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11 AM–5 PM
Sunday, November 26, 2023
11 AM–5 PM
1:30 PM
Sunday, November 26, 2023
1:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
France, Japan,
1985,
(160 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
King Lear in feudal Japan, with Tatsuya Nakadai as the lord who divides his kingdom among his three sons, with disastrous results. “A majestic piece of filmmaking” (Village Voice).
Sunday, November 26, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours
5 PM
Sunday, November 26, 2023
5 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(104 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Joseph Cotten pursues Orson Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time” (New York Times).
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
12:15 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
Included with admission.
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Exhibition Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1970,
(140 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Alain Delon and Yves Montand star in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 1, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 1, 2023
6:30 PM
 Presented by Berkeleyside in partnership with BAMPFA
BAMPFA is delighted to continue our partnership with Berkeleyside on the Idea Makers series, which celebrates Berkeley’s stature in the world of ideas through unscripted, informative, and thought-provoking conversations.
BAMPFA members receive a special discount on Idea Makers tickets! Contact us at bampfamember@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2365 for your promo code. $10–20. Tickets sold by Berkeleyside on Eventbrite.
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Talks & Conversations
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, December 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1:30 PM
Saturday, December 2, 2023
1:30 PM
Patricia Lessard offers American Sign Language interpretation for a graduate student–led tour of the exhibition. All visitors are welcome.
Included with admission.
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Exhibition Tours
7 PM
Saturday, December 2, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1972,
(95 mins)
Stunningly photographed in hazardous locations in Peru, Aguirre, the Wrath of God takes the viewer on a mad voyage as frightening and entertaining as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s maelstrom-bent epics of demented discovery. Featuring a seething, controlled performance from Klaus Kinski, who delivers an unforgettable portrait of madness and power.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact |
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 3, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 3, 2023
11:15 AM
BAMPFA Education staff offers a highly descriptive tour of several artworks in the exhibition for blind and low-vision visitors.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours
1 PM
Sunday, December 3, 2023
1 PM
Offering a variety of fun, colorful beads and string, this class honors one of the most important aspects of life—friendship—and inspires us to create spirited gifts for each other as we enter the final month of 2023.
Included with gallery admission
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Workshops
Sunday, December 3, 2023
2 PM
In conversation with Leigh Raiford, Julia Bryan-Wilson introduces her new book, Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (Yale University Press, 2023), a radical rethinking of the art of renowned sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899–1988).
Included with gallery admission
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Readings
4:30 PM
Sunday, December 3, 2023
4:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1932,
(90 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
A comedy about a typical wage earner with two delightfully atypical sons. “One of the wisest and most charming films ever made” (Village Voice).
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
12:15 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1979,
(82 mins)
An ordinary German barber-turned-soldier (Klaus Kinski) puts up with all manner of slights and insults until, finally, he cracks in Werner Herzog’s adaptation of the acclaimed absurdist, anti-militarist play. “Kinski is a riveting screen presence who threatens to burst beyond the medium” (New York Times).
7:30 PM
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7:30 PM
 Programmed by Sean Carson; Presented in conjunction with the exhibition What Has Been and What Could Be
Red Fast Luck (multi-instrumentalists David Boyce and PC Muñoz) present 1972 (Re)Mixtape, radical de-/reconstructions of some of 1972’s greatest songs, with special guest Femi and more!
Space is limited. Tickets required.
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11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, December 7, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
12:15 PM
Thursday, December 7, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, December 7, 2023
4 PM–7 PM
What can art, architecture, design, and performance practices offer to current debates on climate change and environmental justice? This Five Tables presentation highlights artworks in the BAMPFA collection that reflect, mediate, and delve into the interconnected ecologies of life.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
7 PM
Thursday, December 7, 2023
7 PM
Selcen Ergun,
Germany, Serbia, Turkey,
2022,
(93 mins)
A chilling, mysterious, and stunning debut film. “Selcen Ergun’s acute and wide-awake direction emphasizes the undertones of a rigid patriarchal society while brilliantly setting the atmosphere for this anti fairy-tale” (Toronto International Film Festival).
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11 AM–7 PM
Friday, December 8, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
 For all members
For one weekend only, all BAMPFA members get 20 percent off at the BAMPFA Store!
Members-only sale 2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 8, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, December 8, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1930,
(112 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
That Night’s Wife is a crime melodrama inspired by Fritz Lang and American thrillers. As ever, Yasujiro Ozu tests the conventions as he employs them. Screening with Woman of Tokyo, a Depression-era romantic melodrama that is “a subtle riot of discordant formal devices. . . . Ozu never made another film like this one, and neither has anyone else” (J. Hoberman).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, December 9, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
For all members
For one weekend only, all BAMPFA members get 20 percent off at the BAMPFA Store!
Members-only sale 11:30 AM
Saturday, December 9, 2023
11:30 AM
 For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Use geometry, color, repeating patterns, and personally significant dates to build a triangular calendar that’s all about you!
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Family Events
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, December 9, 2023
1 PM–7 PM
2 PM
Saturday, December 9, 2023
2 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
As millions of people back on Earth follow his progress on Mars, will Resilience have the courage and determination to succeed, survive, and live up to his name?
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Family Events
Saturday, December 9, 2023
5 PM
 Programmed by Thea Matthews
Join us for a poetry reading with MK Chavez, Maw Shein Win, and Shelley Wong!
Included with gallery admission.
Series
Readings
7 PM
Saturday, December 9, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, United States,
1979,
(107 mins)
Werner Herzog’s reworking of the F. W. Murnau silent film showcases a ghoulish Klaus Kinski as das Vampyre, spreading death and disease in a small German town with only pretty bride Isabelle Adjani to stop him. “Opulently beautiful” (The Nation).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
For all members
For one weekend only, all BAMPFA members get 20 percent off at the BAMPFA Store!
Members-only sale 1 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023
1 PM
 Space is limited, RSVP required
Join local artist and Art Lab facilitator Alayna Tinney for a beginner-friendly dive into risograph printing.
Space is limited, RSVP required
Series
Workshops
2 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023
2 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours
2 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023
2 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, United Kingdom,
1999,
(98 mins)
The lines between madness and artistry, and confrontation and creation, are explored through Werner Herzog’s look at his fiery collaborations with frequent lead, and frequent tormenter, Klaus Kinski. Together they created masterpieces, while nearly killing one another.
4:30 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2023
4:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1933,
(100 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
In Yasujiro Ozu’s atmospheric American-style crime melodrama, Kinuyo Tanaka brings a wide range of moods and emotions to the role of a gangster’s moll trying to get herself and her lover/accomplice out of their murky world and into “a decent life.”
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
12:15 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours
2 PM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
2 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
5 PM
Artist Sin Wai Kin and Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator Victoria Sung discuss the influence of science and speculative fiction, drag and theatrical performance, in Sin's elaborately constructed moving image works.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
6 PM
Artist Gabriel Chaile and BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton discuss the relationships between history, personal memory, intimacy, and monumentality in Chaile’s soaring earth-cladded sculptures.
Included with gallery admission
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Talks & Conversations
7 PM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1949,
(108 mins)
Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara as father and daughter in a deceptively simple, eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice: this is a near-perfect film, and one of Yasujiro Ozu’s own favorites.
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7 PM
Thursday, December 14, 2023
7 PM
Emilio Fernández,
Mexico,
1951,
(84 mins)
Digital Restoration
Victims of Sin is famed Mexican director Emilio Fernández’s unique blend of film noir, melodrama, and musical. Fernández infuses the film with impassioned songs and performances by Ninón Sevilla, an icon of Mexican cinema and a purveyor of African, Caribbean, and Cuban dance styles.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 15, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, December 15, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, Peru,
1982,
(157 mins)
“In a film of stunning spectacle and furious struggle, boat and task become centerpieces for two tales of obsession. Every bit as driven as Fitzcarraldo’s efforts to move the craft upward, Mr. Herzog’s determination to perform the feat in actuality inspired Les Blank’s documentary Burden of Dreams, also released in 1982, about the making of the film” (Peter M. Nichols, New York Times).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, December 16, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
6:30 PM
Saturday, December 16, 2023
6:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1953,
(137 mins)
Digital Restoration
This simple, sad story of the gap between generations in a Japanese family revealed to Western viewers the poetic acuteness of Yasujiro Ozu’s style. “Wonderful. . . . One of the manifest miracles of cinema” (New Yorker).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 17, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1934,
(86 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
This poetic, quietly devastating story finds the leader of a down-at-the-heels theater troupe meeting his grown son, the fruit of a casual affair years earlier. “A picture of great atmosphere and intensity of character” (Donald Richie).
4 PM
Sunday, December 17, 2023
4 PM
Béla Tarr,
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland,
2000,
(145 mins)
Digital Restoration
One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. New German Cinema icon Hanna Schygulla appears in a welcome cinematic comeback, while Lars Rudolf contributes a fevered performance of Klaus Kinski–like proportions.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1987,
(111 mins)
Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski’s final collaboration continues their exploration of colonial madness in Indigenous worlds, with Kinski starring as a Brazilian outlaw turned African slave trader in Dahomey. Haunted with an “intoxicated, intoxicating sense of spectacle” (New York Times).
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1948,
(84 mins)
Digital Restoration
A former POW comes home to Japan to discover that his wife has prostituted herself to pay their son’s hospital bills. “[Yasujiro] Ozu brilliantly and honestly confronts the postwar moment” (Joan Mellen).
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Friday, December 22, 2023
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11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, January 4, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
 Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Thursday, January 4, 2024
1:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, January 5, 2024
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
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Saturday, January 6, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Saturday, January 6, 2024
1 PM
 Space is limited; first come, first served.
Join local artist Tara Ani Baghdassarian in a chlorophyll printing workshop where images on transparencies are naturally transferred onto organic matter using sunlight.
Space is limited; first come, first served Included with gallery admission
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Through January 7
Through February 25
Through July 7
Through February 28
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