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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, October 1, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, October 1, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
2:30 PM
Sunday, October 1, 2017
2:30 PM
Sun Yu,
China,
1948,
(219 mins)
Digital Restoration
Notorious as the first film banned by Mao and the PRC, The Life of Wuxun tells the real-life story of a Qing dynasty–era peasant who devoted his life to free education for all.
Includes 10 minute intermission
7 PM
Sunday, October 1, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France,
2015,
(115 mins)
Akerman’s ultra-personal final work reflects on history, distance, memory, and intimacy, and reaffirms her inextricable relationship with her mother, a Holocaust survivor.
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6:30 PM
Monday, October 2, 2017
6:30 PM
Artist and activist Tania Bruguera discusses the concept of Arte Útil, or “useful art.”
Free admission
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12 PM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
12 PM
MacKay, associate film curator at BAMPFA, discusses her experience as a film curator in a variety of contexts.
Free admission
12:15 PM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
12:15 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
7 PM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
7 PM
Tyler Hubby,
United States,
2016,
(105 mins)
This playful portrait captures filmmaker, artist, and musician Tony Conrad’s radical and creative life. “Essential viewing for anyone involved in the history of music and visual art” (Artforum). With Beverly and Tony Conrad’s short flicker film Straight and Narrow.
Series
Alternative Visions 2017
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4–7 PM
Thursday, October 5, 2017
4–7 PM
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursday for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collections.
Free admission
4-7 PM
Thursday, October 5, 2017
4-7 PM
1:15 PM
Thursday, October 5, 2017
1:15 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
7 PM
Thursday, October 5, 2017
7 PM
 Programmed by Sarah Cahill
Fred Frith, Ben Goldberg, and a dozen other players join Scott Amendola’s large-scale orchestra to create new musical textures.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
7 PM
Thursday, October 5, 2017
7 PM
Karen Thorsen,
United States,
1989,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
A who’s-who of the African American culturati—including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and Ishmael Reed—appear in this documentary tracing Baldwin’s trajectory from Harlem to Europe and across the US. “A haunting, beautifully made biography” (Los Angeles Times).
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4-9 PM
Friday, October 6, 2017
4-9 PM
4 PM
Friday, October 6, 2017
4 PM
Stevan Riley,
United Kingdom,
2015,
(102 mins)
Free Screenings!
A treasure trove of audiotapes, home movies, film clips, and more yields a mesmerizing portrait of one of America’s great performers. “A peculiarly philosophical, melancholic and beautiful piece of work” (IndieWire).
Free tickets will be available at the will-call table one hour before each screening.
6 PM
Friday, October 6, 2017
6 PM
 Programmed by Tongo Eisen-Martin
Poets Lau, Dallett, and Phillips read their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
7 PM
Friday, October 6, 2017
7 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(109 mins)
Digital Restoration
Joseph Cotten pursues Orson Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time” (New York Times).
Friday, October 6, 2017
7:30 PM
Explore what New Narrative sounds like today with this reading featuring the challenging and convivial work of four writers.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2017
1 PM
This program explores both the formative and the final years of Martin Wong, who began and ended his career in California. With Mark Dean Johnson, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sergio Bessa, Marci Kwon, and Charlie Ahearn.
Included with admission
4 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2017
4 PM
James W. Horne,
United States,
1927,
(64 mins)
Digital Restoration
Get in the mood for Homecoming Week with this classic of college chaos starring Buster Keaton as an egghead in jockland.
5:30 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2017
5:30 PM
Alberto Cavalcanti,
United Kingdom,
1942,
(92 mins)
An unsuspecting British village is infiltrated by sixty German paratroopers in “a wartime conspiracy thriller, a black-comic nightmare and a surrealist masterpiece” (Guardian), based on a Graham Greene story.
Saturday, October 7, 2017
7:15 PM
Wonderful fall flavors inspired by the film.
