Join art historians Suzanne Hudson and Jenni Sorkin for an introduction to their new books and a conversation about their shared interests in revisionist history and recovering movements, artists, and trends.

This beautiful documentary portrait of German Jewish émigrée Irmi Selver (1906–2004), based on her memoirs (read by Hanna Schygulla), takes us on a unique journey through a life marked by love, unimaginable loss, and strength of spirit.

BAMPFA Senior Curator for Asian Art Julia White and Cynthia Tongson, the artist’s sister, discuss Hong Kong artist Wesley Tongson’s artistic achievement along with insights into the influence of other Chinese artists whose works from the museum’s collection are paired with his. 

Three short documentaries reveal Djibril Diop Mambéty as both filmmaker and man through his beautiful reflections on cinema; clips from his films and behind-the-scenes footage; and interviews and reflections by his friends, family, and colleagues.

Please join fellow Curator's Circle members for a festive reception to celebrate the opening of Spiritual Mountains: The Art of Wesley Tongson. The exhibition debuts a recent gift to BAMPFA of eleven paintings by the Hong Kong artist Wesley Tongson (1957–2012). The evening will include an exhibition tour led by Julia White, BAMPFA’s senior curator of Asian art. Julia will be joined by Wesley Tongson's sister, Cynthia Tongson, for a discussion of her late brother's life as an artist. The tour will be followed by an outdoor reception.

A prismatic inquiry into how skin color is seen on screen, this provocative essay film asks whether technology consciously or unconsciously orients itself to depicting white skin as the norm.

Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic, one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, returns in a new cut, a remix of newly discovered soundtrack masters and a 4K restoration from the original negative.

Long believed lost, Phantom, made after Nosferatu and before The Last Laugh, is considered a key work in F. W. Murnau’s development, with its variety of montage and trick effects that conjure a nightmarish world.

Canadian animators Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis create story-based animated films that exhibit an extraordinary ability to depict life’s tender moments. Their interview sheds light on how they conceive story ideas and work creatively with drawing, painting, computer applications, and sound.

Join UC Berkeley Professor Laura Pérez, writer and curator Marie Heilich, artist Celia Herrera Rodríguez, and artist Yreina Cervántez for a discussion that places Luchita Hurtado’s work in dialogue with the practices of the generation of Chicanx/Latinx artists that followed her own.

A proud hotel doorman falls from grace in F. W. Murnau’s classic of German Expressionism, whose roving camerawork and hallucinatory imagery “changed the way that movies were made” (Dave Kehr).

Riffing on genre conventions but from a feminist point of view, Knives and Skin is “a mesmerizing tapestry—mundane middle Americana meets magical realism” (Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times).