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29 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—January 2017 Art In-Person Sunday, January 29, 2017 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—January 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Not Reconciled, Or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules Film In-Person Sunday, January 29, 2017 1:30 PM Not Reconciled, Or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules German Democratic Republic, 1965, (95 mins) Straub-Huillet take dynamite to the fabric of postwar Germany in this powerful adaptation of a Heinrich Böll story about a German family before, during, and after the Nazi era. With shorts. Erik Ulman Introduction Erik Ulman, a composer and lecturer in music at Stanford University, writes on music, poetry, and film; he codirects, with Marcia Scott, the arts organization Poto. Series Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & Huillet Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM In the Last Days of the City Film Sunday, January 29, 2017 4 PM In the Last Days of the City Tamer El Said, Egypt, Germany, 2016, (119 mins) East Bay Premiere A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Rebel Without a Cause Film Sunday, January 29, 2017 7 PM Rebel Without a Cause Nicholas Ray, United States, 1955, (111 mins) 35mm 'Scope Print James Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30 6:30 PM Arts + Design Mondays: Gender, Identity, Memoir: Judith Butler and Maggie Nelson in Conversation Free In-Person Monday, January 30, 2017 6:30 PM Arts + Design Mondays: Gender, Identity, Memoir: Judith Butler and Maggie Nelson in Conversation Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Nelson, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and poetry and directs the creative writing program at California Institute of the Arts. Free admission Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS	31	1 12 PM California Countercultures: On the Left Edge: California's Renegade Tradition with Iain Boal In-Person Wednesday, February 1, 2017 12 PM California Countercultures: On the Left Edge: California's Renegade Tradition with Iain Boal Explore the Left Coast with Boal, a social historian of science and technics and one of the founders of the Retort Collective, an association of radical writers, teachers, artists, and activists. Free Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM The Big Heat Film In-Person Wednesday, February 1, 2017 3:10 PM The Big Heat Fritz Lang, United States, 1953, (90 mins) 35mm Studio Print Obsessive detective Glenn Ford goes up against organized crime and crooked cops in Fritz Lang’s cynical noir, anchored by a magnetic performance by Gloria Grahame as the femme fatale. Tickets on sale to general public on December 15. Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 / David Thomson Lecture Series In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Memory Exercises Film In-Person Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7 PM Memory Exercises Paz Encina, Paraguay, 2016, (70 mins) In this experimental documentary, Encina investigates the Paraguayan dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954–89) through the memories of the children of his “disappeared” opponent, the dissident Agustín Goiburú. In Conversation Paz Encina Natalia Brizuela Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley Series Paz Encina: Exercises in Memory Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 4–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Thursday, February 2, 2017 4–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Exhibition Highlights Tour Art In-Person Tours Thursday, February 2, 2017 1 PM Exhibition Highlights Tour A Free First Thursday tour spotlighting highlights of current exhibitions. Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary Series Guided Tours 2017 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Sorrows of the Struggle Film In-Person Thursday, February 2, 2017 7 PM Sorrows of the Struggle Paz Encina, Paraguay, 2014-16, (50 mins) This omnibus combines two nonfiction pieces based on documents found in the Paraguayan secret police’s “Archives of Terror” with a narrative work based on a story by Rafael Barrett. Includes short A Wind from the South. In Conversation Paz Encina Natalia Brizuela Natalia Brizuela, Guest Curator, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley Series Paz Encina: Exercises in Memory Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3 4–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Friday, February 3, 2017 4–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 4 PM In the Last Days of the City Film Friday, February 3, 2017 4 PM In the Last Days of the City Tamer El Said, Egypt, Germany, 2016, (119 mins) East Bay Premiere A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The True Story of Jesse James Film Friday, February 3, 2017 7 PM The True Story of Jesse James Nicholas Ray, United States, 1957, (92 mins) Ray transforms an American legend into a personal study of displaced, disenchanted youth. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Saturday, February 4, 2017 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Party Girl Film Saturday, February 4, 2017 4 PM Party Girl Nicholas Ray, United States, 1958, (99 mins) 35mm 'Scope Print Ray shows characteristic visual flair in this gangland tale, set in a stylized Chicago and starring Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM On Dangerous Ground Film Saturday, February 4, 2017 6:30 PM On Dangerous Ground Nicholas Ray, United States, 1951, (82 mins) On a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in this eloquent, brooding noir. