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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
12:30 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
12:30 PM
William Kentridge, Luc de Wit,
United States,
2015,
(202 mins)
Free Admission
Lulu, one of the great operas of the twentieth century, written by Alban Berg in the late 1920s and early 1930s, deals with themes of fragility, impossibility, and the fragmentation of desire. William Kentridge’s stage design employs hand-drawn animated projections done in a German Expressionist style. Starring Marlis Petersen in the title role.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 11:30 AM. Presented with a 10-minute intermission 2 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
3:30 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
3:30 PM
Berkeley’s own Shawl-Anderson Dance Center presents all four of its teen performance groups. Each group has worked with a professional Bay Area artist to create original choreographed works that highlight the technique and performance skills of the young dancers.
Included with gallery admission
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Performances 2023
5 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023
5 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2016,
(107 mins)
Present-day Montana provides the possibly unlikely setting for this investigation of the gap between women’s desires and their less hopeful realities. With Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams. Adapted from stories by Maile Meloy.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
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Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
7 PM
Billy Woodberry,
United States,
1983,
(97 mins)
New 35mm Print
“Billy Woodberry’s dramatic feature looks deeply into the life of one family in Watts and plots its crisis in three dimensions: race, money, and gender. . . . Woodberry crafts a passionately pensive realism” (New Yorker). With The Pocketbook, an adaptation of a Langston Hughes story.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
France, Germany, Italy, Thailand,
2004,
(118 mins)
This shape-shifting blend of modern romance and mystic parable ventures deep into the Thai jungle of myth. “A work of outstanding originality and power” (Sight & Sound).
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 31, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, March 31, 2023
7 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2010,
(104 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Three strong women and an assortment of men head west on the Oregon Trail in Reichardt’s feminist Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan.
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Kelly Reichardt in Person
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
7 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1967,
(96 mins)
A love triangle of sorts forms between a harried city functionary, her maid, and an absent, wandering husband (seen only in flashbacks) in Kira Muratova’s impressionist new-wave work, banned for twenty years. Russian folk singer/cult hero Vladimir Vysotsky costars.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
12:30 PM
Sunday, April 2, 2023
12:30 PM
William Kentridge,
Italy,
2012,
(163 mins)
Free Admission
In 2005 William Kentridge directed a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, which made use of projected drawings and animations. “The magic of the opera is in how complex and deep questions can be played out with such a light hand, and in the music, which simply floats to our ears, but which has such a gravitas to it at the same time” (Kentridge).
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 11:30 AM. 1 PM
Sunday, April 2, 2023
1 PM
Join artist Caro Yagjian and Bay Area illustrator and animator Saoirse Alesanddo in a fun, hands-on animation craft for all ages.
Included with admission
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Workshops 2023
2 PM
Sunday, April 2, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
4:30 PM
Sunday, April 2, 2023
4:30 PM
Mariposa Film Group,
United States,
1977,
(133 mins)
New Restoration
Perhaps the first feature-length documentary on gay and lesbian identity, this film features interviews with a diverse group of individuals, including poet Elsa Gidlow, activist Sally Gearhart, inventor John Burnside, civil rights leader Harry Hay, and filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky.
In Person
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Pioneers of Queer Cinema
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
12:30 PM
Join Cat Brooks and Alecia Harger for conversation and an artistic journey exploring the role trauma plays in the lives of Black people in America.
Free and open to the public 7 PM
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
7 PM
Paz Encina,
Paraguay,
2022,
(93 mins)
Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies
“A hazy daydream of a film,” Eami is “equal parts nature doc and choral poem, an experimental memory essay that’s also an urgent elegy for a people, a forest, a world” (Variety). With Paz Encina’s sound piece Traéme Agua, Traéme Miel.
In Conversation
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Documentary Voices 2023
7:30 PM
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
7:30 PM
 Programmed by Sean Carson
During this event by composer and visual artist Gino Robair, papermakers create a score for an operatic work. That score then serves as a platform for interpretation by an ensemble of musicians.
Space for Full performances is limited.
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4 - 7 PM
Thursday, April 6, 2023
4 - 7 PM
Time is a slippery subject: as objective as an atomic clock, as subjective as waiting for water to boil. Come see how artists figured out vastly different ways to mark time in the works on view at this month's Five Tables.
