Week of August 26, 2018

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Sunday, August 26

Sunday, August 26, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 26, 2018
12 PM

Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Make back patches and a communal banner in this workshop with artists Amanda Walters and Paulina Berczynski. Discover how undomesticated cloth can be!
Included with admission
Sunday, August 26, 2018
2 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
China, Italy,
1972,
(217 mins)

Imported Print

A meditation on China in the throes of the Cultural Revolution. “The rarest of rare, this epic documentary is as legendary as it is unseen” (Cinematheque Ontario).
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Sunday, August 26, 2018
6:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
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Sunday, August 26, 2018
7 PM

Programmed by Sarah Cahill

Maggi Payne and Laetitia Sonami—two of the Bay Area’s finest composers and intrepid musical pioneers—team up for an evening of solo and collaborative performances, electroacoustic music, sound art, and explorations of resonance and acoustics.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
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Monday, August 27

Tuesday, August 28

Wednesday, August 29

Wednesday, August 29, 2018
12:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Way Bay 2 with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1951,
(96 mins)

Digital Restoration

A prima ballerina impulsively revisits the island of her youth and, in flashbacks, her first and only love. Bergman’s breakthrough film is a magical fusion of sunstruck elegiac love poem and dark suggestion.
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.
  • Linda H. Rugg
    Lecture
    A professor in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley, Linda H. Rugg has written extensively on Ingmar Bergman.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1962,
(125 mins)

Digital Restoration

“Antonioni’s 1962 masterpiece showcases Monica Vitti as his moodiest, most evasive heroine, drifting out of one affair and into another with Alain Delon’s mercurial stockbroker” (Village Voice). “Perhaps the director’s most savage blast of gorgeous B&W ennui” (Time Out).

Thursday, August 30

Thursday, August 30, 2018
12 PM
The organizer of this lecture series discusses the connections among creative works, the experiences of migration, and the possibilities of personal and social transformation.
Free admission
Thursday, August 30, 2018
4 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
Back by popular demand! This documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, August 30, 2018
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
France, Sweden,
1986,
(149 mins)
A retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film, shot in Sweden by the great Sven Nykvist.

Friday, August 31

Friday, August 31, 2018
4 PM
Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques Brunius, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Swoboda, Pierre Unik, Maurice Lime, Jean-Paul Le Chanois,
France,
1936,
(66 mins)
The first militant left-wing film made in France, this lyrical cine-essay is a collective effort by some of the finest writers, directors, and cinematographers working in France in the thirties.
Friday, August 31, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, August 31, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1964,
(113 mins)
Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).

Saturday, September 1

Saturday, September 1, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, September 1, 2018
6 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1970,
(58 mins)

Digital Restoration

Bergman’s first foray into nonfiction filmmaking is a portrait of the remote Baltic island of Fårö, which had become his refuge and the location for a number of his films.
Saturday, September 1, 2018
8 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
France, Iran,
1996,
(75 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

The characters of a colorful Persian carpet come alive in Makhmalbaf’s richly colored tribute to the beauty of Iranian gabbeh (carpet) weaving. “Exultantly lyrical” (Variety).
  • Hossein Khosrowjah
    Introduction
    Hossein Khosrowjah is a senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts in the Visual Studies Department.