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1 Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Special Print Mailer Art Sunday, March 1, 2026 Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Special Print Mailer Sign up by March 1, 2026, to receive a copy of the print mailing (limited edition; first come, first served) Occasioned by the exhibition Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, BAMPFA’s Art Lab digs into the museum’s Cha archives to create a special edition risograph print mailing. This is not an event; see description for details Sign Up to Receive a Copy Google Calendar ICS 11 AM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Sunday, March 1, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Sunday, March 1, 2026 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office Film In-Person Sunday, March 1, 2026 3:30 PM John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens, United States, 2025, (90 mins) This is a multifaceted portrait of John Lilly, the revolutionary scientist and psychonaut whose quest to understand the mysteries of the mind—via dolphins, isolation tanks, LSD, and more—is woven into the culture and counterculture of the twentieth century. 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 Courtney Stephens Michael Pollan Michael Pollan is a writer, teacher, and activist. His most recent book is A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness. Celia Ford Journalist Celia Ford writes about transformative AI and the creation of knowledge in the newsletter Transformer and holds a PhD in neuroscience from UC Berkeley. Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Altered States Film In-Person Sunday, March 1, 2026 7 PM Altered States Ken Russell, United States, 1980, (116 mins) A scientist tries to connect with the unadulterated, prehistoric root of human consciousness via psychotropic drugs and a tricked-out isolation tank. Preceded by Jerry Pantzer’s Primordium (1968). Courtney Stephens Introduction Courtney Stephens is a writer and director of nonfiction and experimental films, and codirector with Michael Almereyda of John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office. Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2	3	4 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Wednesday, March 4, 2026 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Occupation Diaries: Three Portraits Film In-Person Wednesday, March 4, 2026 7 PM Occupation Diaries: Three Portraits (85 mins) Jeffrey Skoller presents films dealing with memories of war and resistance, including his own portrait of a ninety-three-year-old’s account of his participation in the guerrilla resistance in Nazi-occupied Greece and Želimir Žilnik’s Uprising in Jazak.. In Conversation Jeffrey Skoller Jonathan Mackris Jonathan Mackris is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	5 All Day Free First Thursday Art Families Free Thursday, March 5, 2026 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 Art Thursday, March 5, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Thursday, March 5, 2026 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Trip Film In-Person Thursday, March 5, 2026 7 PM The Trip Roger Corman, United States, 1967, (103 mins) New 35mm Archival Print From a screenplay by Jack Nicholson, with psychedelic montages by Dennis Jakob, The Trip features Peter Fonda as a television commercial director who tries LSD to make sense of his life. New 35mm made by the Academy Film Archive with support from Roger Corman, Julie Corman and Jon Davison. With The Psychedelic Experience. Michael Silver Introduction Michael Silver is a Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, Neuroscience Department, and Director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	6 2 PM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, March 6, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Film Friday, March 6, 2026 7 PM Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1974, (93 mins) The unlikely love between a washerwoman in her sixties and a Moroccan guest worker twenty years her junior is the subject of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s bitter and touching homage to Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. 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 Fassbinder and the New German Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	7 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, March 7, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 3 PM Conversation: Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser with Catherine Wagner and Margot Norton Art Saturday, March 7, 2026 3 PM Conversation: Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser with Catherine Wagner and Margot Norton Tickets required. On the occasion of the exhibition Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection, Berkeley-based art enthusiasts Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser discuss the inspirations behind and formation of their collection with artist Catherine Wagner, in a conversation moderated by Margot Norton, BAMPFA Chief Curator. Gallery admission is included with ticket purchase. Series Talks & Conversations Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:45 