Sunday, March 8
Sunday, March 8, 2020
1 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.
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. Presented with 30-minute intermission.
Sunday, March 8, 2020
2 PM
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center presents its teen performance groups, who have worked with professional choreographers to create distinctive works highlighting the young dancers’ skills and technique.
Included with admission
Series
Performances
Sunday, March 8, 2020
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1969,
(101 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A disaffected Long Island housewife ditches her man, hits the road, and never stops heading west in Coppola’s striking early work, described as a female Easy Rider and overflowing with a loose energy that recalls the French New Wave.
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James Mockoski
IntroductionJames Mockoski is a film archivist and postproduction supervisor at American Zoetrope, where he has supervised the restoration of classic films including Dementia 13, Apocalypse Now, and The Rain Peop
Monday, March 9
Monday, March 9, 2020
6:30 PM
John K. Wilson, a fellow with the University of California National Center on Free Speech and Civic Engagement, discusses the past and present problem of art censorship on college campuses.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
Monday, March 9, 2020
7 PM
Programmed by Sean Carson
The Iota presents a site-specific performance of a fragmentary tragedy by Sophocles, Laocöon. Cellist Saul Richmond-Rakerd also performs.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series
Full 2020
Tuesday, March 10
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
3:10 PM
(150 mins)
World Premiere!
Canadian auteur Guy Maddin joins us via video conference to present the world premiere of The Rabbit Hunters, a new short commissioned by BAMPFA in honor of Federico Fellini’s centenary. Starring Isabella Rossellini, it’s equal parts Felliniesque and Maddinesque. Followed by Fellini: A Director’s Notebook.
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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Guy Maddin
Live Via Video ConferenceDue to a travel advisory, Guy Maddin will join us via video conference.
Series
In Focus: Federico Fellini
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
7 PM
Filipa César,
Germany, Guinea-Bissau,
2017,
(96 mins)
Decaying archival films from Guinea-Bissau’s 1960s war of independence were digitized and screened in the places where the original footage was shot. The resulting film is “a tribute, a documentary, and an excavation” (New York Times).
Series
Documentary Voices 2020
Thursday, March 12
Thursday, March 12, 2020
12 PM
Note: In keeping with guidance from public health officials and campus actions, this event will not be public, and instead, will be posted online afterwards. Please check artsdesign.berkeley.edu for updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Oakland-based artists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes discuss their graphic arts collaboration Dignidad Rebelde.
Free admission
Thursday, March 12, 2020
7 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1987,
(105 mins)
A young warrior/seer must overcome his own father to gain the knowledge of the ancients in this visionary reimagining of Mandé creation myths and oral tales. “Not only the most beautifully photographed African film ever, but also the best African film ever made” (Film Comment).
In Conversation
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Souleymane Cissé
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Akin Adesokan
Akin Adesokan is associate professor of comparative literature and of cinema and media studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Series
Afterimage: Souleymane Cissé
Friday, March 13
Friday, March 13, 2020
4 PM
Taghi Amirani,
United Kingdom,
2019,
(119 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
A fascinating investigation into the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’état in Iran that displaced democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the despotic Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as shah. “Passionate and fearless” (Hollywood Reporter).
Friday, March 13, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1972,
(128 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Fellini’s episodic, “panoramic album of impressions in praise of Rome and the Italians, past, present, and future” (Albert Johnson).
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
Saturday, March 14
Saturday, March 14, 2020
11:30 AM
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
After viewing Edie Fake’s visionary Art Wall mural, Affordable Housing for Trans Elders, draw your own fantastical buildings to house real and imagined communities of the future!
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Ricki Dwyer
With artistBay Area artist and educator Ricki Dwyer is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley’s MFA program.
Series
Family Events
Saturday, March 14, 2020
10 AM–12:30 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2020
1 PM
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
After viewing Edie Fake’s visionary Art Wall mural, Affordable Housing for Trans Elders, draw your own fantastical buildings to house real and imagined communities of the future!
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Ricki Dwyer
With artistBay Area artist and educator Ricki Dwyer is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley’s MFA program.
Series
Family Events
Saturday, March 14, 2020
2 PM
Kenneth Paul Rosenberg,
United States,
2019,
(84 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more
East Bay Premiere!
Copresented with the Downtown Berkeley Association
This documentary takes us inside psychiatric emergency rooms, jails, homes, and homeless encampments in its wrenching portrayal of America’s crisis surrounding the care of severely mentally ill citizens. “Haunting and trenchant . . . a necessary and important film” (Hollywood Reporter).
In Conversation
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Thomas Insel
Dr. Thomas Insel is Governor Gavin Newsom’s special advisor on behavioral health. He previously served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). -
John Snook
John Snook is executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center in Washington, DC.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
3 PM
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Start reading this story of an artistic boy caught between the worlds of his home and his prestigious private school, and pick up a copy to keep reading at home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Adoria Williams
Reading led byAdoria Williams is a librarian at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley.
Series
Family Events
Saturday, March 14, 2020
5 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1978,
(93 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more
The unlikely friendship between a young worker from the countryside and a progressive factory engineer leads to the triggering of political and class fault lines in Cissé’s searing drama. “Cissé makes explicit the infrastructure of corruption” (New Yorker).
In Conversation
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Souleymane Cissé
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Akin Adesokan
Akin Adesokan is associate professor of comparative literature and of cinema and media studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Series
Afterimage: Souleymane Cissé
Saturday, March 14, 2020
8:15 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1963,
(78 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more
An unwelcome visitor finds herself in the dank manse of a family haunted by its secrets in Coppola’s atmospheric tale of terror, produced and financed by exploitation guru Roger Corman.
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James Mockoski
IntroductionJames Mockoski is a film archivist and postproduction supervisor at American Zoetrope, where he has supervised the restoration of classic films including Dementia 13, Apocalypse Now, and The Rain Peop
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