Sunday, March 1
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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.
Sunday, March 1, 2026
2 PM
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
Sunday, March 1, 2026
3:30 PM
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
In Conversation
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Courtney Stephens
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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
Sunday, March 1, 2026
7 PM
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).
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Courtney Stephens
IntroductionCourtney 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
Monday, March 2
Tuesday, March 3
Wednesday, March 4
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
12:15 PM
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
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
7 PM
(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
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Jeffrey Skoller
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Jonathan Mackris
Jonathan Mackris is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Documentary Voices
Thursday, March 5
Thursday, March 5, 2026
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.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
1:15 PM
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
Thursday, March 5, 2026
7 PM
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.
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Michael Silver
IntroductionMichael 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
Thursday, March 5, 2026
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Friday, March 6
Friday, March 6, 2026
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.
Friday, March 6, 2026
7 PM
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
Saturday, March 7
Saturday, March 7, 2026
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.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
3 PM
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
Saturday, March 7, 2026
4:45 PM
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).
Saturday, March 7, 2026
7 PM
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).
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Dr. Sylvestre Quevedo
IntroductionDr.
Series
Psychedelia & Cinema
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