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Luis Buñuel’s Magnificent Weapon

July 7–November 19, 2023

Luis Buñuel wielded cinema like the "magnificent and dangerous weapon" he believed it to be. Throughout his half-century career, working in France, Spain, and Mexico, he mercilessly skewered religious dogma and bourgeois hypocrisy with his incendiary, Surrealist films.

Upcoming Films

Simon of the Desert
The Story of the Flaming Years
Once Upon a Time in the West
Belle de jour
Ukraine in Flames
Where Chimneys Are Seen
The Milky Way
The Great McGinty
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Exhibitions on View

What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again
Fifty-Third Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
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Upcoming Events

Guided Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection
Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
Black Life: Zekarias Thompson: Possible Dialogues, Vol. 1
Open: Art Lab
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ART LAB AT HOME

#1: Stamp and Postcard Making

#2: Printing with Leaves

#3: Paper Plant Making

#4: Camera Obscura

#5 Part 1: Natural Dyeing

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For Families

Gallery+Studio: Thinking GIANT

Roundtable Reading: Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas

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News

BAMPFA Mourns the Passing of PFA Director Emeritus Tom Luddy (1943-2023)

BAMPFA Reinstalls Alexander Calder's The Hawk for Peace

Watch: Behind the Scenes of Whitney Bradshaw's OUTCRY

Unpacking Undoing Time with Berkeley Underground Scholars

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From The Archives

Off the Shelves: Hispanic and Latinx Collection Spotlight

Off the Shelves: Kinuyo Tanaka

Off the Shelves: Asian American Cinema Rarities from the BAMPFA Film Library & Study Center

Distinguished Women of BAMPFA: Celebrating 150 Years of Women at UC Berkeley

Off the Shelves—Black Cinema, Black History

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