PM The Postman Film Saturday, March 7, 2026 4:45 PM The Postman Dariush Mehrjui, Iran, 1972, 4K Digital Restoration Legendary filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui (The Cow) sets Georg Büchner’s notorious 1836 play Woyzeck in modern Iran. “Resembles in its ferocity nothing less than Chaplin or De Sica” (Amos Vogel). Series Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Embrace of the Serpent Film In-Person Saturday, March 7, 2026 7 PM Embrace of the Serpent Ciro Guerra , Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, 2015, (125 mins) Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last of his people, assists two scientists, forty years apart, in their quest to find the elusive psychedelic yakruna plant. “A lament for all the lost plants and peoples of the world” (Jessica Kiang, The Playlist). Dr. Sylvestre Quevedo Introduction Dr. Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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8 11 AM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Sunday, March 8, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Granulating Watercolors with Berkeley Painting Club Art Families Workshop Sunday, March 8, 2026 1 PM Granulating Watercolors with Berkeley Painting Club Ages 7 and up Explore granulating watercolors with artist Rene Smith of Berkeley Painting Club. Granulating watercolors are specially formulated with pigments that separate into different colors and textures when mixed with water. Make a painting and watch the magic happen. No experience required. Included with gallery admission. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Sunday, March 8, 2026 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4 PM The Merchant of Four Seasons Film Sunday, March 8, 2026 4 PM The Merchant of Four Seasons Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1971, (89 mins) The story of a hapless fruit peddler is told as “a virtuoso balance of soap opera, social comedy, irony, politics, farce, and brilliant ensemble acting” (New Yorker Films). Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM After the Long Rains Film In-Person Sunday, March 8, 2026 6:30 PM After the Long Rains Damien Hauser, Kenya, Switzerland, 2023, (91 mins) A young girl living along the scenic coast of Kenya breaks with tradition by learning to fish—all while dreaming of becoming an actress—in this tender coming-of-age drama, “an intimately realized portrait of village life” (Variety). Ida Na-Tei Introduction Ida Na-Tei is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar in the UC Berkeley Master of Design (Berkeley MDes) program. Series African Film Festival Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9	10	11 12:15 PM Curators' Tour: Margot Norton and Tausif Noor on Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection Art Tours Wednesday, March 11, 2026 12:15 PM Curators' Tour: Margot Norton and Tausif Noor on Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection Chief Curator Margot Norton and Curatorial Associate Tausif Noor discuss works in the exhibition and the close relationship between Rena Rosenwasser and Penny Cooper and many of the artists in their collection. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM Far from Home Film In-Person Wednesday, March 11, 2026 3:30 PM Far from Home Sohrab Shahid Saless, Germany, Iran, 1975, (91 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Also screens on Sunday, March 15 (with an introduction by Deniz Göktürk). A Turkish guest worker makes his way through a frigid Germany in this moving glimpse at exile, solitude, and migration. Director Sohrab Shahid Saless, a key figure in the early Iranian New Wave, lived in exile in Germany. Minoo Moallem Introduction Minoo Moallem is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Kill the Documentary Film Wednesday, March 11, 2026 7 PM Kill the Documentary (71 mins) A tribute to the late filmmaker Jill Godmilow, this program consists of Harun Farocki’s blistering demonstration of the murderous mechanisms of capitalism, Inextinguishable Fire (1969); Godmilow’s 1998 shot-for-shot remake of that film; and Joyce Wieland’s 1968 whimsical and profound antiwar movie. Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	12 7 PM Compensation Open Captioned Film In-Person Thursday, March 12, 2026 7 PM Compensation Zeinabu irene Davis, United States, 1999, (92 mins) Open captioned ASL interpretation Via two Chicago love stories set almost one hundred years apart, Compensation considers the ephemeral nature of love and life, while illustrating the enduring challenges of race and racism over the course of a century. In Conversation Zeinabu irene Davis Marc Arthur Chéry Marc Arthur Chéry is the writer of Compensation. Quinta Seward Quinta Seward is Coordinator of the Language Exchange Program, Student Learning Center, UC Berkeley. Series African Film Festival Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13 2 PM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, March 13, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Film Friday, March 13, 2026 7 PM The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1972, (124 mins) The well-crafted world of a famous designer is slowly unraveled by the treachery of love. “A haute-couture lesbian pajama party with silken, knowing dialogue” (David Denby, New Yorker). Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 1–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, March 14, 2026 1–7 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. Google Calendar ICS 2:30–3:30 PM ¡Roundtable Reading Bilingüe! / The One and Only Ivan / El único y incomparable Iván by Katherine Applegate Families Saturday, March 14, 2026 2:30–3:30 PM ¡Roundtable Reading Bilingüe! / The One and Only Ivan / El único y incomparable Iván by Katherine Applegate Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s) Ivan, an easygoing gorilla living in captivity, enjoys his life until a new friend helps him see things in a new light and inspires him to change. Iván, un gorila tranquilo que vive en cautiverio, disfruta de su vida hasta que una nueva amiga le ayuda a ver las cosas en otra perspectiva e inspira a cambiar. 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. Angela Loza Reading led by Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 11:30 AM–1 PM Gallery+Studio / Leaves, Flowers, and Popsicle Sticks Families Workshop Saturday, March 14, 2026 11:30 AM–1 PM Gallery+Studio / Leaves, Flowers, and Popsicle Sticks For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s) Inspired by the ethereal paintings of Zeinab Saleh, use a combination of printing and painting techniques to make your own layered composition. 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. 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 Google Calendar ICS 3 PM Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Luminous Procuress Film In-Person Saturday, March 14, 2026 3 PM Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Luminous Procuress (113 mins) With performances by the glamorous guests of a 1953 Hollywood “come as your madness” party, Kenneth Anger’s film is a trippy ritualistic bacchanal. With Steven Arnold’s delirious vision of consciousness unbounded by gender or desire, featuring The Cockettes. Maria Silk Introduction Maria Silk is a San Francisco–based artist working in choreography, performance, and video. Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Last Year at Marienbad Film In-Person Saturday, March 14, 2026 7 PM Last Year at Marienbad Alain Resnais, France, 1961, (94 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Alain Resnais’s elegant, labyrinthine puzzle, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Delphine Seyrig, features a very dissonant, challenging score by Francis Seyrig that is almost entirely played by solo pipe organ, matching the Baroque interior of the chateau setting. Mary Ann Smart Introduction Mary Ann Smart is a Professor in Musicology in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. Series Impulses and Abstractions: Sound and Music in 1960s French Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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15 11 AM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Sunday, March 15, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Far from Home Film In-Person Sunday, March 15, 2026 1 PM Far from Home Sohrab Shahid Saless, Germany, Iran, 1975, (91 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Also screens on Wednesday, March 11 (with an introduction by Minoo Moallem). A Turkish guest worker makes his way through a frigid Germany in this moving glimpse at exile, solitude, and migration. Director Sohrab Shahid Saless, a key figure in the early Iranian New Wave, lived in exile in Germany. Deniz Göktürk Introduction Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley. Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Sunday, March 15, 2026 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM Beware of a Holy Whore Film Sunday, March 15, 2026 3:30 PM Beware of a Holy Whore Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1971, (104 mins) “A key Fassbinder, both for its revealing self-portrait of the director, and for its position in his career as the watershed between his first nine films and the body of work that followed” (James Quandt, TIFF Cinematheque). Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16	17	18 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Wednesday, March 18, 2026 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM The Postman Film Wednesday, March 18, 2026 3:30 PM The Postman Dariush Mehrjui, Iran, 1972, 4K Digital Restoration Legendary filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui (The Cow) sets Georg Büchner’s notorious 1836 play Woyzeck in modern Iran. “Resembles in its ferocity nothing less than Chaplin or De Sica” (Amos Vogel). Series Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Life After Audio Description Open Captioned Film In-Person Wednesday, March 18, 2026 7 PM Life After Reid Davenport, United States, 2025, (99 mins) Les Blank Lecture Reid Davenport brings missing voices from the disability community to the ongoing debate about assisted dying and asks a probing question: Why is it acceptable to give disabled people the means to die, before supporting them in the chance to live? In Conversation Reid Davenport Les Blank Lecture Karen Nakamura Les Blank Lecture Karen Nakamura is