Complete list of screenings:

March 22, 27, 28, 2026: GUNVOR NELSON TRIBUTE IN THREE PROGRAMS. Presented by Rotations, Los Angeles Filmforum, UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the Academy Museum. Tribute I: Red Shift (1984), Frame Line (1983), Time Being (1991). In-person introductions from Steve Anker & Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu.

January 30–31, 2026: Events for a Moving Body, in collaboration with JOAN + Alexis Kyle Mitchell. Films by Peter Weiss, Onyeka Igwe, Sarah Ballard, Mary Helena Clark, Julie Dash, Margaret Raspé, Jacqui Duckworth, Barbara Hammer, Zora Neale Hurston, Yelena Gluzman. Readings by Danielle Carr, Amelia Bande, and Julie Tolentino.

November 7, 2025: Garden of Earthly Delights, with Veggie Cloud. M*U*S*H* (2022, Dir: Jodie Mack, 8min); In Common (2014, Dir: Adele Horne, 19min); Juliette of the Herbs (1998, Dir: Tish Streeten, 75min)

September 19, 2025: What Is Poetry to You? A FUNDRAISING AFTERNOON & EVENING TO CELEBRATE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY of the POETIC RESEARCH BUREAU. Including films by Simone Fattal, Anne Tardos, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Guy Maddin, Ruth Beckermann, Beatrice Gibson, Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Shana Moulton, Cecilia Vicuña, Jackson Mac Low, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Sylvia Schedelbauer, & more.

March 21–22, 2025: When the Phone Rang, Iva Radivojevic returns in person. LA premiere of newest feature; Q+As moderated by Gelare Khoshgozaran and Corina Copp.

March 17, 2025: LEILA AND THE WOLVES with HEINY SROUR in person! Encore screening of Leila and the Wolves, featuring new restoration. Co-presented with Mezzanine and Several Futures. Q+A with Heiny Srour moderated by Fariha Roisin.

December 18–19, 2024: THE GROUNDBREAKING JOCELYNE SAAB + Traces, Chantal Partamian. Featuring all three documentaries in Saab’s THE BEIRUT TRILOGY (1976, ‘78, ‘82) as well as her narrative feature A SUSPENDED LIFE (1985)—accompanied by TRACES (2023), a new, stunning film from Lebanese–Canadian experimental filmmaker and archivist Chantal Partamian.

December 3, 2024: Notes on Displacement, Khaled Jarrar +Moonscape, Mona Benyamin. Q+A with Khaled Jarrar moderated by Crystal Murphy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Chapman University. 

June 2, 2024: Prismatic Ground: West Coast Showcase. Presented by Rotations and LA Filmforum, programmed by Inney Prakash; co-organized with Zaina Bseiso, Adam Hyman. Feat films by Suneil Sanzgiri, Razan AlSalah, Sarah Maldoror, Basma AlSharif, Nehal Vyas, Kamal AlJafari, Isaac Sherman, more.

May 22, 2024: Leila and the Wolves (1984), Heiny Srour; and A Slippage in Five Movements (2024), Valentina Rosset (in person). 40th Anniversary of Leila and the Wolves! Rotations proceeds went to the Palestinian Feminist Collective’s work with MECA (Middle East Children's Alliance).

Nov. 11 & 12, 2023: Political-Psychic Praxis & Palestinian Solidarities. Feat. films by Rosalind Nashashibi, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Mohamed Bourouissa, Larissa Sansour + Søren Lind, Jocelyne Saab (1948–2019), and The Otolith Group. Part II of a program in collaboration with Perwana Nazif.

Oct. 26, 2023: Potential history of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalonia and fear (2021), Mireia Sallarès. In-person conversation between director Mireia Sallarès, co-writer Joana Masó, Éric Fassin, and Camille Robcis. Part I of a program in collaboration with Perwana Nazif.

July 20, 2023: Deborah Stratman’s Framed Views: The Illinois Parables, For the Time Being (LA Premiere!) & Companion Works. In-person conversation with Stratman and Corina Copp. Co-presented with LA Filmforum.

May 11, 2023: Launching Steffani Jemison’s A Rock, A River, A Street feat. films by Jemison, Yvonne Rainer & S. Pearl Sharp. In-person readings from Jemison, conversation with Jemison and Taylor Renee Aldridge. Co-presented with Poetic Research Bureau.

May 4, 2023: Human Flowers of Flesh (2022), Helena Wittmann. In-person conversation between Helena Wittman and Nina Menkes. Co-sponsored by MUBI.

March 9, 2023: A Los Angeles Stop Cop City Solidarity Screening & Fundraising Event, feat. Stanya Kahn, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Alanis Obomsawin. Programmed with Stanya Kahn. Rotations proceeds went to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. Donations provided by Online Ceramics.

February 11, 2023: Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story (2020), Babette Mangolte. In-person conversation between Mangolte and Corina Copp.

January 26, 2023: Bunker (2021), Jenny Perlin + Swamp (1971), Nancy Holt + Robert Smithson. Virtual introduction from Perlin.

Nov. 17, 2022: Under the Skin, a Fruit: Short Film & Reading Program for The Book of Na. Readings by Na Mira and Australian poet Elena Gomez. Feat. films by Mira, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tracey Moffatt, and Marie Menken.

Oct. 28, 2022: LIGHT, BLAZE, FULGOR — Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing (2018–ongoing), Sílvia das Fadas. Live performance and projection by das Fadas and musician Robert Blatt. Essay by das Fadas published in conjunction by Poetic Research Bureau.

Sept. 22, 2022: Riotsville, USA (2022), Sierra Pettengill. Special preview screening. In-person conversation with Pettengill and Jackie Wang. Co-sponsor: Magnolia Pictures.

April 20, 2022: The Tramp’s New World (2021), Zoe Beloff. In-person conversation with Zoe Beloff and Alexander Stewart.

April 10, 2022: El Lado Quieto/The Still Side (2021), Miko Revereza + Carolina Fusilier. Virtual, live conversation with the directors and Patricia Ciccone.

Feb. 26, 2022: ALEPH (2021), Iva Radivojević. In-person conversation between Iva Radivojević and Eszter Zimanyi.

Dec. 12, 2021: Victoria (Belgium, 2020), Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere. In-person introduction from protagonist Lashay Warren.

Oct. 27, 2021: Terra Femme (2017–2020), Courtney Stephens. Live performance by Stephens.