A World Without FIFA’s World Cup (Part 2)
"Nobody earns a thing from the crazy feeling that for a moment turns a man into a child playing with a balloon, a cat toying with a ball of yarn, […]
David Dove • mattie barbier • Rowell/Bell/Shook
On Monday, February 23rd, David Dove – the Houston-based improviser, composer, and trombonist – makes his Los Angeles solo debut at HRLA at a show pulled by UPEND. Via drones, […]
Lynne Marsh: after-lived
Friday, February 27 –Opening Performances 6–9 pm Saturday, February 28 –Performances 1–5 pm Sunday, March 1 –Performances 1–3 pm, Conversation 3–5 pm These poor nymphs of the present, distorted by […]
*autonomous together
a proposition about autonomies and their meanders by gloria galvez, fran ilich and clara lópez menéndez – with contributions from the larger Los Angeles organizing community Opening March 7th, 4 […]
SHAME
$15 tickets SHAME is a deliberately subversive nightlife concept created by curator Peter Kalisch after stepping away from booking Queerspace LA. Framed as a reaction against the excess, vanity, and image-driven […]
Cumbia de mi Tierra
Gallery Hours: Friday- Sunday, April 12th - April 26th, 12pm - 6pm Opening event on Saturday, April 11 from 4pm - 9pm. Opening event on Saturday, April 11 from 4pm - […]
SPRINGCLING
SPRINGCLING is the latest experiment in curation by local percussionist-artist Corey Fogel, challenging & augmenting what fits in a gallery, on a "music program", within an acoustic setting, and at an event. "Salon" may best describe this happening that marries […]
BUTCHONA – A Queer Cumbia Dance Party
homeLA x Human Resources Schedule6:30–7:30 PM — Dance Instruction with Jasmine Flores7:30–9:30 PM — DJ Set + Dance Party with Butchona Tickets$20 — Lesson + Dance Party (6:30 PM entry)$5–$10 […]
LOCAL OCCURRENCE
Tickets LOCAL OCCURRENCE, is a project that I, Henryk Golden, am starting together with the violinist Myra Hinrichs and the percussionist Corey Fogel, performing written and improvised music. The goal […]
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and Charles Curtis
Bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis perform live-in-concert – at an event pulled by UPEND – premiering a new version of Tashi Wada’s 2017 Witness, originally written for Vicente-Sandoval on bassoon and now including accompaniment […]
HRLA BirthDay / MayDay Extravaganza
Celebrate May Day & HR's 16th Birthday WithAjani BrannumCassia Streb & Jennifer BewerseHuntrezzJay CarlonMaria MaeaOlivia MoleTzotzona Tickets Free for HR members
Songs to Quell the Monster Program 1 of 4: A Mother’s Lullaby
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CASaturday, May 2nd. Doors open at 6PM, Starts at 6:30PM. Pay What You Can (Suggested $10) TICKETS Growing up, we are first held by the voice of our mothers—its rhythms […]
YEARS AS RUIN: A History of Los Angeles Art
Presented by East of Borneo and Hard to Read, YEARS AS RUIN highlights L.A. art through the ages, bringing together a dynamic group of East of Borneo contributors past and […]
MIRRORS OF RESISTANCE
MIRRORS OF RESISTANCE WHEN: 7:30 PM, May 10 COST: $12 The WAWOG LA community invites you to join us for a night of Palestinian film to raise funds for journalists […]
Collective Choreographies – Maura Chen
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm Collective Choreographies exhibits thirty-six labanotational ink drawings of line dances. Using a taxonomy of tiny and precise lines, each notation corresponds to […]
Bob Flanagan Memorial and Marathon Reading
Bob Flanagan Memorial and Marathon ReadingHuman Resources Los AngelesMay 16 th 12-7pm Bob Flanagan Memorial and Marathon Reading is a durational performance, live reading, and space to gather and honor […]
Who Makes Chinatown?
