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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
 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 1:30 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2017
1:30 PM
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.
2 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2017
2 PM
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
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Monday, February 27, 2017
6:30 PM
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
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
12 PM
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
1:30 PM
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
1:30 PM
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
3:10 PM
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
3:10 PM
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 /
7 PM
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
7 PM
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
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4–7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2017
4–7 PM
12–2 & 5–6:20
Thursday, March 2, 2017
12–2 & 5–6:20
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
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2017
4–7 PM
1 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2017
1 PM
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
7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2017
7 PM
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.
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12–2 & 5–8:15
Friday, March 3, 2017
12–2 & 5–8:15
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
4–9 PM
Friday, March 3, 2017
4–9 PM
7:30 PM
Friday, March 3, 2017
7:30 PM
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).
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3-7:30 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2017
3-7:30 PM
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
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2017
1 PM
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
5:30 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2017
5:30 PM
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.
8:15 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2017
8:15 PM
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).
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3-6:25 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2017
3-6:25 PM
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
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2 PM
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub,
France, Italy,
1999,
(130 mins)
Sentences become arias as one man’s return to Sicily inspires recollections of corruption, treachery, and political and personal woe in this “masterpiece” (Artforum). With companion piece Return of the Prodigal Son / Humiliated.
2 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2 PM
Miller, author of Blueprint for Counter Education, explores objects and publications that informed his defining work of Vietnam War–era radical pedagogy.
Included with admission
2 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2 PM
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
4:45 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2017
4:45 PM
John Murray Anderson,
United States,
1930,
(100 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration
One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.
7 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2017
7 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1943,
(96 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Bresson’s visual elegance and uncompromising narrative style are already in evidence in his first feature film, which follows a sophisticated young woman into the closed world of a convent.
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Monday, March 6, 2017
6:30 PM
Arts + Design Mondays: Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini, with Tanya Zimbardo
Zimbardo is assistant curator of media arts at SFMOMA.
Free admission
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12-2 & 5-6:20
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
12-2 & 5-6:20
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
5–7 PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
5–7 PM
Explore the power of observational drawing at a figure drawing class with a live nude model.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2017
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
12 PM
Explore avant-garde art practices with Beard, executive director of The Lab and former assistant curator at BAMPFA.
Free
1:30 PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
1:30 PM
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
3:10 PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
3:10 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1956,
(170 mins)
From the true account of a Resistance leader who escaped from a Nazi prison just before he was to be executed, Bresson created a film where the drama is all internal. “Essential viewing” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Special admission prices: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50. UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $10.50
Series
In Focus: Robert Bresson
6 PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
6 PM
Join the artist of Silhouettes to explore the legacy of the portrait, physiognomy, and people’s desire to read the face.
Free with admission
7 PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
7 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
2015,
(190 mins)
Legendary filmmaker Wiseman observes everyday life in Jackson Heights, Queens, one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse communities. “Among Mr. Wiseman’s masterpieces. . . . An immersive celebration of democracy” (New York Times).
Series
Documentary Voices 2017
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Thursday, March 9, 2017
12–2 & 5–6:20
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
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 9, 2017
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 9, 2017
7 PM
Christopher Kirkley,
Niger, United States,
2015,
(75 mins)
Musician Mdou Moctar and the founder of the label Sahel Sounds join together for this unexpected remix of Prince’s Purple Rain, set amidst the electrified, electrifying Tuareg music scene of Saharan Niger.
Series
African Film Festival 2017
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12–2 & 5–8:15
Friday, March 10, 2017
12–2 & 5–8:15
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
4–9 PM
Friday, March 10, 2017
4–9 PM
4 PM
Friday, March 10, 2017
4 PM
John Murray Anderson,
United States,
1930,
(100 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration
One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.
6 PM
Friday, March 10, 2017
6 PM
 Programmed by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
Poets Shurin and Killian read their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
7:30 PM
Friday, March 10, 2017
7:30 PM
Francisco Newman, Allen Willis,
United States,
1970,
(135 mins)
An interview with Black Panther Bobby Seale while he was incarcerated in San Francisco County Jail. With William Klein's Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther, a portrait of the Panther leader during his exile in Algiers.
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3-7:30 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
3-7:30 PM
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
1–2:30 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
1–2:30 PM
 Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
After a tour of circular works in Hippie Modernism, create your own art based on concentric circles.
