Week of February 20, 2022

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Sunday, February 27

Sunday, February 27, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, February 27, 2022
3 PM
F. W. Murnau,
United States,
1931,
(86 mins)

Digital Restoration

F. W. Murnau joined forces with documentarist Robert J. Flaherty, and they fashioned an emotionally rich story of the flowering romance between a young man and woman, filmed on location in Tahiti.
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.
  • Bruce Loeb
    On Piano
Sunday, February 27, 2022
5 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1983,
(94 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Matt Dillon is a teenager under the spell of his jaded older brother (Mickey Rourke) and beaten-down father (Dennis Hopper) in Francis Ford Coppola’s version of a teen movie, “an exercise in hallucinatory style” (Richard Corliss).
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, February 28

Tuesday, March 1

Wednesday, March 2

Wednesday, March 2, 2022
7 PM
Harun Farocki,
Austria, Germany,
2009,
(110 mins)
Farocki’s In Comparison considers the brick, that foundational unit of construction, as object, metaphor, and product of labor. With Domietta Torlasco’s Garfield Park, USA and Deniz Tortum and Kathryn Hamilton’s Our Ark, two short essay films.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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.
  • Domietta Torlasco
    In Person
    Domietta Torlasco, who received her PhD from the Department of Rhetoric and Film Studies at UC Berkeley, presents her recent short visual essay Garfield Park, USA.

Thursday, March 3

Thursday, March 3, 2022
12 PM
Join BAMPFA director Julie Rodrigues Widholm, who organized Lines of Thought, for an engaging tour of the exhibition, including insights into her curatorial thinking.
Included with admission
Thursday, March 3, 2022
4–7 PM
A showcase of different interpretations of spring, with works by Pan Gongkai, Ronald Iliardo, Hans Werner Kalkmann, and many others chosen by the BAMPFA Student Committee.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Thursday, March 3, 2022
7 PM
Luna Marán,
Mexico,
2019,
(82 mins)
In her first feature film, Marán encourages her father—a singer-songwriter, Indigenous philosopher, and community leader—to write a song about his complex life.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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-Theater Livestream Conversation
  • Luna Marán
  • Natalia Brizuela
    Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and a professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley.

Friday, March 4

Friday, March 4, 2022
12:30 PM
BAMPFA Director of Film and Senior Film Curator Susan Oxtoby shares a selection of works recently acquired for the collection and offers insights into how filmmakers who work in the field of animation approach storytelling, thematic concerns, and the concept of time.
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, March 4, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, March 4, 2022
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1952,
(100 mins)

Digital Restoration

Provincial newlyweds arriving in Rome get sidetracked by the wife’s obsession with a fumetto photo-comic star in Fellini’s solo directorial debut. “A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people’s illusions” (Chicago Reader). 

Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

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, March 5

Saturday, March 5, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, March 5, 2022
2 PM
San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin brings together a dozen local poets to read their work in an afternoon-long celebration of the written and spoken word.

Included with admission

Series Performances
Saturday, March 5, 2022
7 PM
Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon,
United States,
1994,
(60 mins)
The creators of the classic documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace turn their attention to the work and legacy of one of the greatest, most fascinating twentieth-century painters, Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian). 
Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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
  • Carma Hinton
  • Winnie Wong
    Winne Wong is an associate professor of rhetoric and art history at UC Berkeley.