Sunday, September 8
Sunday, September 8, 2019
1 PM
Join us in the Art Lab for an afternoon of improvisational quilt making through the lens of collage and risograph printing, led by artist Matt Katsaros.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2019
Sunday, September 8, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 8, 2019
2 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2020
Sunday, September 8, 2019
2:30 PM
Sergei Bondarchuk,
USSR,
1966,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!
In Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
Series
War and Peace
Sunday, September 8, 2019
3 PM
Experience the exhibition Meditation in Motion in a new way, entering into deep contemplation of an individual artwork through slow physical movement. Workshop led by Stephen Holtzman.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2019
Sunday, September 8, 2019
4 PM
Programmed by Cole Solinger
Readings by East Bay poet and performer Trisha Low, author Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, and Los Angeles–based writer Elaine Kahn.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2019
Sunday, September 8, 2019
4:30 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1974,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
A young boy in a rural village schemes and dreams his way to a big-city soccer match in Kiarostami’s first feature, similar to The 400 Blows. With short Bread and Alley.
Sunday, September 8, 2019
7 PM
Sergei Bondarchuk,
USSR,
1966,
(96 mins)
Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!
The final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
Series
War and Peace
Monday, September 9
Monday, September 9, 2019
6:30 PM
Multidisciplinary designer Madeline Gannon discusses how art and technology are merging to forge new futures for human-robot relations.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
Tuesday, September 10
Wednesday, September 11
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
12:15 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2020
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
3:10 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1987,
(83 mins)
Digital Restoration
This beautiful picture of the life of a child in a northern Iranian village is the first film in Kiarostami’s beloved Koker trilogy.
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 of the popular BAMPFA lecture/screening series Film 50: History of Cinema.
Series
In Focus: Abbas Kiarostami
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
6 PM–8 PM
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above
Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder joins Curator’s Circle members for a festive reception at Babette, followed by a tour of the thought-provoking exhibition Strange.
Curator's Circle members only event.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
7 PM
(70 mins)
Stacey Steers’s handmade, hypnotic collage animations make use of materials from silent cinema footage to nineteenth-century prints. She presents several collage works plus the hand-drawn Totem and a lecture on the creative process.
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Stacey Steers
In Person
Series
Alternative Visions 2019
Thursday, September 12
Thursday, September 12, 2019
12 PM
UC Berkeley faculty join in a discussion of design and democracy.
Free admission
Thursday, September 12, 2019
2–7 PM
Thursday, September 12, 2019
7 PM
Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon,
United States,
2013,
(92 mins)
Longtime Les Blank collaborators Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon codirected this loving musical tribute to Bay Area legend Chris Strachwitz, the founder of folk/roots/blues label Arhoolie Records.
Free on the outdoor screen
In Person
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Maureen Gosling
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Chris Simon
Thursday, September 12, 2019
7 PM
(132 mins)
A semi-documentary film about American Indians living in L.A., The Exiles is “a wrenching document of cultural dislocation” (Thom Andersen). With two takes on the urban side of Native American experience, Why Did Gloria Die? and Harold of Orange.
In Conversation
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Margherita Ghetti
Margherita Ghetti holds a PhD in Italian studies from UC Berkeley. She is a film curatorial intern at BAMPFA and works as a programmer for several Bay Area film festivals. -
Sarah Whitt
Sarah Whitt (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, where she researches intersecting histories of American Indian medical incarceratio -
Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Hertha D. Sweet Wong, professor of English and associate dean of arts and humanities at UC Berkeley, teaches and writes about indigenous literatures.
Friday, September 13
Friday, September 13, 2019
12 PM
The curator of Dennis Feldman: Photographs places Feldman’s work in the context of the social documentary practices of his mentors Walker Evans and Robert Frank, and focuses on Feldman’s distinctive approach to mass media images of the 1970s.
Included with admission
Friday, September 13, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, September 13, 2019
4 PM
Sergei Bondarchuk,
USSR,
1966,
(97 mins)
Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!
In the second part of Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation, young Natasha becomes engaged to military man Andrei, but his protracted absence leaves her vulnerable.
Series
War and Peace
Friday, September 13, 2019
7 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1987,
(83 mins)
Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
This beautiful picture of the life of a child in a northern Iranian village is the first film in Kiarostami’s beloved Koker trilogy.
Friday, September 13, 2019
7 PM
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
Electronic musicians and performance artists Guillermo Galindo and Cristobal Martinez present 4 Cycles + 1, an hour-long work for analog Moog synthesizers with performers moving in the four cardinal directions.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series
Full 2019
Saturday, September 14
Saturday, September 14, 2019
11:30 AM–1 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
In the spirit of Carlos Amorales’s mural about protest for BAMPFA’s Art Wall, create cutouts of people holding up signs expressing something important that you want to shout out!
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Raphael Noz
With artistRaphael Noz holds an MS degree in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, September 14, 2019
1 PM–2:30 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
In the spirit of Carlos Amorales’s mural about protest for BAMPFA’s Art Wall, create cutouts of people holding up signs expressing something important that you want to shout out!
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Raphael Noz
With artistRaphael Noz holds an MS degree in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, September 14, 2019
2:30 PM–7 PM
Saturday, September 14, 2019
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Join us to start reading this book about a girl struggling against discrimination in 1940s California, and pick up a copy to finish reading at home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Becca Todd
Reading led byBecca Todd is a former district library coordinator for the Berkeley Unified School District.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, September 14, 2019
4 PM
Sergei Bondarchuk,
USSR,
1966,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!
In Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
Series
War and Peace
Saturday, September 14, 2019
5:45 PM
Sergei Bondarchuk,
USSR,
1966,
(96 mins)
Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!
The final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
Series
War and Peace
Saturday, September 14, 2019
8 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
1998,
(118 mins)
Cinematography by Maryse Alberti
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Todd Haynes’s glitter-and-makeup-filled tribute to glam-rock excess follows a Bowie-like singer’s rise and fall; cinematographer Maryse Alberti leaves no spandex leopard print unnoticed. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ewan McGregor, and Christian Bale star.
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