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
2:30 – 9 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
2:30 – 9 PM
11:30–1 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
11:30–1 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
After a tour of circular works in Hippie Modernism, create your own art based on concentric circles.
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
1 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
1 PM
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
1 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
1 PM
Anthony Raynsford, Bonnie Ora Sherk, and Lisa Uddin explore the radical geographies of counterculture politics in a discussion moderated by Sean Burns.
Included with admission
Series
Hippie Modernism Forums
Saturday, March 11, 2017
3 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Read the beginning of this delightful mystery, and pick up a copy to continue reading at home.
Free for kids plus one accompanying adult
Series
Family Events 2017
4 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
4 PM
John Murray Anderson,
United States,
1930,
(100 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration
One of Hollywood’s most ambitious musicals, featuring the top jazz orchestras and dancers of the day, is brought back to life in this dazzling restoration from the original two-color Technicolor negative.
6:30 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
6:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1962,
(65 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
In his austere, transcendent dramatization of transcripts from Joan of Arc’s trial, Bresson conveys the mystery of the woman and the reality of the saint.
8:15 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017
8:15 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1959,
(75 mins)
A Parisian thief’s anguish and redemption are played out in Bresson’s famous reworking of Crime and Punishment. “An unmitigated masterpiece” (Paul Schrader).
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3-6:25 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2017
3-6:25 PM
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
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2017
2 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
France, Germany,
1986,
(132 mins)
Greek philosopher Empedocles finds himself both a hero of the people and an enemy of the state in this staging of a Hölderlin play on spectacular Mount Etna. Its style “reveals a utopian present” (Artforum).
2 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2017
2 PM
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
5 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2017
5 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1945,
(90 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Bresson updates an eighteenth-century Diderot novel to contemporary Paris with this story of a beautiful woman who takes revenge on her ex-lover. “A landmark in cinema history” (David Thomson).
7 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2017
7 PM
Alice Diop,
France,
2015,
(85 mins)
Alice Diop’s intimate featurette portrays the inner thoughts and public territory of young men in a Paris suburb. With shorts The Return (Yohann Kouam), Reluctantly Queer (Akosua Adoma Owusu), and The Sense of Touch (Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo).
Series
African Film Festival 2017
7 PM
Sunday, March 12, 2017
7 PM
 Programmed by Sarah Cahill
Canadian electroacoustic musician Jean-François LaPorte uses sculptural instruments and experimental control mechanisms.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
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Monday, March 13, 2017
6:30 PM
Arts + Design Mondays: Art, Activism, and Freedom in the American Carceral State, with jackie sumell
New Orleans–based multidisciplinary artist and activist sumell reflects on her service with prisoners indefinitely held in solitary confinement, drawing from the teachings of the Black Panthers, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox.
Free admission
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7 PM
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
7 PM
 For BAMPFA Members and Cal Students Only
Join us for this fifth annual event especially for BAMPFA members, an insider’s view into how we shape our film collection.
Admission free; open to BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students only
Series
Member Events
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12-2 & 5-6:20
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
12-2 & 5-6:20
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
12 PM
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
12 PM
Find the intersections between art and politics with Reed, a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, songwriter, public media commentator, lecturer, and publisher.
Free
1:30 PM
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
1:30 PM
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
3:10 PM
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
3:10 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1967,
(170 mins)
Bresson’s portrayal of the life and death of a despised country girl is gritty yet lyrical and ultimately sublime. “In Mouchette, the world itself is a mystical stage” (J. Hoberman).
Special admission prices: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50. UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $10.50
Series
In Focus: Robert Bresson
7 PM
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
7 PM
Sharon Lockhart,
United States,
2016,
(52 mins)
Lockhart collaborated with young women living in a group home in Poland to create these expressive, carefully composed vignettes on their lives, thoughts, and desires.
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Thursday, March 16, 2017
12–2 & 5–6:20
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
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 16, 2017
4–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, March 16, 2017
7 PM
Jean Eustache,
France,
1975,
(154 mins)
Imported Print
Eustache’s coming-of-age film is a masterpiece of disillusionment. “Under a beguiling surface . . . a distinctly cool, delicately nuanced study of a human being” (Sight & Sound). With Lockhart’s short Pódworka.
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12–2 & 5–8:15
Friday, March 17, 2017
12–2 & 5–8:15
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
4–9 PM
Friday, March 17, 2017
4–9 PM
6:30 PM
Friday, March 17, 2017
6:30 PM
Raymond Depardon,
France,
2008,
(88 mins)
Photographer and filmmaker Depardon travels the remote French countryside to talk with farmers in this compassionate portrait of a vanishing way of life. “Sublime and timeless” (The Telegraph).
