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Sunday, April 3

Sunday, April 3, 2016
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Artmaking

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Sunday, April 3, 2016
2 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
2 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
1998,
(105 mins)

English-language version

Recommended for ages 5 & up

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

The thirteen-year-old witch Kiki leaves home and discovers a soaring independence as she masters her mother’s broom.
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Sunday, April 3, 2016
4:30 PM
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Turkey,
1997,
(102 mins)
Ceylan’s feature debut is a wistful look at village life and the structures that bind communities and family together, based on an autobiographical story by the director’s sister. With short Cocoon.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
7 PM
Charles Ferguson,
United States,
2007,
(102 mins)
Charles Ferguson in person Going behind the scenes of the American occupation of Iraq, with interviews with key military officials and politicians, this is “an absolutely vital film, exacting, enraging, and revelatory” (NY Times).
  • Charles Ferguson
    In Person

Monday, April 4

Tuesday, April 5

Wednesday, April 6

Wednesday, April 6, 2016
12 PM

In Conversation with Nicholas de Monchaux

Admission free. Please note that a ticket is required to visit the galleries.
Series Big Ideas
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
3:10 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1948,
(170 mins)

Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.

Lecture by Susan Oxtoby. Response by Nathaniel Dorsky A POW comes home to discover that his wife has prostituted herself to pay their son’s hospital bills. “Ozu brilliantly and honestly confronts the postwar moment” (Joan Mellen).
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50
  • Susan Oxtoby
    The Early Films of Yasujiro Ozu
    BAMPFA Senior Film Curator
  • Nathaniel Dorsky
    Postscreening Response
    Filmmaker
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
7 PM
Eduardo Coutinho,
Brazil,
2002,
(110 mins)
Coutinho spends a week listening to tenants in an enormous lower-middle-class Rio de Janeiro apartment building and captures the stories of many colorful lives.

Thursday, April 7

Thursday, April 7, 2016
12:15 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
6 PM

BAMPFA Curator's Circle Event

Open only to members of the BAMPFA Curator’s Circle
Admission free
  • Kathy Geritz
    BAMPFA Film Curator Kathy Geritz focuses on international documentary, avant-garde, and independent film. 
Thursday, April 7, 2016
6-8 PM
Join artist Travis Meinolf for  a series of participatory, site-based weaving workshops using backstrap looms that physically connect the weaver to the new BAMPFA building. 
Thursday, April 7, 2016
6-9 PM

Drop-in Artmaking

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Thursday, April 7, 2016
7 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1928,
(96 mins)
Epstein’s poetic variation on motifs from Edgar Allan Poe relates the story of a painter whose obsessive desire to give life to his images has sinister consequences. With short La glace à trois faces.
Series Jean Epstein
Thursday, April 7, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free

Friday, April 8

Friday, April 8, 2016
6-9 PM

Drop-in Artmaking

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Friday, April 8, 2016
6:30 PM
Radu Muntean,
France, Germany, Romania, Sweden,
2015,
(93 mins)

East Bay Premiere!

"An expertly executed slow-burn thriller reminiscent of Hitchcock’s Rear Window.”—TIFF
Friday, April 8, 2016
8:30 PM
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Turkey,
2006,
(101 mins)
The insecurities of the modern male get a fitting dissection in Ceylan’s study of a disintegrating relationship between a self-centered academic and a television producer. “Subtle, substantial, and sublimely beautiful” (Time Out London).
Friday, April 8, 2016
8–10 PM

Copresented by the BAMPFA Student Committee and Superb

Free admission. For Cal students only. Current Cal ID required.

Saturday, April 9

Saturday, April 9, 2016
11:30 AM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult

Assemble an art exhibition from your imagination and make a mini museum, inspired by Marcel Duchamp. With artist Raphael Noz.
Family Event
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult. Sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session you wish to attend. Limited to 12 kids.
  • Raphael Noz
    With artist Raphael Noz
    Artist and educator Raphael Noz holds an MS degree in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Series Family Fare
Saturday, April 9, 2016
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Artmaking

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Saturday, April 9, 2016
1 PM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult

Assemble an art exhibition from your imagination and make a mini museum, inspired by Marcel Duchamp. With artist Raphael Noz.
Family Event
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult. Sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session you wish to attend. Limited to 12 kids.
  • Raphael Noz
    With artist Raphael Noz
    Artist and educator Raphael Noz holds an MS degree in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Series Family Fare
Saturday, April 9, 2016
2 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
Saturday, April 9, 2016
6 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1925,
(104 mins)

Archival Print!

Judith Rosenberg on piano A woman whose lover and son are chronic gamblers must overcome the hypocrisy of wealth and the corruptions of money in Epstein’s melodrama, starring the great Russian actress Nathalia Lissenko.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    on piano
Series Jean Epstein
Saturday, April 9, 2016
8:15 PM
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Turkey,
1999,
(130 mins)
Ceylan’s second film—in some ways a “making of” his first—tells the story of a filmmaker who returns to the village of his childhood to scout locations for a new project.