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All Day
Sunday, December 26, 2021
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
Streaming All Day
Sunday, December 26, 2021
Streaming All Day
Jamila Wignot,
United States,
2021,
(82 mins)
Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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Monday, December 27, 2021
Streaming All Day
Jamila Wignot,
United States,
2021,
(82 mins)
Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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Streaming All Day
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Streaming All Day
Jamila Wignot,
United States,
2021,
(82 mins)
Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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All Day
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
Streaming All Day
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Streaming All Day
Jamila Wignot,
United States,
2021,
(82 mins)
Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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All Day
Thursday, December 30, 2021
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
Streaming All Day
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Streaming All Day
Jamila Wignot,
United States,
2021,
(82 mins)
Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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Friday, December 31, 2021
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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Saturday, January 1, 2022
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BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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Sunday, January 2, 2022
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Thursday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
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4–5 PM
Thursday, January 6, 2022
4–5 PM
This month’s Five Tables display brings together mezzotints and atmospheric photographs that highlight the theme of shadows.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Series
Five Tables 2020–21
12:15 PM
Thursday, January 6, 2022
12:15 PM
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7 PM
Friday, January 7, 2022
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1963,
(78 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
An unwelcome visitor finds herself in the dank manse of a family haunted by its secrets in Francis Ford Coppola’s atmospheric tale of terror, produced and financed by exploitation guru Roger Corman.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Saturday, January 8, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
United States,
1927,
(95 mins)
F. W. Murnau handpicked Janet Gaynor to star in his first Hollywood feature, a masterpiece of silent cinema widely considered among the greatest films ever made, which tells an elemental tale with virtuosic visual invention.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. On Piano
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11 AM
Sunday, January 9, 2022
11 AM
 All ages, Drop-in
Learn the basics of risograph printing in the BAMPFA Art Lab and go home with a collaboratively designed set of postcards.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
2 PM
Sunday, January 9, 2022
2 PM
2 PM
Sunday, January 9, 2022
2 PM
Ritwik Ghatak,
India,
1960,
(127 mins)
Digital Restoration
Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the partition of India and comes to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
5 PM
Sunday, January 9, 2022
5 PM
Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1937,
(75 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
In a remote Scottish island community facing extinction through isolation, two young men embark on a foolish challenge. Michael Powell’s stunningly photographed film is a hybrid of documentary-like realism and poetic fatalism.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1921,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
This reconstruction of the earliest surviving F. W. Murnau film represents a major rediscovery of a work that, even upon its release, was hailed as a milestone in the art of cinema.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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12:15 PM
Thursday, January 13, 2022
12:15 PM
7 PM
Thursday, January 13, 2022
7 PM
George Lucas,
United States,
1973,
(112 mins)
George Lucas’s classic of boomer nostalgia follows the teens of a small Northern California town through one long summer night. With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, and Harrison Ford among the cast, it’s “the film that launched a thousand careers” (Hollywood Reporter).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Friday, January 14, 2022
7 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1944,
(106 mins)
Barbara Stanwyck’s peroxide blonde is the archetype of the noir femme fatale in Billy Wilder’s gleefully cynical tale of murder and insurance fraud, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Stanwyck for Best Actress.
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11 AM
Saturday, January 15, 2022
11 AM
 All ages, Drop-in
Learn how to cut foam to create simple abstract stamp designs in the Art Lab.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
4 PM
Saturday, January 15, 2022
4 PM
Halina Dyrschka,
Germany,
2019,
(93 mins)
This documentary, which “bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long,” illuminates the story of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, the unsung modernist of the early twentieth century (New York Times).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
7 PM
Saturday, January 15, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1921,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with films like Faust, F. W. Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a stormbound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within.
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2 PM
Sunday, January 16, 2022
2 PM
2 PM
Sunday, January 16, 2022
2 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1922,
(98 mins)
35mm Archival Print
“Murnau proved a master both at interior design . . . and at stunning exterior shooting. The fire at the oil-well, ‘the burning earth’ surrounded by snow, is an unforgettable image of hell on earth” (TIFF Cinematheque).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
4:30 PM
Sunday, January 16, 2022
4:30 PM
Alfred E. Green,
United States,
1933,
(76 mins)
Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way to the top in this notorious pre-Code saga; shown here with the censored scenes reinstated, “it has to be seen to be not quite believed” (New York Times).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
7 PM
Sunday, January 16, 2022
7 PM
 This event has been postponed due to COVID-19 related operational concerns. Learn more
Acclaimed Bay Area percussionist, recording artist, and producer PC Muñoz returns to BAMPFA with an evening of Debussy’s legendary “Clair de Lune,” rendered in three completely different ways.
Series
Full 2022
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7 PM
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1974,
(113 mins)
New 35mm Print
Gene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Francis Ford Coppola’s formalist exercise in paranoia, a grand prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival set in a 1970s San Francisco where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for you and against you.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Thursday, January 20, 2022
12:15 PM
7 PM
Thursday, January 20, 2022
7 PM
(110 mins)
This program features six experimental films that suggest a communal vision for the future arising out of actions in the present by Marwa Arsanios, Emily Chao, Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich, Adele Horne, and Cauleen Smith.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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12 PM
Friday, January 21, 2022
12 PM
Three artists featured in New Time—Koak, Lava Thomas, and Anne Walsh—discuss their artwork in relation to their practice and the exhibition itself.
