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23 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, February 23, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM The Battle for Laikipia Film In-Person Sunday, February 23, 2025 1:00 PM The Battle for Laikipia Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi, Greece, Kenya, United States, 2024, (94 mins) Drought, dwindling resources, and contentious elections in equatorial Kenya exacerbate the conflict between semi-nomadic Indigenous pastoralists and wealthy white ranchers in this documentary epic. “A tense, beautiful, and heartbreaking film” (Vulture). In Conversation Maya Craig Maya Craig is a cinematographer and coproducer of The Battle for Laikipia. Miswa Basil Miswa Basil is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. Jennifer Redfearn Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and the Director of the Documentary Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Series Climate Journalism on Screen Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM Shaped Papermaking with Julia Goodman Art Workshop Sunday, February 23, 2025 1:00 PM Shaped Papermaking with Julia Goodman Space is limited; RSVP required Local artist Julia Goodman shares a step-by-step process to make unique pieces of handmade paper. Taking inspiration from artworks on view in the exhibition Making Their Mark, participants explore techniques for making shaped paper. Space is limited; RSVP required Series Workshops SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Sunday, February 23, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM L’Atlantide Film Sunday, February 23, 2025 4:00 PM L’Atlantide G. W. Pabst, France, Germany, 1932, (90 mins) Dominated by the statuesque presence of Brigitte Helm this “campy, exotic fantasy takes place in a décor of dazzling white buildings, studio sand, and artificial pools” (Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide). Series G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Muchachas de uniforme Film In-Person Sunday, February 23, 2025 7:00 PM Muchachas de uniforme Alfredo B. Crevenna, Mexico, 1951, (101 mins) Filmoteca-UNAM’s Collection A rare Mexican girls school melodrama of a student in love with her teacher, a remake of the 1931 German film Mädchen in Uniform (considered to be the first lesbian film ever made). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. In Conversation Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Juana María Rodríguez Juana María Rodríguez is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and a cultural critic, public speaker, and award-winning author who writes about sexual cultures, racial politics, and the many ta Series Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	24	25	26 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Wednesday, February 26, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Modified Hours: Galleries Close at 5 PM Wednesday, February 26, 2025 5 PM Modified Hours: Galleries Close at 5 PM Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Galleries will close early at 5 PM on Wednesday, February 26 and Thursday, February 27. Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM CANCELED: Gaucho Gaucho Film In-Person Wednesday, February 26, 2025 7:00 PM CANCELED: Gaucho Gaucho Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Argentina, United States, 2024, (116 mins) These two films document contemporary cowboy culture on two continents. Gaucho Gaucho chronicles the everyday life of Argentine cowhands, while Ten Five in the Grass captures the preparations for a calf roping event on the Black rodeo circuit. Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Multiple film screenings have been canceled, and galleries will close early on Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for more information. Leila Weefur Introduction Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Series Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers Google Calendar ICS	27 5 PM Modified Hours: Galleries Close at 5 PM Thursday, February 27, 2025 5 PM Modified Hours: Galleries Close at 5 PM Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Galleries will close early at 5 PM on Wednesday, February 26 and Thursday, February 27. Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM CANCELED: According to Pereira Film Thursday, February 27, 2025 7:00 PM CANCELED: According to Pereira Roberto Faenza, France, Italy, Portugal, 1995, (104 mins) Antonio Tabucchi’s novel According to Pereira “provides Marcello Mastroianni with one of his best roles” (David Rooney, Variety). Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Multiple film screenings have been canceled, and galleries will close early on Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for more information. Series Marcello Mastroianni at 100 Google Calendar ICS	28 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, February 28, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM CANCELED: The Shanghai Drama Film Friday, February 28, 2025 4:30 PM CANCELED: The Shanghai Drama G. W. Pabst, France, 1938, (100 mins) G. W. Pabst left Germany only to be censored by the French, his film recut. But as Nora Sayre advised in the New York Times, “Ignore the muddles and savor the cast of characters.” Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Multiple film screenings have been canceled, and galleries will close early on Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for more information. Series G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38 Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM CANCELED: Maliglutit Film In-Person Friday, February 28, 2025 7:00 PM CANCELED: Maliglutit Zacharias Kunuk, Canada, 2016, Maliglutit continues in the breathtaking vein of Canadian Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner with a story of cruelty and cold revenge inspired by John Ford’s The Searchers and spoken entirely in Inuktitut. Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Multiple film screenings have been canceled, and galleries will close early on Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for more information. Shari Huhndorf Introduction Shari Huhndorf is Class of 1938 Professor of Native American Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley. Series Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers Google Calendar ICS	1 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, March 1, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM All We Imagine as Light Film Saturday, March 1, 2025 3:30 PM All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia, France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, 2024, (115 mins) Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three nurses as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Torment Film In-Person Saturday, March 1, 2025 6:30 PM Torment Alf Sjöberg, Sweden, 1944, (123 mins) Ingmar Bergman’s first produced screenplay was for the great Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, a dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior who falls in love with a shopgirl, with a standout performance by Mai Zetterling. Preceded by a short documentary on Zetterling’s career. Linda Haverty Rugg Introduction Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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2 2:00 PM - CANCELED Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Sunday, March 2, 2025 2:00 PM - CANCELED Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, March 2, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Music in the Dark Film In-Person Sunday, March 2, 2025 1:30 PM Music in the Dark Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1948, (88 mins) Ingmar Bergman’s early, restless experimentation with different aesthetics is at its height in this tale of the relationship between a young, blind musician and a lower-class servant girl, played by Mai Zetterling. Linda Haverty Rugg Introduction Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3	4	5 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Wednesday, March 5, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes Film In-Person Wednesday, March 5, 2025 7:00 PM Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes (90 mins) The annual Les Blank Lecture is presented by archivist, filmmaker, educator, and curator Rick Prelinger. Prelinger will present excerpts from his Lost Landscapes compilations and discuss the importance of archiving home movies and industrial, educational, and ephemeral films. Rick Prelinger Les Blank Lecture Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	6 All Day Free First Thursdays Art Families Free Thursday, March 6, 2025 All Day Free First Thursdays First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Thursday, March 6, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Thursday, March 6, 2025 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM A Tooth for a Tooth Film In-Person Thursday, March 6, 2025 7:00 PM A Tooth for a Tooth Ottis Ba, Belgium, France, Senegal, 2022, (84 mins) A hapless Senegalese civil servant loses his job thanks to International Monetary Fund austerity measures and, after countless humiliations, seeks vengeance against the very man who created them in this darkly comic take on the new world economy—and those at the wrong end of it. Ivy Mills Introduction Ivy Mills is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora at UC Berkeley. Series African Film Festival 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	7 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, March 7, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Loving Couples Film In-Person Friday, March 7, 2025 7:00 PM Loving Couples Mai Zetterling, Sweden, 1964, (129 mins) Digital Restoration Repeats Thursday, May 1, 7:00 PM (without introduction) “Wildly subversive in its treatment of sexuality, gender, class, religion, marriage, and motherhood, Loving Couples is as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth” (Janus Films). Linda Haverty Rugg Introduction Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8 All Day International Women’s Day: Free Gallery Admission Art Free Saturday, March 8, 2025 All Day International Women’s Day: Free Gallery Admission Celebrate International Women’s Day at BAMPFA! Enjoy free admission and explore our galleries, including our flagship spring exhibition of work by pathbreaking women artists, Making Their Mark: Works From the Shah Garg Foundation. Advanced tickets not required. Tickets available online and on-site. Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 11:30AM–1:00 PM Gallery+Studio / Create Your Own Shield! Art Families Workshop Saturday, March 8, 2025 11:30AM–1:00 PM Gallery+Studio / Create Your Own Shield! For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s) Inspired by Elizabeth Talford Scott’s mixed-media artwork Save the Babies, work with paper, fabric, beads, and other materials to make a shield that embraces your own ideas of healing and strength. Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs. Rivka Valérie Louissaint Workshop led by Rivka Valérie Louissaint is a Haitian cultural worker based in Oakland, a graduate of UC Berkeley’s MFA program, and a 2022–24 Gerado Marín Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of San Francisco, Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, March 8, 2025 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM Safe Film In-Person Saturday, March 8, 2025 2:30 PM Safe Todd Haynes, United States, 1995, (119 mins) A placid San Fernando Valley housewife (Julianne Moore) suddenly afflicted with environmental illness finds her sunny surroundings, shopping malls, and beauty salons imbued with suffocating menace, suggesting both the material and metaphysical toxicity from which she must escape. