CINEMA LAND
July 21 – September 25
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 16mm and archival prints in Chinatown six nights a week. Join us!
All screenings have modest sliding-scale tickets. Become a member for $13/month to access all HR events, including this summer’s Cinema Land screenings!
Full lineup updated regularly. Stay tuned!
COMING UP:
Tuesday, September 8 at 8 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – The Banana Man (1983) + Kappa (1986, collaboration with Bruce & Norman Yonemoto) + Family Tyrann (1987, by Paul McCarthy with Mike Kelley)
Wednesday, September 9 at 8 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip) (2004) + BLIND COUNTRY (1989, collaboration with Ericka Beckman) + Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) (2000)
Thursday, September 10 at 8 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – A Voyage of Growth and Discovery (2010, collaboration with Michael Smith)
Friday, September 11 at 7 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – Heidi (1992, collaboration with Paul McCarthy)
Friday, September 11 at 9 pm: GAG!, – GAG! presents Video 4
Saturday, September 12 at 7 pm: Chris Vargas & Eric Stanley, Homotopia/Criminal Queers
Saturday, September 12, 4 pm: Mike Kelley, five-night survey featuring guest speakers – Day Is Done (2005)
Saturday, September 12 at 9 pm: Yuval Pudik, The Hom(o)stead Act
Sunday, September 13 at 4 pm: Noemi Mendez-Colon, XHDЯBZ – La Familia P. Luche
Monday, September 14 at 8 pm: Reynaldo Rivera – Fistful Of Love
Tuesday, September 15 at 8 pm: Martha Colburn – Stop Motion Animated Films
Wednesday, September 16 at 8 pm: Bayley Sweitzer, Adam Khalil: Empty Metal presented by Clara López Menéndez
Thursday, September 17 at 8 pm: David Wojnarowicz, Where Evil Dwells + A Fire in My Belly + ITSOFOMO
Friday, September 18 at 8 pm: Kate Renshaw-Lewis, I’ve Got Something To Show You (Experimental and animated shorts from the festival world)
Friday, September 18 at 9 pm: Page Person, Pat Posey, Eva Myra May, Pink Narcissus Orchestra
Saturday, September 19 at 6 pm: Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself presented by East Of Borneo & discussion with Tom Lawson
Saturday, September 19 at 11 pm: Summer Night Terrors, Nosferatu
Sunday, September 20 at 8 pm: Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art: with an introduction from Glenn Phillips (Getty Research Institute)
Monday, September 21 at 7:30 pm: Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices)
Tuesday, September 22 at 8 pm: Margie Schnibbe & Menelas present Anti-Fascist Porn from The Athens Porn Film Festival
Tuesday, September 23 at 8 pm: Page Person presents Lockdown Cinema – videos from 2020
Friday, September 25 at 9 pm: Harry Dodge & Silas Howard, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
PAST SCREENINGS:
Tuesday, July 21 at 8pm: Mark So + Madison Brookshire, Nonalignment
Thursday, July 23 at 8pm: Stanya Kahn, Stand in the Stream
Friday, July 24 at 7pm: P Staff presents Kate Bush Rarities
Saturday July 25th, at 9pm: Juzo Itami, Tampopo
Tuesday July 28th, at 8pm: Agnés Varda, The Beaches Of Agnés
Wednesday, July 29 at 8pm: Middle Ear Project, Un-Silent Films
Thursday, July 30 at 8pm: Stanya Kahn, Don’t Go Back to Sleep
Friday, July 31 at 7pm: Nguyen Tan Hoang, THE GAYSIAN ARCHIVE: RISKY BUSINESS
Saturday, August 1 at 7pm: Nguyen Tan Hoang, PIRATED FANTASIES
Saturday, August 1 at 9pm: Fast Cat Productions, Cruising(at the movies)
Sunday, August 2 at 4pm: Tuni Chatterji, Heart Aches from Loving You: two films
Tuesday, August 4 at 8pm: Shu Lea Cheang, Fresh Kill
Thursday, August 6 at 8p: Stanya Kahn, No Go Backs and It’s Cool, I’m Good
Thursday, August 6 at 10p: Ivan Zulueta, Arrebato
Friday, August 8 at 8pm: Olivia Mole, the Videos of Olivia Mole
Saturday, August 8 at 12pm: Jasmine Nyende, A Scream Workshop
Saturday, August 8 at 9pm: William E. Jones and Margie Schnibbe, in conversation
Saturday, August 8 at 11:30pm: John Waters, Female Trouble
Sunday, August 9 at 7pm: Films For Horses, Stick With Me
Monday, August 10 at 10pm: A. Hans Scheirl, Flaming Ears