At Babette
7:30 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2017
7:30 PM
Cao Yu,
China,
1948,
(99 mins)
Digital Restoration
The great Chinese star Shi Hui stars as an energetic lawyer fighting for the good of his neighbors in this stirring, almost Capra-esque drama from Cao Yu, one of China’s most important twentieth-century playwrights.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, October 8, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, October 8, 2017
1 PM
The huge musical collective Awesöme Orchestra swarms into BAMPFA for a combination open rehearsal and musical adventure.
Free admission
2 PM
Sunday, October 8, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
2 PM
Sunday, October 8, 2017
2 PM
Owsley Brown,
United States,
2016,
(72 mins)
Shot over a period of years both before and after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, this vibrant documentary testifies to the role of music in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.
4 PM
Sunday, October 8, 2017
4 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United Kingdom, United States,
1967,
(108 mins)
Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando team up in Charlie Chaplin’s swan song, a bedroom farce involving an American diplomat and a stowaway Russian escaping prostitution.
7 PM
Sunday, October 8, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France,
1974,
(103 mins)
Digital Restoration
In her first feature, Akerman plunges into the themes—desire, longing, intimacy, and estrangement—that she would continue to plumb throughout her career. With Akerman’s debut short, Saute ma ville.
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6:30 PM
Monday, October 9, 2017
6:30 PM
An evening with Abeyta, an acclaimed Navajo contemporary artist based in Berkeley and Santa Fe.
Free admission
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12 PM
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
12 PM
Way, founder and artistic director of ODC/Dance, discusses her long-term role as a leading Bay Area dance curator.
Free admission
12:15 PM
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
12:15 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
7 PM
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
7 PM
(90 mins)
UC Berkeley professor and Canyon filmmaker Jeffrey Skoller spotlights women filmmakers Stephanie Beroes, Lynn Marie Kirby, Sandra Davis, Chick Strand, and Cauleen Smith in a program of films dating from 1978 to 1992.
In Person
Series
Canyon Cinema 50
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4-7 PM
Thursday, October 12, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, October 12, 2017
7 PM
Sang Hu,
China,
1947,
(112 mins)
Digital Restoration
One of China’s most revered writers, the renowned Eileen Chang (Lust, Caution), wrote the screenplay for this enchanting, eye-opening look at family dynamics, sexual politics, and fabulous fashions in a thoroughly modern China.
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4-9 PM
Friday, October 13, 2017
4-9 PM
4 PM
Friday, October 13, 2017
4 PM
Raoul Peck,
Belgium, France, Switzerland, United States,
2016,
(93 mins)
Raoul Peck’s acclaimed documentary is an invigorating look at the great writer James Baldwin, and at the fight for civil rights both in the past and now. “An act of provocation and prophecy” (Village Voice).
7 PM
Friday, October 13, 2017
7 PM
Tan Youliu,
Hong Kong,
1950,
(116 mins)
Digital Restoration
A fascinating glimpse of the Chinese diaspora across southeast Asia, this Hong Kong production follows a wayward husband through Southern China and Thailand, and tracks the travails of the wife he leaves behind.
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11:30 AM–1 PM & 1–2:30 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2017
11:30 AM–1 PM & 1–2:30 PM
 For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Explore the dreamlike spaces and layered colors in Miyoko Ito’s paintings, then experiment with color by painting designs of your own.
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
2:30-9 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2017
2:30-9 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2017
3 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Read the beginning of this classic book about a widowed mouse and a group of extraordinary rats, and pick up a free copy to keep reading at home.
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
3:30 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2017
3:30 PM
Stevan Riley,
United Kingdom,
2015,
(102 mins)
Free Screenings!
A treasure trove of audiotapes, home movies, film clips, and more yields a mesmerizing portrait of one of America’s great performers. “A peculiarly philosophical, melancholic and beautiful piece of work” (IndieWire).
Free tickets will be available at the will-call table one hour before each screening.
