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11 AM–5 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2022
11 AM–5 PM
2 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2022
2 PM
 3 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2022
3 PM
Rusudan Pirveli,
Georgia,
2010,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A quiet young boy weaves his way through the underbelly of contemporary Georgia in this evocative update of the neorealist tradition, which “beautifully captures the way a crumbling locale permeates the characters’ lives” (Variety).
5 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2022
5 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1974,
(129 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A magic carpet fantasy rooted in realism—filmed in North Africa, Iran, and Nepal—Arabian Nights is “Pasolini’s most beautiful film” (Tony Rayns).
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
12:15 PM
Tours of Undoing Time are led by students from the Berkeley Underground Scholars program, which supports formerly incarcerated and systems-impacted students.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
7 PM
(60 mins)
This program of early avant-garde films showcases work by Polish filmmakers Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, including their recently restored masterpiece, Europa, which was long thought to be lost.
Series
Alternative Visions
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4—7 PM
Thursday, December 1, 2022
4—7 PM
No binoculars required. Bird-watching has never been easier than a hike to the lower-level Study Center!
Free on first Thursday of the month
Series
Five Tables
12:45 PM
Thursday, December 1, 2022
12:45 PM
Grounded in disabled understandings of the value of multiplicity of embodiment and experience, choreographer, designer, and engineer Laurel Lawson’s talk moves from transdisciplinary art making and decentered design practice, to equitable aesthetic accessibility and technology ethics and leadership.
Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Thursdays
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11:30 AM
Friday, December 2, 2022
11:30 AM
 This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.
The composer and performers of Angel Island–Oratorio for Voices and Strings will discuss the work, which will be performed at UC Berkeley on December 3. The Del Sol Quartet commissioned the oratorio in order to illuminate the poetry of immigrant detainees carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station and to examine the white supremacist ideology that fueled the Chinese Exclusion Act and other racist government policies.
Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Fridays
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 2, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, December 3, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
12:00 PM
Saturday, December 3, 2022
12:00 PM
A durational dance and film installation by choreographer Maurya Kerr
Included with gallery admission. 1:30 PM
Saturday, December 3, 2022
1:30 PM
American Sign Language interpreter Patricia Lessard, who specializes in the arts, offers ASL interpretation for a graduate student–led tour of Undoing Time on Saturday, December 3, at 1:30 PM. All visitors are welcome.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
12:00 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2022
12:00 PM
A durational dance and film installation by choreographer Maurya Kerr
Included with gallery admission. 1 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2022
1 PM
Take inspiration from the Fluxus scores and boxes on view in the exhibitions Fluxus Reverb: Events, Scores, Boxes & More and by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022), and come assemble your own Flux Kit in the Art Lab using reproductions of various scores from the BAMPFA Steven Leiber Conceptual Art Study Center, as well as ones we come up with as a group.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
2 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2022
2 PM
3:30 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2022
3:30 PM
In conjunction with the BAMPFA exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, Steve Fujimura introduces his debut poetry collection, Sad Asian Music.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
5 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2022
5 PM
Buster Keaton,
United States,
1924,
(85 mins)
Sherlock Jr. will be Keaton’s most enduring commentary on the art of cinema. Buster plays a projectionist who dreams his way onto the screen and into a movie in which he resolves the conflicts of his own life. With The Frozen North and The Playhouse.
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
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7:30 PM
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
7:30 PM
 Programmed by MK Chavez
Poetry, live painting, and tarot readings to celebrate the full moon.
Space for Full performances is limited.
Series
Full
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
4 PM
 This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Betye Saar’s The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, created in 1972 and a highlight of the BAMPFA collection, artists and scholars explore the evolving significance of this iconic work.
This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar. Register online.
Series
Talks & Conversations
7 PM
Thursday, December 8, 2022
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1966,
(83 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
An embattled ex-yakuza tries to go it alone in Suzuki’s most exquisite collaboration with art director Takeo Kimura. “One of the most brilliant genre movies ever made” (Tony Rayns).
