Week of April 3, 2022

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Sunday, April 10

Sunday, April 10, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, April 10, 2022
3 PM
Artist John Zurier speaks about his selections from BAMPFA’s collection and from his own oeuvre for the exhibition.
Included with admission
Sunday, April 10, 2022
4:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1970,
(93 mins)

Digital Restoration

Fellini’s tribute to the world of the clown is—like so much of his supposedly nonfiction work—part documentary, part autobiography, and suffused with fantasy. “Fellini turns the world into his circus” (Time). 

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 10, 2022
7 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1982,
(100 mins)
Cissé’s remarkable satire on Africa’s ruling class follows two college kids rebelling against military control and the establishment; it is by turns fierce, romantic, and ultimately hopeful.

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, April 11

Tuesday, April 12

Wednesday, April 13

Wednesday, April 13, 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 13, 2022
7 PM
(83 mins)

New Restorations

Susan Lord will give a free lecture on the practices of the Vulnerable Media Lab Thursday, April 14.

Gómez was one of the most inventive filmmakers of postrevolutionary Cuban cinema. Her recently restored films look at the complexities of the Caribbean island’s social, political, and economic transformation.

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.

  • Susan Lord
    Introduction
    Susan Lord, a professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University and director of the Vulnerable Media Lab, is the coeditor of The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution.
  • Lázaro González
    Curator
    Lázaro González is a doctoral student in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media. He developed this program in the fall 2021 graduate course on film curating, taught by Kathy Geritz.

Thursday, April 14

Thursday, April 14, 2022
5 PM
(60 mins)

Free Admission!

Susan Lord will introduce a program of Sara Gómez’s films, preserved by the Vulnerable Media Lab, on Wednesday, April 13.

Susan Lord presents a lecture on the practices of the Vulnerable Media Lab, which develops methods and processes to ensure culturally diverse “born digital” media history is preserved and made available according to culturally specific and ethically driven forms of access.

Free admission. Theater capacity is limited for this lecture.

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.

  • Susan Lord
    Lecture
    Susan Lord, a professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University and director of the Vulnerable Media Lab, is the coeditor of The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution.
Thursday, April 14, 2022
7 PM
(98 mins)
A selection of shorts by New Red Order—a public secret society that creates videos, performances, and exhibitions related to indigeneity—and other collaborative groups.

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.

  • Adam Khalil
    In Person

Friday, April 15

Friday, April 15, 2022
12:30 PM
BAMPFA Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost leads a panel discussion with the six Department of Art Practice MFA students (2022) about their artistic practice and the process of making work for their culminating MFA exhibition.

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 15, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, April 15, 2022
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1963,
(138 mins)

Digital Restoration

A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (Guardian). 

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 16

Saturday, April 16, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, April 16, 2022
3:30 PM
Wayne Wang,
United States,
1993,
(139 mins)

The Joy Luck Club also screened on Sunday, March 13 with Wayne Wang, Amy Tan, and Catherine Ceniza Choy in conversation.

Four Chinese American women and their immigrant mothers learn one another’s stories in this intimate adaptation of the famed Amy Tan novel. A landmark in Asian American cinema, “both sweeping and intimate” (New York Times).

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 16, 2022
7 PM

Note: The Sunday, April 17 performance has been rescheduled to 3 PM. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley mounts its latest production, Mothers All.
Seating for Full performances is limited
Included with admission
Series Full 2022
Saturday, April 16, 2022
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1973,
(127 mins)

Digital Restoration

Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life, is “as full of tales as Scheherazade, some romantic, some slapstick, some elegiacal, some bawdy, some mysterious . . . a film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).

Theater capacity is limited for the April 16 screening.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are strongly recommended.