Sunday, September 22
Sunday, September 22, 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 22, 2024
1:00 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(207 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Seven Samurai also screens Sunday, November 24.
A ragtag group of samurai bands together to protect a village from bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.
Presented with a 10-minute intermission
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Sunday, September 22, 2024
2:00 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
Sunday, September 22, 2024
4:00 PM
Odeya Nini offers a workshop and sound bath that begins with a vocal embodiment practice and then relaxes into a sound meditation.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2024
Sunday, September 22, 2024
5:15 PM
Charles Burnett,
United States,
1977,
(81 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A poetic evocation of working-class Watts, “a great—the greatest—cinematic tone poem of American urban life” (New York Magazine), Killer of Sheep’s “single most-recalled moment” is “the slow-dance scene between the . . . alienated Stan and his wife” (Adrian Martin).
Series
Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
Monday, September 23
Tuesday, September 24
Wednesday, September 25
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
2:10 PM
(127 mins)
Cecile B. DeMille’s The Cheat set standards of acting, decor, frame composition, and lighting that were not surpassed for years. Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley’s Where Are My Children? manages a curious balance, defending birth control while condemning abortion.
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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 25, 2024
7:00 PM
Pat O’Neill,
United States,
1989,
(87 mins)
A moving meditation on industrialization, Water and Power is an ingenious merging of optical printing and time-lapse cinematography. Screening with By the Sea (1963) and Horizontal Boundaries (2008).
Series
Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
Thursday, September 26
Thursday, September 26, 2024
7:00 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
Friday, September 27
Friday, September 27, 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 27, 2024
3:00 PM
Staffan Julén,
Sweden,
2024,
(84 mins)
Bay Area Premiere
This event is organized by the Consulate General of Sweden in San Francisco, the Embassy of Sweden in Washington D.C., and the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm with support from Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and the Swedish Arts Council.
A special screening of the Swedish documentary Waiting for Life, presented by Stockholm-based filmmaker Staffan Julén. The post-screening conversation includes the two main subjects of the film, Donald “Twin” James and Reginald “Happy” Wilson, as well as Swedish criminologists Amir Rostami and Jerzy Sarnecki. Moderated by Andrea Crider
In Conversation
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Staffan Julén
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Donald “Twin” James
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Reginald “Happy” Wilson
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Amir Rostami
Amir Rostami is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Gävle in Sweden. -
Jerzy Sarnecki
Jerzy Sarnecki is a Professor in Criminology at Stockholm University in Sweden. -
Jan Jönson
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Camila Salazar Atías
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Andrea Crider
Andrea Crider, who will moderate the discussion, is Staff Attorney/Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law Criminal Law & Justice Clinic.
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Friday, September 27, 2024
7:00 PM
Agnès Varda,
France, United States,
1969,
(120 mins)
Agnès Varda’s experimental feature, shot in Hollywood in 1968 and starring Andy Warhol superstar Viva, is a deliberately decadent riff on fantasy, immaturity, and violence. “More than a time capsule of events and moods—it’s a living aesthetic model for revolutionary times” (Richard Brody). Preceded by four short Hearst Metrotone News Reels from the 1960s.
Series
Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
Saturday, September 28
Saturday, September 28, 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 28, 2024
3:00 PM
Programmed by Tausif Noor
In conjunction with To Exalt the Ephemeral, BAMPFA presents a reading with three Bay Area poets: Sophia Dahlin, Forrest Gander, and Noah Ross. Their works touch on themes of everyday experience, ecological engagement, and queer legacies, and engage with the many facets of the ephemeral.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
Saturday, September 28, 2024
3:30 PM
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou,
France, Italy, Switzerland,
1996,
(77 mins)
Recommended for ages 7 & up
English-language version
Marvel at a world barely visible to our eyes in this astounding documentary on the insect kingdom, filmed with specially designed microcameras and close-up lenses.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
5:30 PM
Gregg Araki,
United States,
1993,
(78 mins)
Inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin féminin and shot on 16mm and video camcorder, Totally F***ed Up depicts the interconnected sex lives and friendships of six gay teens. Gregg Araki called it “a cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick.”
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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James Duval
In Person
Saturday, September 28, 2024
8:00 PM
Gregg Araki,
United States,
1995,
(83 mins)
Starring James Duval and an ultracool Rose McGowan, Gregg Araki’s first film shot on 35mm evokes the noir classic They Live by Night, but with a saturated color palette, amped-up sex, violence, and 1990s nihilism with a killer soundtrack.
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James Duval
In Person
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through August 24
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