6pm: Art

Bet they don’t let you eat popcorn at the Van Gogh exhibition. Enjoy art and a movie at “Projections: Intermission Images,” an exhibition of artworks in slide format created especially for the screen, opening tonight at Laemmle Theatres downtown. Using the screen as a canvas, artists David Antin, Anne Bray, Annetta Kapon, Laura London, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Armando Rascon, Joseph Santarromana, Erika Suderberg, Tran T. Kim-Trang and Victoria Vesna have created works that are both public art and fine art as images rotate three to four times before each film.

* “Projections: Intermission Images,” Laemmle Grande FourPlex Theatres, Figueroa Street at 3rd Street, downtown Los Angeles. Ends March 31. A free opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 tonight with slides available for viewing on one screen. (310) 829-0779.

7pm: Movies

Outfest’s Gay and Lesbian Film Festival was once an annual event. Now Outfest has expanded to provide weekly film and video programs in “Outfest @ The Village.” Tonight’s program, “L.A. Girls’ Shorts,” is a compilation of short, lesbian-themed films and videos including Paula Goldberg’s “Traveling Companion,” Carolyn Coal’s “Cache,” Mone P. Smith’s “Ben-Wa’s Shopping Spree,” Betsy Kalin’s “Roof” and Jamie Babbit’s “Sleeping Beauties.”

* “Outfest @ The Village,” “L.A. Girls’ Shorts,” L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center Village, Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood. 7 p.m. $5 to $6. (323) 960-2394.

8pm: World Music

Kodo--the word means both “heartbeat” and “children of the drum”--is a Japanese percussion ensemble of four women and 11 men from Sado Island who create a musical and physical spectacle of drum playing. The primal rhythms performed on the drums, which represent a variety of sizes and pitches capped by the giant, 900-pound o-daiko drum, are played in dance-like movements that combine equal parts strength and grace.

* Kodo “One Earth Tour,” Royce Hall, UCLA, Westwood, 8 p.m. Also Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. and Sunday, 2 p.m. $29 to $36; UCLA students, $13. (310) 825-2101.

Freebie: “White Badge,” a Korean-language film, screens tonight at 7 at the Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilshire Blvd., (323) 936-7141. “Not a Love Song,” a German film, screens at the Goethe Institute, 5750 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 100, at 7 p.m. (323) 525-3388.