Sunday, April 29
Sunday, April 29, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 29, 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
Series
Guided Tours 2018
Sunday, April 29, 2018
4:30 PM
(75 mins)
Free Admission. Student Filmmakers in Person
We present this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video competition for the Eisner Prize, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creativity.
Free admission. Film tickets available at the will-call table beginning at 3:30 PM.
Sunday, April 29, 2018
6:30 PM
Jennifer M. Kroot,
United States,
2017,
(90 mins)
From dutiful conservative Southern son to gay activist and San Francisco chronicler, Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin looks at his life with wry humor and some choice true tales.
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Jennifer M. Kroot
In Person
Sunday, April 29, 2018
7 PM
Programmed by Berkeley Symphony with Anna Clyne
Music meets dance with magical results as Berkeley Sounds composer fellows join forces with the choreographers and dancers of Berkeley Ballet Theater.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series
Full 2018
Sunday, April 29, 2018
8:45 PM
Errol Morris,
United States,
2003,
(107 mins)
Built around interviews with former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Morris’s Academy Award–winning film is a haunted reflection on US military power from World War II through the war in Vietnam.
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Errol Morris
In Person
Series
Documenting Vietnam
Monday, April 30
Monday, April 30, 2018
6:30 PM
Join author and UC Berkeley alum Rebecca Solnit and others as they bring both Arts + Design Mondays and the 2018 Bay Area Book Festival to a close with a conversation on the idea of hope.
Tuesday, May 1
Wednesday, May 2
Wednesday, May 2, 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
Series
Guided Tours 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
3:10 PM
Yuri Tarich,
USSR,
1926,
(72 mins)
BAMPFA collection print
Directed by the Belarusian Yuri Tarich, this extraordinary 1926 Soviet silent film set in the sixteenth century was influential in the direction of Eisenstein’s two-part Ivan the Terrible (1944-46).
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
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Anne Nesbet
Lecture -
Bruce Loeb
On Piano
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
7 PM
(95 mins)
Tonight’s program mingles short African fiction films with documentary essays from the diaspora. Discover works by Alassane Sy and Mamadou Dia (Senegal), Cedric Ido (Burkina Faso), Lebert Bethune (Jamaica), and Carlos Javier Ortiz (Oakland by way of Chicago).
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Carlos Javier Ortiz
In Person
Series
African Film Festival 2018
Thursday, May 3
Thursday, May 3, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, May 3, 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
Series
Guided Tours 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018
4-7 PM
We’ve rounded up works starring cows, horses, cats, and dogs for this collection-viewing session.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1953,
(92 mins)
Åke Grönberg and Harriet Andersson portray turn-of-the-century circus performers in Bergman’s earliest evocation of the theater of humiliation.
Friday, May 4
Friday, May 4, 2018
6 PM
Programmed by Evan Kennedy
Writers Boone and Glück read their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2018
Friday, May 4, 2018
7 PM
João Moreira Salles,
Brazil,
2017,
(127 mins)
Salles portrays the pivotal, tumultuous 1960s through archival footage and home movies from May ’68 Paris, Soviet-invaded Czechoslovakia, China during the Cultural Revolution, and Brazil under military rule. “It’s a documentary that’s really a meditation—history made poetic” (Variety).
Series
Documentary Voices 2018
Friday, May 4, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1949,
(84 mins)
A voyage across a war-scarred Europe forms the background of a married couple’s collapsing relationship in Bergman’s dreamlike early look at isolation, emotional torment, and romantic masochism. “A sort of Voyage in Italy revised by Sartre” (Cinema 58).
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
Series
Bergman 100: The Early Years
Saturday, May 5
Saturday, May 5, 2018
1:30 PM
For the second of our Way Bay Days, four speakers take on four Bay Area artists: Xara Thustra, Kay Sekimachi, Carlos Villa, and Alice Anne Parker (Severson).
Included with admission
Saturday, May 5, 2018
4 PM
Iconic Berkeley recording artist Brandon “Lil B” McCartney presents photographic works and “extremely rare art,” sharing his unique focus on compassion, unrestrained creative expression, and the power of positive thinking.
This is a ticketed event. $13 general, $8 BAMPFA members, $5 UC Berkeley students.
Saturday, May 5, 2018
4 PM
(75 mins)
This selection of works from the exhibition Way Bay reveals the rich and varied landscape and people of the Bay Area. Featuring a time capsule of San Francisco before the 1906 quake and works by Bruce Baillie, Alice Anne Parker (Severson), Sara Kathyrn Arledge, and Ernie Gehr.
Saturday, May 5, 2018
7:30 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2004,
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
An adolescent girl tries to save a man from sin in Martel’s hallucinatory look at religious devotion, sexual awakening, Lolita obsessions, and Catholic repressions in small-town Argentina. “A film that defies categorization, but I’m tempted to call it a miracle” (A. O. Scott).
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