8:30 PM
Friday, March 17, 2017
8:30 PM
Sharon Lockhart,
United States,
2009,
(99 mins)
A serene portrait of work and tides, filmed on the coast of Maine. “This moving meditation . . . is guaranteed to lower your blood pressure and recalibrate your mind” (New York Times).
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3-7:30 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017
3-7:30 PM
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
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017
1 PM
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
1:30 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017
1:30 PM
Poets Sharon Coleman and MK Chavez lead this workshop that explores BAMPFA's collection and the exhibitions currently on view, through words. Hosted by Berkeley Poetry Festival, the workshop offers the opportunity to explore and write ekphrastic poetry, or poetry created through ekphrasis, a process of translating an image into words.
Free with admission
3:30 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017
3:30 PM
Bénédicte Galup, Michel Ocelot,
France,
2005,
(74 mins)
Recommended for ages 7 & up
This vibrantly colorful animated sequel to the popular Kirikou and the Sorceress finds little Kirikou using his brains and heart to help his fellow African villagers. With a superb soundtrack by Youssou N’Dour and Manu Dibango.
Series
African Film Festival 2017
6 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017
6 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1956,
(97 mins)
From the true account of a Resistance leader who escaped from a Nazi prison just before he was to be executed, Bresson created a film where the drama is all internal. “Essential viewing” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
8:15 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017
8:15 PM
Peter Watkins,
United States,
1971,
(88 mins)
Reality television meets political oppression in this notorious dystopian vision of a near future where activists are set loose in the desert for the benefit of viewing audiences. A Vietnam war precursor to The Hunger Games. With the Black Panther short, Off the Pig!
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2–4 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017
2–4 PM
Join artist Hart for a talk and clothing customization workshop inspired by her 1974 book Native Funk and Flash: An Emerging Folk Art.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2017
3-6:25 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017
3-6:25 PM
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
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017
1:30 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
Germany, Italy,
1969,
(98 mins)
Contemporary Rome is never far away in Straub-Huillet’s self-aware adaptation of a Corneille play about the Roman Empire. With short Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice.
2 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017
2 PM
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
4:30 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017
4:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1966,
(95 mins)
Bresson found the perfect protagonist for this film in a donkey, “born, like all beings, to suffer and die needlessly and mysteriously. . . . A morbidly beautiful flower of cinematic art” (Andrew Sarris).
7 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017
7 PM
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).
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Monday, March 20, 2017
6:30 PM
Andrew and Deborah Rappaport founded the Minnesota Street Project to offer affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists, and related nonprofits.
Free admission
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12-2 & 5-6:20
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
12-2 & 5-6:20
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
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
12 PM
Pérez, an associate professor of ethnic studies and core faculty in performance studies at UC Berkeley, delves into the issues raised by Mendieta’s work and life.
Free
1:30 PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
1:30 PM
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
3:10 PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
3:10 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1977,
(170 mins)
In this portrait of a young Parisian whose personal crisis mirrors the ecological, political, and social disasters of his time, Bresson’s morally probing compassion meets the cynicism of the 1970s.
Special admission prices: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50. UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $10.50
Series
In Focus: Robert Bresson
7 PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
7 PM
Pedro Costa,
France, Portugal,
2001,
(104 mins)
Pedro Costa witnesses Straub and Huillet at work in the editing room in this “revelatory study of the moviemaking process” (The New Yorker).
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Thursday, March 23, 2017
12–2 & 5–6:20
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
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 23, 2017
4–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, March 23, 2017
7 PM
Howard Alk, Mike Gray,
United States,
1971,
(88 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
This impassioned political documentary investigates the killing of Black Panther Fred Hampton, and is an indictment of the Chicago police force.
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12–2 & 5–8:15
Friday, March 24, 2017
12–2 & 5–8:15
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
4–9 PM
Friday, March 24, 2017
4–9 PM
6:30–7:30 PM
Friday, March 24, 2017
6:30–7:30 PM
 Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Walking Tree’s workshop #SoundPOWAH introduces us to traditional and contemporary drum rhythms, dance, and songs from the African diaspora.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
4 PM
Friday, March 24, 2017
4 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1940,
(127 mins)
Chaplin takes on that other famous guy with a small black moustache. “A time capsule, a timeless document and a profound work of conscience. . . . See it with a crowd” (San Francisco Chronicle).
