2018 News Archive
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TVTV: The World's Largest TV Studio (Willie Brown), 1972.
NEH Grant Will Support Preservation of TVTV Archives
A collection of rare videotapes containing irreplaceable records of national historical significance will be preserved by BAMPFA, thanks to a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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Installation view of On the Hour / JJ PEET: THE VACANT AMERICAN, 2017
Instagram Contest: Way Bay Now
BAMPFA's exhibition Way Bay explores creative currents in the Bay Area over the past two hundred years, and we want to see what you're “currently” working on.
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Still from Amadeus (1984), screening at BAMPFA on June 13.
BAMPFA Unveils Summer Film Calendar
It’s shaping up to be an A-list summer at the movies, and we’re not just talking about a certain Marvel Comics franchise.
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Still from L’Avventura (1960), which screens June 15, 28, August 22.
BAMPFA's Summer of Antonioni
BAMPFA's summer-long series dedicated to films by Michelangelo Antonioni kicks off June 15 with L’Avventura (1960), launching a comprehensive retrospective featuring more than two dozen films by the Italian moderni
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Jay Heikes: Music for Minor Planets (detail), 2018; sheet music and two elements; 12 x 14 x 2.5 in.; published by RITE Editions.
VIDEO: Jay Heikes on Magic and Materiality
“I feel we’re on trend to shortchange the art object,” Jay Heikes has said.
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Alphabet Rockers
Join Us for Spring Free Family Day April 22!
Bring the whole family to BAMPFA for Spring Free Family Day, an exciting day of Earth Day-inspired art-making, exhibition tours, live music, a movie matinee, and more.
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Clockwise from top left: Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu, 2017); I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017); Godard, mon amour (Michel Hazanavicius, 2017); Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)
SF International Film Festival Schedule Announced
More than a dozen internationally renowned filmmakers are set to visit Berkeley next month, when BAMPFA returns for its thirty-fourth year as the premier East Bay presenter for the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) April 5–15.
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VIDEO: Karabo Poppy Moletsane on Process, Portraiture, and an African Aesthetic
"Contemporary South Africa is a hybridized culture.