Sunday, June 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Filmforum 50, program 13: Celluloid Improvisations 2026: An Evening with Mark Cantor.* ∆ A fantastic array of jazz films, presented by Mark Cantor, who did his first public programs of his jazz film collection at Pasadena Filmforum in February 1977! Celluloid Improvisations is an archive of jazz (and jazz influenced and/or related) music preserved on 16mm sound film, videotape, laserdisc, DVD and various digital formats. The collection includes more than 4,000 separate performances, and while the archive’s holdings focus on jazz, they also include such related forms of American music as blues, Swing, Western Swing, “pop,” rhythm and blues, country-western, vernacular dance, vaudeville and variety arts, etc. Selections to be announced, including performances by: - Rahsaan Roland Kirk - World Saxophone Quartet - Dizzy Gillespie and Helen Humes - Miles Davis - Art Ensemble of Chicago - Phil Woods (recreating Bird with Strings) - Blind Boys of Mississippi - Duke Ellington - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five - Dinah Washington And more rarities! Complete program notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/