Human Resources

Tickets Eva Myra May, Pat Posey and Page Person perform live music to accompany a screening of the queer classic Pink Narcissus (1971, James Bidgood). Filmed over 8 years in sets built in the director's apartment, a cast of hustlers drift through a phantasmagoria of erotic imagination in richly saturated hues of fuchsia and gold.

(Experimental and animated shorts from the festival world) Tickets I’ve Got Something To Show You  (Experimental and animated shorts from the festival world) I’ve been touring film festivals with my short, Busy Bodies, for the past year. In celebration of releasing Busy Bodies, I’ve put together a screening of some absolutely fantastic shorts I’ve gotten […]

Tickets David Wojnarowicz: Where Evil Dwells + A Fire in My Belly +  ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion) David Wojnarowicz channeled a vast accumulation of raw images, sounds, memories, and lived experiences into a powerful voice that was an indelible presence in the New York City downtown art scene of the 1970s and […]

Tickets Empty Metal presented by Clara López Menéndez Length: 83 minutes Set in the abusive police state of the contemporary United States, EMPTY METAL follows five groups of characters, each emblematic of a different extreme political ideology, as they attempt insurrection against the status quo: a queer noise band is coerced into a dangerous assassination […]

Tickets Colburn presents a screening of her films from 1993-2023 as a broad and wild ride through stop motion development and collaged deconstructions and painterly hallucinations. She is a self taught filmmaker - starting with video, then Super8mm,16mm and finally 35mm and digital filmmaking. Using paint on glass, frame by frame puppetry, collaged flat puppets, […]

Tickets Shot largely over the 90s, Fistful of Love is the debut feature of the Mexico-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Reynaldo Rivera, and makes extensive use of his immense personal archive of Hi8 tapes. Vignettes from Rivera’s life in both Mexico and California—including raucous parties, punk clubs, drag performances, political protests, intimate moments with artist friends, […]

Tickets Yuval Pudik’s The Hom(o)stead Act: Kaiserpanorama (THA_KP) is a three-hour video collage assembled from more than 18,000 clips gathered by the artist from contemporary media and the internet. Originally presented within Pudik’s Kaiserpanorama—a sculptural, multi-viewer theater first exhibited at NOON Projects in Autumn 2025—the film plays as an unrelenting supercut of contemporary culture, moving freely […]

Tickets 20th anniversary screening of Homotopia (2006) with its sequel Criminal Queers (2015) directed by Eric A. Stanley & Chris E. Vargas Post-screening discussion with the directors and Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (2024). Set sometime in the future-present Homotopia (2006) chronicles a group of radical queer’s dedicated to […]

Tickets GAG! is a collective of artists seeking to respond to institutionalized art spaces, create disruption as a mirror to systems of power, and encourage active participation. We gather resources, collaborate, mobilize, and find community. A place to self legitimize and self actualize, GAG! is the response to the longest inside joke. Here, we stay […]

Tickets A five-night survey dedicated to the video works of Mike Kelley, which will feature guest speakers. Tuesday, September 8 at 8:00 PM The Banana Man (1983): A solo psychodrama exploring fictional identity and character psychology through a minor children's television figure. Kappa (1986, in collaboration with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto): A collaborative psychodrama fusing […]

Tickets How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with […]

Tickets Maggie Lee's Mommy paired with Judy Fiskin's I'll Remember Mama Mommy 2015, 56:22 min, color, sound, HD video Produced during Lee’s trip to her childhood home in New Jersey after the unexpected death of her mother, Mommy weaves the artist’s memories into a kaleidoscopic narrative of devotion, memory, intrafamilial desires, and the evolution of American subcultures on […]

Tickets Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams (Slam) brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has previously explored in his work. The film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an […]

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, and ritual. Featuring Repertoire of Death, Tides of Time, I dream of snakes (WIP) and other works by Guadalupe Arellanes. The presentation will culminate with […]

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 quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the […]

Tickets Barbara Hammer, Two-Night Survey "the filmmaker who almost single handedly defined lesbian cinema." - So Mayer for BFI Friday, Sept 4, 7pm (1974–1976): Menses, Dyketactics, Superdyke, Women I Love Saturday, Sept 5, 7 pm (1978–2011): Double Strength, Sync Touch, No No Nooky T.V., Maya Deren's Sink Barbara Hammer picked up a camera in the early […]

Tickets Green Card: An American Romance, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto 1982 77 MinutesCourtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Green Card: An American Romance is the third and final installment in the Yonemotos’ Soap Opera Series, following Based on Romance (1979) and An Impotent Metaphor (1979). Satirizing 1980s Los Angeles and the city’s burgeoning art scene, Green Card betrays the Yonemotos’ fascination […]

Programmed by Aaron E. Hunt, Nehal Vyas and Advik Beni Note: Tickets will only be sold at door. All proceeds will go towards flood rescue efforts in Nepal. In The Bird’s Call, filmmakers are drawn to different histories in an attempt to find their footing in a liberatory path forward. At a time of re-budding […]

