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11:30 AM-2:00 PM
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  • Free
Sunday, October 27, 2024
11:30 AM-2:00 PM
Drop in and make art in BAMPFA’s Crane Forum space, next to the Art Wall. Materials will be provided.

Free and open to the public.

Series Family Events
11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, October 27, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, October 27, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Celebrate the opening of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection with free gallery admission to the public on Sunday, October 27, from 11 AM to 7 PM.

Free and open to the public.

1:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 27, 2024
1:00 PM
Joe Ma,
Hong Kong,
1997,
(85 mins)
It’s Chinese street smarts versus British rule when a fast-talking lawyer takes on a British courtroom in this manic screwball comedy starring Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle). Costarring Chingmy Yau (Naked Killer) and Karen Mok.
  • Paul Fonoroff
    Introduction
    Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
4:00 PM
To mark the opening day of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, art collector and philanthropist Komal Shah and Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, sit down with BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton to discuss their journey organizing the exhibition.

Free and open to the public.

7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 27, 2024
7:00 PM
Alán González,
Cuba,
2023,
(93 mins)
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, Wild Woman became one of the most celebrated Cuban feature debuts in the past decade. Set in a Havana slum, the film follows a Cuban mother as she battles social prejudice, machismo, poverty, and violence to protect her son after a violent altercation goes viral.
In Conversation
  • Alán González
  • Lázaro González
    Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
12:15 PM
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

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
7:00 PM
(84 mins)
BAMPFA and UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center welcome Michif (Métis) stop-motion storyteller Amanda Strong to present her animated films. Depicting Indigenous realities, stories, and dreams, the works provide a compelling cinematic counterpoint challenging historical narratives of Indigenous peoples.
In Person
  • Amanda Strong
  • Bracken Hanuse Corlett
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7:00 PM
Thursday, October 31, 2024
7:00 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1967,
(105 mins)

Digital Restoration

Alain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant).
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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, November 1, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Friday, November 1, 2024
4:00 PM

Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty

Award-winning multimedia Indigenous artists Amanda Strong (Michif) and Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv and Klahoose) share insights on the creation of their films, including their current project, eight years in the making and now on the cusp of its world premiere.

Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty.

In Conversation
  • Amanda Strong
  • Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Friday, November 1, 2024
7:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1969,
(103 mins)

Digital Restoration

This magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese). Shown with two rarely screened short films, Kyiv Frescoes and Hakob Hovnatanyan.

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.

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11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, November 2, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
2:30—5:30 PM
  • Film
  • Free
  • In-Person
Saturday, November 2, 2024
2:30—5:30 PM

Cosponsored by BAMPFA; the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES); the Berkeley Armenian Studies Program; and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Five experts join BAMPFA’s Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration to discuss the filmmaker’s multifaceted legacy.

Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 1:30 PM.

In Conversation
  • Myrna Douzjian
    Myrna Douzjian teaches Armenian language and literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley and is working on a study of interrelations between various storytelli
  • Olga Kim
    Olga Kim teaches Russian and Eurasian film and literature at Williams College and is currently working on her book manuscript Cinema on the Edge: Late Soviet Tableau Aesthetics.
  • Harsha Ram
    Harsha Ram teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley and is currently completing a book on Russian-Georgian cultural relations titled The Geopoetics of Sovereig
  • James Steffen
    James Steffen (PhD) is the Film and Media Studies Librarian and Head of the Humanities Team at the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, and the author of The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov.
  • Patrick Cazals
    Patrick Cazals is a filmmaker and writer who made Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel (2003), a study of Sergei Parajanov as a filmmaker, designer, and collage artist. He also made The Mus
Saturday, November 2, 2024
7:00 PM
(77 mins)
From a Cuban immigrant in New York (Ángela) to the metaphorical uprootedness in Petricor, the critique of romanticized communist nostalgia in Souvenir, a mother’s longing for reunification with her son in Parole, and the dystopian vision in History Is Written at Night, these films offer nuanced perspectives on diaspora, exile, and nation building amidst Cuba’s historical exodus.
In Conversation
  • Lázaro González
    Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders.
  • Caleb Murray-Bozeman
    Caleb Murray-Bozeman is a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media.
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, November 3, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, November 3, 2024
1:00 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required

Join local artist Alayna Tinney for a beginner-friendly dive into risograph printing.

