Week of January 19, 2025

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Sunday, January 19

Sunday, January 19, 2025
11 AM–5 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, January 19, 2025
1:30 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1929,
(141 mins)
Daring and stylish, Pandora's Box is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks and a testament to Louise Brooks’s dazzling individuality as the showgirl Lulu.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Sunday, January 19, 2025
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

Sunday, January 19, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
5:00 PM
Cheryl Dunye,
United States,
2001,
(97 mins)

Free Admission

Yolanda Ross stars as a tough young butch in this terrific, rarely seen women’s prison drama from Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman).

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4:00 PM.

In Conversation
  • Cheryl Dunye
  • Allegra Madsen
    Allegra Madsen is the Executive Director at Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest and longest-running queer film festival in the world.
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Wednesday, January 22

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
7:00 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(175 mins)
A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.

Thursday, January 23

Thursday, January 23, 2025
7:00 PM
Sidney Poitier,
United States,
1972,
(102 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Sidney Poitier’s directorial debut, Buck and the Preacher, employs the genre’s traditional narratives to challenge notions of freedom for African Americans in the post–Civil War West as they face relentless pursuit by racist bounty hunters.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.

Friday, January 24

Friday, January 24, 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, January 24, 2025
3:00 PM
Cédric Kahn,
France,
2023,
(115 mins)
New York Times Critic’s Pick: “An electrifying courtroom drama” that delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman. The film communicates so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.
Friday, January 24, 2025
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1929,
(113 mins)
Like much of G. W. Pabst’s best work, Diary of a Lost Girl was heavily cut by the censors. In the restored version, not only is the play of money and desire made explicit, but a comic spirit entirely missing from the censored versions emerges.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano

Saturday, January 25

Saturday, January 25, 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, January 25, 2025
2:00 PM

This conversation will be followed by a tour of the exhibition at 3:30 PM.

Featuring artist Barbara Kasten whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, this discussion explores the innovative ways artists have transformed the language of painting as technologies evolve. Barbara Kasten will be joined in conversation by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Gloria Sutton, Associate professor of Contemporary Art History and New Media at Northeastern University and catalogue contributor for Making Their Mark.

Included with gallery admission. RSVP recommended.

Saturday, January 25, 2025
7:00 PM
John Ford,
United States,
1956,
(119 mins)
An essential reflection of American myths and prejudices that have yet to be overcome, starring John Wayne as a racist confederate veteran searching for his kidnapped niece.
  • Leila Weefur
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.