Sunday, March 16
Sunday, March 16, 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 16, 2025
1:00 PM
Oakland-based risograph printer and photographer Neko Natalia leads a risograph printing workshop for writers and poets.
Space is limited; RSVP required
Series
Workshops
Sunday, March 16, 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
Series
Exhibition Tours
Sunday, March 16, 2025
3:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1976,
(141 mins)
“Through several stylistic choices, Mai Zetterling moves beyond clichés and into the woman’s mind, addressing issues of life purpose, the immaturity of attachment, and the infantilization of women in marriage” (Mariah Larsson, A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling). Screens with a selection of Zetterling’s short films, including two documentaries.
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Anna Stenport
LectureAnna Stenport will give a thirty-minute lecture prior to the films.Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia,
Sunday, March 16, 2025
6:30 PM
Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow,
Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia,
1988,
(153 mins)
New Digital Restoration
At the close of World War II, Senegalese troops are held in a Dakar transit camp that is little better than the concentration camps some of them have just braved. A “powerful indictment of colonialism . . . shows WWII’s effects on shaping the future of Africa” (Variety).
Series
African Film Festival 2025
Monday, March 17
Tuesday, March 18
Wednesday, March 19
Wednesday, March 19, 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 19, 2025
7:00 PM
Asmae El Moudir,
Morocco,
2024,
(97 mins)
“The delicate mix of handmade replicas and oral testimony brilliantly evokes the personal and collective trauma that stem from Morocco’s ‘Years of Lead’—a period of state brutality under Hassan II’s dictatorial rule” (Phuong Le, Guardian).
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Paola Bacchetta
IntroductionPaola Bacchetta is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. She is also Director of the Institute for Gender and Sexuality Research.
Series
Documentary Voices
Thursday, March 20
Thursday, March 20, 2025
7:00 PM
(116 mins)
New restorations of Todd Haynes’s ambitious early films show the director’s devotion to transgressive desire from very different points of view, including the fin de siècle Paris of Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud and suburban America and TV in Dottie Gets Spanked.
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Mary Ann Doane
IntroductionMary Ann Doane is Professor Emeritus; Class of 1937 Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
Friday, March 21
Friday, March 21, 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 21, 2025
7:00 PM
Oleksandr Dovzhenko,
Ukraine,
1930,
(79 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
The poetic lyricism of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Earth makes it one of the great works of cinema, using the emotional power of the image to express the director’s love for his homeland.
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Saturday, March 22
Saturday, March 22, 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 22, 2025
4:30 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Denmark,
1968,
(83 mins)
This tale of sexual obsession and moral hypocrisy, told in flashbacks, is both social critique and psychological study, with Glas’s surreal and nightmarish visions shot in high contrast by cinematographer Rune Ericson. Perhaps the least-seen of Mai Zetterling’s films.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
7:00 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2019,
(126 mins)
A chilling true story of corporate malfeasance, Dark Waters chronicles the efforts of lawyer Robert Bilott to hold DuPont responsible for knowingly exposing its employees; the residents of Parkersburg, West Virginia; and many others to highly toxic “forever chemicals.”
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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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