Week of January 8, 2023

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Sunday, January 8

Sunday, January 8, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Sunday, January 8, 2023
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

Monday, January 9

Tuesday, January 10

Wednesday, January 11

Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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

Thursday, January 12

Thursday, January 12, 2023
7 PM
Tadeusz Chmielewski,
Poland,
1971,
(114 mins)

Digital Restoration

This lighthearted comedy turns a dysfunctional Warsaw into a slapstick playground worthy of Jacques Tati, balancing criticism and lyricism in its portrait of the forgotten details of daily life in a socialist state. With Roman Polanski’s Two Men and a Wardrobe.

Friday, January 13

Friday, January 13, 2023
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Friday, January 13, 2023
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1977,
(91 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

Pointedly critical of the homogenizing effects of television and consumerist, bourgeois, suburban existence, A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness focuses on Reiko, a pretty, young golfer who is selected by textile executives to be the new face of their brand. Listed as thirteenth on Kinema Junpo’s “Best Films of 1977.”

Saturday, January 14

Saturday, January 14, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Saturday, January 14, 2023
11:30 AM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Inspired by Alison Knowles’s many imaginative books, create your own Fluxusbook from elements of your choosing.

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under

  • Mary Curtis Ratcliff
    Workshop led by
    After studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in New York, Mary Curtis Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture and mixe
Series Family Events
Saturday, January 14, 2023
2 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)

Inspired by the true story of the wolf called OR-7, this book tells the story of Swift and his remarkable journey across the Pacific Northwest.

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under

  • Carl Coleman
    Reading led by
    Carl Coleman, librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series Family Events
Saturday, January 14, 2023
4:30 PM
(66 mins)
This program explores the vast richness of inner and outer landscapes through home movies, educational films, and experimental animation.
In Conversation
  • Adrianne Finelli
    Adrianne Finelli is an artist and curator and the media technology specialist in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley.
  • Jon Shibata
    Jon Shibata is BAMPFA’s film archivist.
  • Pamela Vadakan
    Pamela Vadakan is the director of California Revealed, a California State Library initiative that helps cultural heritage organizations digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials docum
Saturday, January 14, 2023
7 PM
Pavel Juráček,
Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia,
1969,
(102 mins)

Digital Restoration

Juráček imaginatively adapted part of Gulliver’s Travels into a sci-fi journey through socialist Czechoslovakia. The film’s allusions to uncomfortable truths caused it to be “banned forever.”