Free on first Thursday of the month
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Five Tables
Thursday, April 6, 2023
12 PM
For over fifty years, Bay Area–based feminist artist Lynn Hershman Leeson has repurposed a range of media—from comic books to photographs to film, from Second Life to artificial intelligence to virtual reality—exploring the dynamics of self-making and self-surveillance. Here she shares some of her most recent work on the politics of algorithmic life, including her recent award-winning installation at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Free and open to the public In Conversation
Series
Video Art in Context
1:15 PM
Thursday, April 6, 2023
1:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Thursday, April 6, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
China, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom,
2021,
(136 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Memoria also screens Friday, May 5 (without Apichatpong Weerasethakul in person).
Set in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton, Weerasethakul’s first feature film made outside of Thailand covers familiar thematic terrain for the veteran director in its exploration of the blurred boundaries between the natural world and spirit realm, and the way that collective traumas reemerge as memories and dreams.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, April 7, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
3 PM
Friday, April 7, 2023
3 PM
(150 mins)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul addresses his approach to making moving images for both the cinema and installations and alternative screening spaces.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
7 PM
Friday, April 7, 2023
7 PM
(86 mins)
Free Admission
A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 5 PM.
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1–7 PM
Saturday, April 8, 2023
1–7 PM
11:30 AM
Saturday, April 8, 2023
11:30 AM
 For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
With Frank Moore’s paintings as an inspiration, use torn tissue paper to “paint” a portrait of your own.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under Raphael Noz
Series
Family Events 2022-2023
2 PM
Saturday, April 8, 2023
2 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Join eleven-year-old Scoob and his beloved G’ma as they take an unforgettable RV road trip together.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under Adoria Williams
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Family Events 2022-2023
7 PM
Saturday, April 8, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
Austria, France, Thailand,
2006,
(105 mins)
Inspired by the recollections of his doctor parents, Weerasethakul fashioned this gorgeous portrait of love and remembrance, mirrored in both the countryside and the city. “Profoundly mysterious, erotic, funny, gentle, playful, and utterly distinctive” (Guardian).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 9, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 9, 2023
12 PM
Curator’s Talk: Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo on Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World
Guest curator Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo offers a series of gallery talks highlighting works by contemporary Asian and Asian American artists.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
1 PM
Sunday, April 9, 2023
1 PM
 This workshop is full.
Design a personal perfume that explores the versatility and play of the materials while honing a practice of constraint to guide creation. Led by Leonora Zoninsein.
This workshop is full.
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Workshops 2023
2 PM
Sunday, April 9, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
3 PM
Sunday, April 9, 2023
3 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom,
Thailand,
2002,
(126 mins)
Young lovers travel to the verdant jungle seeking respite from everyday anguish in “a delicate, ethereal dream of a film” (New York Times).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
7 PM
Sunday, April 9, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1971,
(97 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
The Long Farewell also screens Saturday, May 13 with Stanislav Menzelevskyi introducing.
The relationship between mother and son forms the crux of Kira Muratova’s ephemeral second feature, banned for nearly two decades. “Rendered with a borderline avant-garde sense of aesthetic freedom and formal experimentation” (NYFF)
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9 AM–7 PM
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
9 AM–7 PM
Watch our big-screen livestream of the Campanile peregrine falcon nest—if we're lucky, we'll see the chicks hatch in real time!
Free all day on the outdoor screen 5:10 PM
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
5:10 PM
For the Townsend Center for the Humanities’s Una’s Lecture, Apichatpong Weerasethakul appears in conversation with Hilton Als, who inquires into his career arc, filmmaking practice, and the particular political challenges involved in making film in his native Thailand. With Len Lye’s Free Radicals, Bruce Baillie’s Valentin de las Sierras, and Weerasethakul’s Ablaze.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4 PM. In Conversation
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
12:30 PM
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
12:30 PM
This panel is a rare opportunity to peek into Deaf culture and to hear from Black Deaf individuals in the arts world. Michelle Banks, Fred Beam, Harold Foxx, and Ashlea Hayes, with Antoine Hunter, discuss how to work with Deaf directors, artists, performers, and dancers; debunk the myths and realities of Deaf dancers; and speak to how people of color face at least a “triple whammy” because they are already Deaf and experience specific discrimination in this intersection.
Free and open to the public Wednesday, April 12, 2023
5 PM
To mark the opening of Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again, which she guest curated together with Vanessa Jackson, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby introduces her new book, Creole, with a presentation designed to frame and contextualize the exhibition.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
7 PM
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
7 PM
Payal Kapadia,
France, India,
2021,
(121 mins)
In Indian director “Payal Kapadia’s kaleidoscopic, Cannes prize-winning documentary . . . love for the moving image—and love for artistic creativity—marches hand in hand with the fight for political freedom” (Guardian). With a short by Amit Dutta.
