Sunday, March 10
Sunday, March 10, 2019
11 AM— 7 PM
Sunday, March 10, 2019
12 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
1997,
(275 mins)
Digital Restoration
Fascinating and rich with wry humor, Exile Shanghai is an extraordinary cultural odyssey that affectionately conjures up the lost Jewish world of 1930s Shanghai.
Presented with 30-minute intermission
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Ulrike Ottinger
In Person
Series
Afterimage: Ulrike Ottinger
Sunday, March 10, 2019
2 PM
Explore Hans Hofmann’s dynamic and influential work with a guided tour.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Sunday, March 10, 2019
7 PM
Bill Gunn,
United States,
1972,
New Restoration
Gunn’s legendary fusion of vampire film and black radical cinema is “one of the most beautiful and unusual films ever produced in the United States” (Ishmael Reed). “Embodies the spirit of independent film” (Spike Lee).
Series
African Film Festival 2019
Monday, March 11
Monday, March 11, 2019
6:30 PM
Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design
Kelley, partner at the leading design and consulting firm IDEO, talks about how to build creative confidence as a strategy for success in business, school, and life.
Free admission
Tuesday, March 12
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
5:30 PM
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above
OFFSITE—Join us to celebrate artist Catherine Wagner and her site-specific installation Sala degli Imperatori at Saint Joseph's Arts Society. Wagner will be inconversation with BAMPFA Director Larry Rinder. Book signing to follow.
RSVP to Jennifer Sime at jlsime@berkeley.edu or 510-643-9632.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
6:30 PM
The filmmaker in residence presents an illustrated lecture discussing her approach to the visual design of her films, as well as her research methods for nonfiction projects.
Free admission
In Conversation
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Ulrike Ottinger
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Deniz Göktürk
Deniz Göktürk is a professor and chair of the Department of German at UC Berkeley.
Series
Afterimage: Ulrike Ottinger
Wednesday, March 13
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
12 PM-1 PM
Peruse a series of the artist's notebooks, which offer insight into his singular approach, in the Works on Paper Study Center.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
12:15 PM
Explore Hans Hofmann’s dynamic and influential work with a guided tour.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
3:10 PM
Hirokazu Kore-eda,
Japan,
1999,
(115 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Welcome to the afterlife, where a busy production crew of angels films the favorite memories of the recently deceased. Kore-eda called this work entwining documentary and reality “a film about memory, and also a film about what it means to make films.”
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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Marilyn Fabe
LectureMarilyn Fabe is the author of Closely Watched Films and was the longtime teacher for the popular BAMPFA lecture/screening series Film 50: History of Cinema.
Series
In Focus: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
7 PM
Irene Lusztig,
United States,
2018,
(101 mins)
Lusztig unearthed letters to Ms. magazine—most of them never published—and asked women around the US to read them aloud, creating an extraordinary dialogue between the past and the future of feminism.
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Irene Lusztig
In Person
Series
Documentary Voices 2019
Thursday, March 14
Thursday, March 14, 2019
12 PM
Composer López discusses Dreamer, an oratorio for orchestra, chorus, and soprano exploring the immigrant experience, which will be presented by Cal Performances this March.
Free admission
Thursday, March 14, 2019
2—7 PM
Thursday, March 14, 2019
5 PM-6 PM
Peruse a series of the artist's notebooks, which offer insight into his singular approach, in the Works on Paper Study Center.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
5:30 PM
DeSouza introduces and signs his new book How Art Can Be Thought, which examines how we describe and evaluate if art is good, and if it is for the social good.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2019
Thursday, March 14, 2019
6:30 PM
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $5,000 level and above
Join Curator's Circle and 2019 Gala Host Committee members for an intimate and artful gathering at the home of Deborah and Andy Rappaport. The evening will include a lively discussion among the Rappaports and BAMPFA curator Apsara DiQuinzio.
For Curator's Circle members only
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Thursday, March 14, 2019
7 PM
(100 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Reflecting on intimacy, this program features short works by celebrated filmmakers Julie Dash (Relatives), Arthur Jafa (Slowly, This), and Claudia Weill (This Is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham); a dance performance by Bill T. Jones; and more.
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The Black Aesthetic
In ConversationThe Black Aesthetic is an Oakland-based organization whose mission is to curate a collective understanding of black visual culture.
Series
Out of the Vault
Friday, March 15
Friday, March 15, 2019
2—7 PM
Friday, March 15, 2019
4 PM
Emile de Antonio,
United States,
1973,
(116 mins)
Eminent documentarian de Antonio surveys the New York art scene circa 1970 via studio visits and conversations with preeminent artists, critics, dealers, and collectors, including Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol.
Series
Painters Painting
Friday, March 15, 2019
6:30 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
2016,
(193 mins)
Ottinger traces the paths of past explorers in a multipart exploration of the peoples, landscapes, and legends of the Bering Sea. This extraordinarily beautiful work is perhaps Ottinger’s magnum opus.
Screenings presented in Theater 2. Regular film ticket prices apply.
Series
Afterimage: Ulrike Ottinger
Friday, March 15, 2019
7 PM
Nelson Pereira dos Santos,
Brazil,
1963,
(100 mins)
A migrant family shifts from one unforgivingly barren land to another—and contends with similarly unforgiving landlords—in arguably the first masterpiece of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement.
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Nathaniel Wolfson
IntroductionNathaniel Wolfson is assistant professor of Brazilian and Latin American literature and culture and affiliated faculty of the program in critical theory at UC Berkeley.
Saturday, March 16
Saturday, March 16, 2019
10:30 AM–12:30 PM
Open to all members
As part of March Member Appreciation Month, BAMPFA members are invited to preview the work of the UC Berkeley's Master of Fine Arts graduate students in advance of their exhibition in May.
At Richmond Field Station
Members-only event. Each member cardholder is allowed one guest.
The event is currently at capacity. Please email bampfamember@berkeley.edu to be put on the waitlist.
Saturday, March 16, 2019
11 AM— 7 PM
Saturday, March 16, 2019
1:30 PM
Explore Hans Hofmann’s dynamic and influential work on a special exhibition tour with American Sign Language interpretation by Patricia Lessard.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Saturday, March 16, 2019
3 PM
(82 mins)
Recommended for ages 7 & up
Spend an old-fashioned afternoon at the movies with three shorts that find Charlie Chaplin’s character at work and at play: Sunnyside, A Day’s Pleasure, and Pay Day.
Saturday, March 16, 2019
5:30 PM
Edo Bertoglio,
United States,
1981/2000,
(82 mins)
Jean-Michel Basquiat plays a fictionalized version of himself in this gritty urban fairytale, a glimpse of New York’s early-eighties Lower East Side in all its blighted, bohemian glory. With appearances by James White and the Blacks, DNA, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, and more.
Series
Painters Painting
Saturday, March 16, 2019
7:30 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
1981,
(126 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Virginia Woolf meets the German camp underground in this extravaganza of performance art and oddity” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). Ottinger’s gender-bending, boundary-breaking fantasy of world history features Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, and Eddie Constantine.
Series
Afterimage: Ulrike Ottinger
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through May 5
Through May 11
Through July 3
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