On View
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Black Life
OngoingExperience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this multidisciplinary event series.
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Family Events
OngoingVirtual Second Saturdays: Hands-on activities and participatory readings designed for kids and their families at home.
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Online Events
OngoingStay connected with livestreaming and recorded events, from conversations with artists to dance performances and more.
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Talks & Conversations
OngoingArtists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Five Tables
OngoingFive Tables is a monthly event coinciding with First Free Thursdays organized by the BAMPFA staff, and periodically by the Student Committee. Drop by the Florence Helzel Works on Paper Study Center for a curated behind-the-scenes experience.
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Views and Voices
OngoingPersonal Perspectives on the Collection
This new audio series is designed to bring you closer to individual people behind BAMPFA and individual works from our art and film collections.
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From Collective Isolation
OngoingPoetry in Response to the Pandemic
We’re presenting some of our favorite poets from the last few years of the series online, reading recent work that speaks to our current moment of isolation.
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Readings 2021
OngoingMeet the authors of new books and hear poets and other literary lights read their work.
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Beyond Boundaries: Buddhist Art of Gandhara
April 30, 2021–March 13, 2022Northern India’s Gandharan region was a crossroads of power, culture, and art from the second to ninth centuries. Rare sculptural images of the Buddha and his life story reflect cultural exchanges between the Hellenistic world and the native artistic traditions of India.
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Art Wall: Luchita Hurtado
August 6–March 13, 2022Developed from a drawing that delineates the differing strata of earth's material structure, BAMPFA's Art Wall commission is Hurtado's most monumental painting to date and among the last works she made.
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New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century
August 28, 2021–January 30, 2022Featuring more than 150 works, most made since the year 2000, this major survey presents a kaleidoscopic view of feminist practices in contemporary art.
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New Time: The Future Is Feminist
October 24, 2021–January 29, 2022Conceived in dialog with BAMPFA’s major exhibition New Time, The Future Is Feminist brings together a diverse range of works made since 2000 by women filmmakers representing an array of feminist voices and aesthetics, variously observational, confrontational,... View
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Big Screen: Highlights from a Year of Virtual Cinema
December 2, 2021–February 16, 2022Now that we are back in the Barbro Osher Theater, we want to share some highlights from the past year of virtual cinema as an affirmation of the importance of seeing films on the big screen and with an audience.
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Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope
December 3, 2021–February 27, 2022Fifty years after the founding of American Zoetrope, we celebrate the studio and its co-creator, Francis Ford Coppola. Along with Coppola’s works, the series features films by George Lucas, Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, and more.
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F. W. Murnau: Voyages into the Imaginary
January 8–February 27, 2022This series, featuring the lyrical cinema of one of the most admired and influential directors of the silent era, F. W. Murnau, showcases restored versions of his extant work with live piano accompaniment.
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Ball of Fire: Barbara Stanwyck
January 14–February 26, 2022Barbara Stanwyck was the screen archetype of the independent woman, with her wits about her, alert, and often on the make. This spotlight showcases many of her best roles and demonstrates her remarkable talent.
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Djibril Diop Mambéty
January 21–February 20, 2022Djibril Diop Mambéty’s debut, Touki Bouki, was “unlike anything in the history of African cinema” (N. Frank Ukadike). Made nearly twenty years later, Hyenas and Le franc likewise showcase “his signature mix of wild narrative style” and “impeccable political commitment,” which,... View
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Documentary Voices
January 26–April 20, 2022Our annual series features an international array of recent and historical documentaries and nonfiction films.
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Animation! Speaking with the Makers
January 29–February 26, 2022In this hybrid series, shown in-theater and via BAMPFA’s streaming platform, we interview filmmakers who specialize in animation and ask them to discuss how they develop their stylistic approaches, and how they distill time, gesture, and mood, frame by frame, into the basic unit... View
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Streaming: Animation! Speaking with the Makers
January 29–March 13, 2022In this hybrid series, shown in-theater and via BAMPFA’s streaming platform, we interview filmmakers who specialize in animation and ask them to discuss how they develop their stylistic approaches, and how they distill time, gesture, and mood, frame by frame, into the basic unit... View
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Recent Films of Nathaniel Dorsky
February 5–6, 2022We are delighted to present eight recent additions to our film collection: new silent 16mm films by local filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, most made during the COVID-19 pandemic, photographed in San Francisco across different seasons.
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Contemporary Indigenous Media
February 10–April 14, 2022In our first series to explore the breadth of Indigenous media currently being made in the Americas, we place works in relation to one another across geographies and stylistic approaches, with filmmakers from South and North America in conversation.
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