Series
Documentary Voices 2023
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
12 PM
In Danielle Dean’s subversive work, video art expands into media art as video figures as a medium, interface, and subject. Discussing her panoramas and immersive installations, which tackle the impacts of extractive capitalism on land and people, Dean illuminates her strategic use of watercolor, landscape, interior, and video.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
7 PM
Thursday, April 13, 2023
7 PM
Tom Joslin,
United States,
1977,
(130 mins)
New Restoration
Tom Joslin’s prequel to Silverlake Life: The View from Here is an experimental, “self-ethnographic” documentary on gay love. With Choosing Children (1984), one of the first documentaries to challenge the assumption that being a lesbian means you can’t be a mom.
Series
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
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Friday, April 14, 2023
6 PM
Carlos Lechuga,
Colombia, Cuba, France, Norway, United States,
2022,
(77 mins)
Vicenta is a gifted clairvoyant. While she can foretell others’ future, her own remains cloudy as she struggles to communicate with her ancestors to understand the journey ahead for her and her son, who is leaving Cuba for the United States.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. 8 PM
Friday, April 14, 2023
8 PM
Savanah Leaf,
United States,
2023,
(97 mins)
Closed captioned
A single mother in Oakland navigates the foster care system while making a living at a family portrait studio in this intimate coming-of-age story.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Person
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 15, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
12 PM
Saturday, April 15, 2023
12 PM
Alison O’Daniel,
United States,
2023,
(91 mins)
Open Captioned
In this visually stunning work, which features a visceral, textured sound design and an almost entirely deaf cast, Alison O’Daniel invites the audience to listen to the world through the experiences of the deaf and hard of hearing.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Person
2:30 PM
Saturday, April 15, 2023
2:30 PM
Byun Sung-bin,
South Korea,
2022,
(114 mins)
A masterfully shot debut feature, Peafowl follows a professional waack dancer, Myung, as she confronts her relationship with her family and finds her own personal style of performance.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
5:30 PM
Saturday, April 15, 2023
5:30 PM
Emanuele Crialese,
France, Italy,
2022,
(98 mins)
Emanuele Crialese’s first film in eleven years is a portrait of two outsiders, an effusive, fun-loving mother (Penélope Cruz) and her daughter, trying to escape the confines of their environment in 1970s Rome.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. 7:45 PM
Saturday, April 15, 2023
7:45 PM
Mary Harron,
United Kingdom, United States,
2022,
(103 mins)
A young gallery assistant is asked to deliver money to Salvador Dalí and his wife, Gala, and is swept into their world of art and parties filled with beautiful people and stimulating substances.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Person
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 16, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 16, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, April 16, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
2 PM
Sunday, April 16, 2023
2 PM
Adamu Chan,
United States,
2022,
(94 mins)
Closed captioned
Formerly incarcerated director Adamu Chan documents a community within and outside of prison thriving with relationships built on trust and an indomitable zeal to fight for a brighter and better future. With shorts How We Get Free and Sol in the Garden.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Person
Sunday, April 16, 2023
3 PM
Cocurators of Alexandre Dumas’s Afro, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Vanessa Jackson, introduce the exhibition, which examines caricature, race, and the infantilization of Alexandre Dumas, the prolific author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, among many other books. Why, they ask, is Dumas’s work so often celebrated in films, comics, and children’s books yet ignored by scholars?
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
4:45 PM
Sunday, April 16, 2023
4:45 PM
Selcen Ergun,
Germany, Serbia, Turkey,
2022,
(93 mins)
Director Selcen Ergun expertly balances the tension between patriarchal tradition and modernity, crafting a mystery-drama about a dedicated nurse starting a new job in a remote Turkish village.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. 7 PM
Sunday, April 16, 2023
7 PM
Antonio Lukich,
Ukraine,
2022,
(106 mins)
Twin brothers embark on a road trip to search for their Yugoslavian father, who is rumored to be in Luxembourg.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. |
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
12:30 PM
Drawing on the history of Black food preservation techniques and memories of his maternal grandmother’s pantry in her Memphis home, chef and artist Bryant Terry presents his sculptural work Sacred Larder followed by a live performance with his mother, Beatrice Terry (as she embodies her mother cooking and singing), and artist Joshua Gabriel.
Free and open to the public 7 PM
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
7 PM
Su Friedrich,
United States,
1996,
(89 mins)
“Hide and Seek is one of the most piquant memory films I know, at once roiling with the tenderness and cruelty of adolescence and marbled by the wisdom of age” (Scott Foundas). With shorts by Jan Oxenberg (Home Movie), Sadie Benning (If Every Girl Had a Diary), and Jenni Olson (Blue Diary).
