Sunday, October 27
Sunday, October 27, 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, October 27, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Celebrate the opening of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection with free gallery admission to the public on Sunday, October 27, from 11 AM to 7 PM.
Free and open to the public.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
11:30 AM-2:00 PM
Drop in and make art in BAMPFA’s Crane Forum space, next to the Art Wall. Materials will be provided.
Free and open to the public.
Series
Family Events 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
1:00 PM
Joe Ma,
Hong Kong,
1997,
(85 mins)
It’s Chinese street smarts versus British rule when a fast-talking lawyer takes on a British courtroom in this manic screwball comedy starring Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle). Costarring Chingmy Yau (Naked Killer) and Karen Mok.
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Paul Fonoroff
IntroductionPaul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
4:00 PM
To mark the opening day of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, art collector and philanthropist Komal Shah and Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, sit down with BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton to discuss their journey organizing the exhibition.
Free and open to the public.
Series
Talks & Conversations 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
7:00 PM
Alán González,
Cuba,
2023,
(93 mins)
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, Wild Woman became one of the most celebrated Cuban feature debuts in the past decade. Set in a Havana slum, the film follows a Cuban mother as she battles social prejudice, machismo, poverty, and violence to protect her son after a violent altercation goes viral.
In Conversation
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Alán González
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Lázaro González
Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders.
Series
Cuban Cinema without Borders
Monday, October 28
Tuesday, October 29
Wednesday, October 30
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
7:00 PM
(84 mins)
BAMPFA and UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center welcome Michif (Métis) stop-motion storyteller Amanda Strong to present her animated films. Depicting Indigenous realities, stories, and dreams, the works provide a compelling cinematic counterpoint challenging historical narratives of Indigenous peoples.
In Person
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Amanda Strong
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Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Series
Alternative Visions
Thursday, October 31
Thursday, October 31, 2024
7:00 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1967,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
Alain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant).
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Friday, November 1
Friday, November 1, 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, November 1, 2024
4:00 PM
Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty
Award-winning multimedia Indigenous artists Amanda Strong (Michif) and Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv and Klahoose) share insights on the creation of their films, including their current project, eight years in the making and now on the cusp of its world premiere.
Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty.
In Conversation
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Amanda Strong
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Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Series
Alternative Visions
Friday, November 1, 2024
7:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1969,
(103 mins)
Digital Restoration
This magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese). Shown with two rarely screened short films, Kyiv Frescoes and Hakob Hovnatanyan.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
Saturday, November 2
Saturday, November 2, 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, November 2, 2024
2:30—5:30 PM
Cosponsored by BAMPFA; the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES); the Berkeley Armenian Studies Program; and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Five experts join BAMPFA’s Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration to discuss the filmmaker’s multifaceted legacy.
Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 1:30 PM.
In Conversation
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Myrna Douzjian
Myrna Douzjian teaches Armenian language and literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley and is working on a study of interrelations between various storytelli -
Olga Kim
Olga Kim teaches Russian and Eurasian film and literature at Williams College and is currently working on her book manuscript Cinema on the Edge: Late Soviet Tableau Aesthetics. -
Harsha Ram
Harsha Ram teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley and is currently completing a book on Russian-Georgian cultural relations titled The Geopoetics of Sovereig -
James Steffen
James Steffen (PhD) is the Film and Media Studies Librarian and Head of the Humanities Team at the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, and the author of The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov. -
Patrick Cazals
Patrick Cazals is a filmmaker and writer who made Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel (2003), a study of Sergei Parajanov as a filmmaker, designer, and collage artist. He also made The Mus
Saturday, November 2, 2024
7:00 PM
(77 mins)
From a Cuban immigrant in New York (Ángela) to the metaphorical uprootedness in Petricor, the critique of romanticized communist nostalgia in Souvenir, a mother’s longing for reunification with her son in Parole, and the dystopian vision in History Is Written at Night, these films offer nuanced perspectives on diaspora, exile, and nation building amidst Cuba’s historical exodus.
In Conversation
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Lázaro González
Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders. -
Caleb Murray-Bozeman
Caleb Murray-Bozeman is a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media.
Series
Cuban Cinema without Borders
Through April 20
Through April 20
Through April 27
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through April 12
Through April 13
Through April 30
Through May 8
Through December 31
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