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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 […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Surely, we cannot give over the meaning of a day to the splitting up of time and labor according to the rationalization of managers and their kind. Maybe a day is made in collaborative friction—by children and elders, friends and lovers, at work and at home. In this sense, potential remains unrestrained and indifferent to […]
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Cecilia Vicuña’s What Is Poetry to You?
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 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?” […]
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Elana Mann, Susan Mogul, Are you a Mann or a Mogul?
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. 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. […]
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Songs to Quell the Monster | Verse Three: The Bird’s Call
Songs to Quell the Monster | Verse Three: The Bird’s Call
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 […]
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Green Card by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
Green Card by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
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 […]
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Barbara Hammer, two-night survey (1974-2011)
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 […]
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 […]
THRUST
THRUST
Tickets Four short videos exploring desire, fantasy, obsession, and wanting.Moving between digital and Super 8, the works blur the line betweenfantasy and reality, attraction and fixation, tenderness and excess.Come horny for images, longing, and a little trouble. Que Mija (Daylight Films)Maypole (Daylight Films)The Satyr (Jamie Ross & Amina Cruz)Resurrection (Daylight Films & Dagger Wound) Presented […]
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Tim Feeney’s Dowsing
Tim Feeney’s Dowsing
tickets Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. These occur at sites of local “anti-monuments:” a kilometers-long, natural limestone pavement high above Galway Bay; stone farm walls and remnants of circular structures on hillsides; cairns near a shoreline; a field of glacial boulders interrupted by a road smashed […]
Guadalupe Arellanes’ Dream Series
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, 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 […]
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Neptune Frost(STQM Verse 4)
Neptune Frost(STQM Verse 4)
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 […]
Deny, Defend, Depose by Stanya Kahn
Deny, Defend, Depose by Stanya Kahn
Tickets Deny, Defend, Depose 7 & 8 pm screenings Stanya Kahn ©2026 TRT: 30:58 minutes Single channel color digital video with stereo sound Music by Cameron Outlaw, Acid Arab, Baseck, Caterina Barbieri, Unknown Origin, and Stanya Kahn. Deny, Defend, Depose is a short film made entirely of tweets collected since the morning of December 04, 2024, […]
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Maggie Lee + Judy Fiskin: Mommy paired with I’ll Remember Mama
Maggie Lee + Judy Fiskin: Mommy paired with I’ll Remember Mama
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 […]
HAUSU
HAUSU
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 […]
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Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers
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 […]
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GAG! presents VIDEO 4
GAG! presents VIDEO 4
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 […]
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Homotopia & Criminal Queers
Homotopia & Criminal Queers
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 […]
Yuval Pudik’s The Hom(o)stead Act: Kaiserpanorama
Yuval Pudik’s The Hom(o)stead Act: Kaiserpanorama
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 […]
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La Familia P. Luche – season one marathon
La Familia P. Luche – season one marathon
Airing on public broadcasting from 2002 to 2012 with only three seasons, La Familia P. Luche is widely regarded as one of the most deeply rooted series in Mexican TV culture. Created by and starring comedian Eugenio Derbez, it depicts a chaotic and deeply dysfunctional family led by his character Ludovico P. Luche and his domineering […]
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Fistful Of Love by Reynaldo Rivera
Fistful Of Love by Reynaldo Rivera
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, […]
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Martha Colburn, stop-motion animated films
Martha Colburn, stop-motion animated films
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, […]
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Empty Metal
Empty Metal
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 […]
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David Wojnarowicz: Where Evil Dwells + A Fire in My Belly + ITSOFOMO
David Wojnarowicz: Where Evil Dwells + A Fire in My Belly + ITSOFOMO
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 […]
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I’ve Got Something To Show You
I’ve Got Something To Show You
(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 […]
Pink Narcissus Orchestra
Pink Narcissus Orchestra
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.
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Killer Of Sheep
Killer Of Sheep
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 as a mosaic of Black life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a father worn down by his job […]
Los Angeles Plays Itself presented by East Of Borneo
Los Angeles Plays Itself presented by East Of Borneo
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 Angeles Plays Itself (2003). East of Borneo’s Editor-in-Chief Thomas Lawson will present a short introduction to the film. Watch the trailer here. ABOUT THE FILM: “Andersen maps […]
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Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art and discussion with Glenn Phillips
Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art and discussion with Glenn Phillips
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 Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art, accompanied by a discussion with Glenn Phillips. Vital Signals is a survey of the vibrant, interdisciplinary video art scene […]
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Kouté Vwa
Kouté Vwa
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 celebration, Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices) portrays a family and a community as they experience grief, joy, and reconciliation in the wake of tragedy. Melrick, a […]
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Anti-Fascist Porn
Anti-Fascist Porn
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 program atSatyrs and Maenads: The Athens Porn Film Festival. Preceding the Antigone programwill be the feminist video TARANTA TARANTA, which screened in the Athens PFFpolitical […]
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LOCKDOWN CINEMA – video works from 2020
LOCKDOWN CINEMA – video works from 2020
Tickets Page Person Dagger Wound Pat Posey Pelon Suelto Wesleigh Gates Dusk Crystal Sasaki Damian Dragon Matt Savitsky Wrong Note Rusty Earth to Jordi
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Toni-Marie Gallardo + Queer Film Club presents Shlock Wave
Toni-Marie Gallardo + Queer Film Club presents Shlock Wave
tickets QUEER FILM CLUB PRESENTS SCHLOCK WAVE Sending schlock waves to television sets everywhere! Hang out for a night of experimental media curated by the occasional film salon q.f.c. (queer film club) – experimental shorts and archival media that channel the aesthetics of public access / shopping network / reality television, either in parody, in […]
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BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
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 of Shy, a handsome, gender-bending, small town dreamer with a nagging messiah complex, and Valentine, a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for […]
ROUGH CUT
ROUGH CUT
A one-night-only queer adult cinema and cruising experience $15 Tickets Rough Cut is a late-night queer adult cinema where cruising is encouraged. We’re taking over the theater at Human Resources for a night of vintage gay porn and erotic art film, with plenty of space to watch, hang out, and cruise. A darkroom will be […]
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LAPD presents: RE-ENACTING THE LIE
LAPD presents: RE-ENACTING THE LIE
Tickets Come to Human Resources and join Los Angeles Poverty Department in “Re-Enacting the Lie” The impetus for LAPD’s new performance began with the demise of Skid Row Housing Trust and the crumbling – literally and figuratively of the non-profit model for decent supportive housing. As we witness compassionate structures crumbling all around us, “Re-enacting the Lie” answers the […]
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CRUISE LA: 10 YEARS DEEP
CRUISE LA: 10 YEARS DEEP
RSVP Join us for an immersive opening celebration of Cruise LA’s 10th anniversary, where the exhibition and living culture merge. Through photographs, ephemera, and installation, the exhibit traces how Cruise LA has become a catalyst for reshaping the Los Angeles leather/kink community by creating space for the people who disrupt the leather archetype. Historically unwelcoming […]