Week of February 16, 2025

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Sunday, February 16

Sunday, February 16, 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, February 16, 2025
1:00 PM
Béla Tarr,
Germany, Hungary, Switzerland,
1994,
(432 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Béla Tarr’s extraordinary seven-and-a-half-hour epic Sátántangó. “Set on an entropic collective farm during the last years of Hungarian Communism, it’s a mordant, characteristically Eastern European tale of hapless peasants and charismatic swindlers. . . . Despair has never been more voluptuously precise” (Village Voice).

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.

Shown with two intermissions, 20 mins and 40 mins.

Special admission: General: $30; BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $20

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Sunday, February 16, 2025
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

Monday, February 17

Tuesday, February 18

Wednesday, February 19

Wednesday, February 19, 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, February 19, 2025
7:00 PM
Dana Claxton,
Canada,
2023,
(111 mins)
Drawing from and expanding on James Luna’s ISHI: The Archive Performance, Dana Claxton and members of the Ishi Collective interrogate the legacy of colonial museum practices through the tragic story of the last known survivor of the Yahi people.
  • Dmitri Brown
    Introduction
    Dmitri Brown is a historian focusing on modern Native American and Indigenous experiences and Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley.

Thursday, February 20

Thursday, February 20, 2025
7:00 PM
Paul Schneider,
United States,
1986,
(86 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Pamela Adlon (Better Things) stars in this long-unavailable, whimsical 1980s teen comedy about a girl whose wish to become a boy is fulfilled overnight.

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
  • Jenni Olson
    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
  • Maia Kobabe
    Maia Kobabe is the author of the award-winning graphic memoir, Gender Queer, which was the most challenged book in the United States in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
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Friday, February 21

Friday, February 21, 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, February 21, 2025
4:30 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1931,
(88 mins)
A gripping disaster film and a stirring plea for international cooperation, Kameradschaft cemented G. W. Pabst’s status as one of the most morally engaged and formally dexterous filmmakers of his time.
Friday, February 21, 2025
7:00 PM
Nikita Mikhalkov,
Italy, USSR,
1987,
(118 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

In Dark Eyes—inspired by four Anton Chekhov stories, but in style and tone owing as much to Federico Fellini as it does to Russian literature—Marcello Mastroianni delivers an award-winning performance.

Saturday, February 22

Saturday, February 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
Saturday, February 22, 2025
3:30 PM
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats,
France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland,
2001,
(85 mins)

Recommended for ages 7 & up
English-language version 

This documentary “provides such an intense vicarious experience of being a flapping airborne creature . . . that you leave the theater feeling like an honorary member of another species” (New York Times).
Saturday, February 22, 2025
6:30 PM
Jane Campion,
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States,
2021,
(126 mins)

Closed Captioned

From the rawhide to the stark reverberance of footsteps and banjo plucks, everything in The Power of the Dog works in concert to uncover the simmering shame and resentment seated within the deep histories of a Wyoming family ranch.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.