Week of February 2, 2025

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Sunday, February 2

Sunday, February 2, 2025
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
Sunday, February 2, 2025
12:30 PM
Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Pedro Kos,
United States,
2024,
(96 mins)
Briskly told through the lens of contemporaneous media, The White House Effect is a forensic accounting of how, through the 1980s and 1990s the United States government arrived at a political consensus of cataclysmic inaction on climate change.
In Conversation
  • Jon Shenk
  • Justine Nagan
    Justine Nagan is the Head of Production at Actual Films and a producer of The White House Effect.
  • Jennifer Redfearn
    Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and the Director of the Documentary Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
2:00 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

Sunday, February 2, 2025
3:45 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
France, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine,
2018,
(121 mins)
A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, in which the grotesque and dramatic are as intertwined as life and death. 
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Polina Barskova
    Polina Barskova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
7:00 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1963,
(138 mins)
For many, Marcello Mastroianni defined Italian masculinity, or at least the debonair version of it, and in this Federico Fellini masterpiece, he gives perhaps his most dashing performance, at once intellectualized and sexualized.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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Wednesday, February 5

Wednesday, February 5, 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

Wednesday, February 5, 2025
7:00 PM

Free Admission

Factory showcases Sergei Loznitsa’s approach to nonfiction, working with original camerawork and mining the archives for imagery, with the annual Mosse Lecture.

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:00 PM.

In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Deniz Göktürk
    Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.

Thursday, February 6

Thursday, February 6, 2025
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
Thursday, February 6, 2025
1:15 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

Thursday, February 6, 2025
5:30 PM
In this combination lecture and workshop, visual artist Trina Michelle Robinson uses historical photographic techniques, handicraft, and deep knowledge of a material’s origins as a metaphysical means to revisit or access the memories and visions of Black ancestors.

Included with admission

Series Black Life
Thursday, February 6, 2025
7:00 PM
Dee Rees,
United States,
2011,
(86 mins)
A Black butch teen navigates her senior year of high school in this poignant coming-of-age drama from writer-director Dee Rees (Bessie, Mudbound).
In Conversation
  • 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
  • Leila Weefur
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.

Friday, February 7

Friday, February 7, 2025
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
Friday, February 7, 2025
2:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Russia,
2012,
(128 mins)
Two partisans plan to kill a Belarusian railway worker suspected of Nazi sympathies in Sergei Loznitsa’s dreamlike narrative film. “A masterpiece” (David Thomson).
  • Sergei Loznitsa
    In Person
Friday, February 7, 2025
7:00 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1971,
(121 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Far from the open plains of the classic Western, Robert Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond created a radical and ravishing vision of the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest, capturing the sodden grit of frontier life with impressive authenticity.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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Saturday, February 8

Saturday, February 8, 2025
1 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
Saturday, February 8, 2025
11:30AM–1:00 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Inspired by Françoise Grossen’s large-scale textile work and spaces in BAMPFA’s building, use macramé techniques to model a sculpture that responds to a space that interests you.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child.

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • Anamaya Farthing-Kohl
    Workshop led by
    With an interest in collaboration, artist Anamaya Farthing-Kohl invites the public to help in defining, circulating, or discovering their work.
Series Family Events
Saturday, February 8, 2025
2:30–3:30 PM

Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s)

Full of action, danger, and intrigue, this historic adventure paints a vivid picture of the Old West.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child.

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • Carl Coleman
    Reading led by
    Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series Family Events
Saturday, February 8, 2025
3:00 PM
Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan,
India, United States,
2024,
(87 mins)
Winner of a Special Jury Award for Craft at the Sundance Film Festival, the immersive Nocturnes tracks a small research team through the verdant Eastern Himalayas for a study of the local population of hawk moths. Screening with Stan Brakhage’s Mothlight.
In Conversation
  • Patrick Gonzalez
    Patrick Gonzalez is a climate change scientist, forest ecologist, and Associate Adjunct Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.
  • Sugata Ray
    Sugata Ray is Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art and Architecture in the Departments of History of Art and South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Faculty Director of the Climate Chan
  • Jason Spingarn-Koff
    Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
6:00 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands,
2017,
“A captivating, hallucinatory plunge into Russia’s atrophied civil society, in which a woman’s search for answers is rewarded with humiliation and abuse” (Jay Weissberg, Variety).
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Eric Naiman
    Eric Naiman is a Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.