4:45 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2017
4:45 PM
An evening of Poets Theater by writers linked to New Narrative, featuring plays by Carla Harryman, Kevin Killian, and Camille Roy.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
5:45 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2017
5:45 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1960,
(111 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A vacuum-cleaner salesman in steamy Cuba turns to international espionage in this droll spy spoof from a quartet of formidable Englishmen—actors Alec Guinness and Noel Coward, writer Graham Greene, and director Carol Reed.
Saturday, October 14, 2017
7:45 PM
A delicious, four-course, Cuban-infused meal inspired by the film.
At Babette
8 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2017
8 PM
Xu Changlin,
China,
1948,
(106 mins)
A war-veteran husband and his wife are slowly consumed with distrust in Xu Changlin’s fascinating hybrid of noir thriller and melodrama.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, October 15, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, October 15, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
3 PM
Sunday, October 15, 2017
3 PM
 Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Join Kujichagulia for an excursion into what she calls “JAZZ-OLOGICAL MUSE-OETRY.”
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
4:30 PM
Sunday, October 15, 2017
4:30 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1948,
(92 mins)
Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s gripping, gorgeously visualized thriller about a boy, a butler, and the butler’s secrets “reminds us of the glories of the black-and-white cinema at its peak” (New York Observer).
7 PM
Sunday, October 15, 2017
7 PM
John Huston,
United States,
1967,
(108 mins)
John Huston adapts Carson McCullers’s tale of repressed homosexuality with the able help of Marlon Brando as a military man among (many) men on a Southern army base, and Elizabeth Taylor as his put-upon wife.
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Monday, October 16, 2017
6:30 PM
Drew, an influential blogger and the social media manager for The Met, discusses curation, social media, race, and institutions with UC Berkeley professor Best.
Free admission
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
12 PM
Herold, of UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance, and Ball, a scenic and costume designer, discuss the process of adapting a work of literature to the stage.
Free admission
12:15 PM
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
12:15 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
7 PM
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
7 PM
(65 mins)
A rare visit by the Argentine filmmaker Claudio Caldini, whose Super 8 and regular 8mm films are “eternal, dematerialized, and transcendent” (Pablo Marin).
Series
Alternative Visions 2017
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4-7 PM
Thursday, October 19, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, October 19, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1977,
(101 mins)
Digital Restoration
New York City, imposing and anonymous, serves as the visual counterpoint to Akerman’s reading of her own mother’s letters in this personal, gorgeously photographed film. With short La chambre.
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4-9 PM
Friday, October 20, 2017
4-9 PM
2 PM
Friday, October 20, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
4 PM
Friday, October 20, 2017
4 PM
Norman McLeod,
United States,
1932,
(68 mins)
BAMPFA celebrates Homecoming Weekend with this perennial favorite in which college president Groucho and the other Marx Brothers wreak havoc on higher education.
4:30 PM
Friday, October 20, 2017
4:30 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
7 PM
Friday, October 20, 2017
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1972,
(175 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and—with an impact that far outweighs his screen time—Marlon Brando anchor Coppola’s oft-imitated, never-improved mob epic, one of the defining films of seventies Hollywood.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, October 21, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
11:15 AM
Saturday, October 21, 2017
11:15 AM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
4:30 PM
Saturday, October 21, 2017
4:30 PM
Norman McLeod,
United States,
1932,
(68 mins)
BAMPFA celebrates Homecoming Weekend with this perennial favorite in which college president Groucho and the other Marx Brothers wreak havoc on higher education.
6:30 PM
Saturday, October 21, 2017
6:30 PM
Huang Zuolin, Shi Hui, Ye Ming,
China,
1952,
(68 mins)
Digital Restoration
A New York City businessman hopes to market a suicidal window washer’s grief to the highest bidder in this acidic Korean War–era satire on American capitalism, played entirely by Chinese actors in whiteface.
8:15 PM
Saturday, October 21, 2017
8:15 PM
John Boulting,
United Kingdom,
1947,
(92 mins)
Richard Attenborough stars as a teenage psychopath leading a gang of toughs in Brighton, Britain’s seedy seaside resort. “The best film to capture [Graham] Greene’s seedy world of evil, sin, and betrayal” (The Observer).
