Human Resources

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 […]

Tickets The Lure is a 2015 Polish musical horror film directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska and written by Robert Bolesto. This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up—the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska—follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid […]

Tickets Haruko Tanaka (b. Queens, NY, 1974; d. October 2019) was a Los Angeles–based artist, photographer, graphic designer, and filmmaker engaged in social practice. Born in the United States, she […]

Tickets The Unwrinkled Ear presents three sets of improvised music on Wednesday, August 19, where improvisation is less a musical genre than a way of testing what can happen when people, […]

Tickets Cauleen Smith makes films that treat imagination as a daily practice. Across three decades, she has returned again and again to speculative history and confabulation as ways of imagining […]

Tickets Egg (2005, 1hr 13min) Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. Tsukiko closes her eyes and sees a mysterious giant egg in her mind’s eye, growing and evolving with every blink. When […]

Tickets Join BAD ASIANS for a feast of experimental moving image and video by Asian diasporic artists examining food as a site where race, gender, sexuality, and labor converge. Eating, […]

Tickets A selection of short films and sketches by Christina Catherine Martinez (2015-2025), including the 2024 comedy special How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age The program concludes with […]

Tickets A film by Priya Sen. Yeh Freedom Life tries to keep up with its protagonists, as they manuever erratic and unpredictable love. They are surrounded by a cacophonous city; they […]

Tickets The television production Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the […]

Tickets Evidence by Lee Anne Schmitt Following the screening, Lee Anne Schmitt will be in discussion with Madison Brookshire Evidence (2025) is both an analysis of corporate spending and the impact of […]

Tickets bed crumb show* presents Audioginary Cinema 3 makes a return to Human Resources.  audioginary cinema, a night where we bring musicians together to reimagine category within film though sound […]

Tickets Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, PerformanceCurated by Pedro Alejandro Verdin Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, Performance brings together video works spanning several generations of artists connected to San Francisco […]

Tickets Beyond the Black Rainbow is a 2010 Canadian psychedelic science fiction horror film written and directed by Panos Cosmatos in his feature film debut. It stars Michael Rogers and Eva Allan. Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed […]

Tickets Featuring: Bill Leavitt, Joel Kayak, Sarah Szczesny, Nathaniel Mellors, P. Staff, Nick Herman and Kirsten Mosher

Tickets Cecilia Vicuña’s What Is Poetry to You? with readings by Nikki Ochoa, Ivanna Baranova, and Venya Gushchin Cecilia Vicuña, What Is Poetry to You? 1980, 23 min. Vicuña asks […]

Tickets Elana Mann and Susan Mogul share a screen at Human Resources Los Angeles, with short videos from the mid 1970s through 2026. These videos all poke at both the […]

Tickets Kamikaze Hearts (alternately titled Fact or Fiction) is a 1986 American quasi-documentary directed by Juliet Bashore and written by Bashore and Tigr Mennett. Presented by Seedy Dykes. Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s […]

Tickets A selection of works from Guadalupe Arellanes’ dream series, exploring the subconscious through cinema, gathering films that translate sleep, memory, existential dread, and altered states into visual poetry, performance, […]

Tickets Jennifer Doyle reads from her forthcoming book Sex Test. SexTest makes a counter-intuitive argument for the power of women's sports. Where many working in the queerer spaces of sports studies argue […]

Tickets Groundbreaking when it was released in 2001 and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK is a trans and butch buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life […]