Week of April 14, 2024

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Sunday, April 14

Sunday, April 14, 2024
1 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required.

Join local artist and Art Lab facilitator Alayna Tinney for a beginner friendly dive into risograph printing. You will be given the chance to create a multimedia drawing or collage and turn it into a one-color risograph print using the machine’s manual printing option.

Space is limited; RSVP required.

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Sunday, April 14, 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.
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
2 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2000,
(82 mins)

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Agnès Varda’s rumination on the art of “living off the leftovers of others” visits food scavengers and cultural rebels, finding inspiration in both the past and the present, the rural and the urban, the political and the highly personal. “Beautiful, absorbing, and touching” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Series Viva Varda!
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in cultural geography and African American literature offer tours of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:00.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
4 PM
Pedro Costa,
Portugal,
2019,
(124 mins)
Vitalina Varela travels to Lisbon from Cape Verde, only to discover that her husband has died, in Pedro Costa’s emotionally and visually compelling work, winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno. For Costa, dramatizing Varela’s true story gave him “the chance to approach the Cape Verdean immigration from the woman’s point of view.”

Monday, April 15

Tuesday, April 16

Wednesday, April 17

Wednesday, April 17, 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
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7 PM
Ruy Guerra,
1979,
(116 mins)

New Digital Restoration
Screen Slate Pick!

Three films reveal the history of the Mozambique liberation struggle through different cinematic forms. Ruy Guerra documents a reenactment of the massacre that triggered the Mozambique War of Independence, a protest song and dance recalls the migration to work in mines in apartheid South Africa, and a recent fictional reconstruction examines rural land dispossession.

Thursday, April 18

Thursday, April 18, 2024
7 PM
Juan Pablo González,
Mexico,
2022,
(99 mins)
A strong-willed businesswoman fights to keep her tequila factory—and her community—afloat in the face of foreign buyouts and natural disasters in this intense drama, set in the Jalisco hinterlands. “Visually arresting, a vivid, textured, altogether unexpected world” (New York Times).
  • Nicolás Pereda
    Introduction

Friday, April 19

Friday, April 19, 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, April 19, 2024
5 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required.

In this workshop, scent artist Leonora Zoninsein guides participants in using the temporality of distillation to create a space for holding and evolving grief together.

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Friday, April 19, 2024
7 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
2001,
(118 mins)

35mm Archival Print

The first in Ousmane Sembène’s series on “everyday heroes” (Moolaadé is the second) centers on the quick-witted proprietress of a Dakar gas station. “A rich comedy of manners that gives a feeling of hope about Africa’s future” (Film Comment).
Series Sembène 100

Saturday, April 20

Saturday, April 20, 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
Saturday, April 20, 2024
4:30 PM
(104 mins)
A selection of short films made by Agnès Varda between 1967 and 2002 that offer great insights into her approach to filmmaking, which is at once immediate, intimate, and imaginative. The films featured are a posthumously completed portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Uncle Yanco, and Black Panthers, all three filmed in the United States, as well as La réponse de femmes, Plaisir d’amour en Iran, Ulysse, Les dites cariatides, and Tribute to Zgougou, about her beloved cat.
Series Viva Varda!
Saturday, April 20, 2024
7 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
2000,
(173 mins)
A wedding and a wake bookend Edward Yang’s look at a year in the life of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. “The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art” (New York Times). Released in 2000, it was still named to many Best Films of the 2000s lists.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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