The Southeast Asian Community Alliance (SEACA) builds community power and develops youth leaders to advocate for immigrant and refugee families, protect affordable housing, and fight displacement. To understand Chinatown and […]
Shorter Than a Tunnel, Longer Than a Bridge
Shorter Than a Tunnel, Longer Than a BridgeAmelia Charter and Sam Wentz Friday May 29th, 7pm Saturday May 30th, 7pm Sunday May 31st, 4pmAmelia Charter and Sam Wentz collaborate for […]
Dorian Wood: Canto (Versión Juanga)
Doors at 7:30PM Performance begins at 8:00PM $15 / sliding scale : Friday Tickets - Saturday Tickets Dorian Wood returns to Human Resources for two nights only with an immersive performance […]
RAGE Thormbones / Toil to Gather
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CARAGE Thormbones: Breaking Ships.They play loud. RAGE Thormbones will be playing Breaking Ships, which is from their record of the same name: https://triptickstapes.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-ships RAGE Thormbones is Weston Olencki and Mattie Barbier. […]
Ex Tortion₇
Ex Tortion₇ On Thursday June 11th, please join us for the sixth installment in Ex Tortion, an improvised performance series where performers engage around/inside a sculptural enclosure. Audience members are […]
Juneteenth Workshop & Wellness
Hood Rave Juneteenth Workshop and Wellness in collaboration with Black Techno Matters An afternoon of music, healing, and creative exploration guided by Black artists. Dig into a hands-on Digitakt workshop […]
Lechedevirgen: XOCHIHUA Ancestral Blooming
$15 Suggested donation “Travestis somos, vestimos fores, y nos transformamos con las estaciones"Dusting off a seemingly withered past, this performance addresses the transvestite ancestrythat survives and flourishes in Abya Yala, […]
Isaura String Quartet
$15 sugested donation “The brilliant playing of the Isaura Quartet is a technical triumph, equal to the emotional demands of the music.”— SEQUENZA 21 “ was felt in the body, […]
NO SLEEP/NO PICNIC
On View: July 2–12, 2026Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6PM Opening Reception: Thursday, July 2, 6–9PMwith live performance NO SLEEP/NO PICNIC brings together work by queercrip artists Halo Starling and Libby Paloma in […]
Cassia Streb, Tim Feeney, Melissa Achten, Eli Klausner
Performance by Cassia Streb, Tim Feeney, Eli Klausner, and Melissa Achten These two established sound-making duos join together for the first time to present an evening of 2 brand new […]
CINEMA LAND
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 […]
Nonalignment
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," […]
Stanya Kahn Survey of Films
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 […]
Tampopo
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 […]
The Beaches of Agnès
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 […]
Un-Silent Films
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 […]
THE GAYSIAN ARCHIVE: NGUYEN TAN HOANG’S EXPERIMENTAL VIDEOS (1995-2026)
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 […]
Cruising (At The Movies)
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 […]
Heart Aches from Loving You: Two films by Tuni Chatterji
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 […]
Fresh Kill
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 […]
Arrebato
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 […]
The Videos of Olivia Mole
tickets An assortment of video and animation works by Olivia Mole followed by a Q&A discussion with Vishal Jugdeo
A Scream Workshop by Jasmine Nyende
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 […]
William E. Jones and Margie Schnibbe
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 […]
Female Trouble Midnight Screening
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 […]
Stick With Me
Tickets @filmsforhorses Stick With Me, an experimental short film program presented by Films For Horses ruminates on the tangibility of unresolved impressions. Gesturing to the sticky stillness of summertime, this […]
Flaming Ears
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 […]
Final Girl Infinity Portal
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 […]
Eve Fowler’s Filles Manquées
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 […]
Ganja & Hess
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 […]
Tony Cokes’ The Book Of Love
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, […]
Hail The New Puritan
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" […]
Play It As It Lays
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 […]
Portrait of Jason
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, […]
Songs to Quell the Monster: Program 2 of 4—The People’s Chorus
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 […]
Suddenly, Last Summer
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. […]
Suddenly, Last Summer Double Feature: Presented by Dirty Looks
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 […]
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
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 […]
The Lure
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 […]
Haruko Tanaka + Reader Chorus documentary
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 […]
Unwrinkled Ear
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, […]
Cauleen Smith: Possible Worlds, A Film Survey, 1998–2024
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 […]
EGG
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 […]
Does Your House Have Lions – Vishal Jugdeo & vqueeram
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 […]
Mukbang Matinee: Hunger, Care, and the Asian Body
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, […]
Comedy is Sad: Short films by Christina Catherine Martinez
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 […]
Priya Sen | Yeh Freedom Life | 2018
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 […]
Two Moon July
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 […]
Evidence by Lee Anne Schmitt
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 […]
Audioginary Cinema 3
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 […]
Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, Performance
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 […]
Beyond The Black Rainbow
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 […]
Anna Wittenberg, GUTS MACHINES ANIMALS. Artist videos from LA & beyond
Tickets Featuring: Bill Leavitt, Joel Kayak, Sarah Szczesny, Nathaniel Mellors, P. Staff, Nick Herman and Kirsten Mosher
Cecilia Vicuña’s What Is Poetry to You?
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 […]
Elana Mann, Susan Mogul, Are you a Mann or a Mogul?
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 […]
Kamikaze Hearts
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 […]
Guadalupe Arellanes’ Dream Series
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, […]
Sex Test + Erik/A Der Mann
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 […]
Homotopia & Criminal Queers
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 […]
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
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 […]