Week of October 29, 2023

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Sunday, October 29

Sunday, October 29, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Sunday, October 29, 2023
2 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.

Included with admission.

Sunday, October 29, 2023
4 PM
Yujiro Seki,
Japan, United States,
2020,
(99 mins)

Copresented by the Center for Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1,400-year-old Buddhist wood-carving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan.
Sunday, October 29, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1954,
(91 mins)
Luis Buñuel’s handling of the story of a doctor who returns to his rancorous hometown, his adoring mother, and a life-threatening blood feud was informed by the director’s ongoing fascination with Mexican machismo and the “ease with which certain people can kill others.”

Monday, October 30

Tuesday, October 31

Wednesday, November 1

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
3:00 PM–7:00 PM

Cosponsored by the Art Research Center

A series of open rehearsals with dance artists Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, led by artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater, these sessions respond to the cyclical, seasonal, affective, and formal qualities of selected works in Duane Linklater: mymothersside.

Included with admission.

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
7 PM
Peggy Ahwesh, Jacqueline Goss,
United States,
2022,
(75 mins)
A collaboratively made musical that places the work of scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich in conversation with feminist thinkers. With related shorts films by Peggy Ahwesh and Jacqueline Goss.
  • Peggy Ahwesh
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Thursday, November 2

Thursday, November 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Thursday, November 2, 2023
1:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2023
3:00 PM–7:00 PM

Cosponsored by the Art Research Center

A series of open rehearsals with dance artists Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, led by artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater, these sessions respond to the cyclical, seasonal, affective, and formal qualities of selected works in Duane Linklater: mymothersside.

Included with admission.

Thursday, November 2, 2023
7 PM
Katy Lena N’diaye,
Belgium, France, Germany, Senegal,
2022,
(104 mins)
The tainted history of the CFA franc, a currency created (and still controlled) by France for its former sub-Saharan colonies, is investigated here, in “the most important contemporary document on Francophone Africa’s malignant economic relations with France” (Film Verdict).

Friday, November 3

Friday, November 3, 2023
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Friday, November 3, 2023
2:00 PM–5:00 PM

Cosponsored by the Art Research Center

A series of open rehearsals with dance artists Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, led by artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater, these sessions respond to the cyclical, seasonal, affective, and formal qualities of selected works in Duane Linklater: mymothersside.

Included with admission.

Friday, November 3, 2023
6:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1952,
(86 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Provincial newlyweds arriving in Rome get sidetracked by the wife’s obsession with a fumetto photo-comic star in Federico Fellini’s solo directorial debut. “A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people’s illusions” (Chicago Reader).
Friday, November 3, 2023
8:30 PM
(65 mins)

Free Admission

Join us for CineSpin, the BAMPFA Student Committee’s annual event featuring terrific UC Berkeley student musicians providing original live accompaniment for Chess Fever (1925), Un chien Andalou (1929), and The Cage (1947).

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 7 PM.

Saturday, November 4

Saturday, November 4, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Saturday, November 4, 2023
2:00 PM–5:00 PM

Cosponsored by the Art Research Center

A series of open rehearsals with dance artists Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, led by artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater, these sessions respond to the cyclical, seasonal, affective, and formal qualities of selected works in Duane Linklater: mymothersside.

Included with admission.

Saturday, November 4, 2023
4:30 PM
Dino Risi,
Italy,
1961,
(118 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

“Alberto Sordi’s pungent embodiment of a left-wing pamphleteer who can’t prosper in a capitalist republic propels [Dino] Risi’s deft seriocomic panorama from Mussolini’s fall to the rise of the postwar Roman oligarchy. . . . The closest America has come to Alberto Sordi is Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their prime, rolled into one” (Michael Sragow, Air Mail).
Saturday, November 4, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1954,
(82 mins)
When their beloved streetcar is decommissioned, two tipsy transit workers decide to take it out for one last late-night spin. “Gorgeously photographed by Raúl Martínez Solares, Illusion Travels by Streetcar is in many ways Luis Buñuel’s most visually intoxicating creation” (Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine).