Sunday, March 17
Sunday, March 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 2023
Sunday, March 17, 2024
11:30 AM
Barry Jenkins,
United States,
2021,
(52 mins)
Untethered from narrative, immaculately costumed, and on location, actors from The Underground Railroad look back at the camera, as if through time and history, emphasizing their existence while compelling viewers to consider the foundations of their own point of view.
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Barry Jenkins
Introduction
Sunday, March 17, 2024
1:00 PM
(143 mins)
Barry Jenkins presents his brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning magnum opus in person. In this essential reckoning with America’s history of slavery and white supremacy, Jenkins renders Whitehead’s uncanny, antebellum American South with profound sensitivity and exquisite artistry.
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.
In Conversation
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Barry Jenkins
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Joi McMillon
Academy Award–nominated editor Joi McMillon—known for her work on Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Zola—led the editorial department on The Underground Railroad. -
Roshanak Kheshti
Roshanak Kheshti is associate professor and interim head graduate advisor of Theater, Dance, and Performance and professor of Gender and Women's studies at UC Berkeley.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
3 PM
Artists Sadie Barnette and David Huffman speak informally about their own work on view in the galleries and touch on the thematic section of the exhibition in which their work is included.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
Sunday, March 17, 2024
5 PM
(58 mins)
Barry Jenkins presents his brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning magnum opus in person. In this essential reckoning with America’s history of slavery and white supremacy, Jenkins renders Whitehead’s uncanny, antebellum American South with profound sensitivity and exquisite artistry.
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.
In Conversation
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Barry Jenkins
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Brandi Thompson Summers
Brandi Thompson Summers is associate professor of Geography at UC Berkeley.
Monday, March 18
Tuesday, March 19
Wednesday, March 20
Wednesday, March 20, 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
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
3:10 PM
Peter Jackson,
New Zealand, United Kingdom,
2018,
(99 mins)
Lecture & Screening
Closed Captioned
Director Peter Jackson and team took hours of silent war footage, digitally restored and retimed it, researched existing museum collections for correct colors, and added foley effects or veteran’s oral histories to create a contemporary epic of a century-old war and a snapshot of a society—and countless lives—now gone.
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 20, 2024
7 PM
Tatiana Huezo,
Germany, Mexico,
2023,
(102 mins)
The cycles of life, seasons, and harvesting anchor this luminous look at multigenerational family life in a remote Puebla community. “An intimate, immersive portrait of a way of life” (Hollywood Reporter).
In Conversation
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Tatiana Huezo
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Nicolás Pereda
Thursday, March 21
Thursday, March 21, 2024
5:30 PM
To honor the beginning of spring, come join us for an inclusive group sing-along using the In Song Sing On songbook, with lyrics written down for the purpose of singing together.
Included with admission.
Series
Workshops
Thursday, March 21, 2024
7 PM
Margarida Cardoso,
Mozambique, Portugal,
2003,
(98 mins)
Three films reveal the power of an image and the importance of archives through their explorations of the role of newsreels and film documentation in the struggles of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau against Portuguese colonization.
Friday, March 22
Friday, March 22, 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 2023
Friday, March 22, 2024
5 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
Friday, March 22, 2024
7 PM
Tatiana Huezo,
Brazil, Germany, Mexico,
2021,
(110 mins)
Three young girls come of age in a remote Mexican highland village scarred by cartel violence in this powerful drama, Mexico’s official Oscar submission in 2021. “A masterfully evocative portrait of coming of age in the shadow of Mexico’s narco wars” (Little White Lies).
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Tatiana Huezo
In Person
Saturday, March 23
Saturday, March 23, 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 2023
Saturday, March 23, 2024
4 PM
Pierre-Henri Gibert,
France,
2023,
(71 mins)
Bay Area Premiere
A new documentary by Pierre-Henri Gibert chronicles Agnès Varda’s expansive career and fills in notable gaps from the previous autobiographical films The Beaches of Agnès and Varda by Agnès. Viva Varda! features rare archival material and interviews with Varda’s family members, friends, and collaborators. Shown with the posthumously completed Agnès Varda—Pier Paolo Pasolini—New York—1967.
Series
Viva Varda!
Saturday, March 23, 2024
6 PM
Edward Yang,
1991,
(240 mins)
Gangsters, musicians, lovers, and street punks populate the gorgeous frames of Edward Yang’s portrait of coming of age—or trying to—in the politically charged Taiwan of the 1960s. Yang’s—and Taiwanese cinema’s—version of such epoch-defining films as The Godfather or 1900.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
Series
Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through May 2
Through May 5
Through May 11
Through July 3
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