Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Filmforum 50, program 5: Real Life, with the Millennium Film Journal.* Los Angeles premieres! Works by Claudia Hart, Elise Rasmussen, Zachary Epcar, Justin Jinsoo Kim, Michael Robinson, Matthew Lax, and Kate Lain. Complete program notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/ ∆ Over the last half-century, the *Millennium Film Journal* has charted seismic transformations in the way we create and look at moving pictures—from 16mm celluloid to magnetic videotape to digital “content creation,” and now the strange new world of AI-generated deepfakes and simulations. All along, we’ve kept an eye on the Hollywood Dream Factory, which has often thrived in the chaos of technological change—though of late its fortunes are fading, with studio workers and artisans suffering most. It is a curious impasse. Compared with the narcotics of Netflix “autoplay” or the debut of virtual actors, like the imaginary Tilly Norwood, the fantasies of the industry’s erstwhile Golden Ages seem vivid, achingly human, recalcitrantly real. As we drift into a surreal future, we want to glance backward, or at least collect the traces of our cinematic pasts. *Real Life*—the latest edition of MFJ—is a study of this diachronic gray zone, and the Journal joins with Los Angeles Filmforum in showcasing a handful of works discussed in its pages, along with others we admire.