Free and open to the public; online only.
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
7 PM
Friday, January 21, 2022
7 PM
Djibril Diop Mambéty,
Senegal,
1973,
(110 mins)
“With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic,” Djibril Diop Mambéty’s celebrated debut embraces the fire of a new generation of Africans, embodied by two youngsters dreaming of escaping Senegal for Europe (Criterion). With Contras’ City, Mambéty’s first short film.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Series
Djibril Diop Mambéty
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4:30 PM
Saturday, January 22, 2022
4:30 PM
King Vidor,
United States,
1937,
(108 mins)
In the ultimate 1930s “women’s weepie,” directed by King Vidor, Barbara Stanwyck sacrifices everything to give her daughter a shot at respectability, earning herself an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
4:30 PM
Saturday, January 22, 2022
4:30 PM
As part of the 2022 edition of the FOG Design+Art Fair at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, BAMPFA Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm joins a panel of arts institutional leaders in a panel discussion the future of the arts across the Bay Area.
At Fort Mason Center
This is an off-site event included with Saturday, January 22 admission to the FOG Design+Art fair.
7 PM
Saturday, January 22, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1922,
(94 mins)
Digital Restoration
Still among the most unnerving and poetic of horror films, investing the natural world with eerie incandescence, Nosferatu stars Max Schreck as an unforgettable vampire—a living death, a walking ruin.
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11:30AM - 1PM
Sunday, January 23, 2022
11:30AM - 1PM
 This event has been rescheduled to Sunday, April 3. Learn more
Join art historians Suzanne Hudson and Jenni Sorkin for an introduction to their new books and a conversation about their shared interests in revisionist history and recovering movements, artists, and trends.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
2 PM
Sunday, January 23, 2022
2 PM
2 PM
Sunday, January 23, 2022
2 PM
Veronica Selver, Susan Fanshel,
United States,
2020,
(70 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
This beautiful documentary portrait of German Jewish émigrée Irmi Selver (1906–2004), based on her memoirs (read by Hanna Schygulla), takes us on a unique journey through a life marked by love, unimaginable loss, and strength of spirit.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Sunday, January 23, 2022
3 PM
BAMPFA Senior Curator for Asian Art Julia White and Cynthia Tongson, the artist’s sister, discuss Hong Kong artist Wesley Tongson’s artistic achievement along with insights into the influence of other Chinese artists whose works from the museum’s collection are paired with his.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
4:30 PM
Sunday, January 23, 2022
4:30 PM
(120 mins)
Three short documentaries reveal Djibril Diop Mambéty as both filmmaker and man through his beautiful reflections on cinema; clips from his films and behind-the-scenes footage; and interviews and reflections by his friends, family, and colleagues.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Series
Djibril Diop Mambéty
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5:30–8:30 PM
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
5:30–8:30 PM
 Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above.
Please join fellow Curator's Circle members for a festive reception to celebrate the opening of Spiritual Mountains: The Art of Wesley Tongson. The exhibition debuts a recent gift to BAMPFA of eleven paintings by the Hong Kong artist Wesley Tongson (1957–2012). The evening will include an exhibition tour led by Julia White, BAMPFA’s senior curator of Asian art. Julia will be joined by Wesley Tongson's sister, Cynthia Tongson, for a discussion of her late brother's life as an artist. The tour will be followed by an outdoor reception.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
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7 PM
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
7 PM
Rosine Mbakam, Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen,
Belgium,
2021,
(78 mins)
A prismatic inquiry into how skin color is seen on screen, this provocative essay film asks whether technology consciously or unconsciously orients itself to depicting white skin as the norm.
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12:15 PM
Thursday, January 27, 2022
12:15 PM
7 PM
Thursday, January 27, 2022
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1979/2019,
(183 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic, one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, returns in a new cut, a remix of newly discovered soundtrack masters and a 4K restoration from the original negative.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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7 PM
Friday, January 28, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1922,
(122 mins)
Digital Restoration
Long believed lost, Phantom, made after Nosferatu and before The Last Laugh, is considered a key work in F. W. Murnau’s development, with its variety of montage and trick effects that conjure a nightmarish world.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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2:30 PM
Saturday, January 29, 2022
2:30 PM
(114 mins)
Presented with a prerecorded interview with the filmmakers.
Canadian animators Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis create story-based animated films that exhibit an extraordinary ability to depict life’s tender moments. Their interview sheds light on how they conceive story ideas and work creatively with drawing, painting, computer applications, and sound.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
4 PM
Saturday, January 29, 2022
4 PM
 This event has been postponed due to COVID-19 related operational concerns. Learn more
Join UC Berkeley Professor Laura Pérez, writer and curator Marie Heilich, artist Celia Herrera Rodríguez, and artist Yreina Cervántez for a discussion that places Luchita Hurtado’s work in dialogue with the practices of the generation of Chicanx/Latinx artists that followed her own.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
5 PM
Saturday, January 29, 2022
5 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1924,
(90 mins)
Digital Restoration
A proud hotel doorman falls from grace in F. W. Murnau’s classic of German Expressionism, whose roving camerawork and hallucinatory imagery “changed the way that movies were made” (Dave Kehr).
