Sunday, March 12
Sunday, March 12, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2017
2 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
France, Germany,
1986,
(132 mins)
Greek philosopher Empedocles finds himself both a hero of the people and an enemy of the state in this staging of a Hölderlin play on spectacular Mount Etna. Its style “reveals a utopian present” (Artforum).
Sunday, March 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2017
5 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1945,
(90 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Bresson updates an eighteenth-century Diderot novel to contemporary Paris with this story of a beautiful woman who takes revenge on her ex-lover. “A landmark in cinema history” (David Thomson).
Sunday, March 12, 2017
7 PM
Alice Diop,
France,
2015,
(85 mins)
Alice Diop’s intimate featurette portrays the inner thoughts and public territory of young men in a Paris suburb. With shorts The Return (Yohann Kouam), Reluctantly Queer (Akosua Adoma Owusu), and The Sense of Touch (Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo).
Series
African Film Festival 2017
Sunday, March 12, 2017
7 PM
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
Canadian electroacoustic musician Jean-François LaPorte uses sculptural instruments and experimental control mechanisms.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Monday, March 13
Monday, March 13, 2017
6:30 PM
Arts + Design Mondays: Art, Activism, and Freedom in the American Carceral State, with jackie sumell
New Orleans–based multidisciplinary artist and activist sumell reflects on her service with prisoners indefinitely held in solitary confinement, drawing from the teachings of the Black Panthers, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox.
Free admission
Tuesday, March 14
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
7 PM
For BAMPFA Members and Cal Students Only
Join us for this fifth annual event especially for BAMPFA members, an insider’s view into how we shape our film collection.
Admission free; open to BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students only
Series
Member Events
Wednesday, March 15
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
12 PM
Find the intersections between art and politics with Reed, a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, songwriter, public media commentator, lecturer, and publisher.
Free
Wednesday, March 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2017
3:10 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1967,
(170 mins)
Bresson’s portrayal of the life and death of a despised country girl is gritty yet lyrical and ultimately sublime. “In Mouchette, the world itself is a mystical stage” (J. Hoberman).
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 15, 2017
7 PM
Sharon Lockhart,
United States,
2016,
(52 mins)
Lockhart collaborated with young women living in a group home in Poland to create these expressive, carefully composed vignettes on their lives, thoughts, and desires.
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Sharon Lockhart
In Person
Thursday, March 16
Thursday, March 16, 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 16, 2017
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 16, 2017
7 PM
Jean Eustache,
France,
1975,
(154 mins)
Imported Print
Eustache’s coming-of-age film is a masterpiece of disillusionment. “Under a beguiling surface . . . a distinctly cool, delicately nuanced study of a human being” (Sight & Sound). With Lockhart’s short Pódworka.
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Sharon Lockhart
Introduction
Friday, March 17
Friday, March 17, 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 17, 2017
4–9 PM
Friday, March 17, 2017
6:30 PM
Raymond Depardon,
France,
2008,
(88 mins)
Photographer and filmmaker Depardon travels the remote French countryside to talk with farmers in this compassionate portrait of a vanishing way of life. “Sublime and timeless” (The Telegraph).
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Sharon Lockhart
Introduction
Friday, March 17, 2017
8:30 PM
Sharon Lockhart,
United States,
2009,
(99 mins)
A serene portrait of work and tides, filmed on the coast of Maine. “This moving meditation . . . is guaranteed to lower your blood pressure and recalibrate your mind” (New York Times).
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Sharon Lockhart
In Person
Saturday, March 18
Saturday, March 18, 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 18, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017
1:30 PM
Poets Sharon Coleman and MK Chavez lead this workshop that explores BAMPFA's collection and the exhibitions currently on view, through words. Hosted by Berkeley Poetry Festival, the workshop offers the opportunity to explore and write ekphrastic poetry, or poetry created through ekphrasis, a process of translating an image into words.
Free with admission
Saturday, March 18, 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 18, 2017
3:30 PM
Bénédicte Galup, Michel Ocelot,
France,
2005,
(74 mins)
Recommended for ages 7 & up
This vibrantly colorful animated sequel to the popular Kirikou and the Sorceress finds little Kirikou using his brains and heart to help his fellow African villagers. With a superb soundtrack by Youssou N’Dour and Manu Dibango.
Series
African Film Festival 2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017
6 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1956,
(97 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).
Saturday, March 18, 2017
8:15 PM
Peter Watkins,
United States,
1971,
(88 mins)
Reality television meets political oppression in this notorious dystopian vision of a near future where activists are set loose in the desert for the benefit of viewing audiences. A Vietnam war precursor to The Hunger Games. With the Black Panther short, Off the Pig!
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