Kelly Reichardt in Person

March 24–31, 2023

We are delighted to welcome Kelly Reichardt, the very first guest in BAMPFA’s long-running Afterimage series in 2009, back to present her most recent film, Showing Up, and to launch a spotlight series of three more films that she has released in the intervening years.

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Showing Up
First Cow
Certain Women
Meek's Cutoff

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Meek’s Cutoff
- Friday, March 31 7 PM
Kelly Reichardt
United States, 2010
BAMPFA Collection

Three strong women and an assortment of men head west on the Oregon Trail in Reichardt’s feminist Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan.
Certain Women
- Sunday, March 26 5 PM
Kelly Reichardt
United States, 2016
Closed captioned

Present-day Montana provides the possibly unlikely setting for this investigation of the gap between women’s desires and their less hopeful realities. With Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams. Adapted from stories by Maile Meloy.
First Cow
- Saturday, March 25 7 PM
Kelly Reichardt
United States, 2019
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

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An itinerant cook and a Chinese immigrant in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest embark on an unlikely bovine-related business venture in this reinvention of Old West mythos, populated by those too often written out of its history. “A fable of land and freedom” (Observer UK).

Kelly Reichardt and Nicolás Pereda in Conversation
Showing Up
- Friday, March 24 7 PM
Kelly Reichardt
United States, 2022
Closed captioned Audio description

Michelle Williams stars as a grad student/sculptor balancing work, life, and art making at a small liberal arts college in Portland. Costarring André “3000” Benjamin and Hong Chau. “Beautifully crafted” (Screen International).

Kelly Reichardt in Person

Kelly Reichardt in Person

March 24–31, 2023

One of the most original voices in contemporary American cinema, Kelly Reichardt has created a body of work that is a profound, multifaceted portrait of the United States, grounded in the specificities of place and often told from the perspectives of isolated individuals struggling amidst economic and existential challenges. Reichardt’s slow-burning and often unresolved stories, though situated in a particular historical or contemporary context, have a timeless, haunting quality. Like Robert Bresson and Yasujiro Ozu, to whom she is often compared, she understands the power of stillness and quiet, and allows her characters and the places in which they exist to come to life in a way that resonates beyond the screen. Her skillful direction and the rhythm of her editing exist in harmony with both the exceptional performances of her actors and Christopher Blauvelt’s cinematography.

We are delighted to welcome Reichardt, the very...

We are delighted to welcome Reichardt, the very first guest in BAMPFA’s long-running Afterimage series in 2009, back to present her most recent film, Showing Up, and to launch a spotlight series that includes three more films she has released in the intervening years. While she often chooses to film her subjects from a distance, Reichardt simultaneously focuses on the details of work and life. Her fascination with process is reflected in all the films in the series. Her characters are more often shown working and reflecting than reacting or emoting, and all of the identities of the people in Reichardt’s films are as much a creation of the gestures of the work they do as the lines that they speak.

—Kate MacKay, Associate Film Curator

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Kelly Reichart’s visit is made possible by A24. Thanks to Mac Simonson, A24; Alexandra Fredricks, Oscilloscope Laboratories; and Tatiana Faris, IFC Films.

Kelly Reichardt in Person

March 24–31, 2023

Past Films

Meek’s Cutoff

Certain Women

First Cow

Showing Up