Sunday, February 18
Sunday, February 18, 2024
1 PM
Workshop is full.
Join local artist and Art Lab facilitator Alayna Tinney for a beginner-friendly dive into risograph printing.
Workshop is full.
Series
Workshops 2024
Sunday, February 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2024
2 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1960,
(128 mins)
Coming full circle from Late Spring, Setsuko Hara plays a widowed mother pushing her unwilling daughter to marry. “Exquisite and not to be missed” (New Republic).
Sunday, February 18, 2024
4:30 PM
Werner Herzog,
United States,
2006,
(126 mins)
This big-budget Hollywood retelling of Werner Herzog’s documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly stars Christian Bale as a German immigrant–turned–fighter pilot who overcomes torture and starvation as a POW in Laos during the Vietnam War. “Less so Herzog selling out, than Hollywood buying in” (New Yorker).
Monday, February 19
Tuesday, February 20
Wednesday, February 21
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
3:10 PM–6 PM
Werner Herzog,
United States,
2005,
Lecture & Screening
The film that “turned [Werner] Herzog’s distinctive Bavarian accent into a pop culture phenomenon” (IndieWire), Grizzly Man investigates the life and death of Timothy Treadwell, who lived with—and was killed by—bears. Herzog used and mused over Treadwell’s video footage for this memorable essay on nature, both human and wild.
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 21, 2024
7 PM
Dick Fontaine, Pat Hartley,
United States,
1982,
(102 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Dick Fontaine’s record of James Baldwin’s 1980 journey to visit the sites and speak with fellow survivors of the civil rights movement, I Heard It Through the Grapevine remains a timely and layered interrogation of American history. With Sedat Pakay’s portrait of Baldwin in Istanbul.
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Stephen Best
IntroductionStephen Best is Director of The Townsend Center for the Humanities and a professor of English and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Documentary Voices 2024
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
7:30 PM
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Duane Linklater: mymothersside
A screening of the silent film Modest Livelihood, by Duane Linklater and Brian Jungen, is accompanied by a new score performed by a trio of local musicians. The score is written by eagles with eyes closed, a musical project consisting of Duane Linklater and Tobias Linklater, exploring the generative experience of watching films together as intergenerational collaborators, father and son, and two Indigenous artists.
Space is limited. Tickets required.
Series
Performances
Thursday, February 22
Thursday, February 22, 2024
7 PM
(96 mins)
Made after his graduation from film school in Berlin, these three essay films reflect Skip Norman’s rigorous commitment to the analysis of Black disenfranchisement in both the United States and Africa.
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Alexandra Gessesse
IntroductionAlexandra Gessesse is a doctoral student in the Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley.
Series
Skip Norman Here and There
Friday, February 23
Friday, February 23, 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 23, 2024
4 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.
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Friday, February 23, 2024
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1961,
(103 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
This chronicle of a sake-brewing family combines humorous touches with an acute awareness of mortality. “One of [Yasujiro] Ozu’s most beautiful films, it is one of his most disturbing” (Donald Richie).
Saturday, February 24
Saturday, February 24, 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 24, 2024
11:30 AM
Frederick Wiseman,
France, United States,
2023,
(240 mins)
Esteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest is a food lover’s heaven—a long, behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of France’s venerable restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades.
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
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Saturday, February 24, 2024
4 PM
Werner Herzog,
United States,
2015,
(128 mins)
Nicole Kidman, James Franco, and Robert Pattinson star in Werner “Herzog’s feminist version of Lawrence of Arabia” (Independent), which follows the amazing journey of Gertrude Bell from English high society to archeologist and political specialist of the Arab world and advisor to Middle Eastern rulers.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
7 PM
David Schickele,
United States,
1971,
(140 mins)
BAMPFA presents the recently completed restoration of Bushman, directed by Bay Area independent filmmaker David Schickele. Paired with Schickele’s earlier film Give Me a Riddle.
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