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, October 22, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
11:30 AM
Sunday, October 22, 2017
11:30 AM
Jill Satterfield leads a monthly series of mindfulness and meditation sessions at BAMPFA.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2017
2 PM
Sunday, October 22, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
2 PM
Sunday, October 22, 2017
2 PM
Norman McLeod,
United States,
1932,
(68 mins)
BAMPFA celebrates Homecoming Weekend with this perennial favorite in which college president Groucho and the other Marx Brothers wreak havoc on higher education.
3:45 PM
Sunday, October 22, 2017
3:45 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1983,
(124 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Akerman’s brilliantly funny comedy of manners could be the cinema’s most eloquent evocation of Sartre’s observation, “Hell is other people.” With Akerman’s self-portrait in film clips, Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman.
6:30 PM
Sunday, October 22, 2017
6:30 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
2001,
(202 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A reedit of Coppola’s Vietnam War saga, the most astute, acute portrait of Americans at war in the post-World War II period. At the heart of its madness lies Marlon Brando.
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6:30 PM
Monday, October 23, 2017
6:30 PM
Artist, activist, and cultural critic Cirio discusses how socially engaged Internet art can maximize both social and artistic efficacy.
Free admission
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12 PM
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
12 PM
De Jesus highlights some individuals from her collection of memorial portraits.
Included with admission
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
12 PM
The executive director of Science Gallery International considers the creative collisions of art, culture, science, and design.
Free admission
7 PM
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
7 PM
(75 mins)
Featuring a selection of Everson’s films from 2005 to the present that examine formal practices and structures of history while chronicling everyday African American life and excavating its neglected legacies.
In Conversation
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4-7 PM
Thursday, October 26, 2017
4-7 PM
12 PM
Thursday, October 26, 2017
12 PM
The curator of BAMPFA’s Chen Hongshou exhibition offers insights into the artist’s mindset as the world around him dissolved into chaos.
Included with admission
7:30 PM
Thursday, October 26, 2017
7:30 PM
(65 mins)
This program, presented in conjunction with the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, showcases the richly textured film and video work of two artists who share a concern for the multiple definitions of art, race, performance, and history.
In Conversation
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4-9 PM
Friday, October 27, 2017
4-9 PM
4 PM
Friday, October 27, 2017
4 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1960,
(111 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A vacuum-cleaner salesman in steamy Cuba turns to international espionage in this droll spy spoof from a quartet of formidable Englishmen—actors Alec Guinness and Noel Coward, writer Graham Greene, and director Carol Reed.
Friday, October 27, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France,
1975,
(198 mins)
The repetitive domestic routines of a bourgeois widow become a source of visceral suspense in Akerman’s landmark of feminist filmmaking.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, October 28, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, October 28, 2017
1 PM
Two scholars present talks illuminating different periods in the work of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission
Saturday, October 28, 2017
6 PM
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola,
United States,
1991,
(96 mins)
Head behind the scenes of one of the most notorious film shoots ever in this fly-on-the-wall documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now. “Fascinating, harrowing film history” (Roger Ebert).
8:15 PM
Saturday, October 28, 2017
8:15 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1944,
(85 mins)
Ray Milland is released from an asylum into an even stranger milieu—wartime London, stalked by Nazi spies—in Fritz Lang’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. “A tour de force of paranoia” (Cinematheque Ontario).
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
11 AM–3 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017
11 AM–3 PM
Join us for a free day of art, music, and movies! Explore BAMPFA exhibitions, make your own art, groove to a performance by SoVoSó, and check out a screening of short films with a wild side.
Admission free
Series
Family Events 2017
2 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017
2 PM
Explore a great Chinese painter’s work and his turbulent times with a tour of Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
4:15 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017
4:15 PM
Owsley Brown,
United States,
2008,
(114 mins)
Filmed across the mountains, plateaus, and sacred sites of Tibet, The Precious Treasury offers a meditation “rooted solely in sight and sound.” Edited by Nathaniel Dorsky. With short Offerings from Nangchen.
