Sunday, October 29
Sunday, October 29, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017
11 AM–3 PM
Join us for a free day of art, music, and movies! Explore BAMPFA exhibitions, make your own art, groove to a performance by SoVoSó, and check out a screening of short films with a wild side.
Admission free
Series
Family Events 2017
Sunday, October 29, 2017
2 PM
Explore a great Chinese painter’s work and his turbulent times with a tour of Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Sunday, October 29, 2017
4:15 PM
Owsley Brown,
United States,
2008,
(114 mins)
Filmed across the mountains, plateaus, and sacred sites of Tibet, The Precious Treasury offers a meditation “rooted solely in sight and sound.” Edited by Nathaniel Dorsky. With short Offerings from Nangchen.
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Owsley Brown
In Person
Sunday, October 29, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France, Germany,
1978,
(127 mins)
Digital Restoration
Akerman’s semi-autobiographical work depicts the travels of a filmmaker on tour in Europe with a new film, and brings up an entire history of migrations and social changes in Europe.
Monday, October 30
Monday, October 30, 2017
6:30 PM
Keltner, a UC Berkeley professor and codirector of the Greater Good Science Center, talks about art and empathy.
Free admission
Tuesday, October 31
Wednesday, November 1
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
12 PM
Watson, partner and creative director at Design IO, presents his work at the intersection of art and science and talks with Siegel, director of the UC Botanical Garden.
Free admission
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
12:15 PM
Explore a great Chinese painter’s work and his turbulent times with a tour of Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
3:10 PM
Jennifer Baichwal ,
Canada,
2006,
(90 mins)
35mm Print
This quietly provocative consideration of the mechanized sublime follows photographer Edward Burtynsky as he travels through China and Bangladesh recording large-scale industrial incursions into the landscape. Peter Mettler served as cinematographer and creative collaborator.
Special admission: General: $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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Peter Mettler
LectureToronto-based filmmaker Mettler, who was a creative collaborator as well as cinematographer on Manufactured Landscapes, will discuss the making of the film and his approach to the visual language of c
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6 PM
We celebrate the publication of Perl’s major biography of Alexander Calder with this reading and conversation featuring the author and the president of the Calder Foundation.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
7 PM
(75 mins)
Canyon employee and Total Mobile Home founder David Sherman presents a program that explores place and time through artists’ observations and others’ documentation, including works by Dominic Angerame, Greta Snider, Michael Wallin, and Sherman, from 1988 to 2002.
In Person
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David Sherman
Introduction by -
Dominic Angerame
Introduction by -
Greta Snider
Introduction by
Series
Canyon Cinema 50
Thursday, November 2
Thursday, November 2, 2017
1:15 PM
Explore a great Chinese painter’s work and his turbulent times with a tour of Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Thursday, November 2, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, November 2, 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, November 2, 2017
7 PM
Peter Mettler,
Canada, Switzerland,
1994,
(83 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Mettler’s remarkable documentary about the Northern Lights is his most fully realized cinematic expression of his quest for a spiritual synthesis of “self and surround.”
In Conversation
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Peter Mettler
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Michael Fox
Michael Fox is a Bay Area–based film critic and journalist who regularly teaches a course on documentary film.
Series
Afterimage: Peter Mettler
Thursday, November 2, 2017
All Day
Friday, November 3
Friday, November 3, 2017
4 PM
Gordon Parks,
United States,
1986,
(91 mins)
In this beautiful, expressionistic essay film, Gordon Parks reflects on how America shaped him, from his childhood on a Kansas farm to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. With shorts Flavio and Diary of a Harlem Family.
Friday, November 3, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017
5 PM
Explore the diversity of human experience with videos from the Global Lives Project, which capture twenty-four hours in the lives of individuals around the globe.
Included with admission
Friday, November 3, 2017
6 PM
Join artist McIntosh for a calligraphy workshop inspired by the artworks in To the Letter: Regarding the Written Word.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2017
Friday, November 3, 2017
7 PM
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
This all-reed quintet makes its second appearance at BAMPFA with a program of new music featuring the world premiere of a work by composer Sky Macklay.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Friday, November 3, 2017
7:30 PM
Olivier Assayas,
France,
1996,
(104 mins)
Maggie Cheung plays “herself” as an actress suffering through ego battles and other disasters on a French indie film shoot. With short Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung.
Saturday, November 4
Saturday, November 4, 2017
1 PM
Art historian Berger explores Chen Hongshou’s enigmatic Buddhist paintings, which offer a glimpse into a cataclysmic moment in Chinese history. Followed by a discussion with Robert Sharf.
Included with admission
Saturday, November 4, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, November 4, 2017
5 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
Film to Table dinner follows the November 4 screening
Back by popular demand! This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
Saturday, November 4, 2017
7:30 PM
Peter Mettler,
Canada, Switzerland,
2012,
(114 mins)
Mettler’s meditation on time and perception is “immersive and hypnotic . . . a ravishingly beautiful experience (Hollywood Reporter).
In Conversation
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Peter Mettler
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Michael Fox
Michael Fox is a Bay Area–based film critic and journalist who regularly teaches a course on documentary film.
Series
Afterimage: Peter Mettler
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