Tickets Elana Mann and Susan Mogul share a screen at Human Resources Los Angeles, with short videos from the mid 1970s through 2026. Through humor, storytelling, and spectacle Mann and Mogul perform various roles, including artist as billboard worker, artist as stand-up comic, artist as satellite dish, artist as oil rig and artist as donkey. […]

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 passersby on the streets of Bogotá—including fellow artists and poets, sex workers, children, a police officer, and a scientist—the question: “What is poetry to you?” […]

Tickets Featuring: Linda FrankeNick HermanJoel KyackWilliam LeavittNathaniel MellorsKirsten MosherP. StaffSarah SzczesnyAnna WittenbergL. Wrench

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 and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for […]

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 and the greater Bay Area, with the San Francisco Art Institute serving as a loose point of departure. Moving from early experiments in video and […]

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 improvisations. Each mysterious short will be live scored by 3 different ensembles/musicians:  Lion + Meanstreetz  Girl Debord Two Point (Sharada Shashidhar + Caleb Buchanan) sounds […]

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 dark money on US politics and ideology and a personal meditation on ideas of family and care. The film is a meditation on the intersection […]

Tickets Possession is a 1981 psychological horror drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and written by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten. Directed by Andrzej Żuławski • 1981 • France, West GermanyStarring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home […]

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 program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman and directed by Tom Bowes. This production reflects a moment when art centers were experimenting […]

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 are in love with other women. They dream of ‘freedom lives’, away from family and society’s constant scrutiny.

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 a new co-authored short from long time collaborators Christina Catherine Martinez and Christopher Richmond. https://christinacatherine.info

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, cooking, and feeding become embodied acts through which artists negotiate intimacy and spectacle, pleasure and precarity, care and consumption. Across performance, digital animation, music video, […]

tickets Does Your House Have Lions (2021) is a 49 minute film by Delhi-based poet vqueeram and Los Angeles based artist Vishal Jugdeo. Shot like cinéma-vérité, the film is excerpted from an informal archive the collaborators have gathered over their decade-long friendship. Intimate glimpses of vqueeram’s community of artists and activists reveal, in the near […]

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 it hatches, its horrors spill into the real world, growing ever more terrifying.

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 Black ontologies—possible worlds that could exist alongside our ordinary reality. Moving between the everyday and the cosmic, her films draw on radical histories, experimental cinema, […]

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, instruments and bodies meet without a predetermined map. Jacob Wick (trumpet)/ Marc Riordan (keys) Aine Nakamura (movement and voice)/ Georgia E. Bell (doublebass)/ Wilson Shook […]

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 was raised in England and Japan. Tanaka earned a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of Southern California in 1997 and an M.F.A. in […]

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 sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as […]

Tickets In this documentary feature, Charles Atlas examines the legend and the life of his friend and collaborator – artist, performer, fashion designer, model, and club promoter and icon Leigh Bowery. In a remarkable and brief period before his early death from AIDS-related illness in 1994, Bowery made an indelible mark on nightlife, fashion, and […]

tickets The gayest movie ever made! Elizabeth Taylor is locked up in a mental hospital. Katherine Hepburn is Violet, the New Orleans aristocrat willing to sign any check to silence her. Montgomery Clift is Dr. Sugar, a surgeon popularizing the lobotomy. The heart of this sick triangle is deceased poet and sex tourist, Sebastian. Every […]

Tickets Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 Southern Gothic psychological drama mystery film based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift, with Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, and Gary Raymond. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Sam Spiegel from a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Williams, with cinematography by Jack Hildyard and production design by Oliver Messel. The musical score was composed by Buxton Orr, using […]

Tickets Presented by Nehal Vyas and Advik Beni If the first songs we hear are sung to us, what happens when we begin to sing together? A chorus is made not from a single voice, but from the many voices that gather, interrupt, contradict, and strengthen one another. In this second program, The People’s Chorus, […]

Tickets On the night of December 2, 1966, Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea to make a film. For twelve straight hours, they filmed the one-and-only Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes, and reminisced about good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler […]

Tickets East Of Borneo presents Play It As It Lays Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive […]

Tickets Hail the New Puritan is a 1986 British fictionalized documentary about the Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark, directed by Charles Atlas. Exuberant and witty, Hail the New Puritan is a simulated day-in-the-life "docufantasy" starring the British dance celebrity Michael Clark. Atlas' fictive portrait of the charismatic choreographer serves as a vivid invocation of the studied decadence of the […]

Tickets Writes Cokes: "In 1984 I conceived of the idea of producing a documentary that framed its own devices. I was interested in how a woman, specifically a Black woman, would speak in a television context." In The Book of Love, Cokes' mother recounts her life through interview, stories, and song, effectively re-presenting history through the personal. […]

