BAMPFA News
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Inaugural Film Screening Announced
We have just confirmed that the first feature to screen in our new theater will be Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. The new state-of-the-art theater is named after Barbro Osher, the Honorary Consul General of Sweden in California, and she has sel
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Hippies Coming to Berkeley in 2017
You might think we got the year wrong but we're talking about Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia.
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Introducing the Art Wall
Upon entering the new BAMPFA, visitors will immediately encounter the Art Wall, a 60 x 25-foot interior wall that will be a key site for commissioned artworks in the new building.
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BAMPFA’s New Building Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro Will Open January 31, 2016
(Berkeley, CA) June 29, 2015—The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will open its new building to the public on Sunday, January 31, 2016.
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Reverberations: Pamela Z on Defying or Surrendering to the Space
The Bay Area’s own pioneer of digital looping, Pamela Z is a composer, performer, and media artist who combines experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and sampled concrète sounds.
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Deity, Demon, and Teacher: Thoughts on an Intervention with Michael Zheng
If you’ve visited BAM/PFA’s Deities, Demons, and Teachers exhibition recently and have noticed someone mediating next to the bronze Prajnaparamita statue, that’s Michael Zheng
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Look Who's Coming to BAM/PFA: SFIFF In-Persons
Now in its 57th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival returns to BAM/PFA with a schedule featuring thirty-three features and eleven short films.
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