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
7 PM
Saturday, January 29, 2022
7 PM
Jennifer Reeder,
United States,
2019,
(112 mins)
Riffing on genre conventions but from a feminist point of view, Knives and Skin is “a mesmerizing tapestry—mundane middle Americana meets magical realism” (Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times).
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
2 PM
2 PM
Sunday, January 30, 2022
2 PM
Griff Williams, Keelan Williams,
United States,
2021,
(90 mins)
Featuring eight groundbreaking local artists, this documentary reflects on a Bay Area art scene less concerned with money and power than with imagination, innovation, community, and care.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
In Conversation
2 PM
Sunday, January 30, 2022
2 PM
To mark the closing of New Time, BAMPFA Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost offers a tour highlighting a special selection of works that address feminisms’ lingering questions and unfinished business, as well as providing an exhibition overview.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
5 PM
Sunday, January 30, 2022
5 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1941,
(94 mins)
Starring Barbara Stanwyck as a card sharp who plays naive ale heir Henry Fonda not once but twice, Preston Sturges’s comedy of innocence and experience is “one of the most liberatingly funny films ever made” (New Yorker).
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3:30–5:00 PM
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
3:30–5:00 PM
 Recommended for ages 7–17. Limited Space, RSVP required.
Join us for one, two, or all three days of this afterschool mail art intensive as we make connections between the history of avant-garde, experimental mail art practices and classic Valentine’s Day traditions with celebrated arts education program No School.
For ages 7 - 17
Limited Space, RSVP required
Series
Workshops 2022
7 PM
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
7 PM
Rodrigo Reyes,
Mexico,
2021,
(88 mins)
In this “truly brilliant accomplishment of unconventional storytelling” (Carlos Aguilar), a conquistador inexplicably finds himself in Mexico, 499 years after conquering Tenochtitlán with Hernán Cortez’s army in 1521. He retraces their original journey across Mexico, a reluctant witness to the ongoing legacy of Spanish conquest.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Documentary Voices 2022
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Thursday, February 3, 2022
3–5 PM
This month’s Five Tables display features political posters, landscape scrolls, conceptual correspondence, and more—all in the color red.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Series
Five Tables 2020–21
3:30–5:00 PM
Thursday, February 3, 2022
3:30–5:00 PM
Recommended for ages 7–17. Limited Space, RSVP required.
Join us for one, two, or all three days of this afterschool mail art intensive as we make connections between the history of avant-garde, experimental mail art practices and classic Valentine’s Day traditions with celebrated arts education program No School.
For ages 7 - 17
Limited Space, RSVP required
Series
Workshops 2022
7 PM
Thursday, February 3, 2022
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1980,
(160 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped produce Akira Kurosawa’s return to epic filmmaking, a “majestic, stately, cool, almost abstract” film about a king and his double (both played by Tatsuya Nakadai) trying to hold a kingdom together (New York Times).
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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3:30–5:00 PM
Friday, February 4, 2022
3:30–5:00 PM
Recommended for ages 7–17. Limited Space, RSVP required.
Join us for one, two, or all three days of this afterschool mail art intensive as we make connections between the history of avant-garde, experimental mail art practices and classic Valentine’s Day traditions with celebrated arts education program No School.
For ages 7 - 17
Limited Space, RSVP required
Series
Workshops 2022
12:30 PM
Friday, February 4, 2022
12:30 PM
An online conversation with choreographer, writer and composer Robert Moses, creator of numerous works of varying styles and genres for his highly praised dance company since 2008.
Free and open to the public; online only.
7 PM
Friday, February 4, 2022
7 PM
Howard Hawks,
United States,
1941,
(111 mins)
35mm Archival Print
Showgirl Barbara Stanwyck gives naive encyclopedist Gary Cooper lessons in slang, and love, in Howard Hawks’s comedy classic, named to the National Film Registry in 2016.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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12–4 PM
Saturday, February 5, 2022
12–4 PM
 All ages, Drop-in
Come to the Art Lab for a Valentine’s Day mail art making extravaganza hosted by experimental arts education program No School.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
3:30 PM
Saturday, February 5, 2022
3:30 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1924,
(77 mins)
Digital Restoration
F. W. Murnau’s venture into the world of comic irony was greeted with delight by contemporary critics. Working from a screenplay by Thea von Harbou, he crafted a playful espionage thriller reminiscent of Ernst Lubitsch.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
5:15 PM
Saturday, February 5, 2022
5:15 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1925,
(63 mins)
Digital Restoration
F. W. Murnau revisited Moliére’s fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a woman (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous, imbibing hypocrite.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
7 PM
Saturday, February 5, 2022
7 PM
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Nathaniel Dorsky’s four short films silently observe nature and the manmade world.
Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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