Sunday, March 5
Sunday, March 5, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2 PM
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub,
France, Italy,
1999,
(130 mins)
Sentences become arias as one man’s return to Sicily inspires recollections of corruption, treachery, and political and personal woe in this “masterpiece” (Artforum). With companion piece Return of the Prodigal Son / Humiliated.
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2 PM
Miller, author of Blueprint for Counter Education, explores objects and publications that informed his defining work of Vietnam War–era radical pedagogy.
Included with admission
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Sunday, March 5, 2017
3-6:25 PM
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Sunday, March 5, 2017
4:45 PM
John Murray Anderson,
United States,
1930,
(100 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration
One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.
Sunday, March 5, 2017
7 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1943,
(96 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Bresson’s visual elegance and uncompromising narrative style are already in evidence in his first feature film, which follows a sophisticated young woman into the closed world of a convent.
Monday, March 6
Monday, March 6, 2017
6:30 PM
Arts + Design Mondays: Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini, with Tanya Zimbardo
Zimbardo is assistant curator of media arts at SFMOMA.
Free admission
Tuesday, March 7
Wednesday, March 8
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
12 PM
Explore avant-garde art practices with Beard, executive director of The Lab and former assistant curator at BAMPFA.
Free
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
12-2 & 5-6:20
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
1:30 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
3:10 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1956,
(170 mins)
From the true account of a Resistance leader who escaped from a Nazi prison just before he was to be executed, Bresson created a film where the drama is all internal. “Essential viewing” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Special admission prices: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50. UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $10.50
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Jeffrey Skoller
Lecture
Series
In Focus: Robert Bresson
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
5–7 PM
Explore the power of observational drawing at a figure drawing class with a live nude model.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2017
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
6 PM
Join the artist of Silhouettes to explore the legacy of the portrait, physiognomy, and people’s desire to read the face.
Free with admission
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
7 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
2015,
(190 mins)
Legendary filmmaker Wiseman observes everyday life in Jackson Heights, Queens, one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse communities. “Among Mr. Wiseman’s masterpieces. . . . An immersive celebration of democracy” (New York Times).
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Linda Williams
IntroductionLinda Williams is professor emeritus in film and media/rhetoric at UC Berkeley.
Series
Documentary Voices 2017
Thursday, March 9
Thursday, March 9, 2017
12–2 & 5–6:20
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Thursday, March 9, 2017
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 9, 2017
7 PM
Christopher Kirkley,
Niger, United States,
2015,
(75 mins)
Musician Mdou Moctar and the founder of the label Sahel Sounds join together for this unexpected remix of Prince’s Purple Rain, set amidst the electrified, electrifying Tuareg music scene of Saharan Niger.
Series
African Film Festival 2017
Friday, March 10
Friday, March 10, 2017
12–2 & 5–8:15
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Friday, March 10, 2017
4 PM
John Murray Anderson,
United States,
1930,
(100 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration
One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.
Friday, March 10, 2017
4–9 PM
Friday, March 10, 2017
6 PM
Programmed by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
Poets Shurin and Killian read their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
7:30 PM
Francisco Newman, Allen Willis,
United States,
1970,
(135 mins)
An interview with Black Panther Bobby Seale while he was incarcerated in San Francisco County Jail. With William Klein's Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther, a portrait of the Panther leader during his exile in Algiers.
Saturday, March 11
Saturday, March 11, 2017
1 PM
Anthony Raynsford, Bonnie Ora Sherk, and Lisa Uddin explore the radical geographies of counterculture politics in a discussion moderated by Sean Burns.
Included with admission
Series
Hippie Modernism Forums
Saturday, March 11, 2017
1 PM
Screening weekly in Theater Two, this award-winning documentary is the story of Tibetan refugee lama Tarthang Tulku and his efforts to preserve the sacred texts of his tradition.
Included with admission
Saturday, March 11, 2017
11:30–1 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
After a tour of circular works in Hippie Modernism, create your own art based on concentric circles.
Free for kids plus one adult
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Mary Curtis Ratcliff
With artistAfter studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in late-1960s New York, Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture, mixed me
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, March 11, 2017
1–2:30 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
After a tour of circular works in Hippie Modernism, create your own art based on concentric circles.
Free for kids plus one adult
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Mary Curtis Ratcliff
With artistAfter studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in late-1960s New York, Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture, mixed me
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, March 11, 2017
2:30 – 9 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Read the beginning of this delightful mystery, and pick up a copy to continue reading at home.
Free for kids plus one accompanying adult
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Jennifer Gordon
Reading led byJennifer Gordon is a librarian at Malcolm X Elementary School, Berkeley.
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, March 11, 2017
3-7:30 PM
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Saturday, March 11, 2017
4 PM
John Murray Anderson,
United States,
1930,
(100 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration
One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
6:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1962,
(65 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
In his austere, transcendent dramatization of transcripts from Joan of Arc’s trial, Bresson conveys the mystery of the woman and the reality of the saint.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
8:15 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1959,
(75 mins)
A Parisian thief’s anguish and redemption are played out in Bresson’s famous reworking of Crime and Punishment. “An unmitigated masterpiece” (Paul Schrader).
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