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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
tickets An assortment of video and animation works by Olivia Mole followed by a Q&A discussion with Vishal Jugdeo
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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 Midnight Screening
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 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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Flaming Ears
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 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 […]
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Final Girl Infinity Portal
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 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 […]
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Eve Fowler’s Filles Manquées
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 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 […]
Ganja & Hess
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 film GANJA & HESS is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the Living […]
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Tony Cokes’ The Book Of Love
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, 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. […]
Hail The New Puritan
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" 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 […]
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Play It As It Lays
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 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 […]
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 […]
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Songs to Quell the Monster: Program 2 of 4—The People’s Chorus
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 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, […]
Suddenly, Last Summer Double Feature: Presented by Dirty Looks
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 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 […]
Suddenly, Last Summer
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. 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 […]
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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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Haruko Tanaka + Reader Chorus documentary
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 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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Unwrinkled Ear
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, 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 […]
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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 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, […]
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Does Your House Have Lions – Vishal Jugdeo & vqueeram
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 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 […]
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Mukbang Matinee: Hunger, Care, and the Asian Body
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, 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, […]
Comedy is Sad: Short films by Christina Catherine Martinez
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 a new co-authored short from long time collaborators Christina Catherine Martinez and Christopher Richmond. https://christinacatherine.info
Priya Sen | Yeh Freedom Life | 2018
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 are in love with other women. They dream of ‘freedom lives’, away from family and society’s constant scrutiny.
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Two Moon July
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 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 […]
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Evidence by Lee Anne Schmitt
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 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 […]
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Audioginary Cinema 3
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 improvisations. Each mysterious short will be live scored by 3 different ensembles/musicians: Lion + Meanstreetz Girl Debord Two Point (Sharada Shashidhar + Caleb Buchanan) sounds […]
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Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, Performance
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 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 […]
Beyond The Black Rainbow
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 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 […]
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Anna Wittenberg, GUTS MACHINES ANIMALS. Artist videos from LA & beyond
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
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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. These videos all poke at both the boundaries of art and the job of an artist in society. Through humor, storytelling, and spectacle Mann and Mogul perform various roles, including artist as […]
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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 […]
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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 […]