Tickets Ganja & Hess is a 1973 American black horror film written and directed by Bill Gunn and starring Marlene Clark and Duane Jones.  Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror cinema, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film GANJA & HESS is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the Living […]

Tickets This project's first phase is Eve Fowler's 16mm short film, Florence Derive, in which the artist recounts being a gender expansive ten-year-old who becomes the object of a school teacher's "boundless hate." Sustained abuse causes a profound character shift that triggers illness, and she is eventually expelled from school. From this root wound, she […]

Tickets Performances by:Jasmine NyendeCreighton BaxterXina XurnerVideo from:Marcelline Mandeng NkenLiz LeeYoung Joon Kwak& more “Final girls are the vessel we keep all our hopes in” – Stephen Graham Jones Looking outward and inward, our landscape is constantly communicating. Tugging messages of grief and neglect acting as sinking pits and cracked sidewalks, asking to be made apart […]

Tickets Flaming Ears is a 1992 Austrian science fiction queer film directed by and starring A. Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, and Dietmar Schipek. A pop sci-fi lesbian extravaganza set in the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche that follows the tangled lives of three women. This story of obsession and revenge is also an anti-romantic plea […]

Tickets A midnight screening of Female Trouble is a 1974 American dark comedy film written, produced, and directed by John Waters. Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, […]

Tickets William E. Jones and Margie Schnibbe in conversation and screening videos including “The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography” and “Mistress Samantha Diet Doctor” Vena Virago’s Friday Night (2026) 3 min. Margie Schnibbe
 A visual artist with a corporate day job and a secret history as adult film director Vena Virago, Margie […]

Tickets What sound defines your survival? Learn the art of the perfect cinematic scream and how to locate the rage that leads to liberation. We will outline and define our voices to craft our own iconic horror movie scream scene with breath work exercises, somatic release prompts and co-witnessing each other in the raw chaotic […]

tickets An assortment of video and animation works by Olivia Mole followed by a Q&A discussion with Vishal Jugdeo

Tickets Arrebato (, "Rapture") is a 1979 Spanish horror film written and directed by Ivan Zulueta. Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-girlfriend and a package from past acquaintance Pedro: a reel […]

Tickets Fresh Kill is a 1994 experimental film directed by Shu Lea Cheang and written by Jessica Hagedorn. A disturbingly prescient ecofeminist parable and a brain-wave-scrambling cyberpunk fantasia, the debut feature from new-media pioneer Shu Lea Cheang merges a bold vision of resistance with an exuberant early-internet aesthetic. In a dystopian-chic New York where sushi joints and toxic-waste sites exist side […]

Tickets Twitterpated - 2002- TRT 25 min Twitterpated is an investigation of image, sound and the sensations of unrequited love through the form of a musical. It is a series of events articulated by thirteen nonprofessional performances, twelve American pop songs and eleven locations in and around Los Angeles. Each scene is built only on […]

Have you ever wanted to find yourself in a 1970s, Porno Chic adult theater with a hottie who’s as dirty and desperate as you? Get yourself and all your FILTHY FRIENDS to the FAST PUSSYCAT THEATRE at Human Resources Los Angeles to watch our continuous picture show, programmed by FEMME PERVERTS for people of ALL […]

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Tickets July 31st at 7pmProgram 1: RISKY BUSINESS Post-Screening Discussion with Nguyen Tan Hoang & Eve Oishi The program centers on the intersection of queer Asian identity, sexual desire, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. 7 Steps to Sticky Heaven (1995) presents candid interviews with young gay Asian men in San Francisco about the “politics of […]

Tickets Un-Silent Films is a screening of sound films presented by Middle Ear Project from their Music for Your Inbox archive. In these films, sound doesn’t just support the visuals — it’s an initiating force, primary lens, or conceptual center. Each film is paired with a visual art postcard to take home after the screening.  […]

Tickets The Beaches of Agnès is a 2008 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda. Made as its auteur approached her 80th birthday, Agnès Varda's The Beaches of Agnès is a playful, elegiac autobiography in cinema by the “grandmother” of the French New Wave. Varda has created a living, moving collage in which clips from her […]

Tickets Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo; literally "dandelion") is a 1985 Japanese film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe.  The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending […]

  This is the first of 3 consecutive Thursday nights of films by Los Angeles artist Stanya Kahn. Sliding scale tickets Thursday July 23rd at 8pm - Stand in the Stream (2011-2017) Stand in the Stream defies categorization—an ambient digital feature about life, death, the inextricability of the personal from the political, the primacy of […]

Madison Brookshire and mark so continue to spin or speak copying the code on sheets Now and again chance falling where they move mark that spread beyond speaking. "no line," almost "Nothing," that arises from this time unfolding, of which each aspect is unique and unrepeatable, 16mm film, notebooks, and tapes Tickets All screenings have […]