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Color, Form, Unicorn: Recent Acquisitions
June 6-August 19, 2018Recent additions to the BAMPFA collection feature unusual approaches to color and form—plus a unicorn.
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The Luminous Legacy of Greta Garbo
June 7–July 13, 2018Bask in the radiance of one of cinema’s greatest stars with this big-screen celebration of Garbo’s subtle skill and timeless allure.
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Sunday Summer Cinema: Dancing in the Streets
June 10–October 14, 2018This series of family-friendly dance films on our outdoor LED screen will have you moving and grooving all summer!
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Michelangelo Antonioni
June 15–August 31, 2018This comprehensive retrospective is a rare chance to explore the full range of an Italian modernist master’s formally dazzling work.
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Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
June 30–November 18, 2018The first retrospective of an enormously influential artist whose photographs capture the creative subcultures of downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Joanne Leonard: Intimate Documentary
July 4-September 2, 2018Leonard’s photographs are rare, intimate documents of life in Oakland in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Aki Kaurismäki: Films from the Other Side of Hope
July 6–August 5, 2018Pay a visit to Kaurismäki’s unique cinematic universe, where melodrama meets minimalism and bitter reality is tempered with deadpan comedy.
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Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
July 11–October 14, 2018This first survey of Vicuña’s work stages a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.
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Jacques Becker
July 12–August 31, 2018From hardboiled crime sagas to breezy portraits of postwar Parisian life, the films of this classic French director are ripe for rediscovery.
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Bergman 100: An Emerging Style
July 20–August 19, 2018Salon Screenings in Theater 2
Enjoy rarely screened works by Ingmar Bergman in an intimate, salon-style setting.
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Subtle Subversion: The Films of Alain Tanner
July 26–August 19, 2018Championing dreamers and dropouts, political radicals and disaffected youth, Tanner’s films from the late 1960s to the early 1980s feel just as urgent today.
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time
August 4–30, 2018A tribute to the revered Russian director whose visionary films infuse images of the world with metaphysical mystery.
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Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
August 15, 2018–March 3, 2019The pioneer of the 1960s design phenomenon Supergraphics creates a new piece for BAMPFA’s Art Wall.
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In Focus: Ingmar Bergman
August 29–November 28, 2018Lecture/Screening Series
Explore Ingmar Bergman’s work in depth with this series featuring an expert lecture and discussion at each screening.
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Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA Fall 2018
August 30–November 15, 2018Creativity, Migration, Transformation
This lecture series explores connections among creative works, the experiences of migration, and the possibilities of personal and social transformation.
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Bergman 100: Discoveries & Rarities
September 1–November 4, 2018This installment in our yearlong centennial tribute to Ingmar Bergman highlights diverse facets of his remarkable cinematic output, from his documentaries about the island of Fårö to his international productions of the 1970s.
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Between Politics and Poetry: Makhmalbaf Film House
September 1–October 20, 2018This series focuses on Iran’s Makhmalbaf family of filmmakers—Mohsen; his wife, Marziyeh Meshkini; and their daughters Samira and Hana—whose works offer thoughtful portraits of life on the margins, whether in Tehran, Tajikistan, Kurdistan, or post-Taliban Afghanistan.
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Alternative Visions 2018
September 5–November 28, 2018This expansive season of our avant-garde showcase extends from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, with many filmmakers and other luminaries in person.
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Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA: Fact and Fiction
September 10, 2018–April 29, 2019Distinguished speakers bring new approaches to age-old questions: How do we distinguish fact from fiction, the real from the artificial, truth from lies?
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Frederick Wiseman: On Documentary
September 13–October 12, 2018BAMPFA is honored by a visit from Wiseman, whose incisive, wide-ranging explorations of complex institutions have set a standard for nonfiction filmmaking.
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Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor
September 14–November 30, 2018A retrospective of a key artist of the Italian cinema, who combined the profound humanism of neorealism with the drama, beauty, and epic sweep of opera to create films rich in resonance and throbbing with life.
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Old Masters in a New Light: Rediscovering the European Collection
September 19–December 16, 2018BAMPFA’s outstanding collection of historical European art—including several important new acquisitions—is showcased in this exhibition, the culmination of a major research and conservation effort.
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Christina Quarles / MATRIX 271
September 19–November 18, 2018A gathering of paintings by Quarles, whose work tussles with culturally prescribed identities and probes the margins where meaning remains unfixed, illegible, and subject to question.
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Redacted: Art for Human Rights
September 19–December 10, 2018A selection of works from the BAMPFA collection that use redacted content to question the relationships between power, information, and censorship and consider the precarious nature of truth.
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Mark Morris Presents: In the Age of Pepperland
September 28–November 25, 2018Choreographer Mark Morris selects a series of films that reflect the irrepressible creativity of the late sixties and inspired his dance work Pepperland.
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Boundless: Contemporary Tibetan Artists at Home and Abroad
October 3, 2018–May 26, 2019Featuring works by renowned contemporary Tibetan artists alongside rare historical pieces, this exhibition highlights how artists explore the infinite possibilities of visual forms to reflect their transcultural, multilingual, and translocal lives.
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Chinese Cinema Classics: Screen Idols and Stardom Reexamined
October 5–14, 2018Critic, collector, and Chinese film expert Paul Fonoroff is our guest for this series of films featuring some of pre-World War II China’s greatest screen stars.
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Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static
October 17, 2018–January 27, 2019This new retrospective charts the painter’s career from the 1960s through the 1990s, showcasing abstract experiments in form, texture, and color that are both formally rigorous and rich with sensuality and humor.
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First-Person Cinema: Marie Menken, Margaret Tait, and Ute Aurand
October 17–21, 2018German film artist Ute Aurand joins us to present her lyrical works alongside shorts by American underground filmmaker Marie Menken and Scottish film poet Margaret Tait.
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1968 and Global Cinema
October 19–November 29, 2018In conjunction with a new book, this series focuses on the radical cinema that emerged from the political and social upheavals of the late sixties.
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Afterimage: Agnieszka Holland
October 25–28, 2018Born in Poland, educated in Prague, and active internationally, the illustrious director for film and television joins us to discuss her work.
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