• Un chien Andalou

  • Chess Fever

  • The Cage

  • Graphic designed by Frankie Mellor

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 7 PM.



CineSpin: Chess Fever, Un chien Andalou, and The Cage



Free Admission

Join the BAMPFA Student Committee for our exciting annual silent film and live music event, CineSpin. This year enjoy a program of three short films accompanied by original music by UC Berkeley student musicians. Third-year music major and pianist Owen Klein crafts dynamic scores to Nikolai Shpikovsky and Vsevolod Pudovkin’s 1925 silent comedy Chess Fever, a tale of love and chess, and Sidney Peterson’s 1947 experimental thriller The Cage, in which an eyeball escapes its socket and embarks on an exhilarating chase through San Francisco. Jazz and classical duo Stephanie Zavala-Lemarroy and Liam Joyce accompany Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s 1929 surrealist shocker Un chien Andalou. You will not want to miss this unique program of great films and stunning performances.

Films in this Screening

Chess Fever
(Shakhmatnaya goryachka)

Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky, USSR, 1925

FEATURING
Vladimir Fogel
Anna Zemtsova
José Raúl Capablanca

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cinematographer
  • Anatoli Golovnya
Language
  • Russian intertitles
  • with English electronic titling
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 20 mins
source
  • BAMPFA

Un chien Andalou

Luis Buñuel, France, 1929

FEATURING
Luis Buñuel
Salvador Dalí
Pierre Batcheff
Simone Mareuil
Jaime Miravilles

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Luis Buñuel
  • Salvador Dalí
Cinematographer
  • Albert Duverger
Language
  • French intertitles
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 17 mins
source
  • Kino Lorber

The Cage

Sidney Peterson, United States, 1947

FEATURING
Joseph Brusberg
James Keeney
Anne Hopkins
Beverly Campbell

FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Hy Hirsh
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • 28 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • Canyon Cinema

Event Accessibility

If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact us at bampfa@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 642-1412 (during open hours) with as much advance notice as possible. More information on accessibility services.