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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
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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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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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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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
September 10–December 3, 2018Fact and Fiction
Distinguished 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 13–30, 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 16BAMPFA’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–October 21, 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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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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