Week of March 11, 2018

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Sunday, March 11

Sunday, March 11, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 11, 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
Sunday, March 11, 2018
2 PM
Peter Davis,
United States,
1974,
(120 mins)
This Academy Award–winning documentary “holds a mirror up to our national conscience” (Judith Crist), revealing the effects of the Vietnam War on both North and South Vietnamese as well as Americans at home. With Carolee Schneemann’s short Viet-Flakes.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
4:30 PM
Andres Veiel,
Germany,
2018,
(107 mins)

East Bay Theatrical Premiere

This new documentary explores the life and work of avant-garde sculptor, painter, performance artist, and social activist Joseph Beuys, chronicling his art and ideas about media, community, and capitalism in an intimate way.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
7 PM
Samantha Biffot,
Belgium, France, Gabon,
2016,
(81 mins)
This sweet-natured documentary showcases the remarkable life of a man who journeyed from a small Gabonese village to China to study martial arts, and eventually star in kung fu films. With Nora Chipaumire’s Afrofuturist short Afro Promo #1 (Kinglady).

Monday, March 12

Monday, March 12, 2018
6:30 PM
UC Berkeley Professor Judith Butler and Turkish political philosopher Zeynep Gambetti discuss the idea of public happiness in the wake of public resistance.
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Tuesday, March 13

Wednesday, March 14

Wednesday, March 14, 2018
12 PM
Hear from the electronic musician, sonic collagist, and improvisational sound artist known as Wobbly.
Free admission
Wednesday, March 14, 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, March 14, 2018
3:10 PM
Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov,
USSR,
1929,
(170 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Eisenstein’s “Russian Gothic” tells of a peasant woman’s struggle against superstition, hostility, and greed in her attempt to form a collective. 
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, March 14, 2018
7 PM
Vitaly Mansky,
Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Germany, Latvia, Russia,
2015,
Shot with the permission and supervision of North Korean authorities, Russian director Vitaly Mansky’s film turns a propaganda effort into a deep-cover documentary about life inside one of the world’s most repressive nations.

Thursday, March 15

Thursday, March 15, 2018
4 –7 PM
Thursday, March 15, 2018
7 PM
David Loeb Weiss,
United States,
1968,
(130 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Interviews with three black Vietnam veterans capture their experiences of institutional and everyday racism. With Keith Garrett’s look at African Americans in the military, The Black GI.

Friday, March 16

Friday, March 16, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, March 16, 2018
7 PM
Hou Hsiao-hsien,
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
2015,
(105 mins)

Film to Table dinner follows the March 10 screening

Winner of the Best Director prize for Hou Hsiao-hsien at the 2015 Cannes film festival, The Assassin is “a mesmerizing slow burn of a martial-arts movie” (Variety).
Friday, March 16, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1946,
(95 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

Two young people try to protect a fragile love on society’s margins in Bergman’s early look at adolescents in crisis, infused with a surprising warmth and optimism.
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
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Saturday, March 17

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Double your member discount!

For one weekend only, BAMPFA members receive 20% off of most items at the BAMPFA Store! 
Members-only event
Saturday, March 17, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 17, 2018
1:30 PM
In the first of our Way Bay Days, four speakers take on four Bay Area artists: Saburo Hasegawa, Ruth Wall, Ludwig Choris, and Harry Jacobus.
Included with admission
Saturday, March 17, 2018
3 PM
Join us for stories and a performance celebrating the forty-fifth anniversary of San Francisco–based Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country.
Included with admission
Saturday, March 17, 2018
4 PM
Joseph Leo Koerner, Christian D. Bruun,
United States,
2017,
(120 mins)

Special Preview Screening

A film journey into Vienna’s interior—both its domestic architecture and the space of the psyche—set against the backdrop of Austria’s troubled past.
In Conversation
  • Joseph Leo Koerner
    Joseph Leo Koerner is the Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University.
  • Winnie Wong
    Winnie Wong is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley.
Saturday, March 17, 2018
7:30 PM
Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov,
USSR,
1929,
(108 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Eisenstein’s “Russian Gothic” tells of a peasant woman’s struggle against superstition, hostility, and greed in her attempt to form a collective.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano