Sunday, October 1
Sunday, October 1, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, October 1, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Sunday, October 1, 2017
2:30 PM
Sun Yu,
China,
1948,
(219 mins)
Digital Restoration
Notorious as the first film banned by Mao and the PRC, The Life of Wuxun tells the real-life story of a Qing dynasty–era peasant who devoted his life to free education for all.
Includes 10 minute intermission
Sunday, October 1, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France,
2015,
(115 mins)
Akerman’s ultra-personal final work reflects on history, distance, memory, and intimacy, and reaffirms her inextricable relationship with her mother, a Holocaust survivor.
Monday, October 2
Monday, October 2, 2017
6:30 PM
Artist and activist Tania Bruguera discusses the concept of Arte Útil, or “useful art.”
Free admission
Tuesday, October 3
Wednesday, October 4
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
12 PM
MacKay, associate film curator at BAMPFA, discusses her experience as a film curator in a variety of contexts.
Free admission
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
12:15 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
7 PM
Tyler Hubby,
United States,
2016,
(105 mins)
This playful portrait captures filmmaker, artist, and musician Tony Conrad’s radical and creative life. “Essential viewing for anyone involved in the history of music and visual art” (Artforum). With Beverly and Tony Conrad’s short flicker film Straight and Narrow.
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Tyler Hubby
In Person
Series
Alternative Visions 2017
Thursday, October 5
Thursday, October 5, 2017
1:15 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Thursday, October 5, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, October 5, 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, October 5, 2017
7 PM
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
Fred Frith, Ben Goldberg, and a dozen other players join Scott Amendola’s large-scale orchestra to create new musical textures.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
7 PM
Karen Thorsen,
United States,
1989,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
A who’s-who of the African American culturati—including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and Ishmael Reed—appear in this documentary tracing Baldwin’s trajectory from Harlem to Europe and across the US. “A haunting, beautifully made biography” (Los Angeles Times).
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Karen Thorsen
In Person
Thursday, October 5, 2017
All Day
Friday, October 6
Friday, October 6, 2017
4 PM
Stevan Riley,
United Kingdom,
2015,
(102 mins)
Free Screenings!
A treasure trove of audiotapes, home movies, film clips, and more yields a mesmerizing portrait of one of America’s great performers. “A peculiarly philosophical, melancholic and beautiful piece of work” (IndieWire).
Free tickets will be available at the will-call table one hour before each screening.
Friday, October 6, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, October 6, 2017
6 PM
Programmed by Tongo Eisen-Martin
Poets Lau, Dallett, and Phillips read their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017
7 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(109 mins)
Digital Restoration
Joseph Cotten pursues Orson Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time” (New York Times).
Friday, October 6, 2017
7:30 PM
Explore what New Narrative sounds like today with this reading featuring the challenging and convivial work of four writers.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
Saturday, October 7
Saturday, October 7, 2017
1 PM
This program explores both the formative and the final years of Martin Wong, who began and ended his career in California. With Mark Dean Johnson, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sergio Bessa, Marci Kwon, and Charlie Ahearn.
Included with admission
Saturday, October 7, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2017
4 PM
James W. Horne,
United States,
1927,
(64 mins)
Digital Restoration
Recommended for ages 10 & up
Get in the mood for Homecoming Week with this classic of college chaos starring Buster Keaton as an egghead in jockland.
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Judith Rosenberg
Live MusicOn piano
Saturday, October 7, 2017
5:30 PM
Alberto Cavalcanti,
United Kingdom,
1942,
(92 mins)
An unsuspecting British village is infiltrated by sixty German paratroopers in “a wartime conspiracy thriller, a black-comic nightmare and a surrealist masterpiece” (Guardian), based on a Graham Greene story.
Saturday, October 7, 2017
7:15 PM
Wonderful fall flavors inspired by the film.
At Babette
Saturday, October 7, 2017
7:30 PM
Cao Yu,
China,
1948,
(99 mins)
Digital Restoration
The great Chinese star Shi Hui stars as an energetic lawyer fighting for the good of his neighbors in this stirring, almost Capra-esque drama from Cao Yu, one of China’s most important twentieth-century playwrights.
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