7 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France, Germany,
1978,
(127 mins)
Digital Restoration
Akerman’s semi-autobiographical work depicts the travels of a filmmaker on tour in Europe with a new film, and brings up an entire history of migrations and social changes in Europe.
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Monday, October 30, 2017
6:30 PM
Keltner, a UC Berkeley professor and codirector of the Greater Good Science Center, talks about art and empathy.
Free admission
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
12 PM
Watson, partner and creative director at Design IO, presents his work at the intersection of art and science and talks with Siegel, director of the UC Botanical Garden.
Free admission
12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
12:15 PM
Explore a great Chinese painter’s work and his turbulent times with a tour of Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
3:10 PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
3:10 PM
Jennifer Baichwal ,
Canada,
2006,
(90 mins)
35mm Print
This quietly provocative consideration of the mechanized sublime follows photographer Edward Burtynsky as he travels through China and Bangladesh recording large-scale industrial incursions into the landscape. Peter Mettler served as cinematographer and creative collaborator.
Special admission: General: $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.
6 PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6 PM
We celebrate the publication of Perl’s major biography of Alexander Calder with this reading and conversation featuring the author and the president of the Calder Foundation.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
7 PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
7 PM
(75 mins)
Canyon employee and Total Mobile Home founder David Sherman presents a program that explores place and time through artists’ observations and others’ documentation, including works by Dominic Angerame, Greta Snider, Michael Wallin, and Sherman, from 1988 to 2002.
In Person
Series
Canyon Cinema 50
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4–7 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017
4–7 PM
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursday for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collections.
Free admission
4-7 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017
4-7 PM
1:15 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017
1:15 PM
Explore a great Chinese painter’s work and his turbulent times with a tour of Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
7 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017
7 PM
Peter Mettler,
Canada, Switzerland,
1994,
(83 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Mettler’s remarkable documentary about the Northern Lights is his most fully realized cinematic expression of his quest for a spiritual synthesis of “self and surround.”
In Conversation
Series
Afterimage: Peter Mettler
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4-9 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017
4-9 PM
4 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017
4 PM
Gordon Parks,
United States,
1986,
(91 mins)
In this beautiful, expressionistic essay film, Gordon Parks reflects on how America shaped him, from his childhood on a Kansas farm to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. With shorts Flavio and Diary of a Harlem Family.
5 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017
5 PM
Explore the diversity of human experience with videos from the Global Lives Project, which capture twenty-four hours in the lives of individuals around the globe.
Included with admission
6 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017
6 PM
Join artist McIntosh for a calligraphy workshop inspired by the artworks in To the Letter: Regarding the Written Word.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2017
7 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017
7 PM
 Programmed by Sarah Cahill
This all-reed quintet makes its second appearance at BAMPFA with a program of new music featuring the world premiere of a work by composer Sky Macklay.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited. 7:30 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017
7:30 PM
Olivier Assayas,
France,
1996,
(104 mins)
Maggie Cheung plays “herself” as an actress suffering through ego battles and other disasters on a French indie film shoot. With short Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, November 4, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, November 4, 2017
1 PM
Art historian Berger explores Chen Hongshou’s enigmatic Buddhist paintings, which offer a glimpse into a cataclysmic moment in Chinese history. Followed by a discussion with Robert Sharf.
Included with admission
5 PM
Saturday, November 4, 2017
5 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
Film to Table dinner follows the November 4 screening
Back by popular demand! This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
7:30 PM
Saturday, November 4, 2017
7:30 PM
Peter Mettler,
Canada, Switzerland,
2012,
(114 mins)
Mettler’s meditation on time and perception is “immersive and hypnotic . . . a ravishingly beautiful experience (Hollywood Reporter).
In Conversation
Series
Afterimage: Peter Mettler
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