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This week at 2220: film programs from Lightstruck and LA Filmforum, featuring work from Japan and India, sound sets for experimental voice and strings, a reading/lecture from Tung-Hui Hu, and a shaabi dance party w/ bangers from Cairo, Beirut and Damascus.

On Valentine's Day, we present a new restoration of Jean-Luc Godard's dazzling and provocative 2001 feature, a lush blend of film and video that remains among the most emblematic films of the early 21st century. IN PRAISE OF LOVE (Éloge de l’amour) screens February 14 2220 Arts + Archives.

Tonight, free in the 2220 Archives, the Poetic Research Bureau presents Tung-Hui Hu: At the Ends of Exhaustion, A Door – 2025 Theorist in Residence Public Talk. 7pm doors.

Tonight, Thursday Jan 23 at 2220: Join us for a night of experimental performance, strings and songcraft, featuring a trio of innovative artists from LA and NYC: Lu Coy, Joanna Mattrey and DAYS, the duo of Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley. 8pm. Tix at: link.dice.fm/GoqNMUULoQb

This February, we present the West Coast premieres of two 4K restorations of rarely screened masterworks from the great American independent filmmaker Michael Roemer—PILGRIM, FAREWELL BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS on 2/18 and DYING @2220arts on 2/10.

Tonight from 9pm to 1am, 2220 hosts El-Mahragan, a shaabi dance party for the diaspora — a party for the people who miss the chaos of home, right in the heart of LA. Let’s celebrate those bright, busy nights of Cairo, Beirut, and Damascus together.

Tonight, Sun Jan 26, LA Filmforum presents a program of cultural revolution era state-supported films that reflect the radical values, perspectives and ideas that shaped a vision of Indian democracy in the 60s and 70s. Doors at 7pm. Tix at: link.dice.fm/fb014b0e15df

Just announced! 📣 On Feb 24 2220 Arts + Archives we welcome the great James Benning for the North American premiere of BREATHLESS, a visually striking and clever homage to Jean Luc-Godard and the slippery nature of authorship. Tickets on sale now! 🎟️ 🔗: link.dice.fm/d2f4cd3a38df

This week at 2220 begins with two nights of adventurous chamber and electroacoustic music from touring ensembles, continues with surprising visitors from Brazil and Japan, and concludes with two experimental documentary features about the planet's ecological wonders and terrors.

"Arguably remains the finest crime actioner ever made in the German language: tough, icy, obsessed with symmetries and rituals.” -Olaf Möller Dominik Graf's THE CAT (1988) screens in a U.S. premiere restoration Feb 11 2220 Arts + Archives: mezzaninefilm.com/event-details/…

Cool event 2220 Arts + Archives featuring Charles Burnett films -- fundraiser for Black Altadena families dice.fm/event/6dm3o3-c…

Tonight, Wednesday at 8pm: Join us for a night of new chamber music as composer-performer collective NOW Ensemble premieres a new work by local composer Mingjia Chen, alongside other works they've been touring nationally. Tix: link.dice.fm/e6165e281b47

Today's celebration of Milton Nascimento by Esperanza Spalding and friends is sold out. There will be no standby tickets sold at the door. Congrats to the lucky ticket holders for this special show!

Today, Sunday Feb 2, LosAngeles Filmforum presents two mesmerizing features exploring the Earth's spectacular inner forces. 3pm Riar Rizaldi's MONISME 7pm Fern Silva's ROCK BOTTOM RISER Tickets at: dice.fm/venue/2220-art…

Next week: the U.S. premiere of a new restoration of Dominik Graf's THE CAT (1988), courtesy of American Genre Film Archive AGFA. Tuesday, February 11 8pm 2220 Arts + Archives Tickets: link.dice.fm/mac4d3e04166?d…

Still taking a breath after last weekend's incredible events, but how about four more?

This Thursday at 8pm, Lightstruck presents six provocative short docs from Tom Palazzolo in the aptly named film program, America's in Real Trouble. link.dice.fm/Ndff1983fbd5

Tonight, seatings at 5 and 7:30pm. A few tickets remain for the early show. The second show is very much at capacity.

Tonight, Saturday at 8pm.

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