Tuesday, August 11 at 8pm: Jasmine Nyende, Final Girl Fantasy Portal
Thursday, August 13 at 8pm: Eve Fowler, Filles Manquées
Thursday, August 13 at 10pm: Bill Gunn, Ganja & Hess
Friday, August 14 at 7pm: Tony Cokes, The Book Of Love
Friday, August 14 at 9pm: Charles Atlas, Hail the New Puritan
Saturday, August 15 at 7pm: East Of Borneo presents, Play It As It Lays
Saturday, August 15 at 10pm: Shirley Clarke, Portrait Of Jason
Sunday, August 16 at 4pm: Advik Beni & Nehal Vyas, Songs to Quell the Monster: Program 2 of 4—The People’s Chorus
Sunday, August 16 at 6pm: Dirty Looks, Suddenly Last Summer
Sunday, August 16 at 10pm: Charles Atlas The Legend Of Leigh Bowery
Monday, August 17 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Agnieszka Smoczyńska, The Lure
Tuesday, August 18 at 8pm: Haruko Tanaka + Reader Chorous, series of shorts + documentary
Wednesday, August 19 at 8pm: An Unwrinkled Ear presentation
Thursday, August 20 at 7pm: Cauleen Smith, Possible Worlds – A Film Survey, 1998–2024; Drylongso (1998)
Thursday, August 20 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Yukihiko Tsutsumi, The Egg
Friday, August 21 at 7pm: Cauleen Smith, Possible Worlds – A Film Survey, 1998–2024; The Fullness of Time (2008) + H-E-L-L-O (2014)
Friday, August 21 at 9pm: Vishal Jugdeo & vqueeram, Does Your House Have Lions
Saturday, August 22 at 11am: BAD ASIANS, Mukbang Matinee: Hunger, Care, and the Asian Body
Saturday, August 22 at 6pm: Christina Catherine Martinez, Comedy is Sad
Saturday, August 22 at 9pm: Priya Sen, Yeh Freedom Life
Sunday, August 23 at 4pm: Tom Bowes, Two Moon July
Monday, August 24 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Andrzej Żuławski, Possession
Tuesday, August 25 at 8pm: Lee Anne Schmitt, Evidence
Wednesday, August 26 at 8pm: Bedcrumbsshow, Audioginary Cinema 3
Thursday, August 27 at 8pm: Pedro Alejandro Verdin, Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, Performance
Thursday, August 27 at 10pm: Summer Night Terrors – Panos Cosmatos, Beyond The Black Rainbow
Friday, August 28 at 7pm: Cauleen Smith, Possible Worlds – A Film Survey, 1998–2024; Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) (2011) + Crow Requiem (2015) + Pilgrim (2016) + Three Songs About Liberation (2017) + Sojourner (2018)
Friday, August 28 at 9pm: Anna Wittenberg, Guts, Machines and Animals: LA Artists Shorts
Saturday, August 29 at 7pm: Cauleen Smith, Possible Worlds – A Film Survey, 1998–2024; The Volcano Manifesto: My Caldera (2022) + Mines to Caves (2023) + The Deep West Assembly (2024)
Saturday, August 29 at 9pm: Hugo & Harmony Holiday, Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope Tour
Sunday, August 30 from 12pm-9pm: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Monday, August 31 at 8pm: Cecilia Vicuña, What Is Poetry to You? featuring live readings from local poets
Tuesday, September 1 at 8pm: Elana Mann & Susan Mogul, Are you a Mann or a Mogul?
Wednesday, September 2 at 8pm: Aaron E. Hunt, Nehal Vyas and Advik Beni present Songs to Quell the Monster; Verse Three: The Bird’s Call
Thursday, September 3 at 8pm: Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Green Card: An American Romance
Friday, September 4 at 9pm: Juliet Bashore, Kamikaze Hearts (alternately, Fact or Fiction)
Friday, September, 4 at 7pm: Barbara Hammer, two-night survey: Menses, Dyketactics, Superdyke, Women I Love (1974-1976)
Friday, September, 4 at 9pm: Juliet Bashore, Kamikaze Hearts
Friday, September, 4 at 11pm: Amina Cruz & DayLight Films, THRUST
Saturday, September 5 at 3pm: Tim Feeney, Dowsing
Saturday, September 5, 7pm: Barbara Hammer, two-night survey: Double Strength, Sync Touch, No Nooky T.V., Maya Deren’s Sink (1978-2011)
Saturday, September 5 at 9pm: Guadalupe Arellanes, dream series
Sunday, September 6 at 4pm: Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost(STQM Verse 4)
Sunday, September 6 at 7pm: Stanya Kahn, Deny, Defend, Depose
Monday, September 7 at 8pm: Maggie Lee + Judy Fiskin: Mommy paired with I’ll Remember Mama
Monday, September 7 at 10pm: Nobuhiko Obayashi: HAUSU