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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1:30 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2023
1:30 PM
Bertrand Tavernier,
France,
1992,
(247 mins)
Digital Restoration
Assembled from fifty hours of footage, the film focuses on twenty-eight veterans—all conscripts and of every shade of political conviction. The film’s remarkable power and universality lies in the human dimension of these veterans, as they bring the events of the past to life with searing and enlightening honesty.
Presented with a 20-minute intermission 2 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
12:30 PM
Academics, activists, and creatives Peace and Love El Henson, Aria S. Halliday, Kitt (aka Father Venus), and Mireille Miller-Young come together for a lively performance and conversation on Black feminisms, hip-hop, queerness, transness, the erotic, pornography, pleasure, and policing. Join us for an afternoon of creativity, criticality, and celebration.
Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 1, 2023
7 PM
Alice Diop,
France,
2016,
(94 mins)
Born in France to Senegalese parents, Alice Diop (Saint Omer) brings a unique perspective to migrant and Black diaspora experience. Influenced by Jean Rouch and Frederick Wiseman, she makes films that bring those on the periphery to the center.
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Documentary Voices
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4 – 7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2023
4 – 7 PM
 Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee.
Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee, this month’s Five Tables offers the opportunity to view Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract compositions from his series Little Worlds, Ando Hiroshige’s Japanese woodblock prints of blooming sakura flowers, Rembrandt’s etchings, and other vibrant works.
Free on first Thursday of the month
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Five Tables
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2023
12 PM
How do Native and queer epistemologies inspire cross-media practice? Using his ten-screen video installation, This Burning World, as point of departure, Jeffrey Gibson considers how his artistic practice has moved across painting, sculpture, textiles, installation, performance, and video to address issues such as climate change, the fluidity of identity, and the erasure of Indigenous art traditions.
Free and open to the public
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Video Art in Context
1:15 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2023
1:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2023
7 PM
Donagh Coleman ,
Estonia, Finland, Ireland,
2022,
(91 mins)
Copresented with the Center for Buddhist Studies and the UC Berkeley Anthropology Department, cosponsored by the Institute for South Asia Studies and the Himalayan Studies Initiative
In what Tibetans call tukdam, deceased meditators have shown no signs of death for days or weeks. Juxtaposing ground-breaking scientific research and Tibetan perspectives, this creative documentary challenges our notion of life and death—and where we draw the line between them.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 3, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, March 3, 2023
7 PM
Cheryl Dunye,
United States,
1996,
(81 mins)
New Restoration
A Black lesbian video store clerk and would-be filmmaker becomes obsessed with an early “race film” star in Dunye’s pioneering “funky screwball comedy in the key of queer” (B. Ruby Rich).
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Pioneers of Queer Cinema
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
7 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2023
7 PM
Andy Warhol, Chuck Wein,
United States,
1965,
(112 mins)
Warhol’s brilliantly bitchy masterpiece of voyeurism, desire, and boredom on Fire Island. With shorts by Curt McDowell (Confessions), James Broughton (Testament), and José Rodriguez-Soltero (Jerovi).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2023
1 PM
Come and learn the basics of risograph printing with Max Stadnik of Tiny Splendor Press and Max’s Garage. Take inspiration from a selection of Tiny Splendor print work, and create a two-color poster image of your own design. Bring either a digital image saved as a PDF or any original artwork on paper to work with. No experience required; the workshop is first come, first served.
Included with admission
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Workshops
2 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
Sunday, March 5, 2023
3 PM
Artist and author George McCalman introduces his new book, Illustrated Black History, which reimagines our idea of Black history with a series of vivid portraits of 145 Black pioneers throughout America’s four-hundred-year history. Each is celebrated with a painting or drawing accompanied by a brief biography of their contribution to activism, science, politics, business, medicine, technology, food, entertainment, or the arts.
Included with admission
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Readings
5 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2023
5 PM
Robert Gardner,
United States,
1964,
(98 mins)
One of the most influential ethnographic films of the 1960s, Dead Birds is director Robert Gardner’s interpretation of life among the Dani people of West Papua. With shorts from his Baliem Valley 1961 series.
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Documentary Voices
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7:30 PM
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
7:30 PM
Berkeley Ballet Theater and Post:ballet present excerpts from Still Be Here, a new collaboration with Kronos Quartet featuring original scores commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire.
Space for Full performances is limited.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
12:30 PM
BSC Fellow Rashad Arman Timmons engages Michael Brown Sr. and Cal Brown in conversation about their continued fight to keep the memory and legacy of Michael Brown Jr. alive. The discussion considers the enduring significance of Ferguson in the nation’s racial landscape and ponders Black grief as a resource for social transformation. This event offers the opportunity to dialogue with the Brown family and think collaboratively about how to build a world free of racial violence.
Free and open to the public 7 PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7 PM
Ernst Karel, Veronika Kusumaryati ,
United States,
2020,
(97 mins)
This fascinating sonic ethnography, which draws on the audio archive from Robert Gardner’s 1961 expedition to West Papua, is “a mind-expanding inquiry on anthropology” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times).
