Week of September 11, 2022

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Sunday, September 18

Sunday, September 18, 2022
1 PM
Oakland and Brooklyn based press and publishing project, Irrelevant Press hosts a risograph printing and zine-making workshop.

Included with admission

Sunday, September 18, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, September 18, 2022
2 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of  by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.

Included with admission

Sunday, September 18, 2022
5 PM
(73 mins)
Women of all ages and backgrounds drive the narratives of these short films, whether in Senegal, Sudan, South Africa, or London.

Monday, September 19

Tuesday, September 20

Wednesday, September 21

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
12:15 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of  by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.

Included with admission

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
7 PM
(77 mins)
This program of shorts features recent BAMPFA preservation prints of films by influential and undervalued Bay Area women filmmakers whose works were distributed by Serious Business Company, including Freude, Gunvor Nelson, and Dorothy Wiley.
In Conversation
  • Tanya Zimbardo
    Introduction
    Tanya Zimbardo is a curator who has organized artist film programs and exhibitions at SFMOMA and for Bay Area nonprofits.
  • Dorothy Wiley
    Introduction
    Dorothy Wiley began making films in the 1960s exploring her everyday experience living in the Bay Area; we present three new BAMPFA preservation prints of her work.
  • Antonella Bonfanti
    Introduction
    Antonella Bonfanti is the BAMPFA film collection supervisor.
  • Jon Shibata
    Introduction
    Jon Shibata is the BAMPFA film archivist.

Thursday, September 22

Thursday, September 22, 2022
12:45 PM
Petra Linhartová is Head of Digital & Innovation at TBA21–Academy. The methodology accumulated and incubated by TBA21–Academy's practice manifests digitally through Ocean-Archive.org. This lecture invites the audience to wade through the Archive's many currents and experience creative practices within digital interfaces and beyond traditional frameworks.

Free and open to the public

Thursday, September 22, 2022
7 PM
Med Hondo,
Burkina Faso, France, Mauritania,
1986,
(116 mins)
A young queen leads her people against a brutal French expeditionary force in 1899 Niger in Hondo’s anti-colonialist, rough-hewn epic based on the brutal true-life history of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission.

Friday, September 23

Friday, September 23, 2022
11:30 AM
ShiPu Wang will discuss the paintings of three trailblazers of Japanese descent who leveraged portraiture to build communities and make their presence visible in the Exclusion-era California.

Free and open to the public

Friday, September 23, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, September 23, 2022
7 PM
Cinda Firestone,
United States,
1974,
(115 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

An essential counterpoint to the official and mass media accounts of the Attica prison uprising and subsequent massacre. “Few social documentaries hit their mark with more harrowing and urgent impact. No matter how you feel about prison reform Attica makes indifference impossible” (Stanley Eichelbaum, San Francisco Examiner). With Christine Choy and Susan Robeson’s Teach Our Children.
  • Michael Mark Cohen
    Introduction
    Michael Mark Cohen is associate teaching professor of American studies and African American studies at UC Berkeley.

Saturday, September 24

Saturday, September 24, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, September 24, 2022
7 PM
Rithy Panh,
Cambodia, France,
2013,
(96 mins)
Renowned Cambodian filmmaker Panh’s haunting, powerful, and personal investigation into the Cambodian genocide.
In Conversation
  • Rithy Panh
  • Khatharya Um
    Khatharya Um is associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and associate professor and former coordinator of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program at UC Berkeley. She is