Week of May 4, 2025

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Sunday, May 4

Sunday, May 4, 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, May 4, 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, May 4, 2025
4:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1986,
(117 mins)

Digital Restoration

Stina Ekblad stars as the controversial writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894–1940) in this portrait of the artist, her troubled romance with the notorious older man David Sprengel (Erland Josephson), and her mental health struggles.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1968,
(130 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Gena Rowlands, John Marley, and Seymour Cassel star in this unflinching nightlong journey through a marriage on the rocks, a film “against all people that know and for people that just feel” (John Cassavetes).

Monday, May 5

Tuesday, May 6

Wednesday, May 7

Wednesday, May 7, 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

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1971,
(114 mins)
John Cassavetes’s take on the screwball comedy stars Gena Rowlands as Minnie, a beautiful, refined museum employee unlucky in love.

Thursday, May 8

Thursday, May 8, 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.

Friday, May 9

Friday, May 9, 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, May 9, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1984,
(141 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands star in this film about the blows and buttresses of family. “A mighty, intimate, kaleidoscopically subjective, bravely self-searching summation of a career, an era, and a life” (New Yorker).

Saturday, May 10

Saturday, May 10, 2025
All Day
BAMPFA will be CLOSED on Saturday, May 10 for our annual Art & Film Benefit.