Sunday, September 3
Sunday, September 3, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 3, 2017
5 PM
Amit Dutta,
India,
2015,
(79 mins)
An intricately mosaicked portrait of nonagenarian artist Ram Kumar at home and in the studio. With short Chitrashala, which brings to life a series of painted tableaus in a former palace.
Sunday, September 3, 2017
7 PM
Elia Kazan,
United States,
1954,
(108 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“I coulda been a contender,” mumbles Marlon Brando in this brilliant drama set among the longshoremen and cops of an East Coast waterfront. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor.
Monday, September 4
Tuesday, September 5
Wednesday, September 6
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
12 PM
The BAMPFA curator discusses her methodology and process in developing and organizing the exhibition Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos.
Free admission
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
7 PM
Programmed by Land and Sea
Cedar Sigo reads his work, Voicehandler play their intuitive, incantatory music, and Frank Haines brings his trademark magical musical montage.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
7 PM
Amit Dutta,
India, Switzerland,
2010,
(95 mins)
Dutta painstakingly recreates the eighteenth-century artist Nainsukh’s brilliant miniature paintings through sumptuous compositions set amid palace ruins. With Museum of Imagination: A Portrait in Absentia, on the great art historian B. N. Goswamy.
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Max Nelson
Introduction byMax Nelson’s writings on film and literature have appeared in n+1, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, Film Comment, and the online edition of The New York Review of Books, where he is an editori
Thursday, September 7
Thursday, September 7, 2017
1:15 PM
Enjoy a guided tour exploring BAMPFA’s current exhibitions.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Thursday, September 7, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017
4–7 PM
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursday for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collections.
Free admission
Thursday, September 7, 2017
5:30 PM
Bryan-Wilson introduces and signs her new book, Fray: Art and Textile Politics, and talks with art historian Richard Meyer and artist Angela Hennessey.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
Thursday, September 7, 2017
7 PM
Amit Dutta,
India,
2013,
(92 mins)
Dutta returns to northern India’s Kangra Valley to consider the region’s legends, folk tales, and rich visual arts through the creative process of the contemporary landscape painter Paramjit Singh. With Dutta’s dreamlike short To Be Continued.
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Max Nelson
Introduction byMax Nelson’s writings on film and literature have appeared in n+1, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, Film Comment, and the online edition of The New York Review of Books, where he is an editori
Thursday, September 7, 2017
All Day
Friday, September 8
Friday, September 8, 2017
4 PM
(77 mins)
Continuing the exploration begun in Nainsukh, three shorts—Gita Govinda, Field-Trip, and Scenes from a Sketchbook—see Dutta experimenting with radically different approaches to the master and his artistic descendants.
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Robert Del Bontà
Introduction byRobert Del Bontà is the guest curator of the BAMPFA exhibition Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures: Five Hundred Years of Indian Painting.
Friday, September 8, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, September 8, 2017
6 PM
The first in a series of New Narrative readings features local icons Bellamy and Killian, coeditors of Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
Friday, September 8, 2017
7 PM
Marlon Brando,
United States,
1961,
(141 mins)
4K Digital 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).
Saturday, September 9
Saturday, September 9, 2017
11:30 AM–1 PM & 1–2:30 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Enter into abstraction through an automatic drawing exercise inspired by Charles Howard’s enigmatic works.
Free for kids plus one adult
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Jamila Dunn
With artistJamila Dunn is an artist and teacher who orchestrates the education programs for Kala Art Institute.
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, September 9, 2017
2:30-9 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2017
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Read the beginning of this book about growing up and fitting in, and pick up a free copy to keep reading at home.
Free for kids plus one adult
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Laura Atkins
Reading led byLaura Atkins is a children’s book author and editor.
Series
Family Events 2017
Saturday, September 9, 2017
5 PM
Fred Zinnemann,
United States,
1950,
(85 mins)
Imported Print
Brando made his screen debut as a paralyzed World War II veteran struggling to adapt back “home.” From the director of From Here to Eternity.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)
Digital Restoration
A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
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