Sunday, February 11
Sunday, February 11, 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 2024
Sunday, February 11, 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 2024
Sunday, February 11, 2024
2 PM
(89 mins)
Cauleen Smith portrays two vital Black urban cultures, Chicago and New Orleans, through several short fantasy and documentary films that are largely imbued with local music and that focus on creative personalities and locations vital to these great cities.
In-Theater Livestream 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.
Sunday, February 11, 2024
5 PM
Werner Herzog,
France, Germany, United Kingdom,
1997,
(80 mins)
Werner Herzog accompanies a Vietnam War POW back to the jungles of Laos to relive his imprisonment and torture in this award-winning documentary.
Sunday, February 11, 2024
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1959,
(93 mins)
Yasujiro Ozu’s “bad boys” strike again! This reworking of I Was Born, But . . . is a genial comedy of manners centered around an icon of 1950s domesticity: the television set.
Monday, February 12
Tuesday, February 13
Wednesday, February 14
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
3:10 PM–6 PM
Werner Herzog,
France, United Kingdom, United States,
2022,
Lecture & Screening
Werner Herzog's “requiem” for another pair who followed their passions: the globe-trotting husband and wife volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who filmed hundreds of hours of astonishing footage of volcanoes. “This is a radical filmmaker acknowledging two kindred spirits. . . . Solemn, sparse, and hypnotic” (Film Stage).
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 14, 2024
7 PM
(77 mins)
Deeply collaborative, and with a political alignment that extended from the classroom to the streets, the work produced by the inaugural (1966) cohort of the DFFB rallied against the injustices they saw around them. With films by Harun Farocki, Helke Sander, and others.
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Deniz Göktürk
IntroductionDeniz Göktürk is Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.
Series
Skip Norman Here and There
Thursday, February 15
Thursday, February 15, 2024
7 PM
Glauber Rocha,
Brazil,
1964,
(120 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Steeped in history, myth, religion, and politics, and suffused with the feverish intensity of the blistering desert, Black God, White Devil is one of the Cinema Novo movement’s most uncompromising statements on current social issues as well as the universal problem of mindless fanaticism” (Janus Films).
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Friday, February 16
Friday, February 16, 2024
11:30 AM, 2 PM
This event is presented by the Arts Research Center, generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation, and cosponsored by BAMPFA.
A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an ocean-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary, features nineteen poetry fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Readings
Friday, February 16, 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 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1959,
(119 mins)
Digital Restoration
Glorious color photography by Kazuo Miyagawa brings new intensity to this remake of Yasujiro Ozu’s 1934 story about a traveling actor encountering his illegitimate son.
Saturday, February 17
Saturday, February 17, 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 2024
Saturday, February 17, 2024
1:30 PM
This event is presented by the Arts Research Center, generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation, and cosponsored by BAMPFA.
Writers who draw upon Indigenous languages and aesthetics—Natalie Diaz (Mojave), Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru), and Beth Piatote (Nez Perce)—gather to read from their work.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Readings
Saturday, February 17, 2024
4:30 PM
Daniel Peddle,
United States,
2005,
(72 mins)
This vibrant documentary follows an array of butches, studs, and masc folks of color from the New York City ballroom and nightlife scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jenni Olson
Jenni 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 -
Fresh “Lev” White
Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
7 PM
(81 mins)
This celebration of gender nonconforming heroes also showcases a powerful batch of cinematic rarities starring the butch dykes and transmasc pioneers of the early 1990s who blazed the trail for us today (plus a rare 1960s butch home movie treat!).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Bret Parker
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Pete Barma
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Stafford
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Sophie Constantinou
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Jude Dry
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Jenni Olson
Jenni 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
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