Sunday, November 3
Sunday, November 3, 2019
11 AM–3 PM
Bring the family for a full day of art, puppetry, stories, and film—it’s free!
Free admission
Series
Family Events 2019
Sunday, November 3, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, November 3, 2019
2 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2020
Sunday, November 3, 2019
3 PM
(35 mins)
Free Admission!
Recommended for ages 7 & up
Enjoy the wildly colorful, wonderfully detailed films of animator Sally Cruikshank, including the psychedelic classic Quasi at the Quackadero and her musical animations for Sesame Street.
Free admission. Tickets available at the will-call table beginning at 2 PM.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
5 PM
Erika Cohn,
Palestine, United States,
2017,
(82 mins)
Cinematography by Amber Fares
This intimate documentary follows the first female judge appointed to any Middle Eastern Shari’a court—one woman attempting to achieve justice in a system designed to favor men.
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Alix Blair
IntroductionAlix Blair is the cofounder of the Bay Area-based Collective of Documentary Women Cinematographers.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
7 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1999,
(118 mins)
Digital Restoration
A television crew arrives at a remote Kurdish village to await a mourning ritual. While they wait for death, life happens. “A stunningly lyrical and eloquent exploration of both rural village life and the nature of artistic responsibility” (New York Times).
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Hamid Naficy
Introduction and Post-Screening Lecture on November 3Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, where he is also affiliate faculty at the De
Monday, November 4
Monday, November 4, 2019
6:30 PM
Cornell University robotics researcher Guy Hoffman talks through some of the paradoxes involved in the development of social robots designed for connectedness.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
Tuesday, November 5
Wednesday, November 6
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
12:15 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2020
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
3:10 PM
Kote Mikaberidze,
USSR,
1929,
(93 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Gogol meets Chaplin in this riotously inventive, scathingly antibureaucratic satire, one of the eccentric high points of Soviet silent cinema. With Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky’s satiric short Chess Fever.
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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Peter Bagrov
LecturePeter Bagrov is a curator of the moving image department at the George Eastman Museum and an expert on Russian and Soviet film history.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
7 PM
Kidlat Tahimik,
Philippines,
1977,
(93 mins)
A Cape Canaveral–obsessed Filipino slowly awakens from his “cocoon of Americanized dreams” in Kidlat Tahimik’s hallucinatory essay film. “Reminds one that invention, insolence, enchantment, even innocence, are still available to film” (Susan Sontag).
Thursday, November 7
Thursday, November 7, 2019
12 PM
A talk by Allison Arieff, editorial director of SPUR, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association.
Free admission
Thursday, November 7, 2019
1:15 PM
Expert tour guides share highlights of exhibitions on view throughout the museum.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Thursday, November 7, 2019
2— 7 PM
Thursday, November 7, 2019
3:10 PM
Fridrikh Ermler, Eduard Ioganson,
USSR,
1926,
(93 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
In this comedy-melodrama, a young peasant woman in the big city finds her attempts at apple selling lead to encounters with the underworld.
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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Peter Bagrov
LecturePeter Bagrov is a curator of the moving image department at the George Eastman Museum and an expert on Russian and Soviet film history. -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Thursday, November 7, 2019
4 PM–7 PM
Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee, this edition of Five Tables explores representations of the female figure in art across media and cultures.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables 2019
Thursday, November 7, 2019
7 PM
Yuri Tarich,
USSR,
1926,
(100 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Set in the sixteenth century during the reign of Ivan IV, this fascinating feature involves the unhappy fate of a serf who tries to fly. With an extraordinary cast and crew, including the great Russian actor Leonid Leonidov, the film influenced Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible.
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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Peter Bagrov
LecturePeter Bagrov is a curator of the moving image department at the George Eastman Museum and an expert on Russian and Soviet film history. -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Friday, November 8
Friday, November 8, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, November 8, 2019
3:10 PM
Lev Kuleshov,
USSR,
1929,
(92 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A father-and-son clown act are separated during the Russian Civil War in this little-seen, energetic blur of Hollywood action and Soviet kineticism by the great Lev Kuleshov.
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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Peter Bagrov
LecturePeter Bagrov is a curator of the moving image department at the George Eastman Museum and an expert on Russian and Soviet film history. -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Friday, November 8, 2019
7 PM
(72 mins)
Uncanny landscapes and mysterious journeys emerge in five works constructed from repurposed materials by Phil Solomon, Lawrence Jordan, Shambhavi Kaul, and Joseph Cornell.
Saturday, November 9
Saturday, November 9, 2019
11:30 AM–1 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Get inspired by art on view in Strange, then use found images and the Surrealist exquisite corpse technique to add fantastically strange elements to artworks of your own.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Erin McCluskey Wheeler
With artistRichmond-based mixed-media artist and teacher Erin McCluskey Wheeler holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and recently held the positions of artist in residence at the El Cerrito Recycling
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, November 9, 2019
1 PM–2:30 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Get inspired by art on view in Strange, then use found images and the Surrealist exquisite corpse technique to add fantastically strange elements to artworks of your own.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Erin McCluskey Wheeler
With artistRichmond-based mixed-media artist and teacher Erin McCluskey Wheeler holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and recently held the positions of artist in residence at the El Cerrito Recycling
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, November 9, 2019
2:30 PM
Nikolai Shpikovsky,
USSR,
1929,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
An enterprising Ukrainian schemer plots his way out of the Russian Civil War in this adventure movie with touches of the absurd, “one of the best examples of early Ukrainian comedy” (Giornate del Cinema Muto).
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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Peter Bagrov
LecturePeter Bagrov is a curator of the moving image department at the George Eastman Museum and an expert on Russian and Soviet film history. -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Saturday, November 9, 2019
2:30 PM–7 PM
Saturday, November 9, 2019
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Recomendado para las edades de 8 años en adelante (niños menores son bienvenidos como oyentes)
This special bilingual edition of Roundtable Reading features a story about a young girl helping shelter animals find homes—and looking for a forever home of her own.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under / Gratis para menores de 18 años y para un adulto por niño de 13 años o menos
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Angela Loza
Reading led by / facilitada porAngela Loza is a librarian for / es bibliotecaria del West Contra Costa Unified School District.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, November 9, 2019
5:30 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
France, Iran,
2002,
(94 mins)
Film to Table dinner follows
In the front seat of her car, a young urban divorcee grapples with her anxieties in this “courageous, instinctive film . . . sometimes funny, sometimes moving, always engrossing” (Variety).
Saturday, November 9, 2019
7:30 PM
Yakov Protazanov,
USSR,
1928,
(151 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
An old woman blindly walks into the path of a tyrannical station master, creating an escalating struggle, in this satire on power and Soviet society, “the finest Soviet comedy of the 1920s” (Ian Christie). With Protazanov’s bitter love story The Forty-First.
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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Peter Bagrov
LecturePeter Bagrov is a curator of the moving image department at the George Eastman Museum and an expert on Russian and Soviet film history. -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Saturday, November 9, 2019
7:30 PM
Four-course dinner with wine pairing
Following our screening of Abbas Kiarostami's Ten, join fellow cinephiles at our communal table for dinner and warm conversation.
$85 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
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