Sunday, April 6
Sunday, April 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
Sunday, April 6, 2025
1:00 PM
Join us for an afternoon of knotting, coiling, folding, bending, braiding, and bundling materials to make your own wearable art inspired by the exhibition Making Their Mark.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
Sunday, April 6, 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, April 6, 2025
3:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
Ukraine,
1961,
(83 mins)
A Ukrainian singer recalls her greatest love in this early work by the director of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, inspired by Ukrainian naive art, folk songs, and the American musical. “Complex and fascinating . . . [with] tropes that turn a social-realist musical into a hallucinatory fantasy” (Judy Bloch).
Sunday, April 6, 2025
5:00 PM
Osvalde Lewat,
France, South Africa,
2022,
(63 mins)
While Nelson Mandela is best known as a pacifist and statesman, this riveting documentary on the armed wing of the African National Congress underlines that, most of all, he was a freedom fighter. Powerful archival footage and interviews with surviving veterans drive home the brutality of apartheid, and the still-ongoing battle for justice. Screens with Chadrack Banikina’s short Ota Benga.
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Zamansele Nsele
IntroductionZamansele Nsele is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in modern and contemporary African art. Her current book project examines the v
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African Film Festival 2025
Monday, April 7
Tuesday, April 8
Wednesday, April 9
Wednesday, April 9, 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, April 9, 2025
5:30 PM
Artist Estefania Puerta, conservator Michelle Barger, and scholar Jules Pelta Feldman join BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton for a multifaceted in-gallery discussion of the issues and opportunities presented by art made under conditions of impermanence, as highlighted in the museum’s current collection exhibition, To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection.
Included with admission
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Talks & Conversations
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
7:00 PM
Elizabeth Ai,
United States,
2024,
(88 mins)
Copresented by the UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Elizabeth Ai explores the significance of electronic New Wave music and punk/goth aesthetics for a generation of Vietnamese American youth coming of age in the 1980s and grappling with the weight of their parents’ unspoken traumas.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Elizabeth Ai
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Peter Zinoman
Peter Zinoman is a Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.
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Documentary Voices
Thursday, April 10
Thursday, April 10, 2025
7:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
Ukraine,
1965,
(96 mins)
Digital Restoration
Pagan rituals, demonology, folklore, and legend come to life in Sergei Parajanov’s hypnotic update of a Romeo and Juliet tale. “Astonishing . . . one of the supreme works of Soviet cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Introductions
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Oleksandr Teliuk
Oleksandr Teliuk is a film scholar, archivist, and artist. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Rochester, New York. -
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian is Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Russian, and a core faculty member of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland.
Friday, April 11
Friday, April 11, 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, April 11, 2025
2:30 PM
Ivan Kavaleridze,
Ukraine,
1935,
(88 mins)
A Ukrainian peasant transforms from conscripted soldier in the Caucasus to revolutionary leader in this daring critique of Russian chauvinism and imperialism.
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Stanislav Menzelevskyi
IntroductionStanislav Menzelevskyi is the former head of the Research and Programming Department at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and is currently a PhD student at the Media School, Indiana University,
Friday, April 11, 2025
5:00 PM
Yurii Illienko,
Ukraine,
1965,
(70 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
The memories of a lonely old man blend with the specific landscapes of the Dnipro River in this “wonder in every sense of the word” (Russell Merritt), by the cinematographer of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Banned for twenty-two years, it was finally released during Perestroika in 1987.
Friday, April 11, 2025
7:00 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2021,
(120 mins)
Reflecting the history and legacy of The Velvet Underground, and the vibrant New York scene from which the band emerged, Todd Haynes combines their music; interviews with band members, artists, and collaborators; and movies by Andy Warhol and others.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
Saturday, April 12
Saturday, April 12, 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, April 12, 2025
11:30AM–1:00 PM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Learn about abstract and figurative work, and explore a range of mark making techniques as you try your hand at these approaches to making art.
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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Mary Curtis Ratcliff
Workshop led byAfter studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in New York, Mary Curtis Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture, mixed m
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Family Events
Saturday, April 12, 2025
1:00–4:45 PM
Free Admission
Cosponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; the Armenian Studies Program; and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
We will welcome six visiting scholars to join the UC Berkeley campus community to share their ideas and research, adding nuance and depth to the existing perspectives of Ukrainian Soviet cinema, moving beyond simplistic colonial dichotomies and outdated canons.
Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 11:00 AM.
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Polina Barskova
Polina Barskova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. -
Harsha Ram
Harsha Ram is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. -
Oleksandr Teliuk
Oleksandr Teliuk is a film scholar, archivist, and artist. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Rochester, New York. -
Vincent Bohlinger
Vincent Bohlinger is a Professor in the Department of English and the Film Studies Program at Rhode Island College. -
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian is Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Russian, and a core faculty member of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. -
Stanislav Menzelevskyi
Stanislav Menzelevskyi is the former head of the Research and Programming Department at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and is currently a PhD student at the Media School, Indiana University, -
Bohdan Nebesio
Bohdan Nebesio is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Brock University, Niagara Region, Canada. -
Ana Hedberg Olenina
Ana Hedberg Olenina is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Media Studies at Arizona State University.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
2:30–3:30 PM
Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s)
A girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and an unexpected love story: come along for the ride through Ferris Wilkey’s very eventful summer.
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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Eleanor Tiglao
Reading led byFormer teacher, Berkeley Unified School District
Series
Family Events
Saturday, April 12, 2025
6:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2023,
(134 mins)
An unsettling power play of shifting perspectives, reflections, and performances, May December chronicles the encounter between ambitious actor Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) and formerly incarcerated suburban housewife Gracie (Julianne Moore), the woman she is preparing to portray. Screens with Image Book, a catalogue of references and inspirations for May December.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
Through April 20
Through April 20
Through April 27
Through July 6
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Through August 17
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Through April 12
Through April 13
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Through May 8
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