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26 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, January 26, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM Mixed Media Drawing with Anjelica Colliard Art Workshop Sunday, January 26, 2025 1:00 PM Mixed Media Drawing with Anjelica Colliard Oakland artist Anjelica Colliard (Jellicore) shares a wide range of their favorite techniques for mixed media drawing using materials like soft and oil pastel, gouache and watercolor, and ink and crayon to create dynamic, vibrant, fantastical scenes. Included with admission Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Sunday, January 26, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 3:00 PM La notte Film Sunday, January 26, 2025 3:00 PM La notte Michelangelo Antonioni, France, Italy, 1961, (122 mins) Novelist Marcello Mastroianni and his wife, Jeanne Moreau, play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Michelangelo Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture. Series Marcello Mastroianni at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:00 PM The Wages of Fear Film Sunday, January 26, 2025 6:00 PM The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1953, (147 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Four desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27	28	29 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Wednesday, January 29, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Vera Film In-Person Wednesday, January 29, 2025 7:00 PM Vera Sérgio Toledo, Brazil, 1986, (88 mins) One of the earliest portrayals in world cinema of a transmasculine character, a rarely seen Brazilian drama based on the life of the Brazilian trans poet Anderson Bigode Herzer. In Conversation Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Julian Carter Julian Carter is the author of Dances of Time and Tenderness and The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America. He teaches at California College of the Arts. João Federici João Federici is a Brazilian-American producer and curator. He works at CAFILM as Mill Valley Film Festival’s Senior Programmer and curator for special series, such as CAFILM Pride. Series Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30 7:00 PM The Invasion Film In-Person Thursday, January 30, 2025 7:00 PM The Invasion Sergei Loznitsa, France, Netherlands, 2024, (145 mins) Bay Area Premiere Working with a crew of cinematographers positioned in different regions of Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa created a film that recounts the actions of the people who have resisted oppression on a daily basis since the Russian invasion began. Sergei Loznitsa In Person Series Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	31 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, January 31, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM Babi Yar. Context Film In-Person Friday, January 31, 2025 2:30 PM Babi Yar. Context Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands, Ukraine, 2021, (121 mins) Based entirely on archival footage (official documentation mixed with private footage shot by soldiers and civilians), Sergei Loznitsa’s film recounts the massacre of 33,771 Jews in the Babi Yar Ravine in Kyiv. In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Nicholas Baer Nicholas Baer is an Assistant Professor of German at UC Berkeley. Series Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Hateful Eight Film In-Person Friday, January 31, 2025 7:00 PM The Hateful Eight Quentin Tarantino, United States, 2015, (168 mins) Quentin Tarantino’s post–Civil War whodunit entangles a group of strangers in a tense, claustrophobic racial standoff in a snowbound stagecoach lodge in Wyoming. Leila Weefur Introduction Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Series Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 Elizabeth Murray Special Edition Print Mailing Art Saturday, February 1, 2025 Elizabeth Murray Special Edition Print Mailing Sign up by February 1, 2025, to receive a copy of the print mailing (limited edition; first come, first served) Occasioned by the presentation of Elizabeth Murray’s monumental work Joanne in the Canyon (1991) in the exhibition Making Their Mark, BAMPFA’s Art Lab collaborates with the Estate of Elizabeth Murray to create a special edition risograph print mailing. Sign up online to receive a copy of this limited edition print while supplies last! This is not an event; see description for details Sign Up to Receive the Print Mailing Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, February 1, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM The Natural History of Destruction Film In-Person Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:30 PM The Natural History of Destruction Sergei Loznitsa, Germany, 2022, (109 mins) An intense work of archival documentary filmmaking inspired by W. G. Sebold’s essay on the devastation of World War II urban bombing campaigns. In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Deniz Göktürk Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley. Series Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM State Funeral Film In-Person Saturday, February 1, 2025 6:30 PM State Funeral Sergei Loznitsa, Lithuania, Netherlands, 2019, (135 mins) Archival imagery of the news and state funeral for Joseph Stalin. “This expertly constructed rearranging of archival and propaganda footage is the rare film to merit immediate status as a canonical work” (Jay Weissberg, Variety). In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Anne Nesbet Anne Nesbet is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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2 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, February 2, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 12:30 PM The White House Effect Film In-Person