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Sunday, March 6

Sunday, March 6, 2022
1 PM

All ages, Drop-in

Artist Travis Meinolf hosts a weaving gathering with twenty simple looms prepared for use; together we will weave something big, or many smaller things, or perhaps some combination of bigger and smaller things.

Included with admission

Sunday, March 6, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, March 6, 2022
2 PM
Tacita Dean,
Germany, United States,
2021,
(51 mins)
Painters Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu bond over family, climate change, their experience as immigrants, and a lifelong practice of painting in this intimate, inspiring work by artist Dean (MATRIX 189).
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
  • Christina Yang
    Christina Yang is the chief curator at BAMPFA.
  • Lauren Kroiz
    Lauren Kroiz is faculty director of the Phoebe A.
  • Rizvana Bradley
    Rizvana Bradley is assistant professor of film and media at UC Berkeley.
Sunday, March 6, 2022
4:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1954,
(115 mins)

Digital Restoration

Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, modeled her timeless character Gelsomina after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. She stars with a brutish Anthony Quinn in this classic that Martin Scorsese called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.”
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.

Monday, March 7

Tuesday, March 8

Wednesday, March 9

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
7 PM
Wang Xiaoshuai,
China,
2018,
(80 mins)
Roughly sixty carefully composed shots of citizens and their environments, recorded over ten years across China, comprise this formal masterpiece, a photo album of an entire nation’s decade. From the director of Beijing Bicycle.
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.
  • Andrew F. Jones
    Introduction
    Andrew F. Jones teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture at UC Berkeley.

Thursday, March 10

Thursday, March 10, 2022
7 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2020,
(112 mins)
Three of China’s greatest living authors share their stories and memories in Jia’s tribute to storytelling and the connection between intellectual thought and working-class labor. “A spiritual depiction of China. Illuminating” (South China Morning Post).
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
    Award-winning documentary filmmaker Carma Hinton grew up in Beijing and has codirected thirteen documentary films on China. 
  • Andrew F. Jones
    Andrew F. Jones teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture at UC Berkeley.

Friday, March 11

Friday, March 11, 2022
12:30 PM
Erika Chong Shuch and SanSan Kwan talk about new, pandemic-inspired forms of making that center care, listening and hospitality such as the ritual series The Welcoming, a product of the Artists & Elders project of Schuch's performance group For You.
Theater capacity is limited for this program.
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 11, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, March 11, 2022
7 PM
Wayne Wang,
United States,
1982,
(80 mins)

Chan Is Missing also screens without in-person guests on Wednesday, March 30.

Touted as the first all Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching San Francisco’s Chinatown for an elusive flimflam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert).
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
  • Wayne Wang
  • Oliver S. Wang
    Oliver S. Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU Long Beach and writes regularly on popular music and culture. He interviewed Wayne Wang for the latest issue of Film Quarterly.
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Saturday, March 12

Saturday, March 12, 2022
1 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, March 12, 2022
11:30 AM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Inspired by Wesley Tongson’s paintings, use watercolor, ink, brushes, and pens to create your own expressive landscape.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Jennie Smith
    With artist
    Smith earned her MFA from UC Berkeley. When she is not drawing in her own studio, she can be found at the de Young Museum, making art with kids from all over the Bay Area.
Series Family Events
Saturday, March 12, 2022
2 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)

Meet Maya, an aspiring fifth-grade scientist who brings an abandoned robot to life just when she most needs a friend—and a science-fair project!
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Rachel Budge
    Reading led by
    Reading led by Rachel Budge, librarian, Emerson Elementary School, Berkeley
Series Family Events
Saturday, March 12, 2022
2 PM

This event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We anticipate rescheduling this program in the coming weeks.

Art historian Catherine Maudsley, the leading authority on the art of Wesley Tongson, discusses the cave and the mountain as powerful paradigms for understanding Tongson’s art.
Theater capacity is limited for this event. 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.
Canceled
Saturday, March 12, 2022
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(178 mins)

Digital Restoration

Marcello Mastroianni stars as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence of Rome in Fellini’s masterpiece, filled with jaw-dropping set pieces of both excess and warmth. “Fellini’s bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting” (Time Out).

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.