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Abounaddara: still from The Imagemaker, 2024; courtesy of Abounaddara

Abounaddara: The Ruins We Carry

Opens October 9

The Ruins We Carry is the first solo US museum exhibition by Abounaddara, an anonymous collective of artists based in Syria. Known for their intimate portrayals of Syrian life amid upheaval, Abounaddara debuts a new three-channel film installation, The Imagemaker, exploring the world-making powers of one of the last craftsmen of stamped cloth in Damascus. This exhibition is part of BAMPFA's ongoing Campus Collaborations series. Learn more→

Upcoming Films

UKI

The Sea Is Calling

CineSpin: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Kirikou and the Sorceress

Once Upon a Time in China II

Green Border

Alan and Eric: Between Hello and Goodbye

Exhibitions on View

MATRIX 285 / Young Joon Kwak: Resistance Pleasure

To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection

Art Wall / Rose D’Amato: Mission Chevrolet

Abounaddara: The Ruins We Carry

Upcoming Events

Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral

Gallery + Studio—Exploring the Ephemeral with Suminagashi

Roundtable Reading—The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby by G. Z. Schmidt

Mail Art with John Held Jr.

Free Community Day: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection

Komal Shah and Cecilia Alemani with Margot Norton on Making Their Mark

Sergei Parajanov Symposium

Intro to Risograph Printing with Alayna Tinney: Sister Corita Kent Edition

Gallery + Studio—Your Name on the Sign

¡Roundtable Reading Bilingüe! The Cricket in Times Square / Un grillo en Times Square by George Selden

Scratching the Light with Tara Baghdassarian

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

We Go: Ancestors Go Where the Indigo Flow

Roundtable Reading: Olga and the Smelly Thing from Nowhere by Elise Gravel

Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema

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News

BAMPFA Appoints Elaine Yau as Associate Curator and Academic Liaison

Remembering Fernando Botero

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

BAMPFA Reinstalls Alexander Calder's The Hawk for Peace

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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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