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Pioneers of Queer Cinema
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Thursday, April 20, 2023
12 PM
For over thirty years, Rudolf Frieling has been a curator, critic, advocate, and aggregator of new (and sometimes old) experiments in video and media art. Here he discusses projects such as ZKM’s Media Art Net, his recent Media Art 21 (coedited with Zhang Ga and Shannon Jackson), and other initiatives committed to preservation, documentation, and access in this ever-evolving field.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
7 PM
Thursday, April 20, 2023
7 PM
Mark Cousins,
Italy,
2022,
(98 mins)
Filmmaker Mark Cousins is this year’s recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award, dedicated to Tom Luddy. Cousins will present his new film, The March on Rome.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Conversation
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Friday, April 21, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
4 PM
Friday, April 21, 2023
4 PM
Mark Cousins,
United Kingdom,
2022,
(120 mins)
Mark Cousins’s film dives into the oeuvre of the Master of Suspense, with actor Alistair McGowan as Alfred Hitchcock providing a lively lecture populated with clips from his entire career.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
7 PM
Friday, April 21, 2023
7 PM
Lorena Padilla,
Mexico,
2023,
(93 mins)
In this satirical take on workplace culture and urban alienation, Martínez deals with the death of a neighbor and his imminent forced retirement, finding hope and inspiration on the flip side of humiliation and despair.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Person
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Saturday, April 22, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
12 PM
Saturday, April 22, 2023
12 PM
W. Kamau Bell,
United States,
2023,
(86 mins)
W. Kamau Bell’s latest work profiles the joys and struggles of children growing up mixed-race. With shorts Creating Things and Southern Afternoon.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Person
2:30 PM
Saturday, April 22, 2023
2:30 PM
Milisuthando Bongela,
Colombia, South Africa,
2023,
(128 mins)
Closed captioned
Using archival and verité footage, along with deeply personal interviews, Milisuthando Bongela constructs this intimate essay about what it meant to grow up in South Africa’s Transkei during apartheid and her continuing process of coming to terms with the aftermath.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
5:30 PM
Saturday, April 22, 2023
5:30 PM
Sarvnik Kaur,
India,
2023,
(97 mins)
As the Arabian Sea’s fish population dwindles, two fishermen from Mumbai’s Koli community endeavor to change their fortunes. United by a shared ambition, their friendship is tested as they employ different methods to achieve their goal.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Person
8:15 PM
Saturday, April 22, 2023
8:15 PM
Luis De Filippis,
Canada, Switzerland,
2022,
(96 mins)
Luis De Filippis’s story of a family vacation, notable for its subtle, undramatic depiction of trans life on-screen, perfectly encapsulates the tensions that can arise from close proximity and overdetermined fun when paired with family dynamics.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. |
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
12 PM
Sunday, April 23, 2023
12 PM
Rooth Tang,
United States,
2023,
(101 mins)
Closed captioned
Rooth Tang chronicles the life and legacy of Rose Pak, San Francisco’s atypical kingmaker, who worked tirelessly to bring Chinese American issues to the forefront of political discourse in this profile of a Bay Area mover and shaker.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. In Person
2 PM
Sunday, April 23, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
3 PM
Sunday, April 23, 2023
3 PM
Babak Jalali,
United States,
2023,
(91 mins)
Closed captioned
A former translator for the US military, Donya now lives among the Afghan diaspora who call the eponymous Bay Area suburb home and works at a San Francisco fortune cookie factory in Babak Jalali’s wry, character-driven drama.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
5:30 PM
Sunday, April 23, 2023
5:30 PM
Valentina Maurel,
Belgium, Costa Rica, France,
2022,
(100 mins)
I Have Electric Dreams follows teenage Eva as she grapples with the emotions and realities of her parents’ split and her own shifting priorities and desires.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. 8 PM
Sunday, April 23, 2023
8 PM
Sofia Alaoui,
France, Morocco, Qatar,
2023,
(90 mins)
In this wide-ranging, genre-encompassing debut, mysterious apparitions above a remote Moroccan lake bring chaos to the world of a pregnant woman.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. |
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom,
2010,
(113 mins)
This Palme d’Or winner melds the last dying encounters of a farmer, Boonmee, with a gorgeously rendered landscape enlivened by the presence of ghostly apparitions. This is not magical realism, but realistic magic.
