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Sunday, August 7

Sunday, August 7, 2016
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

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.

Free with admission

Sunday, August 7, 2016
12– 5 PM
A participatory artwork that responds to a collective loss-for-words to describe the changing world around us, focusing on language in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection.
Included with admission
Sunday, August 7, 2016
3 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
France, United States,
2014,
(181 mins)
Master documentary filmmaker Wiseman turns his attention to the inner workings of London’s National Gallery. "A tribute to the wonders of creative expression" (Village Voice). 
  • Lucinda Barnes
    Introduction
    Barnes retired last month after fifteen years at BAMPFA, where she served most recently as chief curator and director of progams and collections.
Sunday, August 7, 2016
7 PM
Athina Rachel Tsangari,
Greece,
2015,
(104 mins)

Monday, August 8

Tuesday, August 9

Wednesday, August 10

Wednesday, August 10, 2016
7 PM
Michael Gitlin,
United States,
2015,
(95 mins)
An intimate portrait of a community of artists, musicians, and writers who create work at the Living Museum, located on the grounds of a psychiatric center. With the Quay Brothers short, The Phantom Museum. 
  • Michael Gitlin
    In Person

Thursday, August 11

Thursday, August 11, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

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.

Free with admission

Thursday, August 11, 2016
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2008,
(110 mins)
Introduced by Tiffany ShlainVarda takes a cinematic stroll through her long career—and the history of French film—in this jovial first-person documentary.
  • Tiffany Shlain
    Introduction
    UC Berkeley film graduate, Webby Awards founder, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain has been named by Newsweek magazine as “one of the women shaping the 21st Century.”

Friday, August 12

Friday, August 12, 2016
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

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.

Free with admission

Friday, August 12, 2016
6:30 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1957,
(105 mins)
Hitchcock combines film noir and documentary to spin off the frightening possibilities when an innocent man, New York jazz player Manny (Henry Fonda), is named as the guilty party in a holdup. 
Friday, August 12, 2016
8:40 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1959,
(99 mins)

Imported Print

A fifteen-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud makes his debut as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel in this quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris. 

Saturday, August 13

Saturday, August 13, 2016
11:30 AM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Explore artworks that play with optical effects in this Family Fare session led by artist Beth Krebs.
Sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session you wish to attend. Be advised that space is limited to twelve kids per session; please arrive promptly to sign up.
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult.
  • Beth Krebs
    With artist Beth Krebs
    Beth Krebs is an artist and educator with an MFA from Rutgers University.
Series Family Fare
Saturday, August 13, 2016
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

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.

Free with admission

Saturday, August 13, 2016
1 PM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Explore artworks that play with optical effects in this Family Fare session led by artist Beth Krebs.
Sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session you wish to attend. Be advised that space is limited to twelve kids per session; please arrive promptly to sign up.
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult.
  • Beth Krebs
    With artist Beth Krebs
    Beth Krebs is an artist and educator with an MFA from Rutgers University.
Series Family Fare
Saturday, August 13, 2016
3:30 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2008,
(103 mins)

English-language version 
Recommended for ages 5 & up

In this ecstatic fairy tale inspired byThe Little Mermaid, a five-year-old boy finds a goldfish that transforms into a little girl, the irrepressible Ponyo. 
Saturday, August 13, 2016
6 PM
Max Ophuls,
France,
1940,
(90 mins)
In this neglected masterwork, a historic love affair becomes "a fascinating study of repression and isolation . . . love as a shifting series of masquerades" (Paul Willemen).
Saturday, August 13, 2016
8 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1959,
(136 mins)

Recommended for ages 10 & up

Hitchcock dubbed this exhilarating thriller “my final word on the chase film.” Cary Grant plays the fast talking adman who is mistaken for an assassin by the police and for a double agent by an international spy ring.