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Sunday, April 3

Sunday, April 3, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, April 3, 2022
2 PM
Join us for guided tours of The Artist's Eyeled by BAMPFA curatorial staff and UC Berkeley graduate students.
Sunday, April 3, 2022
3:00 PM
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.
Included with admission
Sunday, April 3, 2022
4 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1965,
(148 mins)

Digital Restoration

A bourgeois housewife (a mesmerizing Giulietta Masina) embraces a world of fantasy in one of Fellini’s most spectacular, imaginative works.

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.

Sunday, April 3, 2022
7 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1978,
(93 mins)
The unlikely friendship between a young worker from the countryside and a progressive factory engineer leads to the triggering of political and class fault lines in Cissé’s searing drama. “Cissé makes explicit the infrastructure of corruption” (New Yorker).

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.

  • ruth gebreyesus
    Introduction
    Ruth Gebreyesus is a writer and producer based in the Bay Area whose work centers on cultural products and their movement across physical and digital margins.

Monday, April 4

Tuesday, April 5

Wednesday, April 6

Wednesday, April 6, 2022
12:15 PM
Join us for guided tours of The Artist's Eyeled by BAMPFA curatorial staff and UC Berkeley graduate students.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
7 PM
Lizzie Olesker, Lynne Sachs,
United States,
2018,
(75 mins)
Olesker and Sachs fold the history of labor and immigration into this intimate chronicle of the disappearing public space of the neighborhood laundromat. With Sachs’s And Then We Marched and E•pis•to•lar•y: Letter to Jean Vigo.

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.

  • Lynne Sachs
    In Person
    Les Blank Lecturer

Thursday, April 7

Thursday, April 7, 2022
1:15 PM
Join us for guided tours of The Artist's Eyeled by BAMPFA curatorial staff and UC Berkeley graduate students.
Thursday, April 7, 2022
4–7 PM
Works on view include Japanese prints featuring the bold nesting boxes crest of the Ichikawa family of Kabuki actors; Albrecht Dürer’s distinctive mark, placed on engravings such as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; now-nostalgic commercial logos, like the Pegasus symbol in Elaine Mayes’s mistily radiant roadside photograph; and more.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Thursday, April 7, 2022
7 PM
(90 mins)
Seven diverse films—including new films by Alanis Obomsawin, Natalie Diaz, and Sky Hopinka—feature archival footage and audio recordings, public testimony and personal memories.

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
  • Sky Hopinka
    For a fascinating discussion of Sky Hopinka’s films, see Diana Flores Ruíz’s article in the latest issue of Film Quarterly, “Desire Lines: Sky Hopinka’s Undisciplining of Vision.”
  • Natalie Diaz
    Note: Natalie Diaz was unable to attend.Natalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poems (2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; a language activist, she is Director of the Center for Ima
  • 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, April 8

Friday, April 8, 2022
12:30 PM
This presentation includes anecdotes from participants of UC Berkeley student-run program CREATE (Creative Residencies for Emerging Artists Teaching Empowerment) about teaching online and transitioning to in-person instruction in the past year.

Theater capacity is limited for this program.

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, April 8, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, April 8, 2022
6:30 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.

Friday, April 8, 2022
8:30 PM

Free Admission!

A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 5:30 PM. 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, April 9

Saturday, April 9, 2022
1 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, April 9, 2022
11:30 AM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Discover the images, textures, symbols, and layers in David Huffman’s art, and compose your own visual story in a mixed-media painting.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Kaya Fortune
    With artist
    Fortune is a Bay Area arts educator whose practice includes fashion design.
Series Family Events
Saturday, April 9, 2022
2 PM

Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners) / Recomendado para las edades de 8 años en adelante (niños menores son bienvenidos como oyentes)

Find out what happens when Margarito encounters the ghostly weeping woman in white, green-skinned brutes with sharp teeth, giant pterodactyl-like thunderbirds, and other creepy creatures in this bilingual collection of eerie tales from Mexican American folklore.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under / Gratis para menores de 18 años y para un adulto por niño de 13 años o menos
  • Angela Loza
    Reading led by/ facilitada por
    Angela Loza is a librarian for / es bibliotecaria del West Contra Costa Unified School District.
Series Family Events
Saturday, April 9, 2022
7 PM
Wayne Wang, Paul Auster,
United States,
1995,
(89 mins)
An all-star cast—Jim Jarmusch, Lou Reed, Giancarlo Esposito, Harvey Keitel, Madonna (!)—improvise their way in and around a Brooklyn cigar store in Wang and Auster’s off-the-cuff, playful ode to the outer boroughs.

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.

  • Wayne Wang
    In Person