Week of May 7, 2023

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Sunday, May 7

Sunday, May 7, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Sunday, May 7, 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.

Sunday, May 7, 2023
4 PM
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

Sunday, May 7, 2023
5 PM
Cauleen Smith,
United States,
1998,
(86 mins)
“An enduringly rich work of DIY filmmaking, Drylongso remains a resonant and visionary examination of violence (and its reverberations), friendship, and gender” (Film at Lincoln Center).
In Conversation
  • Cauleen Smith
    Cauleen Smith is a filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist, and professor in the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA.
  • Leila Weefur
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Weefur is an educator at Stanford University and a founding member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic.

Monday, May 8

Tuesday, May 9

Wednesday, May 10

Wednesday, May 10, 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.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
France, Thailand, United Kingdom,
2012,
(105 mins)
The Cannes-winning director of Tropical Malady returns with another mystical, magical blend of documentary, narrative, and fable, set in the crumbling Mekong Hotel, near the Thai/Laos border. With Ashes, Blue, La Punta, and Night Colonies. 

Thursday, May 11

Thursday, May 11, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
France, Ukraine,
1992,
(115 mins)
A kindly policeman throws his life into chaos after finding an abandoned baby in Kira Muratova’s combination of Chaplinesque comedy, Kafkaesque satire, and bureaucratic nightmare.
Introduction
  • Stanislav Menzelevskyi
    Stanislav Menzelevskyi is the former head of the Research and Programming Department at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center and is currently a PhD student at the Media School, Indiana University,

Friday, May 12

Friday, May 12, 2023
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Friday, May 12, 2023
5:30 PM
Meet the 2023 graduates of UC Berkeley’s MFA program as they talk about their recent work at the outset of BAMPFA’s fifty-third annual MFA exhibition. This year’s artists are Irma Barbosa, Gericault De La Rose, Eniola Fakile, Juniper Harrower, Fei Pan, Tiare Ribeaux, and Samuel Wildman.

Included with admission.

Friday, May 12, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
France, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom,
2015,
(127 mins)
A strange sleeping sickness befalls a group of soldiers in Weerasethakul’s mesmeric treatise on dreams, history, and magical thinking. “Cinema as the stuff dreams are made of” (Slant Magazine). With The Anthem.

Saturday, May 13

Saturday, May 13, 2023
1 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Saturday, May 13, 2023
11:30 AM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

After learning about assemblage in Amalia Mesa-Bains’s art, decorate a found picture frame with objects that enhance your feelings about a family photo.

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

Viviana Martínez Carlos
  • Viviana Carlos
    Workshop led by
    Viviana Martínez Carlos is a transdisciplinary Mexican artist living in San Francisco whose work reflects on, among other things, memory and displacement.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
2 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up
Recomendado para las edades de 8 años en adelante

Auggie wants nothing more than to be treated like an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past his extraordinary face.Auggie no quiere nada más que ser tratado como un niño normal, pero sus nuevos compañeros de clase no pueden superar su extraordinario rostro.

Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under / Gratis para menores de 18 años y para un adulto por niño de 13 años o menos

Angela Loza
  • Angela Loza
    Reading led by/ facilitada por
    Angela Loza is a librarian for / es bibliotecaria del West Contra Costa Unified School District.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
4 PM
Bring a garment to draw on or upcycle using our fabric marker collection, scissors, fabric scraps, and hot glue to explore the expressive potential of your style. A runway show of creations made during the workshop will commence at 6:00.

included with admission

Saturday, May 13, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1971,
(97 mins)

The Long Farewell also screened Sunday, April 9 without an introduction by Stanislav Menzelevskyi.

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).
  • Stanislav Menzelevskyi
    Introduction
    Stanislav Menzelevskyi is the former head of the Research and Programming Department at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center and is currently a PhD student at the Media School, Indiana University,