Sunday, January 12
Sunday, January 12, 2025
11 AM–5 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
Sunday, January 12, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
Sunday, January 12, 2025
3:00 PM
Legendary Bay Area conceptual artist Tom Marioni, whose work is featured in To Exalt the Ephemeral, introduces his book Social Art, an updated consideration of his ongoing and best-known work, the performance installation The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
Sunday, January 12, 2025
4:30 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
France, Italy,
1964,
(102 mins)
Set in Naples, this film is fast-paced, filled with conniving humanity and bitter passion and yes, romance, Italian style. Sophia Loren’s tour-de-force performance plays against Marcello Mastroianni’s perfectly realized cad.
Series
Marcello Mastroianni at 100
Sunday, January 12, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
7:00 PM
Claire Denis,
France,
1990,
(91 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
In Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).
Series
Special Screenings 2025
Monday, January 13
Tuesday, January 14
Wednesday, January 15
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
7:00 PM
Alexander Sokurov,
Belgium,
2022,
(78 mins)
Bay Area Premiere
Fairytale resurrects from the dead, via animated archival imagery, the twentieth-century leaders Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. A cinematic phantasmagoria that was banned by the Russian censors.
Series
Special Screenings 2025
Thursday, January 16
Thursday, January 16, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
7:00 PM
Mauro Bolognini,
France, Italy,
1960,
(101 mins)
For Marcello Mastroianni, this is a signature role; the film stands among the best existential films of the 1960s. Pier Paolo Pasolini cowrote the screenplay.
Series
Marcello Mastroianni at 100
Friday, January 17
Friday, January 17, 2025
2 PM–5 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, January 17, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Friday, January 17, 2025
7:00 PM
Paul B. Preciado,
France,
2023,
(102 mins)
This innovative “New Trans Cinema” essay film from trans philosopher Paul B. Preciado reflects on trans identity, culture, and history via Virginia Woolf’s gender-changing novel Orlando.
In Conversation
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Jenni Olson
Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG -
Susan Stryker
Susan Stryker, PhD, is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, codirector of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, and coedit -
Ellis Martin
Ellis Martin is an archivist working in cultural heritage digitization. He edited We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan alongside Zach Ozma.
Saturday, January 18
Saturday, January 18, 2025
11 AM–5 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, January 18, 2025
1:00 PM
Join artist Tanya Aguiñiga and Senior Curator Anthony Graham for a conversation on Aguiñiga’s new Art Wall installation, her first solo presentation in the Bay Area.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
Saturday, January 18, 2025
2:00 PM
Join Amol K Patil and Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator Victoria Sung for a conversation on Patil’s newly commissioned body of work.
This event is cosponsored by BAMPFA, the Institute for South Asia Studies, and the South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
Saturday, January 18, 2025
3:30 PM
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly,
United States,
1952,
(102 mins)
Recommended for ages 6 & up
4K Digital Restoration
Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds dance their way across the screen in one of the greatest American musicals of all time, set during Hollywood’s transition from silent films to sound.
Series
Movie Matinees for All Ages
Saturday, January 18, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
6:30 PM
Glauber Rocha,
Brazil,
1969,
(100 mins)
As much a revolutionary cultural expression as a political allegory, Glauber Rocha’s color sequel to Black God, White Devil deals with the coming to political consciousness of the mercenary jagunço Antonio das Mortes, a paid killer of rebels and bandits in the backlands of Brazil.
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Leila Weefur
IntroductionLeila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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