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8:15 PM The Battle of Algiers Film Saturday, February 4, 2017 8:15 PM The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria, Italy, 1966, (123 mins) New 4K Restoration One of the best films on revolution ever made, Pontecorvo’s agit-prop classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against its French overlords. “A masterpiece! Surely the most harrowing political epic ever!” (New Yorker). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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5 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Sunday, February 5, 2017 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Too Early / Too Late Film Sunday, February 5, 2017 2 PM Too Early / Too Late Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, France, 1982, (100 mins) Scenes from the French countryside and urban Egypt bookend this “politicized landscape” film, based on letters by Friedrich Engels and two militant Egyptian Marxists. Series Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & Huillet Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Paz Encina: Artist Talk Art Film Free Sunday, February 5, 2017 4:30 PM Paz Encina: Artist Talk In this illustrated lecture, Paz Encina discusses her installation work and the importance of site specificity for both her artwork and her films. Free admission Paz Encina Series Paz Encina: Exercises in Memory Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Lusty Men Film Sunday, February 5, 2017 7 PM The Lusty Men Nicholas Ray, United States, 1952, (113 mins) Emotionally rich, socially insightful, beautifully filmed story of fifties rodeo rider Robert Mitchum, cowboy Arthur Kennedy, and conflicted wife Susan Hayward. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	6 6:30 PM Arts + Design Mondays: Collecting the Uncollectible: Pamela and Richard Kramlich in Conversation with Lawrence Rinder Free In-Person Monday, February 6, 2017 6:30 PM Arts + Design Mondays: Collecting the Uncollectible: Pamela and Richard Kramlich in Conversation with Lawrence Rinder The Kramlichs are noted collectors who established the New Art Trust to advance the media arts through the support of research and scholarship in the field. Rinder is director of BAMPFA. Free admission Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS	7 5–7 PM Hippie Modernism Member Preview Tuesday, February 7, 2017 5–7 PM Hippie Modernism Member Preview For BAMPFA Members Only A sneak peek at Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia just for BAMPFA members. Member Event Series Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia Google Calendar ICS 7–10 PM Hippie Modernism Public Preview Art Free Tuesday, February 7, 2017 7–10 PM Hippie Modernism Public Preview Admission free Free public preview of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia featuring modular synth instruments from Oakland’s Vintage Synthesizer Museum. Admission free Series Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane Film In-Person Tuesday, February 7, 2017 7:30 PM Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane (65 mins) Presented in association with the Center for Visual Music Jordan Belson made abstract films richly woven with cosmological imagery exploring consciousness, transcendence, and the nature of light itself. Titles include Bop Scotch, Mandala, Chakra, Samadhi, and more. Cindy Keefer Introduction Cindy Keefer is curator and archivist at the Center for Visual Music Stephen Beck In Person Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8 12 PM California Countercultures: North Beach Beat Generation with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman In-Person Wednesday, February 8, 2017 12 PM California Countercultures: North Beach Beat Generation with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman Two luminaries of the Bay Area poetry scene come together to reflect on the Beat culture that flourished in San Francisco’s North Beach. Free Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Gallery Talk with Curator Greg Castillo Art In-Person Wednesday, February 8, 2017 1:30 PM Gallery Talk with Curator Greg Castillo Guest curator Greg Castillo introduces the themes of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia and talks about some of the works on view in the exhibition. Included with admission Greg Castillo Guest curator and associate professor of architecture at UC Berkeley. Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM Bigger Than Life Film In-Person Wednesday, February 8, 2017 3:10 PM Bigger Than Life Nicholas Ray, United States, 1956, (170 mins) 35mm 'Scope Print Featuring a brilliant performance by James Mason, this searing CinemaScope saga of fifties suburban psychosis is essential Ray. Tickets on sale to general public on December 15 Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 / David Thomson Lecture Series In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Monterey Pop Film Wednesday, February 8, 2017 7 PM Monterey Pop D. A. Pennebaker, United States, 1968, (110 mins) This legendary concert film on the 1967 Monterey Pop festival captures Otis Redding, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and more at the height of their powers. With Agnès Varda’s filmed-in-Oakland Black Panthers. Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9 4–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Thursday, February 9, 2017 4–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Paraguayan Hammock Film In-Person Thursday, February 9, 2017 7 PM Paraguayan Hammock Paz Encina, Paraguay, 2006, (78 mins) An older couple in 1935 Paraguay wait, and wait, as past and present merge in Paz Encina’s moving work on “the poetics of history.” Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard. In Conversation Paz Encina Adriana Johnson Adriana Johnson is professor of comparative literature at UC Irvine Series Paz Encina: Exercises in Memory Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10 4–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Friday, February 10, 2017 4–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 4 PM On Dangerous Ground Film Friday, February 10, 2017 4 PM On Dangerous Ground Nicholas Ray, United States, 1951, (82 mins) On a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in this eloquent, brooding noir. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM One-Eyed Jacks Film Friday, February 10, 2017 7 PM One-Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando, United States, 1961, (141 mins) New 4K Restoration Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent" (Time Out). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Full: Stone Art In-Person Friday, February 10, 2017 7 PM Full: Stone Programmed by Sarah Cahill Carl Stone, one of the earliest adopters of live computer music, performs selections from his Sampling Neurosis series, recent works composed for laptop and the Elektron Octatrack. Seating is very limited Included with admission Series Full 2017 Music & Performance Google Calendar ICS	11 11:30 AM - 1 PM Family Fare: Fabric Collage In-Person Saturday, February 11, 2017 11:30 AM - 1 PM Family Fare: Fabric Collage Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s) Following a tour of fabric artworks on view in Hippie Modernism, create collages with artist Jennie Lennick using upcycled fabrics. For kids 6–12 and their families. Free for kids plus one adult Jennie Lennick With artist Jennie Lennick Jennie Lennick reinterprets traditionally domestic imagery in drawings, sculpture, fiber, and functional items and teaches fiber art classes throughout the Bay Area. Series Family Events 2017 Google Calendar ICS 1- 2:30 PM Family Fare: Fabric Collage In-Person Saturday, February 11, 2017 1- 2:30 PM Family Fare: Fabric Collage Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s) Following a tour of fabric artworks on view in Hippie Modernism, create collages with artist Jennie Lennick using upcycled fabrics. For kids 6–12 and their families. Free for kids plus one adult Jennie Lennick With artist Jennie Lennick Jennie Lennick reinterprets traditionally domestic imagery in drawings, sculpture, fiber, and functional items and teaches fiber art classes throughout the Bay Area. Series Family Events 2017 Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Saturday, February 11, 2017 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Hippie Modernism Forum: Counterculture / Cyberculture Art In-Person Saturday, February 11, 2017 1 PM Hippie Modernism Forum: Counterculture / Cyberculture The first of four Hippie Modernism forums exploring the contemporary relevance of the Bay Area hippie legacy. With guests Lee Felsenstein, Fred Turner, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and moderator Greg Niemeyer. Included with admission Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS 3 PM Roundtable Reading: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate In-Person Saturday, February 11, 2017 3 PM Roundtable Reading: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners) Free for kids plus one accompanying adult Estella Sisneros Reading Led by Estella Sisneros Librarian at LeConte Elementary School, Berkeley Series Family Events 2017 Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Rebel Without a Cause Film Saturday, February 11, 2017 4 PM Rebel Without a Cause Nicholas Ray, United States, 1955, (111 mins) 35mm 'Scope Print James Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:15 PM Johnny Guitar Film Saturday, February 11, 2017 6:15 PM Johnny Guitar Nicholas Ray, United States, 1954, (110 mins) Saloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in a baroque, gender-bending Western passion play. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8:30 PM Medium Cool Film In-Person Saturday, February 11, 2017 8:30 PM Medium Cool Haskell Wexler, United States, 1969, (106 mins) New 35mm Print Haskell Wexler audaciously set a romance against the tumultuous 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, filmed documentary style. "Intensely American in its images and its ambition" (Newsweek). Scott Saul Introduction Scott Saul is a professor of English at UC Berkeley who specializes in twentieth-century American literature and cultural history; his most recent book is Becoming Richard PryorSaul will only introduc Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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12 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Sunday, February 12, 2017 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 2 PM From the Cloud to the Resistance Film Sunday, February 12, 2017 2 PM From the Cloud to the Resistance Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Germany, Italy, 1979, (107 mins) Straub-Huillet showcase two key texts by the great Italian poet/novelist Cesare Pavese, one on the mythological gods above, the other on a real-life anti-fascist massacre. With short En rachâchant. Series Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & Huillet Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Art In-Person Tours Sunday, February 12, 2017 2 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students. Included with admission; no advance reservation required Series Guided Tours 2017 Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM Reading and Booksigning: Lawrence Weschler and Walter Murch In-Person Sunday, February 12, 2017 2:30 PM Reading and Booksigning: Lawrence Weschler and Walter Murch Included with admission Reading and Booksigning Walter Murch Lawrence Weschler Series Readings 2017 Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Johnny Guitar Film Sunday, February 12, 2017 4:30 PM Johnny Guitar Nicholas Ray, United States, 1954, (110 mins) Saloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in a baroque, gender-bending Western passion play. