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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 28, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
7 PM
Sunday, August 28, 2022
7 PM
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Japan,
1961,
(93 mins)
4K Digital Restoration The Sunday, July 31 screening features an introduction by Lili Hinstin.
Focused on the efforts of one young woman to build a new life in the wake of Japan’s 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, Girls of the Night offers a sharp critique of the mistreatment of sex workers in postwar occupied Japan.
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Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
7 PM
Samuel Fuller,
United States,
1980/2004,
(163 mins)
35mm Print
Fuller’s dream project was based on a nightmare: his own experience of combat in World War II. Richard Schickel’s 2004 reconstruction used Fuller’s script and notes to repair and reinstate scenes missing from the truncated version released in 1980.
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12:45 PM
Thursday, September 1, 2022
12:45 PM
In this talk, artist Viv Qiu explores the world-building potential of making experimental, critical, speculative art.
Free and open to the public
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Arts + Design Thursdays
1:15 PM
Thursday, September 1, 2022
1:15 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, September 1, 2022
4 PM–7 PM
Still lifes make small promises that offer large pleasures, come to the lower-level Study Center and enjoy.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Series
Five Tables 2022
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11:30 AM
Friday, September 2, 2022
11:30 AM
Indigenous leader and author Greg Sarris will join Assoc. Prof. of Comparative Literature and English Beth Piatote to discuss how literature and nature intersect with stories of Bay Area Native American history.
The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom webinar Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Fridays
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 2, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 3, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 4, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
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7 PM
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
7 PM
Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams,
Rwanda, United States,
2021,
(119 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Replete with mind-altering visual and sonic imagery, this Afrofuturist mélange of music, poetry, and resistance is hypnotic and visionary in its depiction of a genderqueer community of hackers and techno poets. With Manu Luksch’s short Algo-Rhythm.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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12:45 PM
Thursday, September 8, 2022
12:45 PM
 This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
The borderlands are an evolving landscape that is a laboratory for art, design, and activism. Ronald Rael discusses how the complexity of this territory in flux has led to projects that explore the dichotomies of an ever-changing frontier.
Free and open to the public
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Arts + Design Thursdays
4 PM
Thursday, September 8, 2022
4 PM
 Programmed by Sean Carson
Touch Bass is a collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa, featuring three dancers, three bassists, and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Performances
7 PM
Thursday, September 8, 2022
7 PM
Emiko Omori,
United States,
1999,
(113 mins)
Emiko Omori’s poetic documentary tells the story of Japanese incarceration in the United States, bringing to light the courageous acts of protest and rebellion that have been too often overlooked. Beautifully rendered, Rabbit in the Moon bravely lifts the gag that once muted a culture’s voice of anger. With Chris Kennedy’s lay claim to an island, which revisits the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz Island by the American Indian movement.
In Person
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Friday, September 9, 2022
11:30 AM
Choreographer Lenora Lee and theater director Ava Roy will discuss San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island and Alcatraz Island as creative catalysts and settings for their site-inspired performances addressing migration, incarceration, and resistance.
Free and open to the public The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom webinar
Series
Arts + Design Fridays
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 9, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 9, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1976,
(106 mins)
Digital Restoration
Excellent performances by Peter Falk and John Cassavetes, who play petty gangsters in a lonely night’s landscape, on the run from death, mark this distinctive work, written and directed by May.
Series
Elaine May: Age of Irony
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11:30 AM
Saturday, September 10, 2022
11:30 AM
 For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Compose a small box filled with a mini collection of special objects, images, and instructions to be activated by the future recipient of your box.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Family Events
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2022
1 PM–7 PM
2 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2022
2 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Even magic has rules, and Aster seems to be breaking them. Instead of shapeshifting, like boys are supposed to, he likes witchcraft, which is girls’ territory. Aster learns that to be truly himself takes courage.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Family Events
Saturday, September 10, 2022
3 PM
Join Candice Lin, Mel Y. Chen, and Victoria Sung for a wide-ranging conversation about the exhibition Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping in the context of animals, animality, and theories of interspecies assemblage.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
7 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2022
7 PM
Francisco Newman, Allen Willis,
United States,
1970,
(77 mins)
An illuminating interview with Black Panther Bobby Seale while he was incarcerated in San Francisco County Jail. With an excerpt from Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison.