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Documentary Voices
7:30 PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7:30 PM
Berkeley Ballet Theater and Post:ballet present excerpts from Still Be Here, a new collaboration with Kronos Quartet featuring original scores commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire.
Space for Full performances is limited.
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Full
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
12 PM
How have video artists addressed issues of race and colonialism, including artists historically privileged by these relations of power? Coinciding with the opening of her provocative exhibition, Out of Africa, Julie Rodrigues Widholm discusses her curatorial principles, the contemporary context for this grouping of works, and the specific photographs and videos on view by William Kentridge, Richard Mosse, Doug Aitken, Steve McQueen and Carrie Mae Weems.
Free and open to the public
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Video Art in Context
Thursday, March 9, 2023
4 PM
 This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.
Complementing his new Art Wall project below/here/above/ahead/was, New York–based Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer offers a presentation designed to provoke thought and prompt questions about public art.
This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.
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Talks & Conversations
7 PM
Thursday, March 9, 2023
7 PM
Susan Sollins, Charles Atlas,
United States,
2010,
(77 mins)
The 2010 documentary William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible offers an excellent orientation to the artist’s work. Paired with six short films by William Kentridge, including his early films, collaborations, and Journey to the Moon, a tribute to the seminal French filmmaker Georges Méliès.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 10, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, March 10, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
France, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom,
2015,
(127 mins)
A strange sleeping sickness befalls a group of soldiers in Weerasethakul’s mesmeric treatise on dreams, history, and magical thinking. “Cinema as the stuff dreams are made of” (Slant Magazine). With The Anthem.
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11:30 AM
Saturday, March 11, 2023
11:30 AM
 For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by the textures and colors in Rina Kimche’s art, make an abstract sculpture of your own from found objects.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under Natasha Loewy
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Family Events
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2023
1 PM–7 PM
2 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2023
2 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Seventh grade is all about figuring out who you are—good thing Maggie Diaz has the perfect plan!
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under Rachel Budge
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Family Events
7 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2023
7 PM
(83 mins)
Drawings for Projection is a central project of William Kentridge’s career. The series of eleven animated films, which the artist has been working on for more than thirty years, follows two characters, Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitelbaum, and deals with themes of self-portraiture, memory, loss, cultural displacement, and political oppression.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
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Guided Tours
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
12:30 PM
Join us for a look at some of the 4,000 recently discovered, never-before-seen images documenting the later years of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and focusing on the party’s community programs in Oakland.
Free and open to the public 7 PM
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
7 PM
Xun Sero,
Mexico,
2022,
(80 mins)
Mexican Tzotzil filmmaker Xun Sero’s Mamá is “an extraordinarily sensitive first film where both mother and son open a dialogue in an attempt at self-discovery” (HotDocs).
In-Theater Livestream Conversation
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Documentary Voices
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
12 PM
A meeting of two incredible minds, one an internationally renowned cross-media artist and the other an internationally renowned cross-disciplinary philosopher. William Kentridge and Judith Butler are known throughout the world for revising and propelling their respective areas of inquiry. Meeting at Berkeley for a free-ranging conversation, these two leading lights consider the relationship between art and politics, the paradoxes of identity, the ethics of activism, the power of “the less good idea,” and much more.
In-person seating is reserved for collaborators on the William Kentridge residency and for students enrolled in L&S 25, Video Art in Context. The talk will be livestreamed for the public.
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Video Art in Context
7 PM
Thursday, March 16, 2023
7 PM
William Kentridge,
United States,
2013,
(121 mins)
Free Admission
“Using the Met stage as it is rarely used, [William] Kentridge establishes from the outset a vigorously multidimensional environment, defined in equal measure by verticals and horizontals, by flat graphic surfaces and the deep space of the rear stage. . . . If Kentridge’s Nose was so immensely satisfying it was at least in part because of its deep connection to the inexorable, irrational logic of Gogol’s tale” (Geoffrey O’Brien, New York Review of Books).
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 17, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, March 17, 2023
7 PM
Lizzie Borden,
United States,
1986,
(91 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Sidestepping clichéd approaches to sex work perpetuated by mainstream films—which fetishize, romanticize, and/or pathologize prostitution—Lizzie Borden matter-of-factly documents the details of a day in the life of a sex worker at a Manhattan brothel.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
4:30 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2023
4:30 PM
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz,
Puerto Rico,
2022,
(101 mins)
In Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s most recent film, Monique Wittig’s experimental novel Les Guérillères is transported to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. With shorts by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Mouth to Mouth) and Vivienne Dick (Staten Island).
7:30 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2023
7:30 PM
Lizzie Borden,
United States,
1983,
(80 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
“This explosive work offers a speculative, feminist polemic set in a potential future that mirrors both the present in which it was made and ours. . . . [Lizzie] Borden’s fevered 1983 film is absolutely one we should be watching right now” (Yasmina Price, Vulture).
