Sunday, March 19
Sunday, March 19, 2023
1 PM
Join us for an engaging, illustrated talk by Amalia Mesa-Bains as she illuminates the sources and stories behind her wide-ranging multimedia practice.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
Sunday, March 19, 2023
1 PM
This workshop is full.
This workshop approaches the construction of scent through walking, sensing, and reflecting prompts, circulated by artist Leonora Zoninsein.
This workshop is full.
Series
Workshops 2023
Sunday, March 19, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023
3 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Sunday, March 19, 2023
4 PM
Lizzie Borden,
United States,
1976,
(80 mins)
New Restoration
“Combative, entropic, mesmerizing, Lizzie Borden’s first film, the shape-shifting documentary Regrouping, is a chronicle of a women’s collective” (Melissa Anderson, 4Columns).
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Lizzie Borden
In Person
Sunday, March 19, 2023
7 PM
Bill Sherwood,
United States,
1986,
(129 mins)
New Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Several friends and lovers navigate friendship and romance in this joyful, independent look at gay life and love. A snapshot of a funky, proud, defiantly gay 1986 New York City. With shorts by Jim Hubbard (Memento Mori) and Peggy Rajski (Trevor).
Series
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Monday, March 20
Tuesday, March 21
Wednesday, March 22
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
7 PM
Billy Woodberry,
Portugal, United States,
2015,
(110 mins)
Billy Woodberry’s “daring and accomplished documentary” (New Yorker) of Bob Kaufman, one of the most overlooked of the Beat Generation artists, is lovingly assembled from archival footage, documents, and interviews. With an homage to Ousmane Sembène’s Black Docker.
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Billy Woodberry
In PersonLes Blank Lecturer
Thursday, March 23
Thursday, March 23, 2023
12 PM
How does the moving image change when relocated from the cinematheque to the gallery of the museum? Does this changed spatial experience create a different aesthetic experience? A different political experience? Reflecting on their work as curators of the films of two artists who move amongst these spaces, BAMPFA’s own Susan Oxtoby and Kate MacKay discuss the screen-based work of William Kentridge and Apichatpong Weesrasethakul.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
Thursday, March 23, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
Thailand,
2000,
(132 mins)
A film crew heads from Bangkok to the hinterlands of Thailand, asking people to continue improvising a story in this bewitching relocation of the surrealist exquisite corpse game. “Rarely has a first feature been more aptly titled” (Dennis Lim). With Worldly Desires.
Friday, March 24
Friday, March 24, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 24, 2023
7 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2022,
(108 mins)
Closed captioned
Audio description
Michelle Williams stars as a grad student/sculptor balancing work, life, and art making at a small liberal arts college in Portland. Costarring André “3000” Benjamin and Hong Chau. “Beautifully crafted” (Screen International).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Kelly Reichardt
In Person
Series
Kelly Reichardt in Person
Saturday, March 25
Saturday, March 25, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2023
4:30 PM
(79 mins)
This eclectic set of short films relates in part to William Kentridge’s work for theater, opera, and gallery installation, while displaying the importance of variations in his artistic practice and themes related to South African and world history, language, science, and the arts.
Saturday, March 25, 2023
7 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2019,
(121 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Closed captioned
Audio description
An itinerant cook and a Chinese immigrant in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest embark on an unlikely bovine-related business venture in this reinvention of Old West mythos, populated by those too often written out of its history. “A fable of land and freedom” (Observer UK).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Kelly Reichardt
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Nicolás Pereda
Nicolás Pereda is a filmmaker and assistant professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Kelly Reichardt in Person
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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