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Medium Cool Film In-Person Sunday, February 12, 2017 7 PM Medium Cool Haskell Wexler, United States, 1969, (106 mins) New 35mm Print Haskell Wexler audaciously set a romance against the tumultuous 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, filmed documentary style. "Intensely American in its images and its ambition" (Newsweek). Scott Saul Introduction Scott Saul is a professor of English at UC Berkeley who specializes in twentieth-century American literature and cultural history; his most recent book is Becoming Richard PryorSaul will only introduc Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13 6:30 PM Arts + Design Mondays: Body, Intellect, Resistance: Mark Greif and Linda Williams in Conversation Free In-Person Monday, February 13, 2017 6:30 PM Arts + Design Mondays: Body, Intellect, Resistance: Mark Greif and Linda Williams in Conversation Greif covers popular culture and political thought for the journal n+1, which he cofounded. Williams is professor emerita of rhetoric and film and media at UC Berkeley, and the author of noted works of feminist film scholarship. Free admission Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS	14	15 12 PM California Countercultures: Civil Rights Movement Photography and Its Legacies, with Leigh Raiford In-Person Wednesday, February 15, 2017 12 PM California Countercultures: Civil Rights Movement Photography and Its Legacies, with Leigh Raiford Raiford, associate professor of African American studies at UC Berkeley, considers the role that photography played in the civil rights movement. Included with admission Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, February 15, 2017 1:30 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students. Included with admission; no advance reservation required Series Guided Tours 2017 Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM Written on the Wind Film In-Person Wednesday, February 15, 2017 3:10 PM Written on the Wind Douglas Sirk, United States, 1956, (170 mins) Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Dorothy Malone star in Sirk’s fever-dream of a melodrama about the emotional wreckage of an oil-rich family. Tickets on sale to general public on December 15 Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 / David Thomson Lecture Series In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM In the Year of the Pig Film Wednesday, February 15, 2017 7 PM In the Year of the Pig Emile de Antonio, United States, 1969, (101 mins) Restored 35mm Print This Academy Award–nominated documentary makes the case against US intervention in Vietnam using an incendiary montage style. One of the most effective antiwar documentaries ever made. Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 4–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Thursday, February 16, 2017 4–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Class Relations Film Thursday, February 16, 2017 7 PM Class Relations Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Federal Republic of Germany, 1984, (156 mins) A young immigrant finds America as confusing (and class-ridden) as the old world in Straub-Huillet’s claustrophobic adaptation of a Kafka story. With Harun Farocki’s Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika. Series Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & Huillet Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17 6-8 PM Analog Light Show Workshop Art In-Person Friday, February 17, 2017 6-8 PM Analog Light Show Workshop Come play with old overhead projectors, colored transparencies, prisms, mirrors, and more at this “light jam” with guest artist Jeff Manson. With special guest DJ. Included with admission Series Workshops 2017 Google Calendar ICS 4–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Friday, February 17, 2017 4–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 4 PM One-Eyed Jacks Film Friday, February 17, 2017 4 PM One-Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando, United States, 1961, (141 mins) New 4K Restoration Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent" (Time Out). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One Film Friday, February 17, 2017 7:30 PM Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One William Greaves, United States, 1968, (75 mins) The original “docu-fiction hybrid,” Symbiopsychotaxiplasm documents (or does it?) a film being shot over and over again in New York’s Central Park. Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	18 1—6 PM Hippie Modernism Home Movie & Family Album Day Art Film In-Person Saturday, February 18, 2017 1—6 PM Hippie Modernism Home Movie & Family Album Day Bring your 1960s and 1970s home movies, photos, flyers, and other print ephemera to BAMPFA for this Hippie Modernism–themed “show and tell." Included with admission Series Workshops 2017 Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Saturday, February 18, 2017 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 1 PM The Great Transmission Art Film Saturday, February 18, 2017 1 PM The Great Transmission Screening weekly in Theater Two, this award-winning documentary is the story of Tibetan refugee lama Tarthang Tulku and his efforts to preserve the sacred texts of his tradition. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM The Adventures of Prince Achmed Film In-Person Saturday, February 18, 2017 3:30 PM The Adventures of Prince Achmed Lotte Reiniger, Germany, 1926, (72 mins) Hand-Tinted and Toned 35mm Print Recommended for ages 7 & up One of the world’s first animated feature films, Lotte Reiniger’s enchanting work uses intricate silhouettes made from cutout cardboard and thin sheets of lead to enact a tale from The Arabian Nights. Judith Rosenberg Live Music Judith Rosenberg on piano Series Movie Matinees for All Ages 2017 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6 PM Bigger Than Life Film Saturday, February 18, 2017 6 PM Bigger Than Life Nicholas Ray, United States, 1956, (95 mins) 35mm 'Scope Print Also screens on 2.8.17 in In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders Featuring a brilliant performance by James Mason, this searing CinemaScope saga of fifties suburban psychosis is essential Ray. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8 PM Sympathy for the Devil Film Saturday, February 18, 2017 8 PM Sympathy for the Devil Jean-Luc Godard, United Kingdom, 1968, (127 mins) Digital Restoration Godard follows the Rolling Stones as they work on a new album, intercutting those scenes with footage of the Black Panthers, Maoist hippies, and scenes of urban unrest. With Joyce Wieland’s short, Rat Life and Diet in North America. Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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19 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Sunday, February 19, 2017 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Antigone Film Sunday, February 19, 2017 2 PM Antigone Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, France, Germany, 1991, (100 mins) Straub-Huillet bring multiple layers of history to life in their dramatic vision of Bertolt Brecht’s version of the poet Hölderlin’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone, here restaged in Sicily’s ancient and atmospheric Teatro di Segesta. Series Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & Huillet Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Art In-Person Tours Sunday, February 19, 2017 2 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students. Included with admission; no advance reservation required Series Guided Tours 2017 Google Calendar ICS 4:15 PM Isang Yun: In Between Film In-Person Sunday, February 19, 2017 4:15 PM Isang Yun: In Between Maria Stodtmeier, Germany, 2013, (88 mins) The life story of Korean composer Isang Yun, who lived in Germany while trying to reunite his country. With Eric Marin's 1986 short portrait of composer Lou Harrison, Lou Harrison: "Cherish, Conserve, Consider, Create." In Conversation Dennis Russell Davies Dennis Russell Davies is chief conductor of Bruckner Orchestra, Opera Linz, and the Basel Symphony Orchestra. Charles Boone Composer Charles Boone's works have been played by the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and the Avignon and Berlin Festivals. Charles Amirkhanian Composer Charles Amirkhanian is executive and artistic director of Other Minds. Series Other Minds Festival at BAMPFA Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Gimme Shelter Film Sunday, February 19, 2017 7 PM Gimme Shelter David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, United States, 1971, (91 mins) Archival 35mm Print Often called the greatest rock-and-roll film ever made, Gimme Shelter scrutinizes the Rolling Stones’s infamous Altamont Speedway concert, where hippies, Hells Angels, and rock stars combined to signal the bitter end of the Summer of Love. Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20	21	22 12 PM California Countercultures: Hippie Modernism with Greg Castillo In-Person Wednesday, February 22, 2017 12 PM California Countercultures: Hippie Modernism with Greg Castillo Castillo, associate professor of architecture at UC Berkeley and guest curator of Hippie Modernism, maps the exhibition’s alternative cultural geographies. Free Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, February 22, 2017 1:30 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students. Included with admission; no advance reservation required Series Guided Tours 2017 Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM Vertigo Film In-Person Wednesday, February 22, 2017 3:10 PM Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, United States, 1958, (170 mins) 35mm Print Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism, death, and amorous fixation. Voted best film of all time in 2012 Sight and Sound poll. Tickets on sale to general public on December 15 Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 / David Thomson Lecture Series In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Blockade Film In-Person Wednesday, February 22, 2017 7 PM Blockade Sergei Loznitsa, Russia, Ukraine, 2005, (72 mins) Loznitsa reinterprets archival footage of the siege of Leningrad during World War II in this, “one of the most important Russian movies of the last decade” (Russian Review). With short The Old Jewish Cemetery. In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Neil Young Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Series Afterimage: Sergei Loznitsa Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23 4–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Thursday, February 23, 2017 4–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM Three