Week of October 9, 2022

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Sunday, October 16

Sunday, October 16, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, October 16, 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, October 16, 2022
4 PM
Lizzie Gottlieb,
United States,
2022,
(112 mins)
Gottlieb’s fascinating documentary explores the significance of the intersecting life’s work of her father, writer and editor Robert Gottlieb, and biographer Robert Caro, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and the influential multivolume The Years of Lyndon Johnson.

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 16, 2022
7 PM
Park Chan-wook,
Korea,
2022,
(138 mins)
Oldboy auteur Park’s Hitchcockian romantic thriller stars Park Hae-il as a detective investigating a puzzling death, his suspicions falling on the deceased’s eerily enigmatic wife (Tang Wei). Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, this film delivers a shimmering portrait of obsession and the mysteries of the human heart.

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.

Monday, October 17

Tuesday, October 18

Wednesday, October 19

Wednesday, October 19, 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 19, 2022
7 PM
(72 mins)
This year’s Festival of (In)appropriation—an annual showcase for experimental found media—features an array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of audiovisual remix.
In Conversation
  • Allyson Unzicker
    Allyson Unzicker is a curator and writer from Los Angeles. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at UC Berkeley in the Film & Media Department.
  • Raed Rafei
  • TT Takemoto
  • Darren Wallace
  • Misael José Oquendo

Thursday, October 20

Thursday, October 20, 2022
12:45 PM
Artist Zelikha Shoja and writer Hawa Arsala will discuss the power of storytelling in transforming and reimagining community identity. The panelists will examine how visual art and writing serve as unique mediums to engage with themes of ancestral identity, diasporic memory, and oral traditions of storytelling.

Online only

Free and open to the public

Thursday, October 20, 2022
7 PM
Luo Li,
Canada, China,
2010,
(75 mins)
Chinese Canadian filmmaker Li depicts family history with understated reenactments that shift in and out of sync with the stories being told, suggesting the challenges of intergenerational communication and distance with tenderness and humor.
In Conversation
  • Luo Li
  • Fang Xu
    Fang Xu is a continuing lecturer in the field of interdisciplinary studies at UC Berkeley.

Friday, October 21

Friday, October 21, 2022
11:30 AM
One island, two plays: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil will discuss their new musical Illegal with Filipino-American playwright Jeffrey Lo, who recently directed The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, which like Illegal dramatizes the family traumas created by racially exclusionary policies carried out at Angel Island.

The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom webinar

Free and open to the public

Friday, October 21, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, October 21, 2022
7 PM
Luo Li,
Canada, China,
2015,
(117 mins)
Li’s fascinating documentary/fiction hybrid tours the disappearing shoreline and dwindling waters of the rapidly changing landscape around East Lake in China’s Hubei province in this smart, subtle, and often comic look at contemporary China and its complex relationship to the past.
In Conversation
  • Luo Li
  • Michael Nylan
    Michael Nylan is the Jane K. Sather History Chair of the UC Berkeley Department of History.

Saturday, October 22

Saturday, October 22, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, October 22, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1961,
(117 mins)

New 4K Digital Restoration

Pasolini’s famous debut film, a hard-edged and lyrical tragedy set in the Dantean slums of Rome, is “incandescent” (New York Times).