the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and a Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	19 5 PM Lecture: Spencer Lee-Lenfield and Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Art Thursday, March 19, 2026 5 PM Lecture: Spencer Lee-Lenfield and Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley's Center for Korean Studies. Tickets required. In this illustrated presentation, Spencer Lee-Lenfield draws on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s own artwork and her family history to reconstruct how she understood the forces that shaped her life—and how we might contextualize her work across Korean and overseas Korean history. Gallery admission is included with ticket purchase. Series Talks & Conversations Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Film Thursday, March 19, 2026 7 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1968, (164 mins) The film 2001 employs a widescreen, epic format for metaphysical use. It was conceived less as a science fiction narrative than as an experience in space and time, re-creating the dimensions of outer space by taking us beyond deep focus into infinite focus. With Jordan Belson’s Allures. 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. Presented with a 7-min intermission. Series Psychedelia & Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	20 2 PM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, March 20, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Young Törless Film Friday, March 20, 2026 4:30 PM Young Törless Volker Schlöndorff, Germany, 1966, (87 mins) Young Törless launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics’ Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff. Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Modes of Cinematic Sound: Short Films Film In-Person Friday, March 20, 2026 7 PM Modes of Cinematic Sound: Short Films (121 mins) This eclectic program features shorts that range from a completely abstract exercise in combining image and sound (Images pour Debussy) to a commercial film advertising a new synthetic material (Le chant du styrène) to a political documentary about the 1961 Paris massacre of Algerian protesters (Octobre à Paris). Mary Ann Smart Introduction Mary Ann Smart is a Professor in Musicology in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. Series Impulses and Abstractions: Sound and Music in 1960s French Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, March 21, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Still Together Art Workshop Saturday, March 21, 2026 1 PM Still Together Still Together is a large-scale breathwork and reflection experience that transforms museum spaces into sanctuaries for collective calm. This ninety-minute program merges trauma-informed breathwork facilitation with reflection prompts accompanied by a live ambient soundscape, creating an immersive journey of individual insight and communal healing. Included with admission. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection Art Tours Saturday, March 21, 2026 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection Graduate students from the Departments of History of Art and Film & Media offer tours of Object Oriented on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM, and Sundays at 2 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Sun Ra: Do the Impossible Film In-Person Saturday, March 21, 2026 4 PM Sun Ra: Do the Impossible Christine Turner, United States, 2025, (84 mins) Closed captioned Christine Turner’s portrait of an artist as a cultural astronaut, boldly going where no one has gone before or since, explores the lasting legacy of Sun Ra’s mind-blowing music and philosophy. Ayize Jama-Everett Introduction Ayize Jama-Everett is an Afrofuturist novelist, filmmaker, educator, and therapist weaving speculative storytelling, community healing, and sacred inquiry across literature, film, pedagogy, and psyche Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Space Is the Place Film In-Person Saturday, March 21, 2026 7 PM Space Is the Place John Coney, United States, 1974, (85 mins) Inspired by Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley course The Black Man in the Cosmosand filmed around the Bay Area, Space Is the Place “takes to heart Sun Ra’s cosmic philosophy of music as a liberating force” (Steve Seid). Ayize Jama-Everett Introduction Ayize Jama-Everett is an Afrofuturist novelist, filmmaker, educator, and therapist weaving speculative storytelling, community healing, and sacred inquiry across literature, film, pedagogy, and psyche Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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22 11 AM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Sunday, March 22, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Sunday, March 22, 2026 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Cléo from 5 to 7 Film In-Person Sunday, March 22, 2026 2 PM Cléo from 5 to 7 Agnès Varda, France, 1962, (90 mins) Shot entirely on the streets of Paris, Cléo from 5 to 7 chronicles two hours in the life of a pop star. A classic work of the French New Wave with a score by Michel Legrand, with some lyrics by Agnès Varda herself. Jeff Fort Introduction Jeff Fort is an Associate Professor of French at UC Davis. Series Impulses and Abstractions: Sound and Music in 1960s French Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Signs of Life Film In-Person Sunday, March 22, 2026 4:30 PM Signs of Life Werner Herzog, Germany, 1968, (90 mins) Werner Herzog’s breakthrough film garnered a special jury award at the Berlinale and this appraisal at the New York Film Festival: “A strange, intense work . . . influenced by Borges and Kafka. The hypnotic probing of cruelty, indifference, and unspoken horrors becomes a metaphysical comment on man and his ideologies.” Deniz Göktürk Introduction Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley. Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23	24	25 12:15 PM Curator's Tour: Tausif Noor on Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection Art Tours Wednesday, March 25, 2026 12:15 PM Curator's Tour: Tausif Noor on Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection Curatorial Associate Tausif Noor guides viewers through the themes of the exhibition. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Holy Mountain Film In-Person Wednesday, March 25, 2026 7 PM The Holy Mountain Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico, 1973, (128 mins) Also screens on Sunday, May 10 (without an introduction). One man’s trip toward enlightened consciousness, The Holy Mountain’s deeply sacrilegious and antimilitaristic imagery remains as beautiful and intriguing today as when it first scandalized audiences at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. With Bruce Conner’s Looking for Mushrooms. Jen Holmberg Introduction Jen Holmberg is a neuroscience PhD student conducting psilocybin research at UC Berkeley with the Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26 6:30 PM California Live!: Alone in the Algorithm: Human Connection in the Age of AI Thursday, March 26, 2026 6:30 PM California Live!: Alone in the Algorithm: Human Connection in the Age of AI Copresented by California magazine and the Cal Alumni Association Join California magazine’s Pat Joseph in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor Jodi Halpern and renowned technologist Jaron Lanier to explore the seductions and dangers of artificial intelligence against the backdrop of America’s deepening loneliness epidemic. General admission: $42.99 CAA and BAMPFA members: $32.49 Come early and enjoy complimentary admission to the galleries. Series Talks & Conversations Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27 2 PM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, March 27, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Film Friday, March 27, 2026 7 PM The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, 1975, (106 mins) “Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta’s powerful adaptation of Heinrich Böll’s novel is a stinging commentary on state power, individual freedom, and media manipulation—as relevant today as on the day of its release in 1975” (Janus Films). Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28 11 AM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, March 28, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Grains of Perception Film In-Person Saturday, March 28, 2026 4 PM Grains of Perception (84 mins) Nathaniel Dorsky reveals a world alive with the organic deterioration of film itself, in outdated, unexposed, processed 16mm film stock, the essence of cinema in its before-image, preconceptual purity. Bruce Baillie explores cinema and consciousness in the episodic self-portrait Quick Billy. Nathaniel Dorsky In Person Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Fear of Fear Film Saturday, March 28, 2026 7 PM Fear of Fear Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1975, (88 mins) Margit Carstensen portrays a young mother in the grip of anxiety. Vincent Canby called this small film “perfectly sculpted . . . a distillation of reality—a dream in which everything counts” (New York Times). 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29 11 AM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Sunday, March 29, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Bashu, the Little Stranger Film Sunday, March 29, 2026 1 PM Bashu, the Little Stranger Bahram Beyzaie, Iran, 1986, (120 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A young war orphan along the Iran/Iraq border somehow escapes to northern Iran in this powerful work, cited in a 1999 Iranian critics poll as the greatest Iranian film of all time. Admirers include Amir Naderi and Jafar Panahi. Series Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Sunday, March 29, 2026 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Paris Belongs to Us Film In-Person Sunday, March 29, 2026 4 PM Paris Belongs to Us Jacques Rivette, France, 1961, (141 mins) One of the seminal films of the French New Wave, with cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and others, this is a Langian thriller updated to 1960 in a brilliantly realized Paris. “A masterpiece of Left Bank paranoia” (Village Voice). Mary Ann Smart Introduction Mary Ann Smart is a Professor in Musicology in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. Series Impulses and Abstractions: Sound and Music in 