8 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2022
8 PM
 Programmed by Sean Carson
Touch Bass is a collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa, featuring three dancers, three bassists, and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities.
Seating for Full performances is limited
Tickets:
SOLD OUT: Sep 10, 8 PM Sep 11, 4 PM
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Full 2022
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 11, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
12 PM
Sunday, September 11, 2022
12 PM
 This event has been postponed to Sunday, Septemeber 25 at 1 PM.
Join local artists and educators Amy Bergstein and Alayna Tinney for some collaborative collage time in the Art Lab. All ages are welcome!
Postponed to Sunday, September 25 Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
4 PM
Sunday, September 11, 2022
4 PM
Programmed by Sean Carson
Touch Bass is a collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa, featuring three dancers, three bassists, and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities.
Seating for Full performances is limited
Tickets:
SOLD OUT: Sep 10, 8 PM Sep 11, 4 PM
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Full 2022
5 PM
Sunday, September 11, 2022
5 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1971,
(102 mins)
Starring Walter Matthau as a playboy who has squandered his wealth and must marry a rich woman or forfeit all his passions, and May as a nerdy heiress, A New Leaf “illustrates how fluidly May fuses verbal and physical comedy” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times).
Series
Elaine May: Age of Irony
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
12:15 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
7 PM
(65 mins)
This brief survey of recent experimental animation features films by new and established local film artists, from pixelated, live-action documentary to abstract hallucinations, all with songs, performances, and soundscapes.
In Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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Thursday, September 15, 2022
12:45 PM
Anne Bluethenthal troubles the paradigm of Western dance with content-driven choreographies that face difficult issues of the day with eloquence and passion.
Free and open to the public
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Arts + Design Thursdays
7 PM
Thursday, September 15, 2022
7 PM
Rosine Mbakam,
Belgium, Cameroon,
2016,
(76 mins)
“The filmmaker reinventing how African women are portrayed in movies” (NPR), Mbakam turns the camera on her own remarkable mother and her generation in this captivating documentary.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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11:30 AM
Friday, September 16, 2022
11:30 AM
Angel Island in San Francisco Bay is a crucial spot marking the history of exclusionary, race-based immigration policy. Its immigration station has sometimes been called “the Ellis Island of the West.” In this lecture, Ed Tepporn will discuss how activists saved this site, current day efforts, and its meaning for the future.
The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom webinar Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Fridays
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 16, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 16, 2022
7 PM
Warren Beatty, Buck Henry,
United States,
1978,
(101 mins)
This fantasy-comedy about a young man (Beatty) who is mistakenly taken to heaven by his guardian angel earned May her first Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Series
Elaine May: Age of Irony
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 17, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 17, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Enjoy free gallery admission all day in celebration of our latest exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, and don't miss the talk with curator Julio Morales at 2 PM.
Free gallery admission Saturday, September 17, 2022
2 PM
Julio Morales, senior curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum, who organized Undoing Time, offers insights into the works of twelve contemporary artists featured in the exhbiition.
Free gallery admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
7 PM
Saturday, September 17, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1976,
(106 mins)
Digital Restoration
Excellent performances by Peter Falk and John Cassavetes, who play petty gangsters in a lonely night’s landscape, on the run from death, mark this distinctive work, written and directed by May.
Series
Elaine May: Age of Irony
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 18, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, September 18, 2022
1 PM
Oakland and Brooklyn based press and publishing project, Irrelevant Press hosts a risograph printing and zine-making workshop.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
Sunday, September 18, 2022
2 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
5 PM
Sunday, September 18, 2022
5 PM
(73 mins)
Women of all ages and backgrounds drive the narratives of these short films, whether in Senegal, Sudan, South Africa, or London.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
12:15 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
7 PM
(77 mins)
This program of shorts features recent BAMPFA preservation prints of films by influential and undervalued Bay Area women filmmakers whose works were distributed by Serious Business Company, including Freude, Gunvor Nelson, and Dorothy Wiley.
In Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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12:45 PM
Thursday, September 22, 2022
12:45 PM
Petra Linhartová is Head of Digital & Innovation at TBA21–Academy. The methodology accumulated and incubated by TBA21–Academy's practice manifests digitally through Ocean-Archive.org. This lecture invites the audience to wade through the Archive's many currents and experience creative practices within digital interfaces and beyond traditional frameworks.