Sunday, February 2, 2025 12:30 PM The White House Effect Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Pedro Kos, United States, 2024, (96 mins) Briskly told through the lens of contemporaneous media, The White House Effect is a forensic accounting of how, through the 1980s and 1990s the United States government arrived at a political consensus of cataclysmic inaction on climate change. In Conversation Jon Shenk Justine Nagan Justine Nagan is the Head of Production at Actual Films and a producer of The White House Effect. Jennifer Redfearn Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and the Director of the Documentary Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Series Climate Journalism on Screen Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Sunday, February 2, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 3:45 PM Donbass Film In-Person Sunday, February 2, 2025 3:45 PM Donbass Sergei Loznitsa, France, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine, 2018, (121 mins) A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, in which the grotesque and dramatic are as intertwined as life and death. In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Polina Barskova Polina Barskova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. Series Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM 8 1/2 Film Sunday, February 2, 2025 7:00 PM 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963, (138 mins) For many, Marcello Mastroianni defined Italian masculinity, or at least the debonair version of it, and in this Federico Fellini masterpiece, he gives perhaps his most dashing performance, at once intellectualized and sexualized. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Marcello Mastroianni at 100 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	3	4	5 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Wednesday, February 5, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Mosse Lecture: Sergei Loznitsa Film Free In-Person Wednesday, February 5, 2025 7:00 PM Mosse Lecture: Sergei Loznitsa Free Admission Factory showcases Sergei Loznitsa’s approach to nonfiction, working with original camerawork and mining the archives for imagery, with the annual Mosse Lecture. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:00 PM. In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Deniz Göktürk Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley. Series Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence Google Calendar ICS	6 All Day Free First Thursdays Art Families Free Thursday, February 6, 2025 All Day Free First Thursdays First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Thursday, February 6, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Thursday, February 6, 2025 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 5:30 PM Black Life: Trina Michelle Robinson Art Workshop Thursday, February 6, 2025 5:30 PM Black Life: Trina Michelle Robinson In this combination lecture and workshop, visual artist Trina Michelle Robinson uses historical photographic techniques, handicraft, and deep knowledge of a material’s origins as a metaphysical means to revisit or access the memories and visions of Black ancestors. Included with admission Series Black Life Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Pariah Film In-Person Thursday, February 6, 2025 7:00 PM Pariah Dee Rees, United States, 2011, (86 mins) A Black butch teen navigates her senior year of high school in this poignant coming-of-age drama from writer-director Dee Rees (Bessie, Mudbound). In Conversation Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Leila Weefur Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Series Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	7 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, February 7, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM In the Fog Film In-Person Friday, February 7, 2025 2:30 PM In the Fog Sergei Loznitsa, Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Russia, 2012, (128 mins) Two partisans plan to kill a Belarusian railway worker suspected of Nazi sympathies in Sergei Loznitsa’s dreamlike narrative film. “A masterpiece” (David Thomson). Sergei Loznitsa In Person Series Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM McCabe & Mrs. Miller Film In-Person Friday, February 7, 2025 7:00 PM McCabe & Mrs. Miller Robert Altman, United States, 1971, (121 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Far from the open plains of the classic Western, Robert Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond created a radical and ravishing vision of the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest, capturing the sodden grit of frontier life with impressive authenticity. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Leila Weefur Introduction Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Series Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	8 2:30–3:30 PM Roundtable Reading / By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman Families Saturday, February 8, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Roundtable Reading / By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s) Full of action, danger, and intrigue, this historic adventure paints a vivid picture of the Old West. Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs. Carl Coleman Reading led by Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 11:30AM–1:00 PM Gallery+Studio / Macramé for Architecture Art Families Workshop Saturday, February 8, 2025 11:30AM–1:00 PM Gallery+Studio / Macramé for Architecture For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s) Inspired by Françoise Grossen’s large-scale textile work and spaces in BAMPFA’s building, use macramé techniques to model a sculpture that responds to a space that interests you. Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs. Anamaya Farthing-Kohl Workshop led by With an interest in collaboration, artist Anamaya Farthing-Kohl invites the public to help in defining, circulating, or discovering their work. Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, February 8, 2025 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 3:00 PM Nocturnes Film In-Person Saturday, February 8, 2025 3:00 PM Nocturnes Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan, India, United States, 2024, (87 mins) Winner of a Special Jury Award for Craft at the Sundance Film Festival, the immersive Nocturnes tracks a small research team through the verdant Eastern Himalayas for a study of the local population of hawk moths. Screening with Stan Brakhage’s Mothlight. In Conversation Patrick Gonzalez Patrick Gonzalez is a climate change scientist, forest ecologist, and Associate Adjunct Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Sugata Ray Sugata Ray is Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art and Architecture in the Departments of History of Art and South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Faculty Director of the Climate Chan Jason Spingarn-Koff Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley. Series Climate Journalism on Screen Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:00 PM A Gentle Creature Film In-Person Saturday, February 8, 2025 6:00 PM A Gentle Creature Sergei Loznitsa, France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, 2017, “A captivating, hallucinatory plunge into Russia’s atrophied civil society, in which a woman’s search for answers is rewarded with humiliation and abuse” (Jay Weissberg, Variety). In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Eric Naiman Eric Naiman is a Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. Series Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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9 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, February 9, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM Plastic People Film In-Person Sunday, February 9, 2025 1:00 PM Plastic People Ben Addelman, Ziya Tong, Canada, 2024, (83 mins) “One of those essential state-of-our-world documentaries” (Variety), Plastic People is an efficient and emotional chronicle of the exponential growth of the plastics industry and its global and physiological impact. In Conversation Ting Xu Ting Xu is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley. Tracey Woodruff Tracey Woodruff is the Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UC San Francisco. Shannon Jackson Shannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of the Arts & Humanities, Department Chair of History of Art, and former Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts + Design at UC Berkeley. Series Climate Journalism on Screen Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Sunday, February 9, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM A Special Day Film Sunday, February 9, 2025 4:00 PM A Special Day Ettore Scola, Italy, 1977, (106 mins) Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are cast against glamorous type and deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola. Series Marcello Mastroianni at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Westfront 1918 Film Sunday, February 9, 2025 7:00 PM Westfront 1918 G. W. Pabst, Germany, 1930, (96 mins) G. W. Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the soldiers are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, shelling, and the disillusion that greets them on the home front. Series G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10	11	12 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Wednesday, February 12, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM No Other Land Film In-Person Wednesday, February 12, 2025 7:00 PM No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Norway, Palestine, 2024, (96 mins) Repeats Friday, February 14, 4:00 PM, without introduction Made over five years by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, No Other Land chronicles the attempts of the inhabitants of Palestinian villages in the West Bank to resist the destruction of their homes and expropriation of their land by the Israeli military. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Ussama Makdisi Introduction Ussama Makdisi is a Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	13 7:00 PM The Threepenny Opera Film Thursday, February 13, 2025 7:00 PM The Threepenny Opera G. W. Pabst, Germany, 1931, (110 mins) A classic adaptation of the Weimar-era theatrical sensation set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London with Kurt Weill’s irresistible score, The Threepenny Opera remains a benchmark of early sound cinema. Series G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 All Day Valentine's Day Special: 2-for-1 Gallery Admission Art Friday, February 14, 2025 All Day Valentine's Day Special: 2-for-1 Gallery Admission Promo available onsite only Google Calendar ICS 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, February 14, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM No Other Land Film In-Person Friday, February 14, 2025 4:00 PM No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Norway, Palestine, 2024, (96 mins) Made over five years by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, No Other Land chronicles the attempts of the inhabitants of Palestinian villages in the West Bank to resist the destruction of their homes and expropriation of their land by the Israeli military. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Documentary Voices SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Summer Vacation 1999 Film In-Person Friday, February 14, 2025 7:00 PM Summer Vacation 1999 Shusuke Kaneko, Japan, 1988, (90 mins) 35mm Archival Print An ethereal Japanese melodrama with cult status about the shifting attractions between four boys (played by girls) at an isolated country school. Long unavailable, it is shown in a rare 35mm print. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. In Conversation Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Karen Nakamura Karen Nakamura is the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and a Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Series Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	15 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, February 15, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Henry IV Film Saturday, February 15, 2025 4:30 PM Henry IV Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 1984, (82 mins) Marcello Mastroianni brings his heart to this powerful and haunting film, Marco Bellocchio’s adaptation of a Luigi Pirandello play. The score is by Astor Piazzolla. Series Marcello Mastroianni at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Meek’s Cutoff Film In-Person Saturday, February 15, 2025 6:30 PM Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt, United States, 2010, (118 mins) BAMPFA Collection Three strong women and an assortment of men head west on the Oregon Trail in Kelly Reichardt’s feminist Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan. Screening with Charles Burnett’s The Horse. Leila Weefur Introduction Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Series Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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16 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, February 16, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM Sátántangó Film Sunday, February 16, 2025 1:00 PM Sátántangó Béla Tarr, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, 1994, (432 mins) BAMPFA Collection Béla Tarr’s extraordinary seven-and-a-half-hour epic Sátántangó. “Set on an entropic collective farm during the last years of Hungarian Communism, it’s a mordant, characteristically Eastern European tale of hapless peasants and charismatic swindlers. . . . Despair has never been more voluptuously precise” (Village Voice). Shown with two intermissions, 20 mins and 40 mins. Special admission: General: $30; BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $20 Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Sunday, February 16, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS	17	18	19 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Wednesday, February 19, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM I Am Ishi: The Performance Art Film Film In-Person Wednesday, February 19, 2025 7:00 PM I Am Ishi: The Performance Art Film Dana Claxton, Canada, 2023, (111 mins) Drawing from and expanding on James Luna’s ISHI: The Archive Performance, Dana Claxton and members of the Ishi Collective interrogate the legacy of colonial museum practices through the tragic story of the last known survivor of the Yahi people. Dmitri Brown Introduction Dmitri Brown is a historian focusing on modern Native American and Indigenous experiences and Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20 7:00 PM Something Special Film In-Person Thursday, February 20, 2025 7:00 PM Something Special Paul Schneider, United States, 1986, (86 mins) 35mm Archival Print Pamela Adlon (Better Things) stars in this long-unavailable, whimsical 1980s teen comedy about a girl whose wish to become a boy is fulfilled overnight. In Conversation Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Maia Kobabe Maia Kobabe is the author of the award-winning graphic memoir, Gender Queer, which was the most challenged book in the United States in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Series Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, February 21, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Kameradschaft Film Friday, February 21, 2025 4:30 PM Kameradschaft G. W. Pabst, Germany, 1931, (88 mins) A gripping disaster film and a stirring plea for international cooperation, Kameradschaft cemented G. W. Pabst’s status as one of the most morally engaged and formally dexterous filmmakers of his time. Series G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Dark Eyes Film Friday, February 21, 2025 7:00 PM Dark Eyes Nikita Mikhalkov, Italy, USSR, 1987, (118 mins) 4K Digital Restoration In Dark Eyes—inspired by four Anton Chekhov stories, but in style and tone owing as much to Federico Fellini as it does to Russian literature—Marcello Mastroianni delivers an award-winning performance. Series Marcello Mastroianni at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, February 22, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM Winged Migration Families Film Saturday, February 22, 2025 3:30 PM Winged Migration Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, 2001, (85 mins) Recommended for ages 7 & up English-language version This documentary “provides such an intense vicarious experience of being a flapping airborne creature . . . that you leave the theater feeling like an honorary member of another species” (New York Times). Member-exclusive tickets are now available. Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, November 8 at 11:00 AM. Not yet a member? Join today for more great member-only benefits. Series Movie Matinees for All Ages Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM The Power of the Dog Film In-Person Saturday, February 22, 2025 6:30 PM The Power of the Dog Jane Campion, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, 2021, (126 mins) From the rawhide to the stark reverberance of footsteps and banjo plucks, everything in The Power of the Dog works in concert to uncover the simmering shame and resentment seated within the deep histories of a Wyoming family ranch. Leila Weefur Introduction Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Series Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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23 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, February 23, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM The Battle for Laikipia Film In-Person Sunday, February 23, 2025 1:00 PM The Battle for Laikipia Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi, Greece, Kenya, United States, 2024, (94 mins) Drought, dwindling resources, and contentious elections in equatorial Kenya exacerbate the conflict between semi-nomadic Indigenous pastoralists and wealthy white ranchers in this documentary epic. “A tense, beautiful, and heartbreaking film” (Vulture). In Conversation Maya Craig Maya Craig is a cinematographer and coproducer of The Battle for Laikipia. Miswa Basil Miswa Basil is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. Jennifer Redfearn Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and the Director of the Documentary Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Series Climate Journalism on Screen Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM Shaped Papermaking with Julia Goodman Art Workshop Sunday, February 23, 2025 1:00 PM Shaped Papermaking with Julia Goodman Space is limited; RSVP required Local artist Julia Goodman shares a step-by-step process to make unique pieces of handmade paper. Taking inspiration from artworks on view in the exhibition Making Their Mark, participants explore techniques for making shaped paper. Space is limited; RSVP required Series Workshops SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark Art Tours Sunday, February 23, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: Making Their Mark UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM L’Atlantide Film Sunday, February 23, 2025 4:00 PM L’Atlantide G. W. Pabst, France, Germany, 1932, (90 mins) Dominated by the statuesque presence of Brigitte Helm this “campy, exotic fantasy takes place in a décor of dazzling white buildings, studio sand, and artificial pools” (Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide). Series G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Muchachas de uniforme Film In-Person Sunday, February 23, 2025 7:00 PM Muchachas de uniforme Alfredo B. Crevenna, Mexico, 1951, (101 mins) Filmoteca-UNAM’s Collection A rare Mexican girls school melodrama of a student in love with her teacher, a remake of the 1931 German film Mädchen in Uniform (considered to be the first lesbian film ever made). In Conversation Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Juana María Rodríguez Juana María Rodríguez is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and a cultural critic, public speaker, and award-winning author who writes about sexual cultures, racial politics, and the many ta Series Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24	25	26 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Wednesday, February 26, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Gaucho Gaucho Film In-Person Wednesday, February 26, 2025 7:00 PM Gaucho Gaucho Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Argentina, United States, 2024, (116 mins) These two films document contemporary cowboy culture on two continents. Gaucho Gaucho chronicles the everyday life of Argentine cowhands, while Ten Five in the Grass captures the preparations for a calf roping event on the Black rodeo circuit. Leila Weefur Introduction Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Series Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27 7:00 PM According to Pereira Film Thursday, February 27, 2025 7:00 PM According to Pereira Roberto Faenza, France, Italy, Portugal, 1995, (104 mins) Antonio Tabucchi’s novel According to Pereira “provides Marcello Mastroianni with one of his best roles” (David Rooney, Variety). Series Marcello Mastroianni at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, February 28, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM The Shanghai Drama Film Friday, February 28, 2025 4:30 PM The Shanghai Drama G. W. Pabst, France, 1938, (100 mins) G. W. Pabst left Germany only to be censored by the French, his film recut. But as Nora Sayre advised in the New York Times, “Ignore the muddles and savor the cast of characters.” Series G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Maliglutit Film In-Person Friday, February 28, 2025 7:00 PM Maliglutit Zacharias Kunuk, Canada, 2016, Maliglutit continues in the breathtaking vein of Canadian Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner with a story of cruelty and cold revenge inspired by John Ford’s The Searchers and spoken entirely in Inuktitut. Shari Huhndorf Introduction Shari Huhndorf is Class of 1938 Professor of Native American Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley. Series Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, March 1, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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 Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM All We Imagine as Light Film Saturday, March 1, 2025 3:30 PM All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia, France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, 2024, (115 mins) Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three nurses as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Torment Film In-Person Saturday, March 1, 2025 6:30 PM Torment Alf Sjöberg, Sweden, 1944, (123 mins) Ingmar Bergman’s first produced screenplay was for the great Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, a dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior who falls in love with a shopgirl, with a standout performance by Mai Zetterling. Preceded by a short documentary on Zetterling’s career. Linda Haverty Rugg Introduction Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley. Series Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS