On View
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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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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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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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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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Bergman 100: Late Works
October 28–November 30, 2018Salon Screenings in Theater 2
Presented in the intimate setting of BAMPFA’s Theater 2, three of Ingmar Bergman’s late works for television show his abiding interest in themes of desire, spirituality, and mortality.
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Jean Vigo Regained
November 2–23, 2018This series showcases new restorations of all four of Vigo’s playful and poetic films, plus rushes and outtakes that illuminate his innovative technique.
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Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
November 7, 2018–March 3, 2019Discover the connections between the scientific and artistic revolutions of the early twentieth century with this groundbreaking exhibition, which reveals how artists responded to scientific advances with bold new forms of creative expression.
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Afterimage: Corneliu Porumboiu
November 8–16, 2018The Romanian filmmaker who has been called “one of our great contemporary observers of the human comedy” (Variety) visits BAMPFA to present and discuss his work.
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