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Human Resources is a team of creative individuals which seeks to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression. Human Resources is entirely volunteer run and seeks to foster widespread public appreciation of the performative arts by encouraging maximum community access. Human Resources also serves as a point of conver

gence for diverse and disparate art communities to engage in conversation and idea-sharing promoting the sustainability of non-traditional art forms. Contact HR at:

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* hours of operation subject to change based on the event and or exhibition - check humanresourcesla.com or event pages for the most up-to-date info about hours!

08/21/2026

Tomorrow night at HR, “Yeh Freedom Life” (2018), directed by Priya Sen Priya Sen 🌷

Filmed over the course of a year in Ambedkar Nagar, New Delhi, “Yeh Freedom Life” follows Sachi and Parveen as they move through the erratic, precarious currents of love. Both are in love with women, searching for ways to live what they call their “freedom lives,” lives outside the constant scrutiny and sanction of family and society.

Priya Sen’s intimate, restless film stays close to the textures of their everyday lives: work, friendship, desire, heartbreak, and the cacophony of the city around them.

YEH FREEDOM LIFE
Priya Sen, 2018, 70 min
Hindi with English subtitles

Tomorrow, Saturday August 22
9 PM
Human Resources Los Angeles

Tickets + more info at the link in bio.

A 4 night survey of the films of Cauleen Smith starts this Thursday with Drylongso. Cauleen Smith makes films that treat...
08/19/2026

A 4 night survey of the films of Cauleen Smith starts this Thursday with Drylongso.

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, music, and science fiction to ask how images might not only reflect the world we inhabit, but help us imagine other ways of living within it.

This four-night survey opens with Drylongso (1998), Smith’s historic debut feature about a young woman photographing every Black man in Oakland as a form of protection and witness. From there, the program moves into Smith’s essayistic and archival work of the 2000s and 2010s, including The Fullness of Time and H-E-L-L-O, before arriving at a run of shorts that reimagine collective liberation through sound, procession, and myth: Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra), Crow Requiem, Pilgrim, Three Songs About Liberation, and Sojourner. The program closes with Smith’s most recent trio of works, The Volcano Manifesto: My Caldera, Mines to Caves, and The Deep West Assembly, which turn to geology and social landscapes as sites of conjectural history, extraction, and creation.

This survey offers a rare chance to watch the full range of devices Smith has developed out of her structuralist and Third Cinema roots. No two films alike. Her work stays grounded throughout in a belief in utopian potentiality and a deep trust in the audience’s own ability to dream.

Thursday, August 20th – 7 pm: Drylongso (1998)

Friday, August 21st – 7 pm: The Fullness of Time (2008) + H-E-L-L-O (2014)

Friday, August 28th – 7 pm: Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) (2011) + Crow Requiem (2015) + Pilgrim (2016) + Three Songs About Liberation (2017) + Sojourner (2018)

Saturday, August 29th – 7 pm: The Volcano Manifesto: My Caldera (2022) + Mines to Caves (2023) + The Deep West Assembly (2024)

Cauleen Smith: Possible Worlds is organized by HR’s ED, John Burpil

Still image: Drylongso (1998)

TWO MOON JULY - Sunday, August 23, 4pmIn 1986, The Kitchen threw the downtown NYC art scene onto television for one nigh...
08/18/2026

TWO MOON JULY - Sunday, August 23, 4pm

In 1986, The Kitchen threw the downtown NYC art scene onto television for one night: video, film, performance, and sound collapsed into a single live broadcast, directed by Tom Bowes.

More than thirty artists appear across 53 minutes: Laurie Anderson channels her “Soul Doctor” alter ego, David Byrne performs Report from L.A., Bill T. Jones dances to the Lurie brothers, and works by Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, and Jonathan Borofsky anchor the mise-en-scène, with Vito Acconci, Dara Birnbaum, Bruce Conner, and Bill Viola cut in throughout. A soundtrack from Brian Eno, Philip Glass, and Arto Lindsay runs under it all.

A rare chance to see this on the big screen, at HRLA as part of Cinema Land.

Courtesy of the Kitchen Archives, and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) The Kitchen

Tonight at HR is dedicated to Haruko Tanaka, the influential LA artist who passed away in 2019. A filmmaker, photographe...
08/18/2026

Tonight at HR is dedicated to Haruko Tanaka, the influential LA artist who passed away in 2019. A filmmaker, photographer, and graphic designer, Tanaka spent her practice moving between mediums and disciplines, and collectives. She was one half of the psychic performance duo Krystal Krunch with Asher Hartman, a core member of the experimental Readers Chorus, a Gorilla Girl, and a close collaborator with Machine Project and many in the the wider Los Angeles experimental arts community. This evening’s program gathers a selection of her shorts alongside a documentary on Readers Chorus, offering a glimpse into a body of work defined by intuition, friendship, collaboration, and a deep curiosity about performance, and voice. We share it tonight in her memory, and in gratitude for the community she helped build.
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WEEK 5 AT CINEMA LAND:MON 8/17, 10pm: Summer Night Terrors: THE LURE. Carnivorous mermaid sisters, synth-pop musical num...
08/17/2026

WEEK 5 AT CINEMA LAND:

MON 8/17, 10pm: Summer Night Terrors: THE LURE. Carnivorous mermaid sisters, synth-pop musical numbers, 1980s Poland. Horror has never sung this hard.

TUE 8/18, 8pm: Haruko Tanaka + Readers Chorus: A COLLECTION OF LOVE. Rare films from a beloved LA experimental performance icon, intro by close collaborator Asher Hartman.

