Saturday, August 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM to 10:30 PM
Human Resources, Los Angeles
[Tickets](https://pools.events/t/zsscorxg/) 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 celebrates the end of a mundane nine-to-five work week. Vena Virago’s Friday Night is a kinetic techno collage comprised of found footage, online gay porn, AI animation, and vintage archival fragments. Mistress Samantha Diet Doctor (1994) 14 min. Margie Schnibbe, a West Village dominatrix, puts her 400 lb. love slave on an S&M diet. Filmed in NYC when Margie was a sex worker and invited to assist Mistress Samantha in a private session with one of her regular clients. More British Sounds (2006) 8 min. William E. Jones In More British Sounds, images from The British Are Coming (1986) collide with dialogue from See You at Mao (1969), also known as British Sounds, produced by the Dziga Vertov Group under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard. “Workers have come to expect too much,” a narrator intones, as an English lad in a state of undress polishes the boots of a royal guard in full uniform. The soundtrack consists of a speech from British Sounds layered four times in the structure of a round. Gaps in the dialogue—filled by Godard’s heavy breathing in the original—allow certain key phrases to be heard in the chaos. The super-reactionary spouting of venom must have seemed horrendous and absurd in the late 1960s, but his line was practically adopted as policy in early 21st-century America. The fetishistic sports underwear, skinhead tattoos, and bad boy snarls have been widely adopted as well. Gregory Übermensch Smoking Hot (2025) 6 min. Margie Schnibbe. Starring Gregory Barnett. Margie and Gregory bond over their shared German heritage and passion for perversion in this smoking fetish jerk-off fantasy, a contemporary portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “superman”. Friends and artistic collaborators for over 15 years, Gregory and Margie film on location in an industrial neighborhood, urban nature park and travel trailer in the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood they have both called home. The video includes archival video and audio from the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that occurred when a passenger blimp from Frankfurt, Germany attempted to land in New Jersey in 1937. Long Beach, California queer DIY punk band NÜ GØDD provides the music. The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998) 19 min. William E. Jones. Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay adult videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young men responding to the pressures of an unfamiliar world, one in which money, power, and sex are now connected. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live