Week of January 23, 2022

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Sunday, January 30

Sunday, January 30, 2022
2 PM
Sunday, January 30, 2022
2 PM
Griff Williams, Keelan Williams,
United States,
2021,
(90 mins)
Featuring eight groundbreaking local artists, this documentary reflects on a Bay Area art scene less concerned with money and power than with imagination, innovation, community, and care.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
In Conversation
  • Griff Williams
  • Keelan Williams
  • Lawrence Rinder
    Lawrence Rinder, Director Emeritus of BAMPFA is a writer, farmer, and political activist living in Northern California.
  • Nigel Poor
    Nigel Poor is a Bay Area artist, educator, and a cofounder and comanaging producer of the San Quentin Prison Report Radio Project (SQPR) where she cocreated the award-winning prison-based podcast Ear
  • Tucker Nichols
    Tucker Nichols is an artist based in Northern California and the creator of the ongoing project Flowers for Sick People.
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
2 PM
To mark the closing of New Time, BAMPFA Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost offers a tour highlighting a special selection of works that address feminisms’ lingering questions and unfinished business, as well as providing an exhibition overview.
Included with admission
Sunday, January 30, 2022
5 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1941,
(94 mins)
Starring Barbara Stanwyck as a card sharp who plays naive ale heir Henry Fonda not once but twice, Preston Sturges’s comedy of innocence and experience is “one of the most liberatingly funny films ever made” (New Yorker).

Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Monday, January 31

Tuesday, February 1

Wednesday, February 2

Wednesday, February 2, 2022
3:30–5:00 PM

Recommended for ages 7–17. Limited Space, RSVP required.

Join us for one, two, or all three days of this afterschool mail art intensive as we make connections between the history of avant-garde, experimental mail art practices and classic Valentine’s Day traditions with celebrated arts education program No School. 
For ages 7 - 17 Limited Space, RSVP required
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
7 PM
499
Rodrigo Reyes,
Mexico,
2021,
(88 mins)
In this “truly brilliant accomplishment of unconventional storytelling” (Carlos Aguilar), a conquistador inexplicably finds himself in Mexico, 499 years after conquering Tenochtitlán with Hernán Cortez’s army in 1521. He retraces their original journey across Mexico, a reluctant witness to the ongoing legacy of Spanish conquest.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
  • Rodrigo Reyes
    In Person

Thursday, February 3

Thursday, February 3, 2022
3:30–5:00 PM

Recommended for ages 7–17. Limited Space, RSVP required.

Join us for one, two, or all three days of this afterschool mail art intensive as we make connections between the history of avant-garde, experimental mail art practices and classic Valentine’s Day traditions with celebrated arts education program No School. 
For ages 7 - 17 Limited Space, RSVP required
Thursday, February 3, 2022
3–5 PM
This month’s Five Tables display features political posters, landscape scrolls, conceptual correspondence, and more—all in the color red.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Thursday, February 3, 2022
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1980,
(160 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped produce Akira Kurosawa’s return to epic filmmaking, a “majestic, stately, cool, almost abstract” film about a king and his double (both played by Tatsuya Nakadai) trying to hold a kingdom together (New York Times).
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Friday, February 4

Friday, February 4, 2022
12:30 PM
An online conversation with choreographer, writer and composer Robert Moses, creator of numerous works of varying styles and genres for his highly praised dance company since 2008.
Free and open to the public; online only.
Friday, February 4, 2022
3:30–5:00 PM

Recommended for ages 7–17. Limited Space, RSVP required.

Join us for one, two, or all three days of this afterschool mail art intensive as we make connections between the history of avant-garde, experimental mail art practices and classic Valentine’s Day traditions with celebrated arts education program No School. 
For ages 7 - 17 Limited Space, RSVP required
Friday, February 4, 2022
7 PM
Howard Hawks,
United States,
1941,
(111 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Showgirl Barbara Stanwyck gives naive encyclopedist Gary Cooper lessons in slang, and love, in Howard Hawks’s comedy classic, named to the National Film Registry in 2016.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Saturday, February 5

Saturday, February 5, 2022
12–4 PM

All ages, Drop-in

Come to the Art Lab for a Valentine’s Day mail art making extravaganza hosted by experimental arts education program No School.
Included with admission
Saturday, February 5, 2022
3:30 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1924,
(77 mins)

Digital Restoration

F. W. Murnau’s venture into the world of comic irony was greeted with delight by contemporary critics. Working from a screenplay by Thea von Harbou, he crafted a playful espionage thriller reminiscent of Ernst Lubitsch. 
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Saturday, February 5, 2022
5:15 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1925,
(63 mins)

Digital Restoration

F. W. Murnau revisited Moliére’s fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a woman (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous, imbibing hypocrite.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Saturday, February 5, 2022
7 PM
(95 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Nathaniel Dorsky’s four short films silently observe nature and the manmade world.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
  • Nathaniel Dorsky
    In Person