Short Films By Sergei Loznitsa Film In-Person Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:10 PM Three Short Films By Sergei Loznitsa (124 mins) Witness contemporary Russia in these three shorts, from the rural village of Life, Autumn to Factory’s busy industrial floor and the tired commuters of Landscape. In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Neil Young Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Series Afterimage: Sergei Loznitsa Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Austerlitz Film In-Person Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:30 PM Austerlitz Sergei Loznitsa, Germany, 2016, (94 mins) Bay Area Premiere Tourists wander amid a former concentration camp turned profit center in Loznitsa’s memorable investigation of the atrocity exhibition industry. “Brilliant” (Variety). In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Neil Young Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Series Afterimage: Sergei Loznitsa Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24 6—8 PM Collage Night with Desi Art In-Person Friday, February 24, 2017 6—8 PM Collage Night with Desi Collage Night with Desi returns to BAMPFA! Make one large-scale collaborative collage while grooving to the sounds of a special guest DJ. Included with admission Series Workshops 2017 Google Calendar ICS 4–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Friday, February 24, 2017 4–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM Maidan Film In-Person Friday, February 24, 2017 3:10 PM Maidan Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands, Ukraine, 2014, (133 mins) Composed from extended fixed shots, this account of Kiev’s Maidan Square protests tracks the trajectory from peaceful dissent to violent confrontation. “A film of scale and immediacy, finding artistry in bearing witness” (New York Times). In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Neil Young Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Series Afterimage: Sergei Loznitsa Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM In the Fog Film In-Person Friday, February 24, 2017 7:30 PM In the Fog Sergei Loznitsa, Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Russia, 2012, (128 mins) Two partisans plan to kill a Belarusian railway worker suspected of Nazi sympathies in Loznitsa’s dreamlike narrative film. “A masterpiece” (David Thomson). In Conversation Sergei Loznitsa Neil Young Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Series Afterimage: Sergei Loznitsa Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	25 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Saturday, February 25, 2017 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 1 PM The Great Transmission Art Film Saturday, February 25, 2017 1 PM The Great Transmission Screening weekly in Theater Two, this award-winning documentary is the story of Tibetan refugee lama Tarthang Tulku and his efforts to preserve the sacred texts of his tradition. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Bitter Victory Film Saturday, February 25, 2017 5 PM Bitter Victory Nicholas Ray, United States, 1957, (103 mins) Restored Full-Length ‘Scope Print Set in the Libyan desert in 1942, a war drama of bitter paradoxes and a breakthrough in the realist aesthetic. With Richard Burton. Series On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM One-Eyed Jacks Film Saturday, February 25, 2017 7:30 PM One-Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando, United States, 1961, (141 mins) New 4K Restoration Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent" (Time Out). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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26 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Art In-Person Sunday, February 26, 2017 11 AM–7 PM Art Lab—February 2017 Drop-in Art Making Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Moses and Aaron Film In-Person Sunday, February 26, 2017 1:30 PM Moses and Aaron Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, 1974, (120 mins) “The best opera film ever made” (P. Adams Sitney), Moses and Aaron presents Schoenberg’s great opera in the Roman Alba Fucense amphitheater. “A film in which every cut, every camera movement counts for so much” (New Yorker Films). With short. Erik Ulman Introduction Erik Ulman, a composer and lecturer in music at Stanford University, writes on music, poetry, and film; he codirects, with Marcia Scott, the arts organization Poto. Series Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & Huillet Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Art In-Person Tours Sunday, February 26, 2017 2 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (Feb) Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students. Included with admission; no advance reservation required Series Guided Tours 2017 Google Calendar ICS	27 6:30 PM Arts + Design Mondays: Technology, Race, Popular Culture: Jenna Wortham and Nadia Ellis in Conversation Free In-Person Monday, February 27, 2017 6:30 PM Arts + Design Mondays: Technology, Race, Popular Culture: Jenna Wortham and Nadia Ellis in Conversation Wortham writes about technology and culture for the New York Times. Ellis, associate professor of English at UC Berkeley, specializes in African diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures. Free admission Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS	28	1 12 PM California Countercultures: Pynchon’s Paranoid California with Michael Cohen In-Person Wednesday, March 1, 2017 12 PM California Countercultures: Pynchon’s Paranoid California with Michael Cohen Cohen, an associate teaching professor in the African