Week of February 25, 2018

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Sunday, February 25

Sunday, February 25, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 25, 2018
2 PM
Get fresh insights into the works in view in Way Bay with a tour led by a UC Berkeley graduate student. 
Included with admission; no advance reservation required

Monday, February 26

Monday, February 26, 2018
6:30 PM
Join us for a conversation between Beka Economopoulos, cofounder of Not an Alternative, and Dan Kammen, professor of energy at UC Berkeley.
Free admission

Tuesday, February 27

Wednesday, February 28

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
12 PM
Two artists and longtime collaborators discuss their work.
Free admission
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
12:15 PM
Get fresh insights into the works in view in Way Bay with a tour led by a UC Berkeley graduate student. 
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
3:10 PM
Sergei Eisenstein,
USSR,
1928,
(170 mins)

Digital Restoration

Made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, October fictionally recreates the revolution’s power and fury: so well, in fact, that some of its scenes have been reused in documentaries as the “real thing.”
Pre-sale to members at the Sponsor level and above Dec. 5–11. Public ticket sales begin Dec. 12.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12
  • Anne Nesbet
    Lecture
    Anne Nesbet is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
7 PM
Emile de Antonio,
United States,
1969,
(101 mins)

Restored 35mm Print

This Academy Award–nominated doc makes the case against US intervention in Vietnam using an incendiary montage style. “An explosive analysis of the American war machine” (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research).

Thursday, March 1

Thursday, March 1, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, March 1, 2018
1:15 PM
Get fresh insights into the works in view in Way Bay with a tour led by a UC Berkeley graduate student. 
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Thursday, March 1, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, March 1, 2018
4-7 PM
Ceramics and prints from the BAMPFA collection offer a taste of tea culture.
Free admission
Thursday, March 1, 2018
7 PM

Programmed by Karen Seneferu

Daktari Dance Medicine Collective explores the mediums of drum, movement, meditation, and ritual, illuminating the African spirit.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series Full 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1957,
(96 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Film to Table dinner follows the March 31 screening

A medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Bergman’s iconic work of cinematic philosophy. “A magically powerful film” (Pauline Kael).

Friday, March 2

Friday, March 2, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, March 2, 2018
7 PM
Joseph Strick,
United States,
1970,
(119 mins)

Restored 35mm Print

Strick’s documentary spotlights five veterans who took part in the US military’s infamous My Lai massacre, the incident that opened the public’s eyes to the atrocities of the Vietnam War. With Frederick Wiseman’s Basic Training and Appalshop’s Whitesburg Epic.
  • Harriet Scott Chessman
    Introduction
    Harriet Scott Chessman has published five novels and created the libretto for the operatic piece My Lai, a contemporary operatic piece composed by Jonathan Berger and commissioned by the Kronos Perfor

Saturday, March 3

Saturday, March 3, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 3, 2018
4 PM
Kronos Quartet’s collaboration with composer Jonathan Berger and novelist Harriet Scott Chessman, My Lai revisits the horrors of the massacre and its aftermath. The work’s creators and performers visit BAMPFA for this conversation.
Free admission. Tickets available at Will Call beginning at 3 p.m. Gallery admission not included.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
5:30 PM
Winterfilm Collective ,
United States,
1972,
(108 mins)
This record of testimony about American war crimes “may be the most important account we have of America’s tragic encounter with Vietnam. . . . Remains essential viewing” (Chicago Reader). With Peter Gessner’s short Time of the Locust.
  • David Harrington
    Introduction
    Violinist David Harrington is the founder and artistic director of the Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet.
  • Peter Gessner
    In Person
Saturday, March 3, 2018
8 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1961,
Bergman’s still-provocative portrait of a young woman sinking into insanity while both family and God fail to save her.