7:30 PM
Friday, March 24, 2017
7:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1966,
(95 mins)
Bresson found the perfect protagonist for this film in a donkey, “born, like all beings, to suffer and die needlessly and mysteriously. . . . A morbidly beautiful flower of cinematic art” (Andrew Sarris).
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3-7:30 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2017
3-7:30 PM
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
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2017
1 PM
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
4 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2017
4 PM
Corinna Belz,
Germany,
2011,
(97 mins)
This strikingly visual document of artist Gerhard Richter’s creative process is “a must-see for followers of contemporary painting” (Hollywood Reporter).
6:30 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2017
6:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1967,
(80 mins)
Bresson’s portrayal of the life and death of a despised country girl is gritty yet lyrical and ultimately sublime. “In Mouchette, the world itself is a mystical stage” (J. Hoberman).
8:15 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2017
8:15 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1969,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
Dominique Sanda stars in Bresson’s first color film, the simple, mysteriously resonant story of a young woman’s marriage and her suicide. Adapted from a Dostoyevsky short story.
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3-6:25
Sunday, March 26, 2017
3-6:25
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
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2017
2 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
Germany, Italy,
1972,
(108 mins)
This notorious adaptation of Brecht’s The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar envisions the leader through his business underlings, and the Roman Empire through contemporary Roman traffic. With short Concerning Venice.
2 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2017
2 PM
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
3 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2017
3 PM
This musical dramatizes how Harriet Tubman helped her brothers and others escape from slavery, and tells a larger story of the Underground Railroad.
Included with admission
4:30 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2017
4:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1974,
(83 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Bresson gives us Lancelot and Guinevere and the end of the Arthurian era, a brave experiment in sound, image, and souls. “Stunningly beautiful, mesmerizing, exhausting, uplifting, amazing.” (Time Out)
6:30 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2017
6:30 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1940,
(127 mins)
Chaplin takes on that other famous guy with a small black moustache. “A time capsule, a timeless document and a profound work of conscience. . . . See it with a crowd” (San Francisco Chronicle).
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12-2 & 5-6:20
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
12-2 & 5-6:20
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
1:30 PM
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
1:30 PM
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
7 PM
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
7 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1959,
(75 mins)
A Parisian thief’s anguish and redemption are played out in Bresson’s famous reworking of Crime and Punishment. “An unmitigated masterpiece” (Paul Schrader).
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Thursday, March 30, 2017
12–2 & 5–6:20
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
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 30, 2017
4–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, March 30, 2017
7 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1940,
(127 mins)
Chaplin takes on that other famous guy with a small black moustache. “A time capsule, a timeless document and a profound work of conscience. . . . See it with a crowd” (San Francisco Chronicle).
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12–2 & 5–8:15
Friday, March 31, 2017
12–2 & 5–8:15
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
4–9 PM
Friday, March 31, 2017
4–9 PM
Friday, March 31, 2017
All Day
4 PM
Friday, March 31, 2017
4 PM
Corinna Belz,
Germany,
2011,
(97 mins)
This strikingly visual document of artist Gerhard Richter’s creative process is “a must-see for followers of contemporary painting” (Hollywood Reporter).
7:30 PM
Friday, March 31, 2017
7:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1977,
(93 mins)
In this portrait of a young Parisian whose personal crisis mirrors the ecological, political, and social disasters of his time, Bresson’s morally probing compassion meets the cynicism of the 1970s.
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3-7:30 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2017
3-7:30 PM
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
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2017
1 PM
Journalist and best-selling author Pollan and architectural and urban historian Sadler talk about the history and use of psychedelics in therapeutic, philosophical, and cultural contexts.
1 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2017
1 PM
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
4 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2017
4 PM
Corinna Belz,
Germany,
2011,
(97 mins)
This strikingly visual document of artist Gerhard Richter’s creative process is “a must-see for followers of contemporary painting” (Hollywood Reporter).
6 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2017
6 PM
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.
8 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2017
8 PM
John Coney,
United States,
1974, 1993,
(87 mins)
Intergalactic be-bop meets black liberation in this surrealist musical document of Sun Ra, the eccentric performer/philosopher who boasted a consciousness both extraterrestrial and Afrocentric. Jazz from outer space, filmed in the Bay Area. With Toney W. Merritt’s short, What’s This?
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