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3-6:25 PM
Sunday, April 30, 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, April 30, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, April 30, 2017
2 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
Germany,
1988,
(82 mins)
History doubles back on itself like a noose in Straub-Huillet’s second version of The Death of Empedocles, as the Greek philosopher advocates for democracy for his people, with tragic results. With Itinerary of Jean Bricard.
2 PM
Sunday, April 30, 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, April 30, 2017
4:30 PM
(90 mins)
Student Filmmakers in Person Free admission!
This annual program presents the prizewinners and runners-up in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creativity.
7 PM
Sunday, April 30, 2017
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1974,
(155 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
Cassavetes’s masterpiece retains the power to unnerve with its raw, often harrowing depiction of a blue-collar Los Angeles family, with Gena Rowlands in an Oscar-nominated performance as a housewife on the verge.
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6:30 PM
Monday, May 1, 2017
6:30 PM
Pell is a writer, angel investor, and founder of NextDraft, a curated compilation of daily news and analysis.
Free admission
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6:00 PM
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
6:00 PM
Celebrate peace, love, and Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia with an unforgettable gala and art auction benefitting BAMPFA.
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Wednesday, May 3, 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
12:15 PM
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
12:15 PM
MATRIX artist Contis talks about her photographs and shifting notions of place, identity, and gender in the American West.
Free with admission
1:30 PM
Wednesday, May 3, 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, May 3, 2017
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1974,
(155 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
Cassavetes’s masterpiece retains the power to unnerve with its raw, often harrowing depiction of a blue-collar Los Angeles family, with Gena Rowlands in an Oscar-nominated performance as a housewife on the verge.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, May 4, 2017
4-7 PM
12–2 & 5–6:20
Thursday, May 4, 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, May 4, 2017
4–7 PM
1 PM
Thursday, May 4, 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, May 4, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
France, Italy,
2005,
(109 mins)
The musings of the gods are brought to the earthly realms of contemporary rural Italy in Straub and Huillet’s re-creation of Cesare Pavese’s 1947 book Dialogues with Leucò. With Proposition in Four Parts.
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12–2 & 5–8:15
Friday, May 5, 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, May 5, 2017
4-9 PM
6 PM
Friday, May 5, 2017
6 PM
7 PM
Friday, May 5, 2017
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1978,
(108 mins)
Cassavetes’s Sunset Strip neo-noir is centered around a “classy” strip club and its proprietor (Ben Gazzara). “The curdled charm of Gazzara's lopsided grin has never been more to the point” (Time Out).
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, May 6, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
3-7:30 PM
Saturday, May 6, 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 PM
Saturday, May 6, 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, May 6, 2017
1:30 PM
3 PM
Saturday, May 6, 2017
3 PM
Uday Shankar,
India,
1948,
(155 mins)
Digital Restoration
This gorgeous experimental drama, the only film by celebrated dancer Uday Shankar (brother of Ravi Shankar), is the semi-autobiographical story of a young man’s dream to establish an arts academy in the Himalayas.
4 PM
Saturday, May 6, 2017
4 PM
Join the artist for an exhibition walkthrough focusing on her use of photography and archival research to explore the relationship of bodies and landscape. Deep Springs College alumnus Abdramane Diabate joins Contis in conversation.
Free with admission
6:30 PM
Saturday, May 6, 2017
6:30 PM
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur,
India,
2012,
(164 mins)
Archival Print
Celebrate a passion for film with this portrait of the pioneering efforts of film preservationist P. K. Nair, who founded the National Film Archive of India in 1964. “One of the best movies ever made about cinema ” (Mark Cousins).
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, May 7, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
3-6:25 PM
Sunday, May 7, 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
2 PM
Sunday, May 7, 2017
2 PM
Jean-Marie Straub,
France, Switzerland,
2014,
(103 mins)
This digital meditation on struggle and resistance “is the closest Straub has come to an autobiographical film” (Artforum). With shorts The Algerian War! and The Aquarium and the Nation.