Series
Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 9, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
5:30 PM
Friday, December 9, 2022
5:30 PM
Join us for a pre-album release celebration and musical performance by vocalist and multidisciplinary artist India Davis, performing her original songs interwoven with dance, theatrics, and video projections.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Black Life
7 PM
Friday, December 9, 2022
7 PM
Jack Blystone, Buster Keaton,
United States,
1923,
(89 mins)
Buster is heir to an Appalachian estate and, along with it, a Hatfield-McCoy-type feud. Our Hospitality, an American masterpiece, at once lyric and frenetic, is a sly satire. With The High Sign.
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
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11:30 AM
Saturday, December 10, 2022
11:30 AM
 For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Follow artist Alison Knowles’s example and generate poetic instructions for building a house!
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
12:00 PM
Saturday, December 10, 2022
12:00 PM
A durational dance and film installation by choreographer Maurya Kerr
Included with gallery admission. 1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, December 10, 2022
1 PM–7 PM
2 PM
Saturday, December 10, 2022
2 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Elliott’s life is messy in lots of ways, including his ADHD. But his passion for cooking calms and focuses him, and gives him a way to help a classmate who becomes a new friend.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
4:30 PM
Saturday, December 10, 2022
4:30 PM
Borhane Alaouié,
Belgium, Lebanon, Tunisia,
1981,
(97 mins)
Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute
Two young people separated by the war make tapes for each other. “The monologues, by the well-known writer Ahmad Baydoun, which form the basis of this acutely observed, moving film, have acquired classical status in Lebanese cinema” (Alia Arasoughly).
7 PM
Saturday, December 10, 2022
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1956,
(119 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A “double bill” of Suzuki rarities, this program includes Satan’s Town a heist film and early example of the directors inventive style and black humor; and Love Letter a surreal and haunting snowbound romance.
Series
Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 11, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
12:00 PM
Sunday, December 11, 2022
12:00 PM
A durational dance and film installation by choreographer Maurya Kerr
Included with gallery admission. 5 PM
Sunday, December 11, 2022
5 PM
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton,
United States,
1927,
(109 mins)
Keaton plays a Civil War–era railroad engineer in love with both his girl and his train in this masterpiece of silent comedy. With The Goat.
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
7 PM
(126 mins)
A selection of silent film comedy gems placing Keaton in context with contemporary innovators Roscoe Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Bert Williams, who appear behind and in front of the camera with weird and wonderful results.
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
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7 PM
Thursday, December 15, 2022
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1966,
(86 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Regarded as one of Suzuki’s best films, ranking twenty-fifth on Kinema Jumpo’s “200 Best Japanese Films List” from 2009, the comic Fighting Elegy is a scathing portrait of the militarism that, in the 1930s, sent young men to war.
Series
Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 16, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, December 16, 2022
7 PM
Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton,
United States,
1928,
(87 mins)
In his most self-reflexive film, Keaton plays a New York City newsreel cameraman whose love life is as jumbled as the mixed-up footage he shoots. With Cops.
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, December 17, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
7 PM
Saturday, December 17, 2022
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1966,
(89 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Adapting a novel by the author of The Incorrigible (Akutaro), Suzuki blends satire with melodrama to surrealistic effect to tell the story of provincial factory worker Tsuyuko (portrayed by the director’s favorite actor, Yumiko Nogawa), who tries to rebuild her life after being raped.
Series
Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 18, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
3 PM
Sunday, December 18, 2022
3 PM
(64 mins)
One Week, The Scarecrow, and The Electric House, three two-reelers for all ages, reveal Keaton’s comic ingenuity through three houses as only he can imagine them.
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
5 PM
Sunday, December 18, 2022
5 PM
Charles F. Reisner,
United States,
1927,
(102 mins)
Set on the Mississippi River, Steamboat Bill, Jr. seems to have a direct line to Keaton’s youth and soul in the tale of a sensitive lad trying to figure out the mettle of manhood in his overbearing dad. With The Boat.
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
7 PM
Ross Lipman,
United States,
2015,
(150 mins)
Lipman’s fascinating kino-essay examining a 1965 collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton, “testifies to an almost inexhaustible fascination with the pleasures and paradoxes of cinema” (New York Times). With the original Film by Samuel Beckett.
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
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All Day
Friday, December 23, 2022
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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All Day
Saturday, December 24, 2022
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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All Day
Sunday, December 25, 2022
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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All Day
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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All Day
Thursday, December 29, 2022
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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All Day
Friday, December 30, 2022
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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All Day
Saturday, December 31, 2022
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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