After an eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad returns with this intimate portrait of the interwoven lives of its working-class characters.
One of the first works from Harvard’s acclaimed Sensory Ethnography Lab was this riveting study of the never-ending cycle of construction and destruction in booming modern China, in this case the western city of Chengdu.
Harris extends the concept of a family album from an intimate document of close relations to the images that make up the American family album, a document of race relations.
In 1960, “Lee” (Harris’s stepfather B. Pule Leinaeng) and eleven boyhood friends left their families (in South Africa) to build the anti-apartheid movement and gain support for the African National Congress abroad.
Each quarter, we host a free day for families to come explore all the BAM/PFA has to offer. Family Day events usually include hands-on art making with artists, tours of gallery exhibitions, and a free film screening.
