Human Resources

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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" […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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 […]

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

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. Through humor, storytelling, and spectacle Mann and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

(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 […]

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 […]

Tickets Directed by Charles Burnett • 1977 • United StatesStarring Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy A quiet revelation of American independent filmmaking, Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut feature unfolds […]

Tickets Doors @ 5:30pm Screening @ 6pm With an introduction by East of Borneo's Editor-in-Chief Thomas Lawson East of Borneo is pleased to present a screening of Thom Andersen’s landmark essay film, Los […]

Tickets Nosferatu 1979 Werner Herzog Werner Herzog's interpretation of F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic stars Klaus Kinski and features a haunting score by Popol Vuh.

CTG, Kohei Ando, Takahiko Iimura, Keigo Yamamoto, Toshio Matsumoto, Video Earth Tokyo, Mako Idemitsu, Nobuhiro Kawanaka, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Norio Imai, Hakudo Kobayashi, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Saburo Muraoka, Keiji Uematsu, Morihiro Wada […]

Tickets Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices) Directed by Maxime Jean-Baptiste 2024, HD, color, sound, 76 minutes Los Angeles Premiere, Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum An elegy, but also a […]

Tickets Anti-Fascist Porn from The Athens Porn Film Festival Curated by Menelas and organized for Human Resources by Margie Schnibbe ANTI-GONE/ANTI-FASCIST/ANTI-COLONIAL/ANTI-GENOCIDEThese international short videos first screened together in the Antigone […]

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 […]