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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
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Sunday, June 1, 2025
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
12 PM
  • Art
  • Performance
  • Workshop
Sunday, June 1, 2025
12 PM

Space is limited; advance tickets required

Artist David Horvitz collaborates with chef Leif Hedendal in this celebration of food culture and sound art.

Space is limited; advance tickets required (more information coming soon)

Series Performances
1 PM
  • Art
  • Performance
  • Workshop
Sunday, June 1, 2025
1 PM

Space is limited; advance tickets required

Artist David Horvitz collaborates with chef Leif Hedendal in this celebration of food culture and sound art.

Space is limited; advance tickets required (more information coming soon)

Series Performances
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
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

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All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, June 5, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Thursday, June 5, 2025
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
Thursday, June 5, 2025
1:15 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

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2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, June 6, 2025
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, June 6, 2025
4:30 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required

Create your own scent in this hands-on experimental perfume workshop led by olfactory artist and researcher Arianna Khmelniuk (Zapah Lab). Go beyond basic blending and explore conceptual scent design. All levels are welcome.

Space is limited; RSVP required. 

RSVP for Fri / 6.6

RSVP for Sat / 6.7

Series Workshops
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, June 6, 2025
7 PM
Michael Curtiz,
United States,
1950,
(97 mins)

35mm Archival Print

The Breaking Point is film noir at its best, with outstanding performances by the cast, especially Phyllis Thaxter as a wife who keeps her family together on a shoestring budget despite the stubbornness of her husband (John Garfield).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • Imogen Sara Smith
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.
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Saturday, June 7, 2025
1–7 PM

For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff are invited to enjoy early access to the exhibition Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.

For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Saturday, June 7, 2025
1 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required

Create your own scent in this hands-on experimental perfume workshop led by olfactory artist and researcher Arianna Khmelniuk (Zapah Lab). Go beyond basic blending and explore conceptual scent design. All levels are welcome.

Space is limited; RSVP required. 

RSVP for Fri / 6.6

RSVP for Sat / 6.7

Series Workshops
1 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, June 7, 2025
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
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, June 7, 2025
1 PM–7 PM
BAMPFA will open late on Saturday, June 7. Museum hours: 1 PM–7PM.
4:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, June 7, 2025
4:30 PM
Ida Lupino,
United States,
1953,
(71 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Two fishing buddies pick up a hitchhiker on their way to Baja, with potentially deadly results, in Ida Lupino’s high-tension thriller. Photographed by the great noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • Imogen Sara Smith
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, June 7, 2025
7 PM
Lewis Allen,
United States,
1947,
(96 mins)
Film noir expert Eddie Muller called Desert Fury “the gayest movie ever made in Hollywood’s Golden Era.” Filmed in glorious Technicolor with costume design by Edith Head.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • Imogen Sara Smith
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, June 8, 2025
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, June 8, 2025
11 AM–7 PM

Free admission all day

Join us for the opening day of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California with free gallery admission for all!
Free gallery admission
11:30 AM–2 PM
Sunday, June 8, 2025
11:30 AM–2 PM
Drop in and make art in BAMPFA’s Crane Forum space, next to the Art Wall. Materials will be provided.
Sunday, June 8, 2025
2:30 PM
To celebrate the opening of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau offers a brief overview of the exhibition and shares the journey of organizing the show from over three thousand quilts in the museum collection.
4 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, June 8, 2025
4 PM
Raoul Walsh,
United States,
1947,
(101 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Raoul Walsh’s favorite of his Westerns, Pursued is a fated family tragedy set under cinematographer James Wong Howe’s oppressive clouds and menacing cliffs. Starring Robert Mitchum.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • Imogen Sara Smith
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Imogen Sara Smith is a film critic and historian based in New York City and the author of two books, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.
7 PM
  • Closed Captioned
  • Film
Sunday, June 8, 2025
7 PM
Vivien Hillgrove,
United States,
2025,
(83 mins)

Closed Captioned
Audio Description

When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
12:15 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, June 12, 2025
7 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1959,
(99 mins)
Jean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • Laura Truffaut
    Introduction
    Laura Truffaut is the oldest daughter of director François Truffaut. Based in Berkeley, she regularly speaks about her father’s work at international cinematheques.
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2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, June 13, 2025
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 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, June 13, 2025
7 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1973,
(112 mins)
Updating Raymond Chandler’s noir pulp for the psychedelic 1970s, Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman pitch a bewildered and bereft Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) into a murder mystery involving a sun-dried siren (Nina van Pallandt) and her washed-out Ernest Hemingway-esque author husband (Sterling Hayden).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11:00 AM.