Space is limited; RSVP required

Series Workshops
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Sunday, November 3, 2024
2:00 PM
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

2:00 PM
Sunday, November 3, 2024
2:00 PM
Luis Alejandro Yero,
Cuba, Germany, Norway,
2023,
(93 mins)
Follow four queer Cuban migrants navigating isolation amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Calls from Moscow, one of the most striking documentaries of contemporary Cuban cinema. This special screening is preceded by Gretel Marín’s Roads of Lava, another beautiful portrayal of queer activism and anti-racist pedagogies within Havana. 
Sunday, November 3, 2024
4:30 PM
Patrick Cazals,
France,
2003,
(91 mins)
This insightful portrait of a wounded, but fiercely independent Sergei Parajanov deals with his various talents as a painter, designer, and collage artist. Followed by Parajanov’s rare short film Arabesque on the Pirosmani Theme and Patrick Cazals’s portrait of Parajanov’s muse, Georgian actor Sofiko Chiaureli.
  • Patrick Cazals
    In Person
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
12:15 PM
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

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11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Thursday, November 7, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, November 7, 2024
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
1:15 PM
Tausif Noor explores how artists have taken up ideas of ephemerality to comment on the nature of memory and acts of memorialization across different media. Noor is BAMPFA Curatorial Associate and cocurator of To Exalt the Ephemeral.

Included with admission

7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, November 7, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2024,
(111 mins)
Jia Zhangke delivers an epic look at the romantic destiny of his perennial heroine, Qiao Qiao. Spanning twenty-one years of a country going through profound transformation, the film provides a new perspective on contemporary China.

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
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Michael Berry
    Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA.
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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, November 8, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
3:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, November 8, 2024
3:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Hong Kong,
1997,
(112 mins)
A small-time, undermotivated pickpocket finds himself on the wrong end of China’s economic leap forward in Jia Zhangke’s debut feature, a milestone in contemporary Chinese cinema.

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
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Michael Berry
    Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA.
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7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, November 8, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Hong Kong,
2000,
(155 mins)
A performance troupe struggles to keep up during China’s 1980s move from communism to capitalism. “Might be the greatest film to come out of mainland China” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). 

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
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Michael Berry
    Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA.
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1 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, November 9, 2024
1 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Saturday, November 9, 2024
11:30 AM-1:00 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Inspired by Rose D’Amato’s Art Wall, use sign-painting techniques such as stenciling and image layering to create a personal billboard-like pop-up design.

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under

  • Marcela Florez
    Workshop led by
    Marcela Florez holds an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and has taught at Southern Exposure, LA Commons, the de Young Museum, and BAMPFA.
Series Family Events
Saturday, November 9, 2024
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)

Jump into the story of a country cricket who finds himself in the big city, and pick up a copy of the book to finish reading at home. / Sumérgete en la historia de un grillo de campo que se encuentra en la gran ciudad y toma una copia del libro para terminar de leer en casa.

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under

  • Angela Loza
    Reading led by
    Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District 
Series Family Events
3:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, November 9, 2024
3:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2006,
(108 mins)
The controversial Three Gorges Dam project frames two stories in Jia Zhangke’s examination of a city under (de)construction. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

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
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Weihong Bao
    Weihong Bao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, November 9, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Japan,
2002,
(112 mins)
A sympathetic, impressionistic portrait of youth so alienated that they’ve nothing to rebel against, much less for, Unknown Pleasures is “as true a picture of contemporary existence as we could hope for now” (Kent Jones, Film Comment).

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
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Andrew F. Jones
    Andrew F. Jones is Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley.
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, November 10, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, November 10, 2024
12:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1969,
(103 mins)

Digital Restoration

This magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese). Shown with two rarely screened short films, Kyiv Frescoes and Hakob Hovnatanyan.

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.

Sunday, November 10, 2024
2:00 PM
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

2:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, November 10, 2024
2:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Netherlands,
2010,
(118 mins)
Jia Zhangke explores the contested city of Shanghai, as witnessed through citizens, politicians, criminals, exiles, artists, and especially filmmakers. Both a historian’s and a cinephile’s dream, I Wish I Knew is as much about Shanghai in cinema as it is about Shanghai.

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
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Michael Nylan
    Michael Nylan is the Jane K. Sather History Chair of the UC Berkeley Department of History.
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6:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, November 10, 2024
6:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2013,
(130 mins)
Jia Zhangke takes on the collateral damage of China’s maniacal growth, explosively restaging four violent deeds to illustrate everyday citizens pushed to the edge—of the economy. Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

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
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Daniel O’Neill
    Daniel O’Neill is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
12:15 PM
Chief Curator Margot Norton, who organized BAMPFA’s presentation of the exhibition, discusses the themes of Making Their Mark and offers insights and observations about selected artworks.

Included with admission.

7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, France, Japan,
2018,
(150 mins)
A gangster’s wife stands on her own in Jia Zhangke’s expansive narrative of empowerment and survival, inspired by Hong Kong gangster films and set against the tumultuous changes taking place in contemporary China. “Fierce, gripping, emotionally generous, and surprisingly funny” (Los Angeles Times).

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
  • Jia Zhangke
  • Iggy Cortez
    Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
6:30 PM
Two artists whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection—Aria Dean and Mary Weatherford—discuss the ways they approach and reenvision the genre of gestural abstraction.

Included with admission

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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, November 15, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
4:30 PM
Friday, November 15, 2024
4:30 PM
Neo Sora,
Japan,
2023,
(103 mins)
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. A concert film featuring just him and his piano.
Friday, November 15, 2024
7:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1965,
(96 mins)

Digital Restoration

Pagan rituals, demonology, folklore, and legend come to life in Sergei Parajanov’s hypnotic update of a Romeo and Juliet–like tale. “Astonishing . . . one of the supreme works of Soviet cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, November 16, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Saturday, November 16, 2024
1:00 PM
In this workshop, participants scratch abstract self-portraits to life using assorted collage materials on the black paper.

Included with admission

Series Workshops
4:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, November 16, 2024
4:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2008,
(107 mins)
A Sichuan industrial complex is razed to make way for upscale condos. “Blending fiction with documentary, [Jia Zhangke] brings huge stretches of long-repressed history to life on an intimate scale” (New Yorker).
7:00 PM
  • Film
Saturday, November 16, 2024
7:00 PM
Daniela Muñoz Barroso ,
Cuba,
2021,
(77 mins)
Despite significant hearing loss, Daniela Muñoz Barroso delves into the legacy of Mafifa, a pioneering Cuban conga bell player. This INSTAR Film Festival award-winning film uses archival and autoethnographic techniques to candidly and innovatively confront structural racism in postrevolutionary Cuba.
  • Daniela Muñoz Barroso
    Prerecorded Video Introduction
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, November 17, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, November 17, 2024
2:00 PM
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

2:00 PM
Sunday, November 17, 2024
2:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze,
USSR,
1985,
(82 mins)
Mixing regional history, political protest, and romantic drama, The Legend of Suram Fortress marked Sergei Parajanov’s return to cinema after enduring fifteen years of Soviet censorship.
  • Harsha Ram
    Introduction
    Harsha Ram is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.
4:00 PM
Sunday, November 17, 2024
4:00 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1967,
(105 mins)

Digital Restoration

Alain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant).
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
12:15 PM
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

7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
7:00 PM
(75 mins)
From an improbably epic single-shot journey across the varied designs of a hotel’s carpets, through an abandoned trainyard and a contemporary bowling alley, to mid-twentieth-century Kodachrome parades, Scott Stark traces, tracks, and transforms everyday surfaces with a variety of cinematic tools.
  • Scott Stark
    In Person
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7:00 PM
  • Film
Thursday, November 21, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Japan,
2004,
(142 mins)
A Vegas-style theme park in Beijing provides the lonely-planet setting for Jia Zhangke’s parable on China’s cultural renovation: fake landscapes, real problems. “Highly original, brilliantly conceived” (Tony Rayns).
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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, November 22, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
7:00 PM
Friday, November 22, 2024
7:00 PM
Dodo Abashidze, Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1988,
(78 mins)
The film recounts the adventures of a wandering minstrel. “In [Sergei] Parajanov’s own mystic tradition and symbolic language, the story by [Mikhail] Lermontov is transformed into real and invented, magnificent, all-eclipsing art” (Kora Zereteli, Munich Film Festival).
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  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, November 23, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Saturday, November 23, 2024
3:30 PM
Bahram Beyzaie,
Iran,
1974,
(146 mins)

Digital Restoration

Banned in Iran after the 1979 revolution, “this visually ravishing masterwork invents its own mythology to critique the sociopolitical conditions of 1970s Iran” (Film at Lincoln Center).
Saturday, November 23, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2020,
(112 mins)
Three of China’s greatest living authors share their stories and memories in Jia Zhangke’s tribute to storytelling and the connection between intellectual thought and working-class labor. “A spiritual depiction of China. Illuminating” (South China Morning Post).
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  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, November 24, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, November 24, 2024
2:00 PM
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

2:00 PM
Sunday, November 24, 2024
2:00 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(207 mins)
A ragtag group of samurai bands together to protect a village from bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.

Presented with a 10-minute intermission

3:00 PM
Sunday, November 24, 2024
3:00 PM
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant is an examination of the life cycle, performed by the physical theater and dance company inkBoat, with guests.

Included with admission

Series Performances
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
12:15 PM
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

Wednesday, November 27, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, November 29, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
3:00 PM
Friday, November 29, 2024
3:00 PM
Neo Sora,
Japan,
2023,
(103 mins)
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. A concert film featuring just him and his piano.
Friday, November 29, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
5:30 PM
Friday, November 29, 2024
5:30 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1967,
(105 mins)

Digital Restoration

Alain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant).
30
11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, November 30, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
3:30 PM
Saturday, November 30, 2024
3:30 PM
Victor Fleming,
United States,
1939,
(101 mins)

4K Digital Restoration
Recommended for ages 5 & up

What better activity for a holiday weekend than a trip down the Yellow Brick Road together with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Woodsman?
Saturday, November 30, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
6:00 PM
Saturday, November 30, 2024
6:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, France, Japan,
2015,
(131 mins)
“With audacious leaps of time and intimate echoes spanning a quarter century of intertwined lives, the director Jia Zhangke endows this romantic melodrama with vast geopolitical import” (Richard Brody, New Yorker).