director Masao Adachi (AKA SERIAL KILLER)! Co-presented by Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/zdad40198d63

Join us tonight @2220arts.bsky.social for the Los Angeles premiere of Sho Miyake’s TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, winner of the Golden Leopard at last year’s Locarno Film Festival! Doors: 7:30pm 🍻 Screening: 8:00pm 🎥 Tickets still available online or at the door! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W68ea186c829

This week at 2220. Four programs of dynamic collective improvisation – duos, trios and large ensembles – plus two film features from near and far – last year's Golden Leopard winner from Sho Miyake, and Harry Smith's underseen epic Mahagonny.

One week from today! Join us May 28 @2220arts.bsky.social for the LA premiere of Sho Miyake’s Golden Leopard-winning TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, a nested narrative of young love and creative rejuvenation set between the beaches and mountains of small town Japan. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W68ea186c829

This week at 2220, we start off w/ two events marrying sound art & movement to bewildering effect. Meanwhile, two of our film series take us abroad to Lebanon and the Mongolian Taiga (the latter for 10 hours!), and we welcome full houses for Discovery Zone and legend Joan La Barbara on the weekend.

Performing at 2220 Arts Friday, May 22 in celebration of Discovery Zone’s new record. I will play songs from my new album, “Shadows.” @2220arts.bsky.social Shadows photo by Seven Ruck

On Wed 5/20, @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social screens the US premiere of the restoration of Ghassan Salhab’s PHANTOM BEIRUT (1998) at @2220arts.bsky.social via @severalfutures.bsky.social. Aret examines the film’s portrait of ex-revolutionaries in Lebanon. inplainsightcinema.substack.com/p/phantom-be...

Phantom Beirut

Ghassan Salhab's discursive rendering of post civil war Beirut shows us a picture of an (ex)community in limbo, shaken up by the reappearance of an old comrade

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The week continues at 2220 A+A.

This week at 2220 Arts + Archives. Sound art, field recordings, radical improvisation, plenty of writers, thinkers and word-tinkerers, plus a screening of a cinema classic on the 40th anniversary of its US release.

We close out April with a couple publication launches from Sophie Appel and Lily Lady, including 16 (!) readers, plus a trio of electronic innovators, and a continuation of our Athina Rachel Tsangari retrospective, with Athina's first feature and a surprise visitor for the Q+A, Julie Delpy!

This week at 2220: between two poets named Sophie, it's piano, percussion, reverie + artillerie, indigo gardens and flaming creatures. Come to where the light is.