Sunday, October 23
Sunday, October 23, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, October 23, 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 23, 2022
4:30 PM
Kristine Samuelson,
United States,
1974,
(62 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Filmed at San Francisco County Jail, Time Has No Sympathy reveals the specific challenges of incarcerated women, the grinding repetition of prison life, and the need to organize to resist their unjust and inhumane treatment. With Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio’s Inside Women Inside and Janis Cole’s Shaggie: Letters from Prison.
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Kristine Samuelson
In Person
Sunday, October 23, 2022
7 PM
Chris van der Vorm,
Netherlands, Nigeria,
2020,
(101 mins)
A hard-charging theater director/activist brings her successful play on women’s empowerment into Nigeria’s largest waterside slum in this eye-opening look at exactly what it takes to make a difference. With Leonard Cortana’s short Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die, on the murder of an Afro-Brazilian councilwoman.
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Ivy Mills
IntroductionIvy Mills is a continuing lecturer in the History of Art department at UC Berkeley, where she teaches courses on African arts and visual cultures.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
Monday, October 24
Tuesday, October 25
Wednesday, October 26
Wednesday, October 26, 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
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
7 PM
(68 mins)
This program features rarely seen short works by pioneering Iranian filmmakers who brought creativity to commissions, industrials, and government films.
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Somayeh Khakshoor
Prerecorded IntroductionSomayeh Khakshoor, who curated this program, is a nomadic Iranian moving-image artist whose main sources of inspiration are synchronicities and classical Persian literature.
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
Thursday, October 27
Thursday, October 27, 2022
12:45 PM
Christina Yang, former BAMPFA chief curator, engages in an open-ended, behind-the-scenes conversation with Professor Lisa Wymore about the oftentimes sacred and profane task of curating performance as an expanded interdisciplinary practice in museums. This program asks what changes in curatorial work when bodies are foregrounded as works of art or perhaps how traditional principles can be upheld when a person or animal is in our care.
Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Thursdays
Thursday, October 27, 2022
5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above.
Please join fellow Curator's Circle members for a private tour of Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping with guest curator Victoria Sung.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Thursday, October 27, 2022
7 PM
Li Dongmei,
China,
2020,
(134 mins)
Winner of the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at the Göteborg Film Festival, Mama depicts seven days of life, and death, in a remote rural village in Chongqing province, as remembered by twelve-year-old Xiaoxian.
Friday, October 28
Friday, October 28, 2022
11:30 AM
Director Li-Shin Yu and producer James Q. Chan will discuss their American Experience PBS documentary about an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom webinar
Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Fridays
Friday, October 28, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, October 28, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1962,
(111 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Pasolini captures the great Anna Magnani “like a found object” (Village Voice) in her role as a spirited prostitute; her downtrodden exuberance stands in for Rome itself.
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Saturday, October 29
Saturday, October 29, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, October 29, 2022
4:30 PM
Otar Iosseliani,
USSR,
1975,
(94 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
In this exquisite film by Georgian director Iosseliani, a string quartet’s visit to a small village is treated with the gentle satire usually associated with the Czech New Wave. “Iosseliani is [Georgia’s] greatest director” (Tom Luddy).
Saturday, October 29, 2022
7 PM
Teco Benson,
Nigeria,
2000,
(86 mins)
For their Black Life presentation, Nolly Babes—sisters Tochi and Ebele Anueyiagu—has selected Highway to the Grave, a film that deals with indigenous mythology, superstition, and feminine power.
Prerecorded Conversation
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Tochi and Ebele Anueyiagu
Tochi and Ebele Anueyiagu’s digital platform Nolly Babes brings attention to their beloved Nollywood films and actresses. -
ruth gebreyesus
Ruth Gebreyesus, a writer and producer based in the Bay Area, is currently the cocurator of Black Life.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
Through April 24
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through May 2
Through May 5
Through May 11
Through May 12
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