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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
OngoingSecond Saturdays: Hands-on activities and participatory readings designed for kids and their families.
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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
First Thursdays of each monthFive 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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Whitney Bradshaw: OUTCRY
July 13–December 3, 2022This large-scale presentation of Bradshaw's photographic project features one hundred women engaging in unbridled self-expression as an act of defiance against patriarchal oppression. Running three times daily on the outdoor screen.
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Fluxus Reverb: Events, Scores, Boxes & More
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023An international movement of the 1960s and 1970s of artists working across disciplines and in a decidedly anti-commercial manner, this exhibition offers an opportunity to see Fluxus materials and many artworks in the form of a box, including numerous Fluxkits by a wide variety of... View
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by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023Best known as a core member of Fluxus, the first comprehensive exhibition of Knowles's work, spanning the entire breadth of her still-active career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to participatory and relational art from the 2000s.
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Alternative Visions
September 7–November 30, 2022This year our annual series showcases current and historical experimental films by local filmmakers, as well as works by artists from Brazil, Canada, Iran, Poland, Rwanda, and the United Kingdom.
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Hannah Levy / MATRIX 279
August 10, 2022–January 8, 2023Hannah Levy’s tactile, creaturelike sculptures infuse the stripped-down lines of Modernist design with a visceral tension that is simultaneously sterile and erotic, amusing and disturbing.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
October 22–November 27, 2022This retrospective of the influential Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) features 35mm restorations, many done by Cineteca di Bologna in partnership with Cinecittà.
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Georgian Cinema: Highlights from the BAMPFA Collection
October 29–November 27, 2022Among the treasured special collections within our film archive are the rare and distinctive holdings of Georgian cinema produced during the Soviet era and since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. This series features works by leading Georgian auteurs.
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The New Lebanese Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s
November 10–December 10, 2022This small series features new restorations of works by three filmmakers from Lebanon who bear witness to its difficult history: Borhane Alaouié, Jocelyne Saab, and Heiny Srour.
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Arts + Design Thursdays
September 1–December 1, 2022Thinking Through Art and Design: Creativity & Practice
BAMPFA partners with Berkeley Arts + Design to offer this lecture series about creativity and practice as a vital resource in times of change. Join us every Thursday afternoon to hear cutting-edge thinkers and makers share about their creative practice.
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Arts + Design Fridays
September 2–December 2, 2022Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration, and Resistance
Join us for a lively series of talks by artists, performers, scholars, and activists exploring themes of global and US migration, exclusion, and belonging. We use the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay as jumping-off point for this exploration.
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Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
September 3–December 11, 2022Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration considers the foundational roots of confinement from philosophical, sociological, theological, and art historical perspectives to better understand the fact that today’s mass incarceration crisis has been centuries in the making.... View
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton
December 4–21, 2022Keaton’s ingenious gags and stunts in his silent two-reelers and features confirm his timeless appeal as a commentator on the human condition who was drawn to the dreamlike and the all-too-real.
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Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
December 8, 2022–January 15, 2023To celebrate the publication of William Carroll’s recent book Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema, BAMPFA is delighted to participate in a tour, organized by the author, of imported 35mm prints of films spanning several decades of Suzuki’s brilliant and varied career.
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The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89
January 12–February 25, 2023A series of stark, scathing, and playful films from the former socialist republics of Eastern Europe, where absurdity was a fact of life under authoritarian rule—and a source of cinematic creativity.
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Out of the Vault: Everything’s Ephemeral
January 14–February 16, 2023Three programs of 16mm ephemeral films from the BAMPFA collection—one of place, one of poetry, and one of play—ask us to pause and listen for quiet rhythms, to look closer at what is in front of us, and to celebrate the moment.
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History
January 18–February 26, 2023Over the course of the six decades since the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), filmmakers have reacted to the history of this revolutionary period with powerful responses and insightful perspectives. This selection of films deal with the backstory and history of the Algerian... View
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Joel Coen in Person
January 21–29, 2023This carte blanche series provides the very special opportunity to see eight films selected by Joel Coen, four films of his own making and four films he admires.
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Documentary Voices
February 1–April 12, 2023Our annual series features an international array of recent and historical documentaries and nonfiction films.
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Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo
February 3–18, 2023“Hong Sangsoo’s films seize the material of everyday life in the service of exploring psychology and metaphysics in elegant, subtly profound ways” (Lincoln Center) as revealed in three double-bills and a recent film.
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Pratibha Parmar in Person
February 9—23, 2023The completion of Parmar’s new documentary, My Name Is Andrea, an essential and timely corrective to the historical record concerning the late writer and activist Andrea Dworkin, provides a welcome opportunity to invite Parmar to share her work at BAMPFA.
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Art Wall: Luis Camnitzer
November 30, 2022–May 31, 2023In his West Coast solo project debut, Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937) debuts the new work below/here/above/ahead/was as part of BAMPFA’s Art Wall commissioned series.
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