Today's Films
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Today's Events
Current Exhibitions
Through October 13
Through October 13
Through October 20
Through November 17
Through November 17
Through January 12
Through January 19
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Kader Attia: J’accuse, 2016; installation of wooden busts on metal plinths, wooden sculptures on metal supports, and single-channel HD video projection; installation view, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2018; courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nagel Draxler. Photo: Tony Hafkenscheid.
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Photo: JKA Photography.
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In Person
Marisa Morán Jahn
Monday, September 23
6:30 PM
Arts + Design Mondays lecture: "The Copper in My Cooch and Other Technologies"
Melodie Yashar
Thursday, September 26
12 PM
Arts + Design Thursdays lecture on design for Earth, the moon, and Mars
Documentarians Ashley Omoma and Karen Everett
Thursday, September 26, 7 PM
Introducing films by and about director Marlon Riggs.
Ahn Jae-hoon in Person
Sunday, September 29, 3:30
Get your caricature drawn by the animator and director of Green Days
Lecture: David Thomson
Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 3:10 PM
Discussing Tony Richardson's The Entertainer
On View
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Kader Attia / MATRIX 274
The French-Algerian artist investigates repair and healing from the trauma of war in his seminal installation J'accuse.
September 18–November 17, 2019 -
No Regrets: A Celebration of Marlon Riggs
Marlon Riggs grappled with African American culture, representation, and identity in his lucid, provocative video essays. We present all of his films, in dialogue with works by other filmmakers.
September 19–November 25, 2019 -
The San Quentin Project: Nigel Poor and the Men of San Quentin State Prison
Collaborations between the artist and men incarcerated in the prison, as well as archival photographs and episodes from the podcast Ear Hustle
August 21–November 17, 2019 -
Looking Back at the British New Wave
Look back at 1950s and ’60s British cinema and rediscover the England of Angry Young Men and working-class heroes, boundary-crossing writing, innovative direction, and electrifying acting.
September 21–November 30, 2019 -
Strange
Works that invoke the improbable, uncanny, mysterious, and miraculous and resonate with the spirit of Surrealism.
August 21, 2019–January 19, 2020 -
Out of the Vault: Native American Reelism
Films by and about Native Americans explore belonging and dislocation, political and social action, and questions of representation.
September 12–November 14, 2019 -
Dennis Feldman: Photographs
Works from the series Hollywood Boulevard, 1969–72 and American Images demonstrate the artist’s exploration of what he calls “a world contained in a frame.”
July 31–October 13, 2019 -
Alternative Visions
Our annual series of avant-garde and artist-made films returns with a stellar roster of in-person guests, as well as programs of strange and wonderful surrealist works from around the world.
September 4–November 13, 2019 -
Meditation in Motion: Zen Calligraphy from the Stuart Katz Collection
BAMPFA’s first exhibition to present the unique art form of Japanese Zen-inspired calligraphy, featuring works by Chinese Ōbaku monks in Japan, and writings by Japanese monks who expanded on their examples.
July 17–October 20, 2019 -
Abbas Kiarostami: Life as Art
Iran’s most influential director, Kiarostami made films that blended fiction and documentary, minimalism and spontaneity, poetic vision and humanist spirit. We present a near-complete retrospective of his work.
August 2–December 21, 2019 -
War and Peace
Back by popular demand! Sergei Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel was hailed by Roger Ebert as “the definitive epic of all time”; it demands to be seen on the big screen.
September 1–27, 2019 -
Divine Women, Divine Wisdom
Historical works from South Asia and the Himalayan region celebrating the beauty, wisdom, and power of women.
June 26, 2019–January 12, 2020 -
View Finders: Women Cinematographers
Showcasing the artistic visions of female cinematographers around the world, this series asks whether there is such a thing as a “female gaze.”
July 12–November 21, 2019 -
Art Wall: Carlos Amorales
This new commission invokes Mexican muralism, graffiti, and political protest, while reinforcing the importance of current social engagement.
March 27–October 13, 2019