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Sunday, May 31, 2020
11 AM-4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $10,000 level and above 

Join us for lunch in Sonoma and the opportunity to tour two remarkable homes and art collections with Larry Rinder.
All Day
  • Film
  • Free
  • Members
  • Ongoing
Sunday, May 31, 2020
All Day
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1956,
(78 mins)

Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Available May 30–31. Password required.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available May 30–31, 2020.
5 PM
Sunday, May 31, 2020
5 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Programmed by Michal “MJ” Jones

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett and Vernon Keeve III read their writing.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2020
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7 PM
Thursday, June 4, 2020
7 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Austria, Germany,
2007,
(104 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Imported 35mm Print

Ottinger’s award-winning documentary on the Prater amusement park in Vienna draws a parallel between the illusionary business of carnival freak shows and the bygone era of a cinema of attractions.
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Sunday, June 7, 2020
12 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
1992,
(286 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

Ottinger’s serenely beautiful, eight-hour ethnographic project Taiga is a study in epic time, a journey through northern Mongolia structured in ten parts. This screening includes parts one through six. “Fascinating . . . a landmark in the West’s attempts to represent the East” (Cinemaya).
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12. Second-feature discount for all categories: $6. Presented with a 20-minute intermission following Part 3.
Sunday, June 7, 2020
6 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
1992,
(195 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

As Ottinger’s epic Mongolian trek moves toward its conclusion, the narrative shifts from the wilderness to the towns of the Mongolian-Russian period, ending in the urban environs of Ulaanbaatar.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12. Second-feature discount for all categories: $6. Presented with 20-minute intermission following part 8.
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Thursday, June 11, 2020
4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above

Join BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder for Hannah Ryggen: Fighting Facism with Art, a discussion of MATRIX 278, the first US presentation of the artist’s antifascist works from the 1930s and ’40s since a solo touring exhibition was organized by the Smithsonian Institution in 1955.
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Saturday, June 13, 2020
12:30 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Join us as we look at Ron Nagle's captivating small sculptures. Then, make a sculpture of your own inspired by his imaginative approach!
Presented Saturday, June 13, 2020
  • Lucas Degiulio
    With artist
    Bay Area artist and educator Lucas Degiulio graduated from UC Berkeley’s MFA program in 2017 and received the 2017–18 Tournesol Award (Headlands Center for the Arts).
Series Family Events
Saturday, June 13, 2020
2:30 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up 

Read the beginning chapters of this suspenseful summertime adventure story aloud with other kids and Cragmont Elementary librarian Jackie Overlid, then receive a copy of the book in the mail to finish at home.
Presented Saturday, June 13, 2020.
  • Jackie Overlid
    Reading led by Jackie Overlid, librarian, Cragmont Elementary School, Berkeley
Series Family Events
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
12 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
1992,
(195 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

As Ottinger’s epic Mongolian trek moves toward its conclusion, the narrative shifts from the wilderness to the towns of the Mongolian-Russian period, ending in the urban environs of Ulaanbaatar.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12. Second-feature discount for all categories: $6. Presented with 20-minute intermission following part 8.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
5 PM
Watch a live conversation between Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own director Daniel Traub, the artist, and Steven H. Oliver, who commissioned von Rydingsvard’s Iggy’s Pride (1990–91) for the Oliver Ranch Foundation in Sonoma. 
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All Day
  • Film
  • Free
  • Members
  • Ongoing
Saturday, June 20, 2020
All Day
Mikhail Kalatozov,
Cuba, USSR,
1964,
(141 mins)

Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Available June 20-21. Password required.

This portrait of revolutionary Cuba, written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and brimming with bravura camerawork, is an extraordinary example of “pure” cinema in the service of politics.
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available June 20–21, 2020.
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All Day
  • Film
  • Free
  • Members
  • Ongoing
Sunday, June 21, 2020
All Day
Mikhail Kalatozov,
Cuba, USSR,
1964,
(141 mins)

Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Available June 20-21. Password required.

This portrait of revolutionary Cuba, written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and brimming with bravura camerawork, is an extraordinary example of “pure” cinema in the service of politics.
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available June 20–21, 2020.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
7 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
1981,
(126 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

“Virginia Woolf meets the German camp underground in this extravaganza of performance art and oddity” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). Ottinger’s gender-bending, boundary-breaking fantasy of world history features Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, and Eddie Constantine.
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above

Join Senior Curator for Asian Art Julia White and Wesley Tongson's sister, Cynthia Tongson, for a discussion of her late brother's life as an artist and a sneak peek at Song and Dance with Brush and Ink exhibition.
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Sunday, June 28, 2020
1 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
1990,
(188 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

30th Anniversary Screening!

In this observational documentary filmed in Berlin and environs over the ten-day period leading up to the unification of the German currencies on July 1, 1990, Ottinger captures a city and a world on the brink of transition.
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4 PM
  • Art
  • Ongoing
  • In-Person
Thursday, July 2, 2020
4 PM
The Five Tables curators present artists whose works interrogate, subvert, and find promise in nontraditional conceptions of “news.”
This webinar makes use of Zoom video conferencing.
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