Sunday, January 29
Sunday, January 29, 2023
1 PM
Come take inspiration from a selection of works from the Floss Editions archive, and create your own single-page, eight-fold zine to be printed on-site using the Art Lab’s risograph machine.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
Sunday, January 29, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, January 29, 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
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Sunday, January 29, 2023
4 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1956,
(97 mins)
From the true account of a Resistance leader who escaped from a Nazi prison just before he was to be executed, Bresson created a film where the drama is all internal. “Essential viewing” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.
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Joel Coen
Introduction
Series
Joel Coen in Person
Sunday, January 29, 2023
7 PM
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen,
United States,
2009,
(106 mins)
Via the existential, moral, and romantic crises of physics professor and family man Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), A Serious Man ponders the limits of human agency, reason, faith, and the meaning of life in the face of an impassive, chaotic universe.
Special Admission
General: $15
BAMPFA members: $11
UC Berkeley students: $7
UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12
BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.
In Conversation
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Joel Coen
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Eric Karpeles
Painter and writer Eric Karpeles explores the relationship between visual and verbal culture in such books as Paintings in Proust and Almost Nothing: The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski.
Series
Joel Coen in Person
Monday, January 30
Monday, January 30, 2023
6:30 PM
Sarah Polley,
United States,
2022,
(104 mins)
Graced with an extraordinary cast, Polley’s thoughtfully executed adaptation of Miriam Toews’s best-selling novel chronicles a radical “act of female imagination” to consider the healing power of language and what is required to escape systematic criminal abuse in an isolated religious community.
In Conversation
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Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand is a producer and member of the cast of Women Talking. -
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is an associate professor of History at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in African American history, women’s and gender history, and the history of American slavery. -
Naima Karczmar
Naima Karczmar is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, where she works on racial epistemologies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Tuesday, January 31
Wednesday, February 1
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
12:30 PM
Join BSC Elder in Residence Daphne Muse, panelists Cheryl and Wade Hudson, Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs, Dr. Ajuan Mance, and moderators Professor Leigh Raiford and Abigail Simmons for a conversation on the legacy of Black children’s literature and the writers who continue telling stories that tap into the imagination and pay homage to Black futures.
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
7 PM
(133 mins)
In this selection of documentary and ethnographic films, women filmmakers from Lebanon, Senegal, Tanzania, and the United States employ different stylistic approaches and modes of address to depict women’s experience and work.
Series
Documentary Voices 2023
Thursday, February 2
Thursday, February 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, February 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff
BAMPFA members enjoy exclusive preview access to Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Thursday and Friday, February 2 and 3.
Exclusive to BAMPFA member and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
12 PM
Webinar only.
What does a contemporary form such as video art have to say to the classic forms of seventeenth-century Dutch painting? Bart Rutten asked such questions and more in his recent exhibition Double Act by pairing Dutch masters with selected works of video art. Here he discusses his curatorial principles and how he found formal, political, and thematic correspondences amongst artists separated by three centuries.
Webinar only.
Series
Video Art in Context
Thursday, February 2, 2023
4—7 PM
Silkscreen, long the commercial technique used for textile patterns and T-shirt designs, came to the fore in the 1960s with its wide adoption by Pop artists, anti-war activists, and psychedelic poster makers.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Series
Five Tables
Thursday, February 2, 2023
7 PM
Isaac Julien,
United Kingdom,
1995,
(70 mins)
Combining archival footage, interviews with experts, and stark depictions of the Algerian revolution from The Battle of Algiers with dramatized tableaux to extend theorist Frantz Fanon’s challenge to people of all races, director Julien creates an intellectually provocative portrait of Fanon.
Friday, February 3
Friday, February 3, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff
BAMPFA members enjoy exclusive preview access to Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Thursday and Friday, February 2 and 3.
Exclusive to BAMPFA member and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
Friday, February 3, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 3, 2023
6:30 PM
Hong Sangsoo,
South Korea,
2010,
(80 mins)
A film school provides the appropriate landscape for this caustic look at cinema, relationships, and points of view. A “casually brilliant feat of storytelling, akin to an ingeniously wrought suite of literary short fiction” (New York Times).
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Dennis Lim
IntroductionDennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022.
Friday, February 3, 2023
8:30 PM
Hong Sangsoo,
South Korea,
2005,
(89 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
A film on two impromptu lovers and their suicide pact turns into another film entirely in Hong’s early deconstruction of narrative, reality, and cinema. “One of the filmmaker’s major touchstones” (New Yorker).
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Dennis Lim
IntroductionDennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022.
Saturday, February 4
Saturday, February 4, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Celebrate the opening of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory with free admission to the public.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
11:30 AM–2 PM
Make art inspired by Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory with local artist Rebeca Flores. / Haz arte inspirado en la exposición, Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, con la artista Rebeca Flores.
Included with admission.
Series
Family Events 2022-2023
Saturday, February 4, 2023
2 PM
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s work is deeply concerned with memory and with how art serves as a portal into the cultural histories of Indigenous, Mexican, African diasporic, and multiply gendered communities. In this new film directed by Raymond Telles, the artist reflects on how culture, history, and family memories have informed her art.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 1 PM.
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Raymond Telles
IntroductionRaymond Telles is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the artist in residence at UC Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
3 PM
Join cocurators María Esther Fernández and Laura Pérez—who organized this major retrospective exhibition of the work of renowned artist, scholar, and curator Amalia Mesa-Bains—for an insightful talk about the artist’s work in BAMPFA’s galleries.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
Saturday, February 4, 2023
5 PM
Hong Sangsoo,
South Korea,
2011,
(79 mins)
Four characters in search of a drink find themselves in the same bar again and again in Hong’s most Buñuelian take on the desire for human connection. “A soju-fueled cross between Last Year at Marienbad and Groundhog Day” (Artforum).
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Dennis Lim
IntroductionDennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
7:30 PM
Hong Sangsoo,
South Korea,
2017,
(91 mins)
A literary office is the fitting setting as a philandering middle-aged publisher, his pissed-off wife, and a mystified new office assistant wonder if words can create reality—or take the edge off it anyway. “A lovely, intricately fractured story” (New York Times).
Tickets go on sale November 17.
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Dennis Lim
IntroductionDennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022.
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