2 PM
Sunday, May 7, 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
4:15 PM
Sunday, May 7, 2017
4:15 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1959,
(74 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
Time never caught up with Cassavetes’s first film; his tale of three black Manhattanites is still inherently hip, mordantly funny, terribly sad, and very New York.
7 PM
Sunday, May 7, 2017
7 PM
Alejandro Jodorowsky,
Mexico,
1973,
(115 mins)
One man’s (acid) trip toward enlightened consciousness heads across deserts, galaxies, islands, and more. The most outrageously psychedelic film ever made: you can’t understand the early 1970s without this.
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Wednesday, May 10, 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, May 10, 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, May 10, 2017
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1978,
(144 mins)
Cassavetes’s tribute to acting, actors, and the search for artistic integrity centers around a successful stage actress (Gena Rowlands) grappling with her character. “Cassavetes's most cleverly constructed film” (The New Yorker).
7 PM
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
7 PM
 Programmed by Sarah Cahill
An evening of music by the composer Lou Harrison, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Thursday, May 11, 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, May 11, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, May 11, 2017
7 PM
(66 mins)
The visionary Bay Area filmmaking collective Canyon Cinema has been expanding cinema—and minds—since 1967. This program of shorts includes works by Bruce Baillie, Warren Sonbert, Barbara Hammer, Chick Strand, Gunvor Nelson, Peter Rose, Beverly and Tony Conrad, and more.
In Conversation
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12–2 & 5–8:15
Friday, May 12, 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, May 12, 2017
4-9 PM
6 PM
Friday, May 12, 2017
6 PM
A reading and release party for a new publication in response to Country Women, a magazine created in the 1970s by women living in communes in Mendocino County.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
7 PM
Friday, May 12, 2017
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1970,
(138 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
Three middle-aged suburban buddies (Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) go on a forty-eight-hour bender after another friend’s funeral in this savagely funny, unsentimental dissection of the blustering, bilious midlife male.
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3-7:30 PM
Saturday, May 13, 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, May 13, 2017
1–2:30 PM
 Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Explore the history of the recycle symbol and become an ambassador for the planet while creating your own educational posters.
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
11:30–1 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2017
11:30–1 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Explore the history of the recycle symbol and become an ambassador for the planet while creating your own educational posters.
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
2:30-9 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2017
2:30-9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2017
1 PM
Could rural communes be the template for a new geography of creativity? Ramón Sender Barayón, Erin Elder, and Fritz Haeg discuss the question along with moderator Greg Castillo.
Included with admission
1 PM
Saturday, May 13, 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
Saturday, May 13, 2017
3 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Read the beginning of Blume’s portrait of a boy and his boisterous little brother, and pick up a copy to continue reading at home.
Free for kids plus one accompanying adult
Series
Family Events 2017
5:30 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2017
5:30 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1980,
(123 mins)
A former gangster’s moll (Gena Rowlands) takes on the mob—while protecting a Puerto Rican orphan—in pre-gentrification, graffiti-tagged early 1980s New York. “A commercial film . . . turned into a slice of pure avant-garde” (Dave Kehr).
8 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2017
8 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1974,
(123 mins)
Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life, shines in this new print. “A film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, May 14, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
3-6:25 PM
Sunday, May 14, 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
2 PM
Sunday, May 14, 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 PM
Sunday, May 14, 2017
4 PM
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub,
France, Germany,
1996,
(102 mins)
An opera film with all attention on the performances and the music, and a thing of beauty. A husband and wife return from a party and begin to speak and sing of romantic rivals and possibilities. With shorts The Inconsolable One and Dialogue with Shadows.
7 PM
Sunday, May 14, 2017
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1984,
(141 mins)
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” (The New Yorker).
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Wednesday, May 17, 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
7–9 PM
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
7–9 PM
(120 mins)
For BAMPFA members and guests of the artists
Join us for a reception to celebrate the 2017 MFA graduates of UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice.
Open to BAMPFA members and guests of the artists
1:30 PM
Wednesday, May 17, 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
6 PM
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
6 PM
Meet the 2017 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program as they talk about their recent work.
