Sunday, February 4
Sunday, February 4, 2024
1 PM
Tap into your inner diva and learn the basics of voguing in this intro dance class with Sir JoQ (Jocquese Whitfield), a homegrown vogue legend.
Included with admission.
Series
Workshops
Sunday, February 4, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Sunday, February 4, 2024
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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
Sunday, February 4, 2024
2 PM
Laura Bialis,
United States,
2023,
(93 mins)
Copresented with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
BAMPFA partners with The Magnes to host the East Bay Premiere of Vishniac, Laura Bialis’s new portrait of famed photographer Roman Vishniac’s life and work. Bialis joins the February 4 screening to discuss her film with Bay Area documentary filmmaker Veronica Selver (Irmi, KPFA on the Air).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Laura Bialis
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Veronica Selver
Veronica Selver is an Oakland-based filmmaker and editor whose own work focuses on social issue documentaries.
Series
Special Screenings
Sunday, February 4, 2024
5 PM
Harry Dodge, Silas Howard ,
United States,
2001,
(104 mins)
Two unconventional grifters join forces and learn the true meaning of poise under pressure in this gorgeously antiauthoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption cowritten and codirected by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Jenni Olson
IntroductionJenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
Monday, February 5
Tuesday, February 6
Wednesday, February 7
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
3:10 PM–6 PM
Werner Herzog,
France, Germany, United Kingdom,
1997,
Lecture & Screening
Werner Herzog accompanies a Vietnam War POW back to the jungles of Laos to relive his imprisonment and torture in this award-winning documentary.
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.
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Michael Fox
LectureMichael Fox is a film critic and journalist for KQED’s Arts and Culture blog. He is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle and an inductee of SFFILM’s Essential SF.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
7 PM
Irene Lusztig,
United States,
2023,
(93 mins)
Closed captioned
Irene Lusztig’s portrait of Richland, Washington, contrasts the city’s uncannily idyllic surface with the murderous history and lies on which it was built. This is a trenchant accounting of the human and environmental price paid for a “good life.”
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Irene Lusztig
In Person
Series
Documentary Voices 2024
Thursday, February 8
Thursday, February 8, 2024
7 PM
Cauleen Smith,
United States,
1998,
(101 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). With two short films, The Changing Same and Lessons in Semaphore.
In Conversation
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Cauleen Smith
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Brandi Thompson Summers
Brandi Thompson Summers is associate professor of Geography at UC Berkeley.
Friday, February 9
Friday, February 9, 2024
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Friday, February 9, 2024
7 PM
(73 mins)
This is a program of ten films that weave together multiple styles into portraits of people and places, both real and imagined, from renowned activists and artistic visionaries to the filmmaker herself.
In Conversation
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Cauleen Smith
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Steve Anker
Steve Anker is the guest curator of Cauleen Smith—In Space, In Time.
Saturday, February 10
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Saturday, February 10, 2024
11 AM
The morning program of Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times features Debarati Sanyal, Judith Butler, and Claudia Rankine.
Morning and afternoon sessions are free and ticketed separately.
Tickets are required for each session. Tickets are free, limited to two per person, and must be claimed by 10 minutes before the start of each session. Tickets that are not claimed 10 minutes prior to the start of the event will be released.
(Please note: the 7 PM screening of Sorry to Bother You is a separately ticketed film program and is sold out.)
Saturday, February 10, 2024
11:30 AM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Tap into the playful spirit of Niki de Saint-Phalle’s sculpture to imagine and create your own bird-inspired artwork.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Rivka Valérie Louissaint
Workshop led byRivka Valérie Louissaint is a Haitian cultural worker currently based in Oakland, a 2022 graduate of UC Berkeley’s MFA program, and a 2022–24 Gerado Marín Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of San
Series
Family Events
Saturday, February 10, 2024
2 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Three young inventors are offered the chance to work at Dr. Flax’s laboratory, where dazzling science, new friendships, and killer robots await.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Adoria Williams
Reading led byformer librarian, Berkeley Unified School District
Series
Family Events
Saturday, February 10, 2024
2 PM
The afternoon program of Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times features Amir Aziz, Lisa Armstrong, Ronald Rael, and Luanne Redeye.
Morning and afternoon sessions are free and ticketed separately.
Tickets are required for each session. Tickets are free, limited to two per person, and must be claimed by 10 minutes before the start of each session. Tickets that are not claimed 10 minutes prior to the start of the event will be released.
(Please note: the 7 PM screening of Sorry to Bother You is a separately ticketed film program and is sold out.)
Saturday, February 10, 2024
7 PM
Boots Riley,
United States,
2018,
(112 mins)
Copresented with UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, in conjunction with Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times
Closed Captions
Surrealism meets satire in Oakland. Boots Riley’s black comedy chronicles a hapless telemarketer whose sudden burgeoning success in the workplace is directly proportional to his alienation from his coworkers, his girlfriend, and himself.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Boots Riley
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Darieck Scott
Darieck Scott is a professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley.
Series
Special Screenings
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Throughout the Day
Dance performances that creatively embody the ideas explored in Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times.
Included with gallery admission.
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