Week of October 2, 2022

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Sunday, October 9

Sunday, October 9, 2022
1 PM
Visitors are invited to create artwork and poetry to send back to the participating artists from the San Quentin arts studio, taking the opportunity to build connections and exchange creative energy.

Included with admission

Sunday, October 9, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, October 9, 2022
2 PM
Tours of Undoing Time are led by students from the Berkeley Underground Scholars program, which supports formerly incarcerated and systems-impacted students.
Sunday, October 9, 2022
3:30 PM
Diane Robinson,
United States,
2022,
(67 mins)
Despite their power to make meaningful change at the ballot box, Americans aged eighteen to twenty-nine sit out elections far more than any other age group. Robinson’s documentary follows the highs and lows of 2020’s fraught election season as four youth-led initiatives attempt to engage this disaffected group.

Special Admission

General: $16.50

BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14

Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15

Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8.

BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

In Person
  • Diane Robinson
  • Ariana Tulay
  • Liz Magallanes
Sunday, October 9, 2022
5:45 PM
Alice Rohrwacher,
Italy,
2022,
(37 mins)

Free Admission

Rohrwacher’s new film is a whimsical, wonderful thirty-seven minutes in the company of the rebellious little girls at a Catholic boarding school in Italy. It’s Christmas, it’s wartime, things are scarce. But there’s an irresistible red cake—temptation abounds!

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 2 PM.

Sunday, October 9, 2022
7 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
France,
2022,
(112 mins)
Even more moving for eschewing excess drama, writer/director Hansen-Løve’s subtle film is a bittersweet exploration of how the vicissitudes of fate and the passage of time shape identities. Featuring Léa Seydoux as Sandra, a translator and single mom, caring for her ailing father.

Special Admission

General: $16.50

BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14

Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15

Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8.

BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

Sunday, October 9, 2022
7:30 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson

UC Berkeley students from the course Creativity in Practice perform several of Fluxus artist Alison Knowles’s provocative event "scores," involving simple actions, ideas, and objects from everyday life, recontextualized as performance.

Seating for Full performances is limited

$14General Admission
$12Seniors / Students / Patrons with Disability
FREEBAMPFA Members / UCB Staff and Students / Youth
Series Full 2022

Monday, October 10

Tuesday, October 11

Wednesday, October 12

Wednesday, October 12, 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, October 12, 2022
7 PM
(70 mins)
This selection of Fluxus films—“the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s”—includes works by Sharits and Ono and John Lennon.

Thursday, October 13

Thursday, October 13, 2022
12:45 PM
Through this conversation/presentation, Latanya d. Tigner shares colorful lessons about how to respectfully enter and engage cultural communities, learned during her informal observation of African movement and spiritual retention in New Orleans jazz funerals and Second Line parading traditions.

Free and open to the public

Thursday, October 13, 2022
4 PM
(80 mins)
Eight short films that empower and inspire. This year’s stories are told from a variety of perspectives championing women and gender nonconforming individuals—highlighting their aspirations, accomplishments, resilience, strength, and connection.

Special Admission

Shorts program: $10

Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8.

BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

Thursday, October 13, 2022
7 PM
Carla Simón,
Italy, Spain,
2022,
(120 mins)
In Simón’s gorgeous ensemble drama, a Catalan family running a peach orchard experiences turmoil when the land’s owner decides to replace the trees with solar panels. Now the family must fight for its survival, as three generations struggle to preserve hope, and memories, for future generations.

Special Admission

General: $16.50

BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14

Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15

Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8.

BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

Friday, October 14

Friday, October 14, 2022
11:30 AM
Catherine Ceniza Choy will discuss her new book, Asian American Histories of the United States, in which she argues that Asian American experiences are essential to any understanding of US history and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century.

The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom webinar

Free and open to the public

Friday, October 14, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, October 14, 2022
7:30 PM
Kathryn Golden,
United States,
2022,
(75 mins)
This brilliantly energetic portrait of Bay Area music legend, activist, and seven-time Grammy nominee John Santos reveals a hardworking musician and educator as dedicated to preserving and expanding Afro-Latin music as he is to navigating the politics of culture, social equality, and racial injustice.

Special Admission

General: $16.50

BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14

Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15

Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8.

BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

In Person
  • Kathryn Golden
  • Ashley James
    Ashley James is the producer and director of photography of Santos—Skin to Skin.
  • John Santos

Saturday, October 15

Saturday, October 15, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, October 15, 2022
1–2:30 PM
Moderated by guest curator Karen Moss, this symposium reassessing the importance and impact of Alison Knowles’s work features art historians Hannah B. Higgins and Nicole L. Woods, and artist/educator/writer Simon Leung.

Included with admission

Saturday, October 15, 2022
4 PM
Chie Hayakawa,
Japan,
2022,
(112 mins)
This dystopian drama may provoke comparisons to Logan’s Run or Soylent Green, but director Hayakawa’s tender and visionary film resonates in unexpected ways. Veteran actor Chieko Baisho stars as an elderly woman in a near-future society in which the Japanese government offers senior citizens a stipend for ending their own lives.

Special Admission

General: $16.50

BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14

Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15

Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8.

BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

Saturday, October 15, 2022
7 PM
Yvan Iturriaga, Francisco Núñez Capriles,
United States,
2022,
(93 mins)
This locally made doc explores the supersize life of soulful bluesman and Grammy Award winner Fantastic Negrito, from isolation as a Black Muslim kid in rural Massachusetts through countless reinventions until finally becoming a star on the streets of Oakland.

Special Admission

General: $16.50

BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14

Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15

Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8.

BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

In Person
  • Yvan Iturriaga
  • Francisco Núñez Capriles