In Conversation
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023
1 PM
Join us for an engaging, illustrated talk by Amalia Mesa-Bains as she illuminates the sources and stories behind her wide-ranging multimedia practice.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
1 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023
1 PM
 This workshop is full.
This workshop approaches the construction of scent through walking, sensing, and reflecting prompts, circulated by artist Leonora Zoninsein.
This workshop is full.
Series
Workshops
3 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023
3 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
4 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023
4 PM
Lizzie Borden,
United States,
1976,
(80 mins)
New Restoration
“Combative, entropic, mesmerizing, Lizzie Borden’s first film, the shape-shifting documentary Regrouping, is a chronicle of a women’s collective” (Melissa Anderson, 4Columns).
7 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023
7 PM
Bill Sherwood,
United States,
1986,
(129 mins)
New Restoration
Several friends and lovers navigate friendship and romance in this joyful, independent look at gay life and love. A snapshot of a funky, proud, defiantly gay 1986 New York City. With shorts by Jim Hubbard (Memento Mori) and Peggy Rajski (Trevor).
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Pioneers of Queer Cinema
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
7 PM
Billy Woodberry,
Portugal, United States,
2015,
(110 mins)
Billy Woodberry’s “daring and accomplished documentary” (New Yorker) of Bob Kaufman, one of the most overlooked of the Beat Generation artists, is lovingly assembled from archival footage, documents, and interviews. With an homage to Ousmane Sembène’s Black Docker.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
12 PM
How does the moving image change when relocated from the cinematheque to the gallery of the museum? Does this changed spatial experience create a different aesthetic experience? A different political experience? Reflecting on their work as curators of the films of two artists who move amongst these spaces, BAMPFA’s own Susan Oxtoby and Kate MacKay discuss the screen-based work of William Kentridge and Apichatpong Weesrasethakul.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
7 PM
Thursday, March 23, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
Thailand,
2000,
(132 mins)
A film crew heads from Bangkok to the hinterlands of Thailand, asking people to continue improvising a story in this bewitching relocation of the surrealist exquisite corpse game. “Rarely has a first feature been more aptly titled” (Dennis Lim). With Worldly Desires.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 24, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, March 24, 2023
7 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2022,
(108 mins)
Michelle Williams stars as a grad student/sculptor balancing work, life, and art making at a small liberal arts college in Portland. Costarring André “3000” Benjamin and Hong Chau. “Beautifully crafted” (Screen International).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Kelly Reichardt in Person
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
4:30 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2023
4:30 PM
(79 mins)
This eclectic set of short films relates in part to William Kentridge’s work for theater, opera, and gallery installation, while displaying the importance of variations in his artistic practice and themes related to South African and world history, language, science, and the arts.
7 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2023
7 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2019,
(121 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
An itinerant cook and a Chinese immigrant in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest embark on an unlikely bovine-related business venture in this reinvention of Old West mythos, populated by those too often written out of its history. “A fable of land and freedom” (Observer UK).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
12:30 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
12:30 PM
William Kentridge, Luc de Wit,
United States,
2015,
(202 mins)
Free Admission
Lulu, one of the great operas of the twentieth century, written by Alban Berg in the late 1920s and early 1930s, deals with themes of fragility, impossibility, and the fragmentation of desire. William Kentridge’s stage design employs hand-drawn animated projections done in a German Expressionist style. Starring Marlis Petersen in the title role.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 11:30 AM. Presented with a 10-minute intermission 2 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
3:30 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
3:30 PM
Berkeley’s own Shawl-Anderson Dance Center presents all four of its teen performance groups. Each group has worked with a professional Bay Area artist to create original choreographed works that highlight the technique and performance skills of the young dancers.
Free with gallery admission
Series
Performances
5 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
5 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2016,
(107 mins)
Present-day Montana provides the possibly unlikely setting for this investigation of the gap between women’s desires and their less hopeful realities. With Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams. Adapted from stories by Maile Meloy.
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Kelly Reichardt in Person
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
7 PM
Billy Woodberry,
United States,
1983,
(97 mins)
New 35mm Print
“Billy Woodberry’s dramatic feature looks deeply into the life of one family in Watts and plots its crisis in three dimensions: race, money, and gender. . . . Woodberry crafts a passionately pensive realism” (New Yorker). With The Pocketbook, an adaptation of a Langston Hughes story.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
France, Germany, Italy, Thailand,
2004,
(118 mins)
This shape-shifting blend of modern romance and mystic parable ventures deep into the Thai jungle of myth. “A work of outstanding originality and power” (Sight & Sound).
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 31, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, March 31, 2023
7 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2010,
(104 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Three strong women and an assortment of men head west on the Oregon Trail in Reichardt’s feminist Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan.
Tickets go on sale February 9.
Series
Kelly Reichardt in Person
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
7 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1967,
(96 mins)
A love triangle of sorts forms between a harried city functionary, her maid, and an absent, wandering husband (seen only in flashbacks) in Kira Muratova’s impressionist new-wave work, banned for twenty years. Russian folk singer/cult hero Vladimir Vysotsky costars.
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