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. In Conversation Todd Haynes Mary Ann Doane Mary Ann Doane is Professor Emeritus; Class of 1937 Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM–3:30 PM ¡Roundtable Reading Bilingüe! Voyage of the Dogs / Perronautas by Greg Van Eekhout Families Saturday, March 8, 2025 2:30 PM–3:30 PM ¡Roundtable Reading Bilingüe! Voyage of the Dogs / Perronautas by Greg Van Eekhout Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s) Find out what happens when an exceptional team of valiant dogs confronts a crisis in outer space. Descubre lo que sucede cuando un excepcional equipo de valientes perros se enfrenta a una crisis en el espacio exterior. Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs. Angela Loza Reading led by Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Velvet Goldmine Film In-Person Saturday, March 8, 2025 6:30 PM Velvet Goldmine Todd Haynes, 1998, (118 mins) In this exuberant ode to the liberating potential of glam rock—named for a David Bowie B-side—Todd Haynes re-creates the era’s glittering excess, with an epic soundtrack featuring Brian Eno, Pulp, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, T. Rex, and more. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. In Conversation Todd Haynes Damon Young Damon Young is an Associate Professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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9 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, March 9, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Sunday, March 9, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM I’m Not There Film In-Person Sunday, March 9, 2025 2:00 PM I’m Not There Todd Haynes, United States, 2007, (135 mins) As audacious as its subject, Todd Haynes’s mixtape/cine-collage/essay-poem is an imaginative, multifaceted portrait of the great Bob Dylan. “It plays like the headiest musical ever made” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. In Conversation Todd Haynes Damon Young Damon Young is an Associate Professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Far From Heaven Film In-Person Sunday, March 9, 2025 6:30 PM Far From Heaven Todd Haynes, United States, 2002, (107 mins) A reimagining of Douglas Sirk’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows, Todd Haynes’s 2002 chronicle of social isolation, existential loneliness, and forbidden love meticulously re-creates the mode of Sirk’s mid-century technicolor melodramas, while creating an uncanny, timeless modern masterpiece. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. In Conversation Todd Haynes Dolores McElroy Dolores McElroy is a Lecturer in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	10	11	12 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Hollywoodgate Film In-Person Wednesday, March 12, 2025 7:00 PM Hollywoodgate Ibrahim Nash’at, Germany, United States, 2023, (91 mins) Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache of weapons America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime. Jason Spingarn-Koff Introduction Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13 7:00 PM Night Games Film In-Person Thursday, March 13, 2025 7:00 PM Night Games Mai Zetterling, Sweden, 1966, (105 mins) Digital Restoration Also screens Saturday, May 3, 7:00 PM (without introduction) “An absorbing, even brilliant film. . . . When it was first exhibited at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, it was considered the most daring film ever made” (Roger Ebert). Linda Haverty Rugg Introduction Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, March 14, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Film Friday, March 14, 2025 7:00 PM On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni, Ireland, United Kingdom, Zambia, 2024, A partygoer’s sudden discovery of her own uncle’s dead body opens up hidden secrets in this darkly funny, at times absurdist drama from the director of I Am Not a Witch. Winner of the Best Director award, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival. Series African Film Festival 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, March 15, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 3:00 PM Artists’ Conversation: Crafting the Self Art Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:00 PM Artists’ Conversation: Crafting the Self Featuring artists Melissa Cody and Tau Lewis, the discussion will consider the ways their works express identity, power, lineage, and the self through materials, making, portraiture, and abstraction. Included with admission Series Talks & Conversations Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Girls Film In-Person Saturday, March 15, 2025 7:00 PM The Girls Mai Zetterling, Sweden, 1968, (100 mins) Digital Restoration Also screens Thursday, May 8, 7:00 PM (without conversation) In Mai Zetterling’s send-up of gender relations in contemporary Sweden, life, art, and fantasy intermingle as actors Liz (Bibi Andersson), Marianne (Harriet Andersson), and Gunilla (Gunnel Lindblom) perform in a touring production of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata. In Conversation Anna Stenport Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, and a scholar of Scandinavian, Arctic, and feminist film, media, an Linda Haverty Rugg Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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16 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, March 16, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM Risograph for Writers with Neko Natalia Art Workshop Sunday, March 16, 2025 1:00 PM Risograph for Writers with Neko Natalia Oakland-based risograph printer and photographer Neko Natalia leads a risograph printing workshop for writers and poets. Space is limited; RSVP required Series Workshops SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Sunday, March 16, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 3:00 PM We Have Many Names plus Short Films Film In-Person Sunday, March 16, 2025 3:00 PM We Have Many Names plus Short Films Mai Zetterling, Sweden, 1976, (141 mins) “Through several stylistic choices, Mai Zetterling moves beyond clichés and into the woman’s mind, addressing issues of life purpose, the immaturity of attachment, and the infantilization of women in marriage” (Mariah Larsson, A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling). Screens with a selection of Zetterling’s short films, including two documentaries. Anna Stenport Lecture Anna Stenport will give a thirty-minute lecture prior to the films.Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Camp de Thiaroye Film Sunday, March 16, 2025 6:30 PM Camp de Thiaroye Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow, Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia, 1988, (153 mins) New Digital Restoration At the close of World War II, Senegalese troops are held in a Dakar transit camp that is little better than the concentration camps some of them have just braved. A “powerful indictment of colonialism . . . shows WWII’s effects on shaping the future of Africa” (Variety). Series African Film Festival 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17	18	19 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Wednesday, March 19, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Mother of All Lies Film In-Person Wednesday, March 19, 2025 7:00 PM The Mother of All Lies Asmae El Moudir, Morocco, 2024, (97 mins) “The delicate mix of handmade replicas and oral testimony brilliantly evokes the personal and collective trauma that stem from Morocco’s ‘Years of Lead’—a period of state brutality under Hassan II’s dictatorial rule” (Phuong Le, Guardian). Paola Bacchetta Introduction Paola Bacchetta is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. She is also Director of the Institute for Gender and Sexuality Research. Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20 7:00 PM Todd Haynes’s Early Works Film In-Person Thursday, March 20, 2025 7:00 PM Todd Haynes’s Early Works (116 mins) New restorations of Todd Haynes’s ambitious early films show the director’s devotion to transgressive desire from very different points of view, including the fin de siècle Paris of Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud and suburban America and TV in Dottie Gets Spanked. Mary Ann Doane Introduction Mary Ann Doane is Professor Emeritus; Class of 1937 Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, March 21, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Earth Film Performance Friday, March 21, 2025 7:00 PM Earth Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Ukraine, 1930, (79 mins) BAMPFA Collection The poetic lyricism of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Earth makes it one of the great works of cinema, using the emotional power of the image to express the director’s love for his homeland. Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, March 22, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Doktor Glas Film In-Person Saturday, March 22, 2025 4:30 PM Doktor Glas Mai Zetterling, Denmark, 1968, (83 mins) This tale of sexual obsession and moral hypocrisy, told in flashbacks, is both social critique and psychological study, with Glas’s surreal and nightmarish visions shot in high contrast by cinematographer Rune Ericson. Perhaps the least-seen of Mai Zetterling’s films. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Dark Waters Film Saturday, March 22, 2025 7:00 PM Dark Waters Todd Haynes, United States, 2019, (126 mins) A chilling true story of corporate malfeasance, Dark Waters chronicles the efforts of lawyer Robert Bilott to hold DuPont responsible for knowingly exposing its employees; the residents of Parkersburg, West Virginia; and many others to highly toxic “forever chemicals.” Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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23 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, March 23, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 3:00 PM Iris and the Lieutenant Film Sunday, March 23, 2025 3:00 PM Iris and the Lieutenant Alf Sjöberg, Sweden, 1946, (89 mins) Digital Restoration Mai Zetterling reunites with her costar from Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, Alf Kjellin, in a tragic class drama, as a lieutenant falls for a housemaid, while his wealthy relatives will stop at nothing to keep the pair apart. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5:00 PM All We Imagine as Light Film Sunday, March 23, 2025 5:00 PM All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia, France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, 2024, (115 mins) Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three nurses as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24	25	26 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Wednesday, March 26, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Carol Film In-Person Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7:00 PM Carol Todd Haynes, United States, 2015, (118 mins) A thriller without a body count, Todd Haynes’s sumptuous adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt investigates the shifting power dynamics of love. Dolores McElroy Introduction Dolores McElroy is a Lecturer in the Film & Media Department at UC Berkeley. Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27 6:30 PM California Live! Enthralled: What Explains Our Unshakeable Fascination with Cults? Thursday, March 27, 2025 6:30 PM California Live! Enthralled: What Explains Our Unshakeable Fascination with Cults? Copresented by California Magazine and the Cal Alumni Association Join California Magazine’s Pat Joseph in conversation with Poulomi Saha, who teaches the highly popular course Cults in Popular Culture and is currently working on a book entitled Enthralled, to discuss America’s long obsession with “communities and philosophies that offer total belief and total enthrallment—even and especially as we might claim that we would never ourselves join.” General admission: $40 CAA and BAMPFA members: $35 Come early and enjoy complimentary admission to the galleries. Series Talks & Conversations Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, March 28, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM In Spring Film Performance Friday, March 28, 2025 7:00 PM In Spring Mikhail Kaufman, Ukraine, 1929, (89 mins) BAMPFA Collection Mikhail Kaufman, who had just served as cameraman on his brother Dziga Vertov’s The Man with a Movie Camera, debuted as director with this elegiac, impressionist observation of seasons changing in old Kyiv. With Dmytro Dalskyi’s symphony of Kharkiv, Sketches of the Soviet City. Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, March 29, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM Wonderstruck Film Saturday, March 29, 2025 3:30 PM Wonderstruck Todd Haynes, United States, 2017, (117 mins) Todd Haynes’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s children’s book is a gorgeous cinematic rendering of the intersecting stories of Rose and Ben, two courageous deaf children who, dealing with loss and longing, run away to New York City fifty years apart. Theresa L. Geller Introduction Theresa L. Geller is the lead editor of Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark (Duke University Press, 2022). Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Sunshine Follows Rain Film Saturday, March 29, 2025 6:30 PM Sunshine Follows Rain Gustaf Edgren, Sweden, 1946, (102 mins) Digital Restoration Director Gustaf Edgren gave Mai Zetterling the lead role in this rural drama, which became one of the biggest Swedish box-office successes of the postwar period and established Zetterling as a major star. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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30 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, March 30, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM At Great Cost Film Sunday, March 30, 2025 2:30 PM At Great Cost Mark Donskoi, Ukraine, 1957, (98 mins) Two star-crossed lovers run from an arranged marriage and the police in this delicately naturalistic work. Based on a story by Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors). Series Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5:00 PM Xalé Film Sunday, March 30, 2025 5:00 PM Xalé Moussa Sene Absa, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, 2022, (115 mins) A teenage schoolgirl’s life is suddenly upended by the death of her grandmother in veteran Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sene Absa’s powerful look at female rage and empowerment. “Blends universal melodrama with enticing traditional storytelling” (Variety). Screens with Johanna Makabi’s short Grâce. Series African Film Festival 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	31	1	2 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Wednesday, April 2, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Royal Road Film In-Person Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7:00 PM The Royal Road Jenni Olson, United States, 2015, (72 mins) A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican–American War, alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Screens with 575 Castro St., a haunting remembrance of Harvey Milk. In Conversation Jenni Olson Kelly Vance Kelly Vance has been reviewing films for East Bay Express since 1982, and now regularly contributes to other Metro Publishing papers. Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3 All Day Free First Thursdays Art Families Free Thursday, April 3, 2025 All Day Free First Thursdays First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Thursday, April 3, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Thursday, April 3, 2025 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Poem of the Sea Film Thursday, April 3, 2025 7:00 PM Poem of the Sea Yuliya Solntseva, Russia, 1958, (108 mins) “Poem of the Sea, which tells of the construction of an artificial sea, necessitating the flooding of a village, is remarkable for its confidence, grandeur and glowing beauty” (Ronald Bergan, Camera Lucida). Series Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, April 4, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival Film Free In-Person Friday, April 4, 2025 7:00 PM BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival Free Admission A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:00 PM. Student Filmmakers In Person Series Special Screenings 2025 Google Calendar ICS	5 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, April 5, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM Nayola Film In-Person Saturday, April 5, 2025 4:00 PM Nayola José Miguel Ribeiro, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal, 2022, (83 mins) Angola’s tragic twenty-five-year-long civil war is given an unexpected retelling in this stunning animated feature film, a remarkable Lusophone African companion to such titles as Waltz with Bashir and Persepolis. “Bold and thrilling storytelling” (Screen International). Ndola Prata Introduction Ndola Prata is the Fred H. Bixby Jr. Series African Film Festival 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Poison Film In-Person Saturday, April 5, 2025 6:30 PM Poison Todd Haynes, United States, 1991, (85 mins) 35mm Archival Print A seminal work of the New Queer Cinema and a preemptive strike against the domestication of queer identity, Todd Haynes’s audacious first feature weaves together three stories inspired by Jean Genet, each realized in a radically different cinematic style. Thomas DePaoli Introduction Thomas DePaoli is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Todd Haynes: Far from Safe Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS