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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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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The Beaches of Agnès
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 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 […]
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Un-Silent Films
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 — 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. […]
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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 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 […]
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Cruising (At The Movies)
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 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 […]
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Heart Aches from Loving You: Two films by Tuni Chatterji
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 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 […]
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Fresh Kill
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 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 […]
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Arrebato
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 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 […]
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The Videos of Olivia Mole
The Videos of Olivia Mole
Sliding scale tickets An assortment of video and animation works by Olivia Mole followed by a Q&A discussion with Vardui Sharapkhanyan.
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A Scream Workshop by Jasmine Nyende
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 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 […]
William E. Jones and Margie Schnibbe
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 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 […]
Female Trouble
Female Trouble
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, […]
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Stick With Me
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 program is guided by disembodied voices, multi-dimensional sound, patient landscapes and fragmented brushes through time. As the compression of memory facilitates the act of touch […]
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The Lure
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 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 […]
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Eve Fowler’s Filles Manquées
Eve Fowler’s Filles Manquées
$15 sliding scale tickets This project's first phase is Eve Fowler's 16mm short film, Florence Derive (pictured here at Gordon Robichaux exhibition, 2023) 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 […]
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Portrait of Jason
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, 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 […]
Play It As It Lays
Play It As It Lays
Tickets 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 gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. […]
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Suddenly Last Summer Double Feature: Presented by Dirty Looks
Suddenly Last Summer Double Feature: Presented by Dirty Looks
6:00 pm Suddenly Last Summer (1959) 8:00 pm Suddenly Last Summer (2007) 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 […]
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Haruko Tanaka + Reader Chorous
Haruko Tanaka + Reader Chorous
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 […]
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Kamikaze Hearts
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 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 […]