WED 8/19, 8pm: Unwrinkled Ear. Live improvised music, 8 musicians, zero setlist. Trumpet, banjo, vibraphone, voice: anything can happen.

THU 8/20, 7pm: Cauleen Smith: DRYLONGSO (1998). Smith’s landmark debut feature about a young woman photographing every Black man in Oakland. Night 1 of 4 in a survey of Smith’s film practice.

THU 8/20, 10pm: Summer Night Terrors: THE EGG. A 2005 Japanese horror sci-fi mindbender that hatches into pure nightmare fuel.

FRI 8/21, 7pm: Cauleen Smith: THE FULLNESS OF TIME (2008) and H-E-L-L-O (2014). Moving into Smith’s essayistic and archival work of the 2000s and 2010s. Night 2 of the Cauleen Smith film survey.

FRI 8/21, 9pm: Vishal Jugdeo & vqueeram: DOES YOUR HOUSE HAVE LIONS. A decade of friendship, an archive of intimacy, shot cinéma-vérité style.

SAT 8/22, 11am: BAD ASIANS: MUKBANG MATINEE. Experimental video on food and the Asian body with Patty Chang, Lena Chen, Kayla Tange, Kim Ye, Laurel Nakadate, Sasami, and more. Brunch boxes from Gu Grocery available separately.

SAT 8/22, 6pm: Christina Catherine Martinez: COMEDY IS SAD. Shorts, sketches, and a brand new short with Christopher Richmond.

SAT 8/22, 9pm: Priya Sen: YEH FREEDOM LIFE. Love, longing, and freedom dreams against a cacophonous city backdrop.

SUN 8/23, 4pm: Tom Bowes: TWO MOON JULY. A downtown NY art happening at the Kitchen, with Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Bill T. Jones, Vito Acconci, Cindy Sherman, and Bill Viola, among more than thirty artists.

Become a member for $13/month to access all HR events including this summer’s Cinema Land screenings.

Full program of screenings and additional details are updated regularly on H-R.LA/event/CinemaLand.

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08/16/2026

What if the Little Mermaid was a sexy Polish horror synth-pop musical? 🧜‍♀️🔪

THE LURE (Córki dancingu) is exactly that: two mermaid sisters wash up in 1980s Warsaw and take jobs as singers/strippers at a nightclub, where one falls dangerously in love with a human bassist and the other develops a taste for blood of men. The 2015 film by director Agnieszka Smoczyńska is equal parts fairy tale, New Wave synth-pop musical, and body horror.

Catch it as part of the Summer Night Terrors series at HR, this Monday 8/17 at 10pm. 🎬🩸
Tickets in bio or at the door. Free for HR members.

Sunday at 6: Two versions of Suddenly, Last Summer. Originally written in 1958 by Tennessee Williams, the play was first...
08/16/2026

Sunday at 6: Two versions of Suddenly, Last Summer. Originally written in 1958 by Tennessee Williams, the play was first brought to the screen in 1959 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, an operatic, Production Code defying take starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift, adapted by Gore Vidal.

In 2007 underground filmmaker John Aes-Nihil restaged it as a scrappy, no budget cult object shot on the fringes of LA: Vaginal Davis as Mrs. Venable, Lance Loud as Dr. Sugar, Goddess Bunny as Sister Felicity, with Bibbe Hansen rounding out the cast. Same cannibalism, same closeted horror at the center, completely different register.

Same story, told twice. Come watch Hollywood prestige eat itself.

Presented by Dirty Looks

Jade Gordon Bradford Nordeen

08/15/2026

Portrait of Jason, Tonight: 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 and aspiring cabaret performer. The result is a mesmerizing portrait of a remarkable, charming, and tortured man who is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking.

August 15, 10:00 – 11:30

Friday at 9: Exuberant and witty, Hail the New Puritan is a simulated day-in-the-life “docufantasy” starring the British...
08/14/2026

Friday at 9: 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 1980s post-punk London subculture. Contriving a faux cinéma-vérité format in which to stage his stylized fiction, Atlas seamlessly integrates Clark’s extraordinary dance performances into the docu-narrative flow. Focusing on Clark’s flamboyantly postured eroticism and the artifice of his provocative balletic performances, Atlas posits the dance as a physical manifestation of Clark’s psychology. From the surreal opening dream sequence to the final solo dance, Clark’s milieu of fashion, clubs and music signifies for Atlas “a time capsule of a certain period and context in London that’s now gone.”

Director/Editor: Charles Atlas.
Choreography: Michael Clark.
Dancers: Gaby Agis, Leslie Bryant (Les Child), Michael Clark, Matthew Hawkins, Julie Hood, Ellen van Schuylenburch.
With: Leigh Bowery, Nicola Bowery, Michael Clark, Anthony Doughty, Mark E. Smith, Brix Smith, Sue Tilley. Music: Glenn Branca, The Fall, Bruce Gilbert, Jeffrey Hinton.
Camera: John Simmons.
Producer: Jolyon Wimhurst.
Special Thanks: Dave Baby, Chisenhale Dance Space, The Clarendon, R.K. Studios, Henry Stein.

9 screenings in the next 4 days:Thursday, August 13 at 8pm: Eve Fowler, Filles ManquéesThursday, August 13 at 10pm: Bill...
08/13/2026

9 screenings in the next 4 days:

Thursday, August 13 at 8pm: Eve Fowler, Filles Manquées

Thursday, August 13 at 10pm: Bill Gunn, G***a & 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

Photo by Noemi Mendez at the Films for Horses screening last weekend

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