Sunday, April 9
Sunday, April 9, 2023
1 PM
This workshop is full.
Design a personal perfume that explores the versatility and play of the materials while honing a practice of constraint to guide creation. Led by Leonora Zoninsein.
This workshop is full.
Series
Workshops 2023
Sunday, April 9, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 9, 2023
12 PM
Curator’s Talk: Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo on Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World
Guest curator Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo offers a series of gallery talks highlighting works by contemporary Asian and Asian American artists.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
Sunday, April 9, 2023
2 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, April 9, 2023
3 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom,
Thailand,
2002,
(126 mins)
Young lovers travel to the verdant jungle seeking respite from everyday anguish in “a delicate, ethereal dream of a film” (New York Times).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Jean Ma
Jean Ma is the author of At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators.
Sunday, April 9, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1971,
(97 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
The Long Farewell also screens Saturday, May 13 with Stanislav Menzelevskyi introducing.
The relationship between mother and son forms the crux of Kira Muratova’s ephemeral second feature, banned for nearly two decades. “Rendered with a borderline avant-garde sense of aesthetic freedom and formal experimentation” (NYFF)
Monday, April 10
Tuesday, April 11
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
9 AM–7 PM
Watch our big-screen livestream of the Campanile peregrine falcon nest—if we're lucky, we'll see the chicks hatch in real time!
Free all day on the outdoor screen
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
5:10 PM
For the Townsend Center for the Humanities’s Una’s Lecture, Apichatpong Weerasethakul appears in conversation with Hilton Als, who inquires into his career arc, filmmaking practice, and the particular political challenges involved in making film in his native Thailand. With Len Lye’s Free Radicals, Bruce Baillie’s Valentin de las Sierras, and Weerasethakul’s Ablaze.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4 PM.
In Conversation
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Hilton Als
Hilton Als is a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and the author of The Women, White Girls, and My Pinup.
Wednesday, April 12
Wednesday, April 12, 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, April 12, 2023
12:30 PM
This panel is a rare opportunity to peek into Deaf culture and to hear from Black Deaf individuals in the arts world. Michelle Banks, Fred Beam, Harold Foxx, and Ashlea Hayes, with Antoine Hunter, discuss how to work with Deaf directors, artists, performers, and dancers; debunk the myths and realities of Deaf dancers; and speak to how people of color face at least a “triple whammy” because they are already Deaf and experience specific discrimination in this intersection.
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
5 PM
To mark the opening of Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again, which she guest curated together with Vanessa Jackson, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby introduces her new book, Creole, with a presentation designed to frame and contextualize the exhibition.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
7 PM
Payal Kapadia,
France, India,
2021,
(121 mins)
In Indian director “Payal Kapadia’s kaleidoscopic, Cannes prize-winning documentary . . . love for the moving image—and love for artistic creativity—marches hand in hand with the fight for political freedom” (Guardian). With a short by Amit Dutta.
Series
Documentary Voices 2023
Thursday, April 13
Thursday, April 13, 2023
12 PM
In Danielle Dean’s subversive work, video art expands into media art as video figures as a medium, interface, and subject. Discussing her panoramas and immersive installations, which tackle the impacts of extractive capitalism on land and people, Dean illuminates her strategic use of watercolor, landscape, interior, and video.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
Thursday, April 13, 2023
7 PM
Tom Joslin,
United States,
1977,
(130 mins)
New Restoration
Tom Joslin’s prequel to Silverlake Life: The View from Here is an experimental, “self-ethnographic” documentary on gay love. With Choosing Children (1984), one of the first documentaries to challenge the assumption that being a lesbian means you can’t be a mom.
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Mimi (Kim) Klausner
In Person
Series
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Friday, April 14
Friday, April 14, 2023
6 PM
Carlos Lechuga,
Colombia, Cuba, France, Norway, United States,
2022,
(77 mins)
Vicenta is a gifted clairvoyant. While she can foretell others’ future, her own remains cloudy as she struggles to communicate with her ancestors to understand the journey ahead for her and her son, who is leaving Cuba for the United States.
Special Admission
General: $20
BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16
Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19
BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.
Friday, April 14, 2023
8 PM
Savanah Leaf,
United States,
2023,
(97 mins)
Closed captioned
A single mother in Oakland navigates the foster care system while making a living at a family portrait studio in this intimate coming-of-age story.
Special Admission
General: $20
BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16
Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19
BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.
In Person
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Savanah Leaf
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Tia Nomore
Tia Nomore is a member of the cast of Earth Mama. -
Keta Price
Keta Price is a member of the cast of Earth Mama.
Saturday, April 15
Saturday, April 15, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 15, 2023
12 PM
Alison O’Daniel,
United States,
2023,
(91 mins)
Open Captioned
Audio description
In this visually stunning work, which features a visceral, textured sound design and an almost entirely deaf cast, Alison O’Daniel invites the audience to listen to the world through the experiences of the deaf and hard of hearing.
Special Admission
General: $20
BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16
Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19
BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.
In Person
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Alison O’Daniel
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Daphne Hanrahan
Daphne Hanrahan is the founder of the Deaf Club. -
Maya E. Rudolph
Maya E. Rudolph is a producer of The Tuba Thieves.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
2:30 PM
Byun Sung-bin,
South Korea,
2022,
(114 mins)
A masterfully shot debut feature, Peafowl follows a professional waack dancer, Myung, as she confronts her relationship with her family and finds her own personal style of performance.
Special Admission
General: $20
BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16
Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19
BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.
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Byun Sung-bin
In Person
Saturday, April 15, 2023
5:30 PM
Emanuele Crialese,
France, Italy,
2022,
(98 mins)
Emanuele Crialese’s first film in eleven years is a portrait of two outsiders, an effusive, fun-loving mother (Penélope Cruz) and her daughter, trying to escape the confines of their environment in 1970s Rome.
Special Admission
General: $20
BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16
Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19
BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
7:45 PM
Mary Harron,
United Kingdom, United States,
2022,
(103 mins)
A young gallery assistant is asked to deliver money to Salvador Dalí and his wife, Gala, and is swept into their world of art and parties filled with beautiful people and stimulating substances.
Special Admission
General: $20
BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16
Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19
BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.
In Person
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Mary Harron
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John C. Walsh
John C. Walsh is the screenwriter of Dalíland.
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