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  • David Thomson
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including ​​The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and The Big Sleep (BFI Film Classics).
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
2:30–3:30 PM

Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s)

At Roundtable Reading, young readers read aloud to one another from the opening pages of a good book. This month, enjoy the further adventures of Beverly Cleary’s mouse with a motorcycle as Ralph S. Mouse runs away from his hotel home into the wider world of summer camp.
  • Linda Artel
    Reading led by
    Former BAMPFA children’s film festival programmer
Series Family Events
11:30 AM–1 PM
Saturday, June 14, 2025
11:30 AM–1 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Learn how fabrics migrate from one use to another and end up as quilts, and make a unique quilt square of your own.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child.

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • Mary Lawrence
    Workshop led by
Series Family Events
1 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, June 14, 2025
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
Saturday, June 14, 2025
2 PM
BAMPFA is pleased to announce Dr. Yasufumi Nakamori as BAMPFA’s 2025 endowed Lijin Lecturer. His presentation connects two important aspects of the museum’s collection--contemporary and pre-modern art from Asia—and promises to cast new light on the art of Martin Wong (1946-1999).

Included with gallery admission

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, June 14, 2025
7 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1943,
(108 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Joseph Cotten is the urbane Uncle Charlie, hiding out in the small-town home of his sister Emma in this blend of satire and mystery. Is Uncle Charlie the Merry Widow Killer hunted by the police, or is he as innocent as he claims?

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • David Thomson
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film.
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, June 15, 2025
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, June 15, 2025
2 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
5 PM
(66 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Alive with satire, irony, and rhythm, experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner’s collage films have influenced countless artists and captivated viewers. His work constitutes a wry, devastating portrait of America. This program of his short films is drawn from the BAMPFA collection.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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7 PM
  • Film
Sunday, June 15, 2025
7 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1970,
(116 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, M*A*S*H put Robert Altman on the map. The anti-everything episodic war comedy follows the antics of a trio of surgeons in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11:00 AM.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
12:15 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
7 PM
  • Film
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
7 PM
Maura Delpero,
Italy,
2024,
(119 mins)

East Bay Premiere
Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival

The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, June 19, 2025
7 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1971,
(121 mins)
Far from the open plains of the classic Western, Robert Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond created a radical and ravishing vision of the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest, capturing the sodden grit of frontier life with impressive authenticity.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • David Thomson
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including ​​The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
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2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, June 20, 2025
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 PM
Friday, June 20, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1962,
(95 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Lyrical and brutal by turns, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature tells of a child’s experiences during World War II. “Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one” (Time Out).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, June 21, 2025
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
4 PM
  • Closed Captioned
  • Film
Saturday, June 21, 2025
4 PM
Vivien Hillgrove,
United States,
2025,
(83 mins)

Closed Captioned
Audio Description

When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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5 PM
Saturday, June 21, 2025
5 PM
Black Life presents a multimedia performance by Star Amerasu featuring live singing, dancing, video presentation, and a special TRANSmission from outer space. Amerasu’s work as a singer-songwriter and transdisciplinary artist is a heady, beat-driven pastiche that pulls equally from influences like the tenderness of early Björk, queer and trans history, meme culture, and apocalyptic AI discourse.

Included with gallery admission

Series Black Life
Saturday, June 21, 2025
7 PM
Max Ophuls,
United States,
1949,
(82 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Housewife Joan Bennett must cope with a killing, blackmail, and the everyday pressures of domesticity in this stunning suburban noir. “An underrated gem” (Phillip Lopate).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, June 22, 2025
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, June 22, 2025
2 PM
BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau shares in-depth stories of individual quilts in the exhibition that illuminate the bonds of love, kinship, commemoration, and innovative artistry entwined in their making.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
4:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1961,
(108 mins)
A student film in name only, The Steamroller and the Violin holds the seeds of Andrei Tarkovsky’s future career. Paired with Voyage in Time, a visual diary of Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra’s travels across Lecce, Tuscany, and the Amalfi Coast while location scouting for Nostalghia. 

