Week of September 18, 2022

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Sunday, September 25

Sunday, September 25, 2022
1 PM
Join local artists and educators Amy Bergstein and Alayna Tinney for some collaborative collage time in the Art Lab. All ages are welcome!

Included with admission

Sunday, September 25, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, September 25, 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 25, 2022
3:30 PM
Rithy Panh,
Cambodia, France,
2020,
(88 mins)

North American Premiere

Winner of the 2020 Berlinale Documentary Award, Panh’s Irradiated continues his exploration of the inhumanity of war and ideologically motivated genocide beyond the borders of his native Cambodia.
In Conversation
  • Rithy Panh
  • Boreth Ly
    Borethy Ly is associate professor of Southeast Asian Art History and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. 
Sunday, September 25, 2022
4 PM
Poetry by Toya L. Groves and Darius Simpson.

Included with admission

Sunday, September 25, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1972,
(106 mins)
The Heartbreak Kid is a bitter satire that plays like a whimsical romantic comedy. “[A] movie that manages the marvelous and very peculiar trick of blending the mechanisms and the cruelties of Neil Simon’s comedy with the sense and sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).

Monday, September 26

Tuesday, September 27

Wednesday, September 28

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
12:15 PM
Tours of Undoing Time are led by students from the Berkeley Underground Scholars program, which supports formerly incarcerated and systems-impacted students.
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
7 PM
(74 mins)

Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies

The experimental films of Brazilian filmmaker Vaz celebrate the medium’s possibility to engage the senses in surprising new ways by reconsidering the limits of our perception.
Prerecorded Conversation
  • Ana Vaz
  • Nicolás Pereda
    Nicolás Pereda is a filmmaker and assistant professor of film and media at UC Berkeley.

Thursday, September 29

Thursday, September 29, 2022
12:45 PM
Composer, vocalist, and artist Ken Ueno moves toward creating a personal practice that seeks to “uncorset” musical practice and, by extension, claim artistic agency for those who do not belong to the dominant culture.

Free and open to the public

Thursday, September 29, 2022
7 PM
Hawa Aliou N’Diaye,
Benin, France, Mali,
2021,
(71 mins)
N’Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who—like her—claim to be possessed by enigmatic spirits known as jinn.

Friday, September 30

Friday, September 30, 2022
11:30 AM
Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi will talk about their new book, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps and the Pacific War.
Friday, September 30, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, September 30, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1987,
(107 mins)

Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Broke, untalented nightclub performers (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) accept a gig at a Moroccan hotel before becoming CIA pawns in May’s highly underrated romp. “May’s screenwriting has a sardonic, aphoristic brilliance. . . . [as director] she pushes Beatty and Hoffman out of their familiar personae, into strange psychodramatic performances that emerge with a precision of gesture and inflection” (Richard Brody, New Yorker).

Saturday, October 1

Saturday, October 1, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, October 1, 2022
7 PM
Haile Gerima,
United States,
1975,
(97 mins)
Dorothy, the title character, is raising a daughter in Watts while her husband is in prison. Her political awareness develops as she navigates the cacophony and turmoil of the neighborhood and stays connected with him via correspondence.
  • Ryanaustin Dennis
    Introduction
    Ryanaustin Dennis is cocurator of BAMPFA's Black Life series.