Week of March 9, 2025

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Sunday, March 9

Sunday, March 9, 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 9, 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

Sunday, March 9, 2025
2:00 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2007,
(135 mins)
As audacious as its subject, Todd Haynes’s mixtape/cine-collage/essay-poem is an imaginative, multifaceted portrait of the great Bob Dylan. “It plays like the headiest musical ever made” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly).

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.

In Conversation
  • Todd Haynes
  • Damon Young
    Damon Young is an Associate Professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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Sunday, March 9, 2025
6:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2002,
(107 mins)
A reimagining of Douglas Sirk’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows, Todd Haynes’s 2002 chronicle of social isolation, existential loneliness, and forbidden love meticulously re-creates the mode of Sirk’s mid-century technicolor melodramas, while creating an uncanny, timeless modern masterpiece.

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.

In Conversation
  • Todd Haynes
  • Dolores McElroy
    Dolores McElroy is a Lecturer in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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Tuesday, March 11

Wednesday, March 12

Wednesday, March 12, 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, March 12, 2025
7:00 PM
Ibrahim Nash’at,
Germany, United States,
2023,
(91 mins)
Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache of weapons America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
  • Jason Spingarn-Koff
    Introduction
    Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley.

Thursday, March 13

Thursday, March 13, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1966,
(105 mins)
“An absorbing, even brilliant film. . . . When it was first exhibited at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, it was considered the most daring film ever made” (Roger Ebert). 
  • Linda Haverty Rugg
    Introduction
    Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.

Friday, March 14

Friday, March 14, 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 14, 2025
7:00 PM
Rungano Nyoni,
Ireland, United Kingdom, Zambia,
2024,
A partygoer’s sudden discovery of her own uncle’s dead body opens up hidden secrets in this darkly funny, at times absurdist drama from the director of I Am Not a Witch. Winner of the Best Director award, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival.

Saturday, March 15

Saturday, March 15, 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
Saturday, March 15, 2025
3:00 PM
Artists Melissa Cody and Tau Lewis join curator Jenelle Porter to discuss the ways their works express identity, power, lineage, and the self through materials, making, portraiture, and abstraction.

Included with admission

Saturday, March 15, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1968,
(100 mins)
In Mai Zetterling’s send-up of gender relations in contemporary Sweden, life, art, and fantasy intermingle as actors Liz (Bibi Andersson), Marianne (Harriet Andersson), and Gunilla (Gunnel Lindblom) perform in a touring production of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata.
In Conversation
  • Anna Stenport
    Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, and a scholar of Scandinavian, Arctic, and feminist film, media, an
  • Linda Haverty Rugg
    Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.