1960s French Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30	31	1 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Wednesday, April 1, 2026 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Tree of Authenticity Film In-Person Wednesday, April 1, 2026 7 PM The Tree of Authenticity Sammy Baloji, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025, (89 mins) The Tree of Authenticity recounts the stigma of ecological destruction that began at the time of colonization through the voices of two scientists who worked at Yangambi INERA Research Station in the Congo between 1910 and 1950: Paul Panda Farnana and Abiron Beirnaert. Victor Ochieng Introduction Victor Ochieng is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Series Documentary Voices Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 11 AM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Thursday, April 2, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS All Day Free First Thursday Art Families Free Thursday, April 2, 2026 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 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Thursday, April 2, 2026 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Passion of Joan of Arc Film In-Person Performance Thursday, April 2, 2026 7 PM The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, France, 1928, (81 mins) 35mm Archival Print Tracing the trial and execution of Joan of Arc, The Passion of Joan of Arc emphasizes the raw emotion of its actors through Carl Theodor Dreyer’s signature austere cinematography, stark sets, and extreme close-up photography of its lead actors. Tausif Noor Introduction Tausif Noor is the Curatorial Associate at BAMPFA. Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Sentimental Education: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at the Pacific Film Archive Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3 2 PM-7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, April 3, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Yesterday Girl Film In-Person Friday, April 3, 2026 4:30 PM Yesterday Girl Alexander Kluge, Germany, 1966, (88 mins) Protagonist Anita G. (played by Alexandra Kluge, the director’s sister) is the face of the 1960s, typical of a generation that had grown up since World War II, hovering on the edge of delinquency and frustrated by the pettiness of bourgeois society. Nicholas Baer Introduction Nicholas Baer is an Associate Professor of German at UC Berkeley. Series Fassbinder and the New German Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM A Scanner Darkly Film In-Person Friday, April 3, 2026 7 PM A Scanner Darkly Richard Linklater, United States, 2006, (108 mins) Richard Linklater’s woozy rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel is a cop story infused with metaphysical questions about addiction, the nature of the mind and the self, and their destruction, embedded in a corporate surveillance thriller. With Coffee (1977) by Dorothy Wiley. Erik Davis Introduction Erik Davis is a writer, scholar, journalist, and public speaker whose writings range from rock criticism to cultural analysis to esoteric explorations of California’s history. Series Psychedelia & Cinema Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, April 4, 2026 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. Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Conversation: Cathy Park Hong, Brandon Shimoda, and Divya Victor Art Reading Saturday, April 4, 2026 1:30 PM Conversation: Cathy Park Hong, Brandon Shimoda, and Divya Victor Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Center for Korean Studies. Community partnership support provided by GYOPO. Tickets required. Drawing on the radical generosity of Cha's multidisciplinary practice, authors Brandon Shimoda, Divya Victor, and Cathy Park Hong discuss the lasting impact of Cha’s work, as well as their own approaches to writing in relation to such themes as imperialism, displacement, exile, and subjectivity. Gallery admission is included with ticket purchase. Series Talks & Conversations Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Furu Film In-Person Saturday, April 4, 2026 4 PM Furu Fatou Cissé, Mali, 2024, (67 mins) This powerful social drama from director Fatou Cissé, daughter of legendary Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, explores the impact of forced marriage on young women in Mali. A poignant and urgent reflection on gender, autonomy, and resistance within a patriarchal society. Pechuqui Laurata Introduction Pechuqui Laurata is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Series African Film Festival Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM La ciénaga Film In-Person Saturday, April 4, 2026 6:30 PM La ciénaga Lucrecia Martel, Argentina, 2001, (101 mins) Two extended families suffer through a heat wave in Martel’s award-winning portrayal of social inertia, class, and racial dynamics. “Every shot is dense with life, yet the movie is highly focused, a small masterpiece” (Meredith Brody, Chicago Reader). Luis Madrigal Introduction Luis Madrigal is a Lecturer in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Lucrecia Martel: Un destino común Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS