Join us this summer for CINEMA LAND!

This summer, Human Resources transforms back into its origin as a movie theater, including proper sound, acoustic treatments, carpet, comfortable seating, snacks, and amenities to showcase the archival facet of performance and video art. CINEMALAND will feature artist retrospectives, cult films, experimental animation, video art programs, live film scores, rare 16mm and archival prints in Chinatown six nights a week. Join us!

All screenings have modest sliding-scale tickets. Become a member for $13/month to access all HR events, including this summer’s Cinema Land screenings!

Full lineup updated regularly. Stay tuned!

COMING UP: ENDED 9/25/2026

Thank you to the 250+ artists, speakers, distributors, and programmers. And thank you to every volunteer, and audience member who filled the room this summer. This would not have happened without you.

PAST SCREENINGS:

Tuesday, July 21 at 8pm:  Mark So + Madison Brookshire, Nonalignment

Thursday, July 23 at 8pm: Stanya Kahn, Stand in the Stream

Friday, July 24 at 7pm: P Staff presents Kate Bush Rarities

Saturday July 25th, at 9pm: Juzo Itami, Tampopo

Tuesday July 28th, at 8pm: Agnés Varda, The Beaches Of Agnés

Wednesday, July 29 at 8pm: Middle Ear Project, Un-Silent Films

Thursday, July 30 at 8pm: Stanya Kahn, Don’t Go Back to Sleep

Friday, July 31 at 7pm: Nguyen Tan Hoang, THE GAYSIAN ARCHIVE: RISKY BUSINESS 

Saturday, August 1 at 7pm: Nguyen Tan Hoang, PIRATED FANTASIES

Saturday, August 1 at 9pm: Fast Cat Productions, Cruising(at the movies)

Sunday, August 2 at 4pm: Tuni Chatterji, Heart Aches from Loving You: two films

Tuesday, August 4 at 8pm: Shu Lea Cheang, Fresh Kill

Thursday, August 6 at 8p: Stanya Kahn, No Go Backs and It’s Cool, I’m Good

Thursday, August 6 at 10p: Ivan Zulueta, Arrebato

Friday, August 8 at 8pm: Olivia Mole, the Videos of Olivia Mole

Saturday, August 8 at 12pm: Jasmine Nyende, A Scream Workshop

Saturday, August 8 at 9pm: William E. Jones and Margie Schnibbe, in conversation

Saturday, August 8 at 11:30pm: John Waters, Female Trouble

Sunday, August 9 at 7pm: Films For Horses, Stick With Me

Monday, August 10 at 10pm: A. Hans Scheirl, Flaming Ears

Tuesday, August 11 at 8pm: Jasmine Nyende, Final Girl Fantasy Portal

Thursday, August 13 at 8pm: Eve Fowler, Filles Manquées

Thursday, August 13 at 10pm: Bill Gunn, Ganja & Hess

Friday, August 14 at 7pm: Tony Cokes, The Book Of Love 

Friday, August 14 at 9pm: Charles Atlas, Hail the New Puritan

Saturday, August 15 at 7pm: East Of Borneo presents, Play It As It Lays

Saturday, August 15 at 10pm: Shirley Clarke, Portrait Of Jason

Sunday, August 16 at 4pm: Advik Beni & Nehal Vyas, Songs to Quell the Monster: Program 2 of 4—The People’s Chorus

Sunday, August 16 at 6pm: Dirty Looks, Suddenly Last Summer

Sunday, August 16 at 10pm: Charles Atlas The Legend Of Leigh Bowery 

Monday, August 17 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Agnieszka Smoczyńska, The Lure

Tuesday, August 18 at 8pm: Haruko Tanaka + Reader Chorous, series of shorts + documentary

Wednesday, August 19 at  8pm: An Unwrinkled Ear presentation

Thursday, August 20 at 7pm: Cauleen Smith, Possible Worlds – A Film Survey, 1998–2024; Drylongso (1998)

Thursday, August 20 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Yukihiko Tsutsumi, The Egg

Friday, August 21 at 7pm: Cauleen Smith, Possible Worlds – A Film Survey, 1998–2024; The Fullness of Time (2008) + H-E-L-L-O (2014)

Friday, August 21 at 9pm: Vishal Jugdeo & vqueeram, Does Your House Have Lions

Saturday, August 22 at 11am: BAD ASIANS, Mukbang Matinee: Hunger, Care, and the Asian Body

Saturday, August 22 at 6pm: Christina Catherine Martinez, Comedy is Sad

Saturday, August 22 at 9pm: Priya Sen, Yeh Freedom Life

Sunday, August 23 at 4pm: Tom Bowes, Two Moon July

Monday, August 24 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Andrzej Żuławski, Possession

Tuesday, August 25 at 8pm: Lee Anne Schmitt, Evidence

Wednesday, August 26 at 8pm: Bedcrumbsshow, Audioginary Cinema 3

Thursday, August 27 at 8pm: Pedro Alejandro Verdin, Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, Performance

Thursday, August 27 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Panos Cosmatos, Beyond The Black Rainbow

