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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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Tuesday, July 7, 2020
5:00 PM
In conjunction with BAMPFA’s streaming presentation of John Lewis: Good Trouble, a new documentary on the life of the civil rights leader and congressman, watch a live conversation and Q&A with director Dawn Porter and journalist Otis R. Taylor Jr.
Recorded Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 5 PM PDT
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Thursday, July 9, 2020
4 PM

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

Join Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost for “It Is Something, It Is Nothing”, a discussion of Eva Hesse’s Test Pieces and Conceptual Art.
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Saturday, July 11, 2020
12:30 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Meet artist and educator Kaya Fortune on Zoom to look at exciting and colorful quilts by Rosie Lee Tompkins, then discover your own visual rhythms using materials easily found at home.
Presented Saturday, June 13, 2020.
  • Kaya Fortune
    With artist
    Kaya Fortune is a Bay Area arts educator whose practice includes fashion design.
Series Family Events
2:30 PM
Saturday, July 11, 2020
2:30 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up

Read the beginning chapters of this affecting story about a dog and his boy, told from the dog’s point of view, then receive a copy of the book in the mail to finish at home.
Presented Saturday, July 11, 2020.
  • Linda Artel
    Reading led by Linda Artel, former BAMPFA children’s film festival programmer
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Thursday, July 23, 2020
4 PM

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

Join Collections Engagement Associate and Academic Liaison Lynne Kimura for Yoshitoshi's Prints Up Close, a discussion of Brave Warriors and Fantastic Tales: The World According to Yoshitoshi, an exhibition of the exceptional prints from late in the career of the last great ukiyo-e print designer.
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12:30 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Free
  • In-Person
  • Workshop
Friday, July 24, 2020
12:30 PM

Programmed by Alayna Tinney

Tap into the history of zines as vehicles for DIY underground storytelling, activism, and information sharing and learn to make your own in this Zoom workshop with artist Sydney Barnett.
Presented Friday, July 24, 2020
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  • Film
  • Free
  • Members
  • Ongoing
Saturday, July 25, 2020
All Day
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1960,
(177 mins)

Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Available July 25–26. Password required.

The lives of a southern Italian family who move to Milan mirror the transformation of postwar Italian society. Starring Alain Delon, the film has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a nineteenth-century novel” (New York Times).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available July 25–26, 2020.
12:00 PM
  • Free
  • In-Person
  • Performance
Saturday, July 25, 2020
12:00 PM
A new dance work from inkBoat followed by a live interview and participatory exercise.
Presented Saturday, July 25, 2020, 12:00 PM PDT
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  • Members
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Sunday, July 26, 2020
All Day
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1960,
(177 mins)

Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Available July 25–26. Password required.

The lives of a southern Italian family who move to Milan mirror the transformation of postwar Italian society. Starring Alain Delon, the film has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a nineteenth-century novel” (New York Times).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available July 25–26, 2020.
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