Free and open to the public
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Arts + Design Thursdays
7 PM
Thursday, September 22, 2022
7 PM
Med Hondo,
Burkina Faso, France, Mauritania,
1986,
(116 mins)
A young queen leads her people against a brutal French expeditionary force in 1899 Niger in Hondo’s anti-colonialist, rough-hewn epic based on the brutal true-life history of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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Friday, September 23, 2022
11:30 AM
ShiPu Wang will discuss the paintings of three trailblazers of Japanese descent who leveraged portraiture to build communities and make their presence visible in the Exclusion-era California.
Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Fridays
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 23, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 23, 2022
7 PM
Cinda Firestone,
United States,
1974,
(115 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
An essential counterpoint to the official and mass media accounts of the Attica prison uprising and subsequent massacre. “Few social documentaries hit their mark with more harrowing and urgent impact. No matter how you feel about prison reform Attica makes indifference impossible” (Stanley Eichelbaum, San Francisco Examiner). With Christine Choy and Susan Robeson’s Teach Our Children.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 24, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
7 PM
Saturday, September 24, 2022
7 PM
Rithy Panh,
Cambodia, France,
2013,
(96 mins)
Renowned Cambodian filmmaker Panh’s haunting, powerful, and personal investigation into the Cambodian genocide.
In Conversation
Series
Rithy Panh in Person
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 25, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, September 25, 2022
1 PM
Join local artists and educators Amy Bergstein and Alayna Tinney for some collaborative collage time in the Art Lab. All ages are welcome!
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
Sunday, September 25, 2022
2 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
3:30 PM
Sunday, September 25, 2022
3:30 PM
Rithy Panh,
Cambodia, France,
2020,
(88 mins)
North American Premiere
Winner of the 2020 Berlinale Documentary Award, Panh’s Irradiated continues his exploration of the inhumanity of war and ideologically motivated genocide beyond the borders of his native Cambodia.
In Conversation
Series
Rithy Panh in Person
4 PM
Sunday, September 25, 2022
4 PM
Poetry by Toya L. Groves and Darius Simpson.
Included with admission
Series
The Black Poet’s Imagination
7 PM
Sunday, September 25, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1972,
(106 mins)
The Heartbreak Kid is a bitter satire that plays like a whimsical romantic comedy. “[A] movie that manages the marvelous and very peculiar trick of blending the mechanisms and the cruelties of Neil Simon’s comedy with the sense and sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).
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Elaine May: Age of Irony
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
12:15 PM
Tours of Undoing Time are led by students from the Berkeley Underground Scholars program, which supports formerly incarcerated and systems-impacted students.
7 PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
7 PM
(74 mins)
Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies
The experimental films of Brazilian filmmaker Vaz celebrate the medium’s possibility to engage the senses in surprising new ways by reconsidering the limits of our perception.
Prerecorded Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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12:45 PM
Thursday, September 29, 2022
12:45 PM
Composer, vocalist, and artist Ken Ueno moves toward creating a personal practice that seeks to “uncorset” musical practice and, by extension, claim artistic agency for those who do not belong to the dominant culture.
Free and open to the public
Series
Arts + Design Thursdays
7 PM
Thursday, September 29, 2022
7 PM
Hawa Aliou N’Diaye,
Benin, France, Mali,
2021,
(71 mins)
N’Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who—like her—claim to be possessed by enigmatic spirits known as jinn.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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Friday, September 30, 2022
11:30 AM
Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi will talk about their new book, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps and the Pacific War.
Series
Arts + Design Fridays
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 30, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 30, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1987,
(107 mins)
Digital Restoration
Broke, untalented nightclub performers (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) accept a gig at a Moroccan hotel before becoming CIA pawns in May’s highly underrated romp. “May’s screenwriting has a sardonic, aphoristic brilliance. . . . [as director] she pushes Beatty and Hoffman out of their familiar personae, into strange psychodramatic performances that emerge with a precision of gesture and inflection” (Richard Brody, New Yorker).
Series
Elaine May: Age of Irony
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, October 1, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
7 PM
Saturday, October 1, 2022
7 PM
Haile Gerima,
United States,
1975,
(97 mins)
Dorothy, the title character, is raising a daughter in Watts while her husband is in prison. Her political awareness develops as she navigates the cacophony and turmoil of the neighborhood and stays connected with him via correspondence.
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