American studies department at UC Berkeley, talks about writer Thomas Pynchon, whose work embodies the radical challenge of the California counterculture. Included with admission Series Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017 Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (March) Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, March 1, 2017 1:30 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (March) Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students. Included with admission; no advance reservation required Series Guided Tours 2017 Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM Some Like It Hot Film In-Person Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:10 PM Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder, United States, 1959, (170 mins) 35mm Print Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon star in Wilder’s outrageous cross-dressing comedy, selected by the American Film Institute as the funniest movie ever made. Tickets on sale to general public on December 15 Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 / David Thomson Lecture Series In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Cameraperson Film Wednesday, March 1, 2017 7 PM Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson, United States, 2016, (110 mins) Documentary cinematographer Johnson mines twenty-five years’ worth of her footage for this self-portrait and investigation into the ethics of representation, a “labor of love of the highest order” (Film Comment). With Johnson’s short The Above. Series Documentary Voices 2017 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 4–7 PM Five Tables of Literary Associations Art Free Thursday, March 2, 2017 4–7 PM Five Tables of Literary Associations Admission free Google Calendar ICS 12–2 & 5–6:20 Theater 2 Hippie Modernism Shorts Art Film Thursday, March 2, 2017 12–2 & 5–6:20 Theater 2 Hippie Modernism Shorts Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 4–7 PM Art Lab—March 2017 Art In-Person Thursday, March 2, 2017 4–7 PM Art Lab—March 2017 Drop-in Art Making Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (March) Art In-Person Tours Thursday, March 2, 2017 1 PM Guided Tour: Hippie Modernism (March) Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students. Included with admission; no advance reservation required Series Guided Tours 2017 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Chan Is Missing Film In-Person Thursday, March 2, 2017 7 PM Chan Is Missing Wayne Wang, United States, 1982, (92 mins) New 35mm Print Touted as the first all–Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching S.F.’s Chinatown for an elusive flim-flam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert). With Wang’s short Dim Sum Take-Out. Wayne Wang In Person Among the diverse films Wayne Wang has directed, his works focusing on Asian American cultures include Eat a Bowl of Tea, Dim Sum, The Joy Luck Club, and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	3 12–2 & 5–8:15 Theater 2 Hippie Modernism Shorts Art Film Friday, March 3, 2017 12–2 & 5–8:15 Theater 2 Hippie Modernism Shorts Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 4–9 PM Art Lab—March 2017 Art In-Person Friday, March 3, 2017 4–9 PM Art Lab—March 2017 Drop-in Art Making Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Diary of a Country Priest Film In-Person Friday, March 3, 2017 7:30 PM Diary of a Country Priest Robert Bresson, France, 1950, (114 mins) A young priest tries to lead an exemplary life, but his parishioners respond with scorn and indifference. “A film of great purity, and at the end, almost Bach-like intensity” (Pauline Kael). Tony Pipolo Introduction and Post-screening Discussion Tony Pipolo is professor emeritus of film and literature at the City University of New York and author of Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film. Series Grace and Perfection: The Films of Robert Bresson Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 3-7:30 PM Theater 2 Hippie Modernism Shorts Art Film Saturday, March 4, 2017 3-7:30 PM Theater 2 Hippie Modernism Shorts Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—March 2017 Art In-Person Saturday, March 4, 2017 11 AM–9 PM Art Lab—March 2017 Drop-in Art Making Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 1 PM The Great Transmission Art Film Saturday, March 4, 2017 1 PM The Great Transmission Screening weekly in Theater Two, this award-winning documentary is the story of Tibetan refugee lama Tarthang Tulku and his efforts to preserve the sacred texts of his tradition. Included with admission Google Calendar ICS 5:30 PM L'argent Film In-Person Saturday, March 4, 2017 5:30 PM L'argent Robert Bresson, France, 1983, (85 mins) Digital Restoration A young man unknowingly passes counterfeit cash and sets off an escalating spiral of crimes in Bresson’s last film, a tough, terse investigation of the power of money adapted from a Tolstoy novella. Tony Pipolo Introduction and Post-screening Discussion Tony Pipolo will appear only at the March 4 screening. He is professor emeritus of film and literature at the City University of New York and author of Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film. Series Grace and Perfection: The Films of Robert Bresson Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8:15 PM Zabriskie Point Film Saturday, March 4, 2017 8:15 PM Zabriskie Point Michelangelo Antonioni, United States, 1970, (107 mins) Antonioni filmed the sixties war between radical and straight cultures in LA and Death Valley. “A sorrowing, stranger’s-eye view of modern America” (Time). Series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS