Sunday, November 10
Sunday, November 10, 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, November 10, 2024
12:00 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
Sunday, November 10, 2024
2:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Netherlands,
2010,
(118 mins)
Jia Zhangke explores the contested city of Shanghai, as witnessed through citizens, politicians, criminals, exiles, artists, and especially filmmakers. Both a historian’s and a cinephile’s dream, I Wish I Knew is as much about Shanghai in cinema as it is about Shanghai.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Michael Nylan
Michael Nylan is the Jane K. Sather History Chair of the UC Berkeley Department of History.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
6:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2013,
(130 mins)
Jia Zhangke takes on the collateral damage of China’s maniacal growth, explosively restaging four violent deeds to illustrate everyday citizens pushed to the edge—of the economy. Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Daniel O’Neill
Daniel O’Neill is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley.
Monday, November 11
Tuesday, November 12
Wednesday, November 13
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
12:15 PM
Chief Curator Margot Norton, who organized BAMPFA’s presentation of the exhibition, discusses the themes of Making Their Mark and offers insights and observations about
selected artworks.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, France, Japan,
2018,
(150 mins)
A gangster’s wife stands on her own in Jia Zhangke’s expansive narrative of empowerment and survival, inspired by Hong Kong gangster films and set against the tumultuous changes taking place in contemporary China. “Fierce, gripping, emotionally generous, and surprisingly funny” (Los Angeles Times).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Iggy Cortez
Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Thursday, November 14
Thursday, November 14, 2024
6:30 PM
Two artists whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection—Aria Dean and Mary Weatherford—discuss the ways they approach and reenvision the genre of gestural abstraction.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2024
Friday, November 15
Friday, November 15, 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 15, 2024
4:30 PM
Neo Sora,
Japan,
2023,
(103 mins)
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. A concert film featuring just him and his piano.
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
7:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1965,
(96 mins)
Digital Restoration
Pagan rituals, demonology, folklore, and legend come to life in Sergei Parajanov’s hypnotic update of a Romeo and Juliet–like tale. “Astonishing . . . one of the supreme works of Soviet cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Saturday, November 16
Saturday, November 16, 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 16, 2024
1:00 PM
In this workshop, participants scratch abstract self-portraits to life using assorted collage materials on the black paper.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
4:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2008,
(107 mins)
A Sichuan industrial complex is razed to make way for upscale condos. “Blending fiction with documentary, [Jia Zhangke] brings huge stretches of long-repressed history to life on an intimate scale” (New Yorker).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
Saturday, November 16, 2024
7:00 PM
Daniela Muñoz Barroso ,
Cuba,
2021,
(77 mins)
Despite significant hearing loss, Daniela Muñoz Barroso delves into the legacy of Mafifa, a pioneering Cuban conga bell player. This INSTAR Film Festival award-winning film uses archival and autoethnographic techniques to candidly and innovatively confront structural racism in postrevolutionary Cuba.
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Daniela Muñoz Barroso
Prerecorded Video Introduction
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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