Friday, August 28 at 7pm: Cauleen Smith, Possible Worlds – A Film Survey, 1998–2024; Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) (2011) + Crow Requiem (2015) + Pilgrim (2016) + Three Songs About Liberation (2017) + Sojourner (2018)

Friday, August 28 at 9pm: Anna Wittenberg, Guts, Machines and Animals: LA Artists Shorts

Saturday, August 29 at 7pm: Cauleen Smith, Possible Worlds – A Film Survey, 1998–2024; The Volcano Manifesto: My Caldera (2022) + Mines to Caves (2023) + The Deep West Assembly (2024)

Saturday, August 29 at 9pm: Hugo & Harmony Holiday, Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope Tour

Sunday, August 30 from 12pm-9pm: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day 

Monday, August 31 at 8pm: Cecilia Vicuña, What Is Poetry to You? featuring live readings from local poets

Tuesday, September 1 at 8pm: Elana Mann & Susan Mogul, Are you a Mann or a Mogul?

Wednesday, September 2 at 8pm: Aaron E. Hunt, Nehal Vyas and Advik Beni present Songs to Quell the Monster; Verse Three: The Bird’s Call

Thursday, September 3 at 8pm: Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Green Card: An American Romance

Friday, September, 4 at 7pm: Barbara Hammer, two-night survey: Menses, Dyketactics, Superdyke, Women I Love (1974-1976)

Friday, September 4 at 9pm: Juliet Bashore, Kamikaze Hearts (alternately, Fact or Fiction)

Friday, September, 4 at 11pm: Amina Cruz & DayLight Films, THRUST

Saturday, September 5 at 3pm: Tim Feeney, Dowsing

Saturday, September 5, 7pm: Barbara Hammer, two-night survey: Double Strength, Sync Touch, No Nooky T.V., Maya Deren’s Sink (1978-2011)

Saturday, September 5 at 9pm: Guadalupe Arellanes, dream series

Sunday, September 6 at 4pm: Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost(STQM Verse 4)

Sunday, September 6 at 7pm: Stanya Kahn, Deny, Defend, Depose

Monday, September 7 at 8pm: Maggie Lee + Judy Fiskin: Mommy paired with I’ll Remember Mama

Monday, September 7 at 10pm: Nobuhiko Obayashi: HAUSU

Tuesday, September 8 at 8 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – The Banana Man (1983) + Kappa (1986) + Family Tyranny/Cultural Soup (1987)

Wednesday, September 9 at 8 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip) (2004) + BLIND COUNTRY (1989) + Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) (2000)

Thursday, September 10 at 8 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – A Voyage of Growth and Discovery (2010)

Friday, September 11 at 7 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – Heidi (1992, with Paul McCarthy and Michael Smith)

Friday, September 11 at 9 pm: GAG!, – GAG! presents Video 4 

Saturday, September 12 at 7 pm: Chris Vargas & Eric Stanley, Homotopia/Criminal Queers

Saturday, September 12, 4 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – Day Is Done (2005)

Saturday, September 12 at 9 pm: Yuval Pudik, The Hom(o)stead Act

Sunday, September 13 at 4 pm: XHDЯBZ – La Familia P. Luche presented by Noemi Mendez-Colon

Monday, September 14 at 8 pm: Reynaldo Rivera – Fistful Of Love

Tuesday, September 15 at 8 pm: Martha Colburn – Stop Motion Animated Films

Wednesday, September 16 at 8 pm: Bayley Sweitzer, Adam Khalil: Empty Metal presented by Clara López Menéndez

Thursday, September 17 at 8 pm: David Wojnarowicz, Where Evil Dwells + A Fire in My Belly +  ITSOFOMO

Friday, September 18 at 7 pm: Kate Renshaw-Lewis, I’ve Got Something To Show You  (experimental and animated shorts from the festival world)

Friday, September 18 at 9 pm: James Bidgood, Pink Narcissus Orchestra with live score by Page Person, Pat Posey & Eva Myra May

Saturday, September 19 at 3 pm: Charles Burnett, Killer Of Sheep

Saturday, September 19 at 6 pm: East Of Borneo presents Los Angeles Plays Itself, introduced by Tom Lawson

Saturday, September 19 at 11 pm: Summer Night Terrors – Werner Herzog, Nosferatu

Sunday, September 20 at 2 pm: Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art: with an introduction from Glenn Phillips (Getty Research Institute)

Monday, September 21 at 7:30 pm: Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices)

Tuesday, September 22 at 8 pm: Margie Schnibbe & Menelas present Anti-Fascist Porn from The Athens Porn Film Festival 

Wednesday, September 23 at 8 pm: Page Person presents Lockdown Cinema – videos from 2020

Thursday, September 24 at 6 pm: Corey Fogel, The Complete and Absolute Video Works of Corey Fogel | 2005-2026

Thursday, September 24 at 8 pm: Toni-Marie Gallardo + Queer Film Club present Shlock Wave 

Friday, September 25 at 7 pm: Vishal Jugdeo, VIDEOS ABOUT TELEVISION (2004 – 2012)

Friday, September 25 at 9 pm: Harry Dodge & Silas Howard, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

Friday, September 25 at 11 pm: P1ncus presents, Rough Cut, a late-night queer adult cinema where cruising is encouraged.