Sunday, March 2
Sunday, March 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, March 2, 2025
1:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1948,
(88 mins)
Ingmar Bergman’s early, restless experimentation with different aesthetics is at its height in this tale of the relationship between a young, blind musician and a lower-class servant girl, played by Mai Zetterling.
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Linda Haverty Rugg
IntroductionLinda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
2:00 PM - CANCELED
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
Monday, March 3
Tuesday, March 4
Wednesday, March 5
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
12:15 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
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
7:00 PM
(90 mins)
The annual Les Blank Lecture is presented by archivist, filmmaker, educator, and curator Rick Prelinger. Prelinger will present excerpts from his Lost Landscapes compilations and discuss the importance of archiving home movies and industrial, educational, and ephemeral films.
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Rick Prelinger
Les Blank Lecture
Series
Documentary Voices
Thursday, March 6
Thursday, March 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, March 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
Series
Exhibition Tours
Thursday, March 6, 2025
7:00 PM
Ottis Ba,
Belgium, France, Senegal,
2022,
(84 mins)
A hapless Senegalese civil servant loses his job thanks to International Monetary Fund austerity measures and, after countless humiliations, seeks vengeance against the very man who created them in this darkly comic take on the new world economy—and those at the wrong end of it.
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Ivy Mills
IntroductionIvy Mills is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora at UC Berkeley.
Series
African Film Festival 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Friday, March 7
Friday, March 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, March 7, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1964,
(129 mins)
Digital Restoration
Repeats Thursday, May 1, 7:00 PM (without introduction)
“Wildly subversive in its treatment of sexuality, gender, class, religion, marriage, and motherhood, Loving Couples is as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth” (Janus Films).
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Linda Haverty Rugg
IntroductionLinda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
Saturday, March 8
Saturday, March 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, March 8, 2025
11:30AM–1:00 PM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by Elizabeth Talford Scott’s mixed-media artwork Save the Babies, work with paper, fabric, beads, and other materials to make a shield that embraces your own ideas of healing and strength.
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.
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Rivka Valérie Louissaint
Workshop led byRivka Valérie Louissaint is a Haitian cultural worker based in Oakland, a graduate of UC Berkeley’s MFA program, and a 2022–24 Gerado Marín Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of San Francisco,
Series
Family Events
Saturday, March 8, 2025
2:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
1995,
(119 mins)
A placid San Fernando Valley housewife (Julianne Moore) suddenly afflicted with environmental illness finds her sunny surroundings, shopping malls, and beauty salons imbued with suffocating menace, suggesting both the material and metaphysical toxicity from which she must escape.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Todd Haynes
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Mary Ann Doane
Mary Ann Doane is Professor Emeritus; Class of 1937 Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
Saturday, March 8, 2025
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Find out what happens when an exceptional team of valiant dogs confronts a crisis in outer space.
Descubre lo que sucede cuando un excepcional equipo de valientes perros se enfrenta a una crisis en el espacio exterior.
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.
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Angela Loza
Reading led byLibrarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series
Family Events
Saturday, March 8, 2025
6:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
1998,
(118 mins)
In this exuberant ode to the liberating potential of glam rock—named for a David Bowie B-side—Todd Haynes re-creates the era’s glittering excess, with an epic soundtrack featuring Brian Eno, Pulp, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, T. Rex, and more.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Todd Haynes
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Damon Young
Damon Young is an Associate Professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
Saturday, March 8, 2025
All Day
Celebrate International Women’s Day at BAMPFA! Enjoy free admission and explore our galleries, including our flagship spring exhibition of work by pathbreaking women artists, Making Their Mark: Works From the Shah Garg Foundation.
Advanced tickets not required.
Tickets available online and on-site.
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