Sunday, November 13
Sunday, November 13, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, November 13, 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, November 13, 2022
4 PM
Poetry by artist, educator, and youth collaborator Aja Lenae; essayist and writer of the upcoming poetry collection Person, Perceived Girl A. A. Vincent; and poet, performer, and digital artist Troy Rockett.
Included with admission
Series
The Black Poet’s Imagination
Sunday, November 13, 2022
5 PM
Tengiz Abuladze,
USSR,
1967,
(77 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Poetry and song combine in this “magisterially shot” black-and-white work, based on two epic poems by Georgian writer Vaza Psavela (National Film Theatre of London).
Sunday, November 13, 2022
7 PM
Borhane Alaouié,
Belgium, Lebanon, Tunisia,
1981,
(97 mins)
Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute
Two young people separated by the war make tapes for each other. “The monologues, by the well-known writer Ahmad Baydoun, which form the basis of this acutely observed, moving film, have acquired classical status in Lebanese cinema” (Alia Arasoughly).
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Jonathan Mackris
IntroductionJonathan Mackris, who guest curated this series, is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley.
Monday, November 14
Tuesday, November 15
Wednesday, November 16
Wednesday, November 16, 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, November 16, 2022
7 PM
Brett Story,
United States,
2016,
(90 mins)
Story shows how the extractive carceral system reaches far beyond prison walls to affect the lives and livelihoods of disadvantaged Americans. Sidestepping drama and polemics, the documentary is nonetheless a damning collection of evidence for abolition.
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Althea Wasow
IntroductionAlthea Wasow is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.
Thursday, November 17
Thursday, November 17, 2022
12:45 PM
This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.
This presentation by UC Berkeley continuing lecturer Dr. Pablo Gonzalez focuses on an ongoing project to reenvision the history of the campus through the use of augmented reality. It asks what an Other campus tour would look like and how this tour could usher in an important dialogue over race, memory, and monuments.
Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Thursdays
Thursday, November 17, 2022
7 PM
Heiny Srour,
Belgium, Lebanon, Netherlands, United Kingdom,
1984,
(90 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute
“Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and the mosaic-like storytelling of The Arabian Nights, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in the recent history of Palestine and Lebanon” (Tarek Elhaik).
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Jonathan Mackris
IntroductionJonathan Mackris, who guest curated this series, is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley.
Friday, November 18
Friday, November 18, 2022
11:30 AM
This event has been cancelled.
PhD Student Elizabeth Fair will discuss the material and spatial qualities of the Chinese poetry carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station by detainees. Her experiences as a park interpretive specialist at Angel Island inspired her to pursue a PhD in Art history in order to study the ways calligraphy, architecture, and landscape work together to shape history and memory.
Series
Arts + Design Fridays
Friday, November 18, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, November 18, 2022
3:30 PM
Copresented with Cal Performances and the Townsend Center for the Humanities
William Kentridge’s UC Berkeley residency kicks off with a visually illustrated lecture in which he will consider provocations and processes in the making of the chamber opera Waiting for the Sibyl (2019), as well as his multifaceted artistic practice and the role and meaning of art.
Free-admission student ticketholders must present a valid Cal 1 ID for admittance by 3:15 PM on the day of the lecture.
Special Admission
General: $14
BAMPFA members: $8
UC Berkeley faculty & staff, Non-UC Berkeley students, Disabled, 65+, 18 & under: $10
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
Friday, November 18, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1971,
(111 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Recommended for adults only
“One of the most beautiful, turbulent and uproarious panoramas of early Renaissance life ever put on film” (New York Times).
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Saturday, November 19
Saturday, November 19, 2022
1 PM
This workshop is intended for ages 7 and older. Space is limited. RSVP required.
Join Art Lab teaching artist Micaela Martinez Saavedra, and learn the process for making small cloth dolls with needle and thread.
This workshop is intended for ages 7 and older. Space is limited. RSVP
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, November 19, 2022
5 PM
Aleksandr Rekhviashvili,
USSR,
1981/87,
(83 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini and set in a nineteenth-century southern Georgia still dominated by the Ottoman Empire, The Way Home reimagines the historical figure of Anthim the Iberian (1650–1716)—a revered scholar, theologian, calligrapher, and philosopher—as a quiet young man who tries to return home after escaping his captors. An allusive road movie featuring striking landscape cinematography.
Saturday, November 19, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1964,
(137 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
“Pasolini’s most satisfying movie. . . . The director’s Catholicism and Marxism serve him well here [but] the film’s beauty . . . derives from its simplicity” (Time Out).
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through May 2
Through May 5
Through May 11
Through July 3
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