Week of February 13, 2022

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Sunday, February 20

Sunday, February 20, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, February 20, 2022
2 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1974,
(113 mins)

New 35mm Print

Gene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Francis Ford Coppola’s formalist exercise in paranoia, a grand prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival set in a 1970s San Francisco where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for you and against you.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
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Sunday, February 20, 2022
5 PM
Djibril Diop Mambéty,
Senegal,
1999,
(95 mins)
Two films from an intended trilogy—“masterpieces of the medium-length form”—portray a poor musician and a young street girl selling newspapers among a gang of boys (Metrograph).

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Monday, February 21

Tuesday, February 22

Wednesday, February 23

Wednesday, February 23, 2022
7 PM
Deniz Tortum,
Turkey,
2020,
(71 mins)
“A human, curious look at a place where life and death, levity and severity, poetry and confrontation go side by side,” Phases of Matter presents the Istanbul hospital where Deniz Tortum’s father worked for thirty years (Rotterdam International Film Festival).
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.
  • Ernst Karel
    In Person
    Ernst Karel did sound design and the re-recording mix for Phases of Matter and is teaching reality-based audio in UC Berkeley’s Department of Film & Media this semester.

Thursday, February 24

Thursday, February 24, 2022
7 PM
Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero,
Brazil,
2020,
(70 mins)
Nũhũ yãg mũ yõg hãm—literally, “this land is our land”—creates an alternative system of audiovisual cartography to give shape‚ both physical and mythical, to the Tikmũ’ũn territory in northeast Brazil.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
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Friday, February 25

Friday, February 25, 2022
12:30 PM
Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative Susan Moffat speaks about work from UC Berkeley's Future Histories Lab, which offers students a chance to research and reveal Bay Area histories in partnership with local communities.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Free and open to the public. 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 25, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, February 25, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
United States,
1930,
(90 mins)
Until the late 1960s, City Girl was considered lost; when it was found, film scholars were amazed to discover F. W. Murnau’s complete silent version,“a dazzling work which adds much to Murnau’s already monumental reputation” (Richard Koszarski, Film Comment).
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
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  • Bruce Loeb
    On Piano

Saturday, February 26

Saturday, February 26, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, February 26, 2022
4 PM
(125 mins)

Presented with a prerecorded interview with the filmmaker.

Janie Geiser’s films are influenced by surrealism, psychology, art history, design, and Americana, and they reveal a unique and accomplished vision. Her interview sheds light on how she approaches collage animation to create imaginary worlds that explore memory, language, and identity.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
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Saturday, February 26, 2022
7 PM
Samuel Fuller,
United States,
1957,
(77 mins)
Sam Fuller’s wildly Freudian Western—brilliantly blatant in its conflation of sex, violence, and power and its “perversion” of the Western’s usual treatment of all three—stars Barbara Stanwyck as a “high-ridin’ woman with a whip.

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.