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 to 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:

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

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?

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

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

Friday, September, 4 at 7pm: Barbara Hammer, two-night survey: Menses, Dyketactics, Superdyke, Women I Love (1874-1976)

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

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

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

Sunday, September 6 at 2pm: Jennifer Doyle, Sex Test reading featuring Erik/A documentary

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

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

Wednesday, September 9 at 8pm: 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 8pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – Heidi (1992, with Paul McCarthy)

Friday, September 11 at 7pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – A Voyage of Growth and Discovery (2010, with Michael Smith)

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

Saturday, September 12, 8pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – Day Is Done (2005)

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

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

Thursday, September 17 at 8pm: David Wojnarowicz: Where Evil Dwells, A Fire in My Belly, ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion)

Thursday, August 24 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, The City Of Lost Children

Sunday, September 20 at 8pm: Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art: with an introduction from Glenn Phillips (Getty Research Institute)

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

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