Sunday, May 8
Sunday, May 8, 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, May 8, 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.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
Sunday, May 8, 2016
6 PM
Alexander Sokurov,
Albania, France, Germany, Netherlands,
2015,
(87 mins)
East Bay Premiere!
The Russian master Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Alexandra, Faust) returns with a portrait of the Louvre that extends into a transcendent commentary on art, life, and power. “A meditation on art and humanity” (The Guardian).
Sunday, May 8, 2016
8 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1963,
(91 mins)
Imported Print!
Jo Shishido plays a disgraced ex-cop who pits two yakuza gangs against each other to avenge the death of a fellow officer.
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
Monday, May 9
Tuesday, May 10
Wednesday, May 11
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
12 PM
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
3:10 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
1967,
(170 mins)
Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.
Lecture by Tom Vick
Suzuki’s absurdist gangster thriller about an assassin who gets aroused by the smell of rice seems as wildly perverse now as it did in 1967, and has influenced filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to John Woo.
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; Seniors, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50
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Tom Vick
The Films of Seijun SuzukiCurator of film at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1963,
(92 mins)
Imported Print!
Introduction & Booksigning by Tom Vick
A fearsome yakuza bodyguard (Akira Kobayashi) is torn between defending his boss against a rival gang leader and his obsession with Tatsuko, a femme fatale who reappears from his past.
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Tom Vick
Introduction & BooksigningTom Vick is curator of film at the Freer | Sacker, Smithsonian Institution, and author of Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki.
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
7:30 PM
A newly commissioned mixed-media performance work by Otobong Nkanga, presented as part of MATRIX 260.
Included with admission
Series
Otobong Nkanga / MATRIX 260
Thursday, May 12
Thursday, May 12, 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.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
Thursday, May 12, 2016
6 PM
A conversation with writer Chris Jennings, author of the recently released Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism.
Included with admission
Thursday, May 12, 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, May 12, 2016
7:30 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1966,
(83 mins)
Digital Restoration!
Introduction by Tom Vick (May 12 screening only)
Tasked with making a vehicle for actor/singer Tetsuya Watari, Suzuki concocted this crazy yarn about a reformed yakuza on the run from his former comrades. “One of the most brilliant genre movies ever made” (Tony Rayns).
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Tom Vick
IntroductionTom Vick is curator of film at the Freer | Sacker, Smithsonian Institution, and author of Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki.
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
Friday, May 13
Friday, May 13, 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, May 13, 2016
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1976,
(176 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A projector repairman and a depressed young man begin a road trip across the East and West German borders in Wender’s major landmark of the New German Cinema.
Saturday, May 14
Saturday, May 14, 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, May 14, 2016
11:30 AM & 1 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult
Explore the structure of built urban environments with 3-D paper models. With artist Jill McLennan.
Family Event
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult. Each session is limited to 12 kids. Please arrive promptly to to sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session.
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Jill McLennan
With artist Jill McLennanJill McLennan documents her constantly changing urban environment in paintings and mixed-media artworks that explore history, industry, and urban nature, imbued with a hopeful, futuristic vision.
Series
Family Fare
Saturday, May 14, 2016
1–5 PM
The second of two mixed-media performance works presented as part of Otobong Nkanga / MATRIX 260, held at the Tropical House of the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley.
At UC Botanical Garden
Included with Botanical Garden and/or BAMPFA admission; reciprocal entry
Series
Otobong Nkanga / MATRIX 260
Saturday, May 14, 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, May 14, 2016
3 PM
Ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Free for kids and one accompanying adult
Series
Family Fare
Saturday, May 14, 2016
6:30 PM
Roberto Gavaldón,
Mexico,
1947,
(107 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Hammett meets Baudelaire in this steamy noir of love, madness, and death involving an affair between a married aristocrat (Arturo de Córdova) and a female model (María Felix).
Series
Mexican Film Noir
Saturday, May 14, 2016
8:40 PM
Julio Bracho,
Mexico,
1945,
(108 mins)
A progressive, forward-thinking doctor falls for a temptress in this spectacularly shot noir that inhabits a world of darkness and shadows, where rational thought rails against irrational desire—and fails.
Series
Mexican Film Noir
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through May 11
Through May 14
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