Sunday, September 15
Sunday, September 15, 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, September 15, 2024
1:00 PM
Masahiro Shinoda,
Japan,
1969,
(175 mins)
Presented in collaboration with the Berkeley Historical Society & Museum, located at 1931 Center Street, where the Berkeley and the Movies exhibition is on display until September 21.
Founding Director of the Pacific Film Archive Sheldon Renan joins us for a special presentation on the early history of the film archive. Following his talk, we will screen a 35mm print of Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide, a striking and artful adaptation of a Bunraku puppet play about doomed love.
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Sheldon Renan
LectureSheldon Renan was the founding director of the Pacific Film Archive, where he worked between 1967 and 1973.
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Sunday, September 15, 2024
4:30 PM
Larry Clark,
United States,
1977,
(111 mins)
16mm Archival Print
Passing Through was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2023.
Passing Through theorizes that jazz is one of the purest expressions of African American culture, now hijacked by a white culture that brutally exploits musicians for profit. “An invaluable film-outcry” (Albert Johnson).
In Conversation
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Larry Clark
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May HaDuong
May HaDuong is the Director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Series
Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
Monday, September 16
Tuesday, September 17
Wednesday, September 18
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
12:15 PM
Join us for exhibition tours of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
2:10 PM
(122 mins)
This screening features examples of Alice Guy-Blaché’s early films at Gaumont Studios, as well as from her period in the United States, after she formed the production company Solax Films. Shown with the first two episodes of Louis Feuillade’s serial crime film Les vampires.
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Anne Nesbet
IntroductionAnne Nesbet is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film & Media at UC Berkeley. -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
7:00 PM
Lewis Klahr,
United States,
2021,
(63 mins)
Bay Area Premiere
Los Angeles–based filmmaker Lewis Klahr’s latest feature-length series of collage films creates intricate worlds of fantasy and intrigue by culling two-dimensional ephemera for his short films, most of which are works of stop-camera animation.
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Lewis Klahr
In Person
Series
Alternative Visions
Thursday, September 19
Thursday, September 19, 2024
7:00 PM
Agnieszka Holland,
Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland,
2023,
(147 mins)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, this riveting thriller explores the European migrant crisis from multiple ground-level perspectives. “A stunning, harrowing film. . . . Reverberates with deep empathy and quiet fury” (Time Out).
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Friday, September 20
Friday, September 20, 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, September 20, 2024
4:00 PM
Pamela B. Green,
United States,
2018,
(103 mins)
“Critic’s Pick! Tremendously moving. . . . By the end of Be Natural, you won’t only have a clear idea of who this remarkable woman [Alice Guy-Blaché] was; you may well have acquired a new taste in old movies” (A. O. Scott, New York Times).
Friday, September 20, 2024
7:00 PM
Damien Chazelle,
United States,
2016,
(129 mins)
Audio Description
Closed Captioned
“[Damien] Chazelle has crafted that rare thing, a genuinely romantic comedy, and as well, a rhapsody in blue, red, yellow and green” (Sight & Sound).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
Series
Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
Saturday, September 21
Saturday, September 21, 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, September 21, 2024
1:30 PM
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities
This roundtable discussion convenes the cocurators of A Movement in Every Direction, Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan N. Dennis, and artists Torkwase Dyson and Carrie Mae Weems. Moderated by Anthony Graham, BAMPFA Senior Curator, the program offers reflections on the exhibition, from its planning and development to the impact of its ongoing national tour.
Included with admission.
In Conversation
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Jessica Bell Brown
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Ryan N. Dennis
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Carrie Mae Weems
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Torkwase Dyson
Series
Talks & Conversations 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024
4:00 PM
Ramata-Toulaye Sy,
France, Mali, Senegal,
2023,
(87 mins)
The titular Senegalese couple at the heart of this visually ravishing romantic drama faces the challenges of drought and communal responsibility. Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s poetic debut competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024
6:00 PM
Bahram Beyzaie,
Iran,
1974,
(146 mins)
Digital Restoration
Banned in Iran after the 1979 revolution, “this visually ravishing masterwork invents its own mythology to critique the sociopolitical conditions of 1970s Iran” (Film at Lincoln Center).
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Through April 20
Through April 20
Through April 27
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through April 30
Through May 8
Through December 31
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