Sunday, May 7
Sunday, May 7, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, May 7, 2017
2 PM
Jean-Marie Straub,
France, Switzerland,
2014,
(103 mins)
This digital meditation on struggle and resistance “is the closest Straub has come to an autobiographical film” (Artforum). With shorts The Algerian War! and The Aquarium and the Nation.
Sunday, May 7, 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, May 7, 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, May 7, 2017
4:15 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1959,
(74 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
Time never caught up with Cassavetes’s first film; his tale of three black Manhattanites is still inherently hip, mordantly funny, terribly sad, and very New York.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
7 PM
Alejandro Jodorowsky,
Mexico,
1973,
(115 mins)
One man’s (acid) trip toward enlightened consciousness heads across deserts, galaxies, islands, and more. The most outrageously psychedelic film ever made: you can’t understand the early 1970s without this.
Monday, May 8
Tuesday, May 9
Wednesday, May 10
Wednesday, May 10, 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, May 10, 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, May 10, 2017
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1978,
(144 mins)
Cassavetes’s tribute to acting, actors, and the search for artistic integrity centers around a successful stage actress (Gena Rowlands) grappling with her character. “Cassavetes's most cleverly constructed film” (The New Yorker).
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
7 PM
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
An evening of music by the composer Lou Harrison, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Thursday, May 11
Thursday, May 11, 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, May 11, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, May 11, 2017
7 PM
(66 mins)
The visionary Bay Area filmmaking collective Canyon Cinema has been expanding cinema—and minds—since 1967. This program of shorts includes works by Bruce Baillie, Warren Sonbert, Barbara Hammer, Chick Strand, Gunvor Nelson, Peter Rose, Beverly and Tony Conrad, and more.
In Conversation
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Antonella Bonfanti
Antonella Bonfanti is director of the Canyon Cinema Foundation; committed to building community around film, she has organized screenings and events across North America. -
Edith Kramer
Edith Kramer was manager of Canyon Cinema from 1967 to 1970 and film curator at SFMOMA before joining the BAMPFA staff in 1975; she was senior film curator and PFA director from 1983 until her retirem
Friday, May 12
Friday, May 12, 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, May 12, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, May 12, 2017
6 PM
A reading and release party for a new publication in response to Country Women, a magazine created in the 1970s by women living in communes in Mendocino County.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
Friday, May 12, 2017
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1970,
(138 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
Three middle-aged suburban buddies (Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) go on a forty-eight-hour bender after another friend’s funeral in this savagely funny, unsentimental dissection of the blustering, bilious midlife male.
Saturday, May 13
Saturday, May 13, 2017
1 PM
Could rural communes be the template for a new geography of creativity? Ramón Sender Barayón, Erin Elder, and Fritz Haeg discuss the question along with moderator Greg Castillo.
Included with admission
Saturday, May 13, 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, May 13, 2017
11:30–1 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Explore the history of the recycle symbol and become an ambassador for the planet while creating your own educational posters.
Free for kids plus one adult
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Jill McLennan
With artistJill 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 Events 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
1–2:30 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Explore the history of the recycle symbol and become an ambassador for the planet while creating your own educational posters.
Free for kids plus one adult
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Jill McLennan
With artistJill 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 Events 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
2:30-9 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2017
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Read the beginning of Blume’s portrait of a boy and his boisterous little brother, and pick up a copy to continue reading at home.
Free for kids plus one accompanying adult
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Adoria Williams
Reading led byAdoria Williams is a librarian at Jefferson Elementary School, Berkeley.
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, May 13, 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, May 13, 2017
5:30 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1980,
(123 mins)
A former gangster’s moll (Gena Rowlands) takes on the mob—while protecting a Puerto Rican orphan—in pre-gentrification, graffiti-tagged early 1980s New York. “A commercial film . . . turned into a slice of pure avant-garde” (Dave Kehr).
Saturday, May 13, 2017
8 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1974,
(123 mins)
Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life, shines in this new print. “A film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).
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