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
12 PM
Concluding our Thursday series, Professors Shannon Jackson and Greg Niemeyer review the key themes of the semester, our lecture series, and the wide-ranging effort to place video art in context. Join us to recall key artists and recurring themes, as well as to anticipate possible futures as artists and global citizens mobilize the power of the screen.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
7 PM
Thursday, April 27, 2023
7 PM
Jennie Livingston,
United States,
1990,
(103 mins)
An influential documentary on New York City’s proudly queer and trans Black and Latinx Ballroom scene of the late 1980s. With shorts by Nikolai Ursin (Behind Every Good Man) and Pat Rocco (Changes).
Series
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, April 28, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, April 28, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1989,
(153 mins)
Legendary director Kira Muratova’s demented chronicle of the absurdities and insults of post-glasnost Soviet life takes its title and cues from a psychological condition in which the sufferer alternates between maniacal aggression and apathetic inaction. “A movie that breaks all the rules” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
For accommodation requests please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu. |
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2 - 5 PM
Saturday, April 29, 2023
2 - 5 PM
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 29, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1:30 PM
Saturday, April 29, 2023
1:30 PM
Patricia Lessard offers American Sign Language interpretation for a graduate student–led tour of the exhibition. All visitors are welcome.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
4 PM
Saturday, April 29, 2023
4 PM
(71 mins)
Filmmaker LeBlanc joins Black Life cocurator ruth gebreyesus in person to share his film and discuss influences on his approach to filmmaking. The program also features a 35mm restored print of Charles Burnett’s first film, Several Friends.
In Conversation
7 PM
Saturday, April 29, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Michael Shaowanasai,
Thailand,
2003,
(90 mins)
Weerasethakul teamed up with performance artist (and San Francisco Art Institute graduate) Michael Shaowanasai for this outrageous genre-and gender-bending musical Western, which follows the exploits of a glamorous transvestite secret agent.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 30, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 30, 2023
12 PM
Noted Tibetan artist Tsherin Sherpa presents BAMPFA’s 2023 endowed Lijin Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World. He focuses on present-day Himalayan art and its connections with traditional arts. Followed by Above and Below, a documentary by Sheri Brenner about Sherpa's life and career.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
2 PM
Sunday, April 30, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
5 PM
Sunday, April 30, 2023
5 PM
Rob Epstein,
United States,
1984,
(106 mins)
New Restoration
Rob Epstein’s powerful record of the beloved San Francisco activist/politician Harvey Milk’s inspirational life and work, from his improbable, heroic rise to his horrific murder. With shorts by Barbara Hammer (I Was/I Am) and Arthur J. Bressan Jr. (Coming Out).
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Pioneers of Queer Cinema
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
7 PM
Marlon Riggs,
United States,
1989,
(123 mins)
Marlon Riggs’s riveting combination of interviews, performance, stock footage, autobiography, poetry, and dance reveals the revolutionary potential of Black men loving Black men. With shorts by Todd Haynes (Dottie Gets Spanked), Michael Wallin (Decodings), Kenneth Anger (Fireworks), and Mike Kuchar (Seascape).
Series
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
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4 - 7 PM
Thursday, May 4, 2023
4 - 7 PM
When we see people read in works from BAMPFA’s collection, however, the fact of communication—from intimate to public—is very clear: beautiful women reading love letters and romances abound in Japanese woodblock prints by Kikukawa Eizan, Isoda Koryusai, Utagawa Kunisada, and Kitagawa Utamaro; a Civil War carte de visite shows freed slaves reading and opines “Lerning [sic] is Wealth”; hieroglyphics on tomb walls state their case for immortality in nineteenth-century photographs of Egypt by Antonio Beato; and more.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Series
Five Tables
1:15 PM
Thursday, May 4, 2023
1:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Thursday, May 4, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Russia, Ukraine,
2004,
(154 mins)
Swindlers and eccentric faded aristocrats populate the crumbling Odessa of Kira Muratova’s berserk satire on Russia’s old and nouveau riche. A screwball 1930s comedy filtered through an almost assaultive theatrical style. “Like being trapped in an elevator with a psychotic” (Village Voice).
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, May 5, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, May 5, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
China, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom,
2021,
(136 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Memoria also screens Thursday, April 6 (with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in person).
Set in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton, Weerasethakul’s first feature film made outside of Thailand covers familiar thematic terrain for the veteran director in its exploration of the blurred boundaries between the natural world and spirit realm, and the way that collective traumas reemerge as memories and dreams.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. |
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11 AM–2 PM
Saturday, May 6, 2023
11 AM–2 PM
BAMPFA will close early today for the Art + Film Benefit event. Please plan accordingly.
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