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, June 22, 2025
7 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1977,
(124 mins)
Young Pinky (Sissy Spacek) finds herself in the thrall of her extroverted but unpopular roommate, Millie (Shelley Duvall), in this exploration of identities fractured and fused. “3 Women is a film whose provocative schizophrenia is both gripping and contagious” (Kier-La Janisse).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Weefur is an educator at Stanford University and a founding member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic.
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7 PM
  • Film
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
7 PM
Edgar G. Ulmer,
United States,
1945,
(68 mins)

Digital Restoration

This 2018 restoration is the best that Detour has looked or sounded for generations. Despite severe restrictions of time and budget, Edgar G. Ulmer and his collaborators were able to craft one of the best and purest film noirs of all time.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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7 PM
Thursday, June 26, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1966,
(183 mins)

Digital Restoration

Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of a fifteenth-century Russian icon painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice). “The best arthouse film of all time” (The Guardian).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, June 27, 2025
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, June 27, 2025
7 PM
(68 mins)
Alive with satire, irony, and rhythm, experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner’s collage films have influenced countless artists and captivated viewers. His work constitutes a wry, devastating portrait of America. This program of his short films is drawn from the BAMPFA collection.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

Not yet a member? Join today.

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12–4 PM
Saturday, June 28, 2025
12–4 PM

Advance registration required

Preserve your African American family history with the African American Quilt Documentation Study Group. Bring in your family quilt to be documented in the national African American Quilt Registry.

Free admission; advance registration required. Email AFAMQUILTDOC@gmail.com to sign up.

11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, June 28, 2025
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, June 28, 2025
4 PM
Rachel Elizabeth Seed,
United States,
2024,
(87 mins)

Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards

A New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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6 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, June 28, 2025
6 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1993,
(183 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Short Cuts is a Los Angeles–set, star-studded mosaic of unhappy families in situations that are tragic, comic, and commonplace. “The movie has the intensity of an epic, only its subject matter is everyday life” (Julie Salamon, Wall Street Journal).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • David Thomson
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books on cinema, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
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  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, June 29, 2025
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
1 PM
Sunday, June 29, 2025
1 PM
Discover the joy of working with fabric and thread and create your own miniature quilt!
Series Workshops
Sunday, June 29, 2025
2 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
5 PM
  • Film
Sunday, June 29, 2025
5 PM
Él
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1953,
(93 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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7 PM
  • Film
Sunday, June 29, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1972,
(167 mins)

Digital Restoration

In Andrei Tarkovsky’s influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanisław Lem, “the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own” (Village Voice).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
12:15 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
7 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1948,
(95 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Nicholas Ray’s lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents. It influenced films from Jean Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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  • David Thomson
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film.
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All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, July 3, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Thursday, July 3, 2025
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
Thursday, July 3, 2025
1:15 PM
BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau shares in-depth stories of individual quilts in the exhibition that illuminate the bonds of love, kinship, commemoration, and innovative artistry entwined in their making.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
7 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1960,
(111 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Essential Mikio Naruse. “An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess’s attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder and [Douglas] Sirk” (Village Voice).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, July 4, 2025
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
5 PM
  • Film
Friday, July 4, 2025
5 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1975,
(160 mins)
As the bicentennial of American independence looms, the titular “Country Music Capital of the World” becomes an unholy soup of politics, art, patriotism, religion, and money—showbiz, America. Buoyed by a cast of dozens, Nashville “is a satire, a comedy, a musical, a melodrama” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, July 5, 2025
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
4:30 PM
Saturday, July 5, 2025
4:30 PM
John M. Stahl,
United States,
1945,
(110 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Intoxicating Gene Tierney (Laura) is the femme fatale par excellence in this astounding Technicolor noir classic, now beautifully restored, about a young novelist (Cornel Wilde) whose new bride’s extreme jealousy plunges their nuptial heaven into hellish depths of psychic disorder.

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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7 PM
  • Film
Saturday, July 5, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1975,
(106 mins)
Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).

Tickets for members go on sale Wednesday, May 7 at 11 AM.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM.

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