Sunday, March 3
Sunday, March 3, 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, March 3, 2024
3 PM
Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman,
Senegal, United States,
2015,
(86 mins)
“A documentary about the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker, this movie covers the essentials about a cultural warrior whose nine varied features and assorted shorts could still use better recognition” (New York Times).
Series
Sembène 100
Sunday, March 3, 2024
3:30 PM
Join San Francisco–based curator and author Jordan Stein for an introduction of his new book, Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts —the first-ever monograph on the life and work of the Berkeley-born artist (1918–1983).
Included with gallery admission.
Series
Readings
Sunday, March 3, 2024
5:30 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
1985,
(119 mins)
Pop star Tsai Chin and director Hou Hsiao-hsien star in Edward Yang’s breakthrough work, a treatise on loves gone wrong, urban alienation, and sorrow within the bright lights of a mid-1980s Taipei caught between past and present.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Andrew F. Jones
IntroductionAndrew F. Jones is professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley.
Series
Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
Sunday, March 3, 2024
CANCELLED: 2 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
Monday, March 4
Tuesday, March 5
Wednesday, March 6
Wednesday, March 6, 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, March 6, 2024
3:10 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1956,
(97 mins)
Lecture & Screening
From the true account of a Resistance leader who escaped from a Nazi prison just before he was to be executed, Robert Bresson created a film where the drama is all internal. “Essential viewing” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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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David Thomson
LectureDavid Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
7 PM
Abounaddara,
France, Syria,
2014,
(100 mins)
Les Blank Lecture
This complex, multifaceted depiction of everyday life during revolution and war—made by those living through it—is assembled from videos made and released by the anonymous Syrian film collective Abounaddara.
In Conversation
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Charif Kiwan
Charif Kiwan is a founding member of the anonymous video collective Abounaddara and will deliver the annual Les Blank Lecture, in honor of the beloved local documentary filmmaker. Abounaddara (“the -
Stefania Pandolfo
Stefania Pandolfo is Professor of Anthropology, and is in the Medical Anthropology Program and the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. -
Soraya Tlatli
Soraya Tlatli is Associate Professor in the French Department at UC Berkeley.
Series
Documentary Voices 2024
Thursday, March 7
Thursday, March 7, 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
Thursday, March 7, 2024
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
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
7 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
France, Senegal,
1966,
(111 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Her postcolonial hopes dashed, a young Senegalese woman is led to a dramatic act of resistance in Black Girl, considered Africa’s first dramatic feature. With Borom sarret, a poignant, politically charged essay on a cart driver in the poorer sections of Dakar, and Niaye, about the scandal of a pregnant young girl.
Series
Sembène 100
Thursday, March 7, 2024
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Friday, March 8
Friday, March 8, 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, March 8, 2024
7 PM
Edward Yang,
1986,
(105 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Three groups of characters—a photographer, a hoodlum, and a doctor and his wife—are united by a prank phone call in Edward Yang’s self-reflexive look at human relationships and their emotional violence. “Yang’s ultimate statement on the isolation of modern living” (Film at Lincoln Center).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Andrew F. Jones
IntroductionAndrew F. Jones is professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley.
Series
Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
Saturday, March 9
Saturday, March 9, 2024
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from on Saturday, March 9 for our annual Art & Film Benefit. We reopen Sunday, March 10 at 1 PM.
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