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12–2 & 5–6:20
Thursday, May 18, 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, May 18, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, May 18, 2017
7 PM
(150 mins)
Join us to celebrate the psychedelic art form of live light performance at this festival of live music and visual wizardry.
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12–2 & 5–8:15
Friday, May 19, 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, May 19, 2017
4-9 PM
7 PM
Friday, May 19, 2017
7 PM
(150 mins)
Join us to celebrate the psychedelic art form of live light performance at this festival of live music and visual wizardry.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, May 20, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
3-7:30 PM
Saturday, May 20, 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 PM
Saturday, May 20, 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
2 PM
Saturday, May 20, 2017
2 PM
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the psychedelic art of the light show at this gathering of members of original performance groups as well as recent innovators.
Free with admission
7 PM
Saturday, May 20, 2017
7 PM
(150 mins)
Join us to celebrate the psychedelic art form of live light performance at this festival of live music and visual wizardry.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, May 21, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
11–3 PM
Sunday, May 21, 2017
11–3 PM
Bring the family to join in a full day of art making, exhibition tours, and music with the Bug Family Band—all admission free!
Free admission!
Series
Family Events 2017
3-6:25 PM
Sunday, May 21, 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
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4-7 PM
Thursday, May 25, 2017
4-7 PM
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4-9 PM
Friday, May 26, 2017
4-9 PM
6 PM
Friday, May 26, 2017
6 PM
 Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Join multidisciplinary dance-performance artist Pridgen for a discussion and introductory workshop exploring the communal dance practice of the masquerade.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, May 27, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, May 27, 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.
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Sunday, May 28, 2017
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7 PM
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
7 PM
Philip Kaufman,
United States,
1978,
(114 mins)
A remake of the classic 1956 sci-fi flick, adapted from Jack Finney’s novel about an alien invasion, here set in San Francisco. Starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, and Jeff Goldblum.
In Conversation preceding the screening
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4–7 PM
Thursday, June 1, 2017
4–7 PM
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursdays and get an up-close view of treasures from the BAMPFA collection.
Free admission
4-7 PM
Thursday, June 1, 2017
4-7 PM
12:15 PM
Thursday, June 1, 2017
12:15 PM
 7 PM
Thursday, June 1, 2017
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)
Digital Restoration
A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
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4-9 PM
Friday, June 2, 2017
4-9 PM
7 PM
Friday, June 2, 2017
7 PM
Juan Carlos Rulfo,
Mexico,
2017,
(120 mins)
A very personal profile of the great Mexican author and photographer Juan Rulfo, created by his son Juan Carlos, whose film In the Pit won Best Documentary at Sundance.
In Conversation
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, June 3, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
1–5 PM
Saturday, June 3, 2017
1–5 PM
Create colorful drawings of rainbows in an artist-led workshop. Your art could be shown in BAMPFA’s Ugo Rondinone exhibition this summer!
Ages 4 to 10 with accompanying adult(s)
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
3 PM
Saturday, June 3, 2017
3 PM
Agnieszka Holland,
United States,
1993,
(103 mins)
Recommended for ages 8 and up
A lonely but enterprising young girl discovers a secret garden on her uncle’s isolated estate in this magical adaptation of the famed children’s novel. “Elegantly expressive . . . celebrating nature as a force for freedom” (New York Times).
5:30 PM
Saturday, June 3, 2017
5:30 PM
Neil Ortenberg, Daniel O’Connor,
United States,
2007,
(127 mins)
Go behind the scenes of the legendary Grove Press, publisher of Samuel Beckett, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more, in this illuminating documentary and testament to free speech. With A Very British Pornographer: The Jack Kahane Story.
8:30 PM
Saturday, June 3, 2017
8:30 PM
Paul Schrader,
United States,
1985,
(120 mins)
Director’s Cut
Paul Schrader and his brother Leonard joined together with Bay Area producer Tom Luddy for this rich, compelling profile of the controversial Japanese literary giant Yukio Mishima, who committed suicide in 1970 after a failed coup attempt.
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