Sunday, August 21
Sunday, August 21, 2022
1 PM
Join us in the Art Lab for a collaborative comic workshop hosted by multimedia and video artist Caro Yagjian and independent comic publisher Scott Longo (Sonatina Comics). This free-form exercise optimizes group imagination and takes the fear out of art making by forcing you to let go of results.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022-3
Sunday, August 21, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 21, 2022
7 PM
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Japan,
1962,
(102 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Set in the sixteenth century, Tanaka’s final film as director employs color and widescreen cinematography to tell the story of Gin, the daughter of a respected Christian tea master who charts a fateful path of resistance, claiming her right to love.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
Monday, August 22
Tuesday, August 23
Wednesday, August 24
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
7 PM
Samuel Fuller,
United States,
1964,
(93 mins)
Archival 35mm Print
Fuller’s tabloid sensibilities propelled his most florid tale, starring Constance Towers as a prostitute who descends on Anytown, USA, in an effort to go straight and winds up caught in a web of scandal.
Thursday, August 25
Thursday, August 25, 2022
7 PM
Spike Lee,
United States,
1989,
(120 mins)
Lee’s frequently hilarious but hard-hitting drama charts mounting racial tensions on a hot summer day in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. “The funniest, most stylized, most visceral New York street scene this side of Scorseseland” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).
At Outdoor Screen
Free on the outdoor screen
Thursday, August 25, 2022
7:30 PM
Shigeyuki Yamane,
Japan,
1975,
(86 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A charming discovery from the BAMPFA film vault,Yamane’s denunciation of hypocrisy and greed stars Kinuyo Tanaka as the titular Grandma, whose nuanced performance, amid a catalog of wacky visual effects, adds depth to this comedy.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
Friday, August 26
Friday, August 26, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, August 26, 2022
7 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Hong Kong,
1997,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
A small-time, undermotivated pickpocket finds himself on the wrong end of China’s economic leap forward in Jia’s debut feature, a milestone in contemporary Chinese cinema.
Saturday, August 27
Saturday, August 27, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, August 27, 2022
12–4 PM
Join us for a special event organized by Oakland-based multidisciplinary artist Sasha Kelley as a culmination of her engagement as the Black Life series’s summer resident artist.
Series
Black Life 2022
Saturday, August 27, 2022
4:30 PM
Shadi Abdel Salam,
Egypt,
1969,
(124 mins)
Digital Restoration
An impressive directorial debut by Salam, Al Momia is “an examination of cultural imperialism in reverse: . . . the film develops into a study of the importance of defending the past from would-be cultural exploiters. Slow-moving but absorbing, and quite beautifully shot” (Time Out).
Saturday, August 27, 2022
7 PM
Samuel Fuller,
United States,
1963,
(101 mins)
Archival 35mm Print
A Pulitzer Prize–seeking journalist has himself committed to a mental institution to investigate the unsolved murder of one of the patients, witnessed by three inmates: a brainwashed GI, a broken-spirited Black activist, and a former nuclear physicist.
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