Sunday, February 5
Sunday, February 5, 2017
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.
Included with admission
Sunday, February 5, 2017
2 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
France,
1982,
(100 mins)
Scenes from the French countryside and urban Egypt bookend this “politicized landscape” film, based on letters by Friedrich Engels and two militant Egyptian Marxists.
Sunday, February 5, 2017
4:30 PM
In this illustrated lecture, Paz Encina discusses her installation work and the importance of site specificity for both her artwork and her films.
Free admission
-
Paz Encina
Sunday, February 5, 2017
7 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1952,
(113 mins)
Emotionally rich, socially insightful, beautifully filmed story of fifties rodeo rider Robert Mitchum, cowboy Arthur Kennedy, and conflicted wife Susan Hayward.
Monday, February 6
Monday, February 6, 2017
6:30 PM
The Kramlichs are noted collectors who established the New Art Trust to advance the media arts through the support of research and scholarship in the field. Rinder is director of BAMPFA.
Free admission
Tuesday, February 7
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
5–7 PM
For BAMPFA Members Only
A sneak peek at Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia just for BAMPFA members.
Member Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
7:30 PM
(65 mins)
Presented in association with the Center for Visual Music
Jordan Belson made abstract films richly woven with cosmological imagery exploring consciousness, transcendence, and the nature of light itself. Titles include Bop Scotch, Mandala, Chakra, Samadhi, and more.
-
Cindy Keefer
IntroductionCindy Keefer is curator and archivist at the Center for Visual Music -
Stephen Beck
In Person
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
7–10 PM
Admission free
Free public preview of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia featuring modular synth instruments from Oakland’s Vintage Synthesizer Museum.
Admission free
Wednesday, February 8
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
12 PM
Two luminaries of the Bay Area poetry scene come together to reflect on the Beat culture that flourished in San Francisco’s North Beach.
Free
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
1:30 PM
Guest curator Greg Castillo introduces the themes of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia and talks about some of the works on view in the exhibition.
Included with admission
-
Greg Castillo
Guest curator and associate professor of architecture at UC Berkeley.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
3:10 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1956,
(170 mins)
35mm 'Scope Print
Featuring a brilliant performance by James Mason, this searing CinemaScope saga of fifties suburban psychosis is essential Ray.
Tickets on sale to general public on December 15
Special admission applies:
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 /
-
David Thomson
Lecture
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
7 PM
D. A. Pennebaker,
United States,
1968,
(110 mins)
This legendary concert film on the 1967 Monterey Pop festival captures Otis Redding, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and more at the height of their powers. With Agnès Varda’s filmed-in-Oakland Black Panthers.
Thursday, February 9
Thursday, February 9, 2017
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.
Included with admission
Thursday, February 9, 2017
7 PM
Paz Encina,
Paraguay,
2006,
(78 mins)
An older couple in 1935 Paraguay wait, and wait, as past and present merge in Paz Encina’s moving work on “the poetics of history.” Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard.
In Conversation
-
Paz Encina
-
Adriana Johnson
Adriana Johnson is professor of comparative literature at UC Irvine
Friday, February 10
Friday, February 10, 2017
4 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1951,
(82 mins)
On a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in this eloquent, brooding noir.
Friday, February 10, 2017
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.
Included with admission
Friday, February 10, 2017
7 PM
Marlon Brando,
United States,
1961,
(141 mins)
New 4K Restoration
Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent" (Time Out).
Friday, February 10, 2017
7 PM
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
Carl Stone, one of the earliest adopters of live computer music, performs selections from his Sampling Neurosis series, recent works composed for laptop and the Elektron Octatrack.
Seating is very limited
Included with admission
Saturday, February 11
Saturday, February 11, 2017
1 PM
The first of four Hippie Modernism forums exploring the contemporary relevance of the Bay Area hippie legacy. With guests Lee Felsenstein, Fred Turner, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and moderator Greg Niemeyer.
Included with admission
Saturday, February 11, 2017
11:30 AM - 1 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Following a tour of fabric artworks on view in Hippie Modernism, create collages with artist Jennie Lennick using upcycled fabrics. For kids 6–12 and their families.
Free for kids plus one adult
-
Jennie Lennick
With artist Jennie LennickJennie Lennick reinterprets traditionally domestic imagery in drawings, sculpture, fiber, and functional items and teaches fiber art classes throughout the Bay Area.
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
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.
Included with admission
Saturday, February 11, 2017
1- 2:30 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Following a tour of fabric artworks on view in Hippie Modernism, create collages with artist Jennie Lennick using upcycled fabrics. For kids 6–12 and their families.
Free for kids plus one adult
-
Jennie Lennick
With artist Jennie LennickJennie Lennick reinterprets traditionally domestic imagery in drawings, sculpture, fiber, and functional items and teaches fiber art classes throughout the Bay Area.
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Free for kids plus one accompanying adult
-
Estella Sisneros
Reading Led by Estella SisnerosLibrarian at LeConte Elementary School, Berkeley
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
4 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1955,
(111 mins)
35mm 'Scope Print
James Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
6:15 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1954,
(110 mins)
Saloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in a baroque, gender-bending Western passion play.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
8:30 PM
Haskell Wexler,
United States,
1969,
(106 mins)
New 35mm Print
Haskell Wexler audaciously set a romance against the tumultuous 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, filmed documentary style. "Intensely American in its images and its ambition" (Newsweek).
-
Scott Saul
IntroductionScott Saul is a professor of English at UC Berkeley who specializes in twentieth-century American literature and cultural history; his most recent book is Becoming Richard PryorSaul will only introduc
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through May 2
Through May 5
Through May 11
Through July 3
© 2022 The Regents of the University of California, all rights reserved