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1 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, June 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 12 PM Teach Your Children to Slurp Noodles Art Performance Workshop Sunday, June 1, 2025 12 PM Teach Your Children to Slurp Noodles Space is limited; advance tickets required Artist David Horvitz collaborates with chef Leif Hedendal in this celebration of food culture and sound art. 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. Space is limited to 20 people per session. Tickets include gallery admission. Series Performances SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Teach Your Children to Slurp Noodles Art Performance Workshop Sunday, June 1, 2025 1 PM Teach Your Children to Slurp Noodles Space is limited; advance tickets required Artist David Horvitz collaborates with chef Leif Hedendal in this celebration of food culture and sound art. 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. Space is limited to 20 people per session. Tickets include gallery admission. Series Performances SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	2	3	4 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Wednesday, June 4, 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	5 All Day Free First Thursday Art Families Free Thursday, June 5, 2025 All Day Free First Thursday 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, June 5, 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: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Thursday, June 5, 2025 1:15 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	6 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, June 6, 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 Perfume Workshop with Zapah Lab Workshop Friday, June 6, 2025 4:30 PM Perfume Workshop with Zapah Lab Create your own scent in this hands-on experimental perfume workshop led by olfactory artist and researcher Arianna Khmelniuk (Zapah Lab). Go beyond basic blending and explore conceptual scent design. All levels are welcome. Space is limited; RSVP required. Both workshop dates are now full. Series Workshops SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Breaking Point Film In-Person Friday, June 6, 2025 7 PM The Breaking Point Michael Curtiz, United States, 1950, (97 mins) 35mm Archival Print The Breaking Point is film noir at its best, with outstanding performances by the cast, especially Phyllis Thaxter as a wife who keeps her family together on a shoestring budget despite the stubbornness of her husband (John Garfield). Imogen Sara Smith Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	7 1–7 PM Preview Day: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Members Saturday, June 7, 2025 1–7 PM Preview Day: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff. BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff are invited to enjoy early access to the exhibition Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff. Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Perfume Workshop with Zapah Lab Workshop Saturday, June 7, 2025 1 PM Perfume Workshop with Zapah Lab Create your own scent in this hands-on experimental perfume workshop led by olfactory artist and researcher Arianna Khmelniuk (Zapah Lab). Go beyond basic blending and explore conceptual scent design. All levels are welcome. Space is limited; RSVP required. Both workshop dates are now full. Series Workshops SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, June 7, 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 1 PM–7 PM Modified Hours Saturday, June 7, 2025 1 PM–7 PM Modified Hours BAMPFA will open late on Saturday, June 7. Museum hours: 1 PM–7PM. Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM The Hitch-Hiker Film In-Person Saturday, June 7, 2025 4:30 PM The Hitch-Hiker Ida Lupino, United States, 1953, (71 mins) 35mm Archival Print Two fishing buddies pick up a hitchhiker on their way to Baja, with potentially deadly results, in Ida Lupino’s high-tension thriller. Photographed by the great noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Imogen Sara Smith Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Desert Fury Film In-Person Saturday, June 7, 2025 7 PM Desert Fury Lewis Allen, United States, 1947, (96 mins) Film noir expert Eddie Muller called Desert Fury “the gayest movie ever made in Hollywood’s Golden Era.” Filmed in glorious Technicolor with costume design by Edith Head. 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. Imogen Sara Smith Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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8 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, June 8, 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 11 AM–7 PM Free Community Day: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Free Sunday, June 8, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Free Community Day: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Free admission all day Join us for the opening day of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California with free gallery admission for all! Free gallery admission Google Calendar ICS 11:30 AM–2 PM Art Making for All Ages Art Sunday, June 8, 2025 11:30 AM–2 PM Art Making for All Ages Drop in and make art in BAMPFA’s Crane Forum space, next to the Art Wall. Materials will be provided. Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM Curator's Welcome: Routed West Art Free Sunday, June 8, 2025 2:30 PM Curator's Welcome: Routed West To celebrate the opening of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau offers a brief overview of the exhibition and shares the journey of organizing the show from over three thousand quilts in the museum collection. Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Pursued Film In-Person Sunday, June 8, 2025 4 PM Pursued Raoul Walsh, United States, 1947, (101 mins) 35mm Archival Print Raoul Walsh’s favorite of his Westerns, Pursued is a fated family tragedy set under cinematographer James Wong Howe’s oppressive clouds and menacing cliffs. Starring Robert Mitchum. Imogen Sara Smith Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Vivien’s Wild Ride Audio Description Closed Captioned Film In-Person Sunday, June 8, 2025 7 PM Vivien’s Wild Ride Vivien Hillgrove, United States, 2025, (83 mins) Closed Captioned Audio Description When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity. In Person Deann Borshay Liem Deann Borshay Liem is a producer of Vivien’s Wild Ride. Eric M. Ivey Eric M. Ivey is a co-editor, cinematographer, and co-producer of Vivien’s Wild Ride. Todd Boekelheide Todd Boekelheide is the composer of Vivien’s Wild Ride. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9	10	11 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Wednesday, June 11, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS	12 7 PM The 400 Blows Film In-Person Thursday, June 12, 2025 7 PM The 400 Blows François Truffaut, France, 1959, (99 mins) Repeats Saturday / 8.9.25 (without introduction) Jean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris. 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. Laura Truffaut Introduction Laura Truffaut is the oldest daughter of director François Truffaut. Based in Berkeley, she regularly speaks about her father’s work at international cinematheques. Series Special Screenings 2025 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	13 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, June 13, 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 7 PM The Long Goodbye Film In-Person Friday, June 13, 2025 7 PM The Long Goodbye Robert Altman, United States, 1973, (112 mins) 35mm Archival Print Repeats Wednesday / 7.23.25 (without introduction) Updating Raymond Chandler’s noir pulp for the psychedelic 1970s, Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman pitch a bewildered and bereft Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) into a murder mystery involving a sun-dried siren (Nina van Pallandt) and her washed-out Ernest Hemingway-esque author husband (Sterling Hayden). 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. David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and The Big Sleep (BFI Film Classics). Series Robert Altman at 100 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	14 2:30–3:30 PM Roundtable Reading / Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary Families Saturday, June 14, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Roundtable Reading / Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s) At Roundtable Reading, young readers read aloud to one another from the opening pages of a good book. This month, enjoy the further adventures of Beverly Cleary’s mouse with a motorcycle as Ralph S. Mouse runs away from his hotel home into the wider world of summer camp. Linda Artel Reading led by Former BAMPFA children’s film festival programmer Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 11:30 AM–1 PM Gallery+Studio / Family and Community Quiltmaking Families Workshop Saturday, June 14, 2025 11:30 AM–1 PM Gallery+Studio / Family and Community Quiltmaking For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s) Learn how fabrics migrate from one use to another and end up as quilts, and make a unique quilt square of your own. 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. Mary Lawrence Workshop led by Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, June 14, 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 2 PM Lijin Lecture: Yasufumi Nakamori on Martin Wong and Premodern Art of Asia Art Saturday, June 14, 2025 2 PM Lijin Lecture: Yasufumi Nakamori on Martin Wong and Premodern Art of Asia BAMPFA is pleased to announce Dr. Yasufumi Nakamori as BAMPFA’s 2025 endowed Lijin Lecturer. His presentation connects two important aspects of the museum’s collection--contemporary and pre-modern art from Asia—and promises to cast new light on the art of Martin Wong (1946-1999). Included with gallery admission Series Talks & Conversations Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Shadow of a Doubt Film In-Person Saturday, June 14, 2025 7 PM Shadow of a Doubt Alfred Hitchcock, United States, 1943, (108 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Joseph Cotten is the urbane Uncle Charlie, hiding out in the small-town home of his sister Emma in this blend of satire and mystery. Is Uncle Charlie the Merry Widow Killer hunted by the police, or is he as innocent as he claims? 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. David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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15 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, June 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 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Sunday, June 15, 2025 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Films by Bruce Conner: Program 1 Film Sunday, June 15, 2025 5 PM Films by Bruce Conner: Program 1 (66 mins) BAMPFA Collection Alive with satire, irony, and rhythm, experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner’s collage films have influenced countless artists and captivated viewers. His work constitutes a wry, devastating portrait of America. This program of his short films is drawn from the BAMPFA collection. Series Bruce Conner: Films from the BAMPFA Collection Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM MASH Film Sunday, June 15, 2025 7 PM* MASH Robert Altman, United States, 1970, (116 mins) 35mm Archival Print Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, MASH put Robert Altman on the map. The anti-everything episodic war comedy follows the antics of a trio of surgeons in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea. Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16	17	18 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Wednesday, June 18, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Vermiglio Film Wednesday, June 18, 2025 7 PM Vermiglio Maura Delpero, Italy, 2024, (119 mins) East Bay Premiere Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	19 7 PM McCabe & Mrs. Miller Film In-Person Thursday, June 19, 2025 7 PM McCabe & Mrs. Miller Robert Altman, United States, 1971, (121 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Repeats Saturday / 8.30.25 (without introduction) 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. David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, June 20, 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 7 PM Ivan’s Childhood Film Friday, June 20, 2025 7 PM Ivan’s Childhood Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1962, (95 mins) BAMPFA Collection Lyrical and brutal by turns, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature tells of a child’s experiences during World War II. “Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one” (Time Out). Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, June 21, 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 PM Vivien’s Wild Ride Audio Description Closed Captioned Film In-Person Saturday, June 21, 2025 4 PM Vivien’s Wild Ride Vivien Hillgrove, United States, 2025, (83 mins) Closed Captioned Audio Description When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity. In Person Janet Cole Janet Cole is a producer of Vivien’s Wild Ride. Kathleen Toschi Kathleen Toschi is the daughter of Vivien Hillgrove. Todd Boekelheide Todd Boekelheide is the composer of Vivien’s Wild Ride. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Black Life: Star Amerasu Performance Saturday, June 21, 2025 5 PM Black Life: Star Amerasu Black Life presents a multimedia performance by Star Amerasu featuring live singing, dancing, video presentation, and a special TRANSmission from outer space. Amerasu’s work as a singer-songwriter and transdisciplinary artist is a heady, beat-driven pastiche that pulls equally from influences like the tenderness of early Björk, queer and trans history, meme culture, and apocalyptic AI discourse. Included with gallery admission Series Black Life Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Reckless Moment Film Saturday, June 21, 2025 7 PM The Reckless Moment Max Ophuls, United States, 1949, (82 mins) 35mm Archival Print Housewife Joan Bennett must cope with a killing, blackmail, and the everyday pressures of domesticity in this stunning suburban noir. “An underrated gem” (Phillip Lopate). 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22 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, June 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 2 PM Curator Tours: Elaine Yau on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Sunday, June 22, 2025 2 PM Curator Tours: Elaine Yau on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau shares in-depth stories of individual quilts in the exhibition that illuminate the bonds of love, kinship, commemoration, and innovative artistry entwined in their making. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM The Steamroller and the Violin Film Sunday, June 22, 2025 4:30 PM The Steamroller and the Violin Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1961, (108 mins) A student film in name only, The Steamroller and the Violin holds the seeds of Andrei Tarkovsky’s future career. Paired with Voyage in Time, a visual diary of Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra’s travels across Lecce, Tuscany, and the Amalfi Coast while location scouting for Nostalghia. Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM 3 Women Film In-Person Sunday, June 22, 2025 7 PM 3 Women Robert Altman, United States, 1977, (124 mins) Repeats Sunday / 8.3.25 (without introduction) Young Pinky (Sissy Spacek) finds herself in the thrall of her extroverted but unpopular roommate, Millie (Shelley Duvall), in this exploration of identities fractured and fused. “3 Women is a film whose provocative schizophrenia is both gripping and contagious” (Kier-La Janisse). Leila Weefur Introduction Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Weefur is an educator at Stanford University and a founding member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic. Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23	24	25 7 PM Detour Film Wednesday, June 25, 2025 7 PM Detour Edgar G. Ulmer, United States, 1945, (68 mins) Digital Restoration This 2018 restoration is the best that Detour has looked or sounded for generations. Despite severe restrictions of time and budget, Edgar G. Ulmer and his collaborators were able to craft one of the best and purest film noirs of all time. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26 7 PM Andrei Rublev Film Thursday, June 26, 2025 7 PM Andrei Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1966, (183 mins) Digital Restoration Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of a fifteenth-century Russian icon painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice). “The best arthouse film of all time” (The Guardian). Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, June 27, 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 7 PM Films by Bruce Conner: Program 2 Film Friday, June 27, 2025 7 PM Films by Bruce Conner: Program 2 (68 mins) Alive with satire, irony, and rhythm, experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner’s collage films have influenced countless artists and captivated viewers. His work constitutes a wry, devastating portrait of America. This program of his short films is drawn from the BAMPFA collection. Series Bruce Conner: Films from the BAMPFA Collection Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28 12–4 PM Quilt Documentation Day Art Free Saturday, June 28, 2025 12–4 PM Quilt Documentation Day Advance registration required Preserve your African American family history with the African American Quilt Documentation Study Group. Bring in your family quilt to be documented in the national African American Quilt Registry. Free admission; advance registration required. Email AFAMQUILTDOC@gmail.com to sign up. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, June 28, 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 PM A Photographic Memory Film Saturday, June 28, 2025 4 PM A Photographic Memory Rachel Elizabeth Seed, United States, 2024, (87 mins) Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards A New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety). Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6 PM Short Cuts Film In-Person Saturday, June 28, 2025 6 PM Short Cuts Robert Altman, United States, 1993, (183 mins) 35mm Archival Print Short Cuts is a Los Angeles–set, star-studded mosaic of unhappy families in situations that are tragic, comic, and commonplace. “The movie has the intensity of an epic, only its subject matter is everyday life” (Julie Salamon, Wall Street Journal). David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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29 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, June 29, 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 PM Fabric Postcard Workshop Art Workshop Sunday, June 29, 2025 1 PM Fabric Postcard Workshop Discover the joy of working with fabric and thread and create your own miniature quilt! Included with admission. Space is limited; Admission is first come, first served. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Sunday, June 29, 2025 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Él Film Sunday, June 29, 2025 5 PM Él Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1953, (93 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Solaris Film Sunday, June 29, 2025 7 PM Solaris Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1972, (167 mins) Digital Restoration In Andrei Tarkovsky’s influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanisław Lem, “the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own” (Village Voice). Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30	1	2 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Wednesday, July 2, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM They Live by Night Film In-Person Wednesday, July 2, 2025 7 PM They Live by Night Nicholas Ray, United States, 1948, (95 mins) 35mm Archival Print Nicholas Ray’s lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents. It influenced films from Jean Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde. David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3 All Day Free First Thursday Art Families Free Thursday, July 3, 2025 All Day Free First Thursday 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, July 3, 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 Curator Tours: Elaine Yau on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Thursday, July 3, 2025 1:15 PM Curator Tours: Elaine Yau on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau shares in-depth stories of individual quilts in the exhibition that illuminate the bonds of love, kinship, commemoration, and innovative artistry entwined in their making. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Film Thursday, July 3, 2025 7 PM When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1960, (111 mins) BAMPFA Collection Essential Mikio Naruse. “An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess’s attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder and [Douglas] Sirk” (Village Voice). Tickets for December screening go on sale Wednesday, June 18 at 11 AM. Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 4, 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 5 PM Nashville Film Friday, July 4, 2025 5 PM Nashville Robert Altman, United States, 1975, (160 mins) As the bicentennial of American independence looms, the titular “Country Music Capital of the World” becomes an unholy soup of politics, art, patriotism, religion, and money—showbiz, America. Buoyed by a cast of dozens, Nashville “is a satire, a comedy, a musical, a melodrama” (Vincent Canby, New York Times). Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	5 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 5, 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 Leave Her to Heaven Film Saturday, July 5, 2025 4:30 PM Leave Her to Heaven John M. Stahl, United States, 1945, (110 mins) 35mm Archival Print Intoxicating Gene Tierney (Laura) is the femme fatale par excellence in this astounding Technicolor noir classic, now beautifully restored, about a young novelist (Cornel Wilde) whose new bride’s extreme jealousy plunges their nuptial heaven into hellish depths of psychic disorder. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Mirror Film Saturday, July 5, 2025 7 PM Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1975, (106 mins) Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman). Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS