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28 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Sunday, January 28, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Aguirre, the Wrath of God Film Sunday, January 28, 2024 1 PM Aguirre, the Wrath of God Werner Herzog, Germany, 1972, (95 mins) Stunningly photographed in hazardous locations in Peru, Aguirre, the Wrath of God takes the viewer on a mad voyage as frightening and entertaining as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s maelstrom-bent epics of demented discovery. Featuring a seething, controlled performance from Klaus Kinski, who delivers an unforgettable portrait of madness and power. Series Infinite Horizons: The Films of Werner Herzog Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Art Tours Sunday, January 28, 2024 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 3 PM The Only Son Film Sunday, January 28, 2024 3 PM The Only Son Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1936, In Yasujiro Ozu’s first sound feature, a small-town widow sacrifices everything so her son can better himself in Tokyo; visiting him, she faces bitter disappointment. “A small masterpiece of haunting grace and economy” (Village Voice). Series Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Chavela Film In-Person Sunday, January 28, 2024 5 PM Chavela Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi, Mexico, United States, 2017, (93 mins) A tremendous, joyful portrait of legendary Mexican lesbian singer Chavela Vargas, told through amazing archival material and interviews with friends, colleagues, and ex-lovers. 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. Introduction Jenni Olson Introduction Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Marcia Ochoa Introduction Marcia Ochoa is an associate professor in the Theater Arts and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies departments at UC Santa Cruz, and is the cofounder of El/La Para TransLatinas in the Mission Distri Series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	29	30	31 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Art Tours Wednesday, January 31, 2024 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Land of Silence and Darkness Film In-Person Wednesday, January 31, 2024 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Land of Silence and Darkness Werner Herzog, Germany, 1971, Lecture & Screening Werner Herzog’s 1971 documentary on the world of those who are both deaf and blind defies expectations; neither morbidly depressing nor heartwarmingly uplifting, it is “so intense and abstract that at times it reaches great lyrical heights” (New Yorker Films). 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Michael Fox Lecture Michael Fox is a film critic and journalist for KQED’s Arts and Culture blog. He is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle and an inductee of SFFILM’s Essential SF. Series In Focus: Werner Herzog and the Documentary Form Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Snow and the Bear Film Wednesday, January 31, 2024 7 PM Snow and the Bear Selcen Ergun, Germany, Serbia, Turkey, 2022, (93 mins) A chilling, mysterious, and stunning debut film. “Selcen Ergun’s acute and wide-awake direction emphasizes the undertones of a rigid patriarchal society while brilliantly setting the atmosphere for this anti fairy-tale” (Toronto International Film Festival). Series Special Screenings 2024 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 All Day Free First Thursday Art Families Free Thursday, February 1, 2024 All Day Free First Thursday First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Thursday, February 1, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Art Tours Thursday, February 1, 2024 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM 1 Berlin-Harlem Film Thursday, February 1, 2024 7 PM 1 Berlin-Harlem Lothar Lambert, Wolfram Zobus, Germany, 1974, (100 mins) Recommended for adults only This is a complex portrayal of the social alienation suffered by a Black American GI attempting to start a career and maintain a relationship with a white German woman in Berlin. Drifting through the city’s subcultures—including queer cruising spots and Berlin’s Black Panther Solidarity Committee—fleeting moments of tenderness prove less common than crass fetishization and brazen bigotry. Series Skip Norman Here and There Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Friday, February 2, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Encounters at the End of the World Film Friday, February 2, 2024 7 PM Encounters at the End of the World Werner Herzog, United States, 2007, (99 mins) Encounters at the End of the World also screens Wednesday, January 24 as an In Focus lecture and screening program. A voyage to the end of the world—Antarctica—to discover the ecstatic realities of those who have chosen to live amidst nature’s awe-inspiring vastness. “A portrait of people in search of the sublime” (Cinema Scope). Series Infinite Horizons: The Films of Werner Herzog Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Saturday, February 3, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Black Life: Jasmine Nyende: Returns Saturn Art Workshop Saturday, February 3, 2024 1 PM Black Life: Jasmine Nyende: Returns Saturn Black Life is honored to present Jasmine Nyende’s explorations of Saturn, the most magnetic planet in our solar system, through a risograph collage workshop that encourages attendees to spin their own mythology of the ring-adorned celestial body. Included with gallery admission Series Black Life 2024 Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM American Sign Language Tour of Duane Linklater: mymothersside Art Tours Saturday, February 3, 2024 1:30 PM American Sign Language Tour of Duane Linklater: mymothersside 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 2024 Google Calendar ICS 3 PM Bushman Film In-Person Saturday, February 3, 2024 3 PM Bushman David Schickele, United States, 1971, (140 mins) Bay Area Premiere of the Digital Restoration Open Captions Bushman also screens Saturday, February 24 (without in-person guests). BAMPFA presents the Bay Area premiere of the recently completed restoration of Bushman, directed by Bay Area independent filmmaker David Schickele. We will be joined by special guests, including Schickele’s family, who have been instrumental to the preservation of Bushman, as well as original members of the cast and crew and the preservation team. Paired with Schickele’s earlier film Give Me a Riddle. 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. In Conversation Gail Schickele Nighttrain Schickele Rob Nilsson Ross Lipman Jon Shibata Jon Shibata is BAMPFA’s film archivist. Series Preservation Spotlight: David Schickele’s Bushman SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Equinox Flower Film Saturday, February 3, 2024 7 PM Equinox Flower Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1958, (118 mins) Teenage girls quietly rebel against their traditional parents’ plans. “Gentle and amused in the way that it acknowledges time’s passage, the changing of values, and the adjustments that have to be made between generations” (New York Times). Series Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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4 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Sunday, February 4, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Vogue Dance Class with Sir JoQ Workshop Sunday, February 4, 2024 1 PM Vogue Dance Class with Sir JoQ Tap into your inner diva and learn the basics of voguing in this intro dance class with Sir JoQ (Jocquese Whitfield), a homegrown vogue legend. Included with admission. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Vishniac Film In-Person Sunday, February 4, 2024 2 PM Vishniac Laura Bialis, United States, 2023, (93 mins) Copresented with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life Vishniac also screens Friday, February 23 (without in-person guests). BAMPFA partners with The Magnes to host the East Bay Premiere of Vishniac, Laura Bialis’s new portrait of famed photographer Roman Vishniac’s life and work. Bialis joins the February 4 screening to discuss her film with Bay Area documentary filmmaker Veronica Selver (Irmi, KPFA on the Air). 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. In Conversation Laura Bialis Veronica Selver Veronica Selver is an Oakland-based filmmaker and editor whose own work focuses on social issue documentaries. Series Special Screenings 2024 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Art Tours Sunday, February 4, 2024 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 5 PM By Hook or by Crook Film In-Person Sunday, February 4, 2024 5 PM By Hook or by Crook Harry Dodge, Silas Howard , United States, 2001, (104 mins) Two unconventional grifters join forces and learn the true meaning of poise under pressure in this gorgeously antiauthoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption cowritten and codirected by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard. 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. Jenni Olson Introduction Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	5	6	7 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Little Dieter Needs to Fly Film In-Person Wednesday, February 7, 2024 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Little Dieter Needs to Fly Werner Herzog, France, Germany, United Kingdom, 1997, Lecture & Screening Little Dieter Needs to Fly also screens Sunday, February 11 (without lecture). Werner Herzog accompanies a Vietnam War POW back to the jungles of Laos to relive his imprisonment and torture in this award-winning documentary. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Michael Fox Lecture Michael Fox is a film critic and journalist for KQED’s Arts and Culture blog. He is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle and an inductee of SFFILM’s Essential SF. Series In Focus: Werner Herzog and the Documentary Form Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Richland Closed Captioned Film In-Person Wednesday, February 7, 2024 7 PM Richland Irene Lusztig, United States, 2023, (93 mins) Closed captioned Irene Lusztig’s portrait of Richland, Washington, contrasts the city’s uncannily idyllic surface with the murderous history and lies on which it was built. This is a trenchant accounting of the human and environmental price paid for a “good life.” Irene Lusztig In Person Series Documentary Voices 2024 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8 7 PM Drylongso Film In-Person Thursday, February 8, 2024 7 PM Drylongso Cauleen Smith, United States, 1998, (101 mins) “An enduringly rich work of DIY filmmaking, Drylongso remains a resonant and visionary examination of violence (and its reverberations), friendship, and gender” (Film at Lincoln Center). With two short films, The Changing Same and Lessons in Semaphore. In Conversation Cauleen Smith Brandi Thompson Summers Brandi Thompson Summers is associate professor of Geography at UC Berkeley. Series Cauleen Smith—In Space, In Time Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Friday, February 9, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Short Films: Black Echoes and Imperatives Film In-Person Friday, February 9, 2024 7 PM Short Films: Black Echoes and Imperatives (73 mins) This is a program of ten films that weave together multiple styles into portraits of people and places, both real and imagined, from renowned activists and artistic visionaries to the filmmaker herself. In Conversation Cauleen Smith Steve Anker Steve Anker is the guest curator of Cauleen Smith—In Space, In Time. Series Cauleen Smith—In Space, In Time Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10 Throughout the Day slow dark dances Performance Saturday, February 10, 2024 Throughout the Day slow dark dances Dance performances that creatively embody the ideas explored in Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times. Included with gallery admission. Series Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times Google Calendar ICS 11 AM Morning Program: Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism In-Person Saturday, February 10, 2024 11 AM Morning Program: Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism The morning program of Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times features Debarati Sanyal, Judith Butler, and Claudia Rankine. Morning and afternoon sessions are free and ticketed separately. Tickets are required for each session. Tickets are free, limited to two per person, and must be claimed by 10 minutes before the start of each session. Tickets that are not claimed 10 minutes prior to the start of the event will be released. (Please note: the 7 PM screening of Sorry to Bother You is a separately ticketed film program and is sold out.) Series Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 11:30 AM Gallery + Studio: Take Flight! Activity Art Families Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:30 AM Gallery + Studio: Take Flight! For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s) Tap into the playful spirit of Niki de Saint-Phalle’s sculpture to imagine and create your own bird-inspired artwork. Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under Rivka Valérie Louissaint Workshop led by Rivka Valérie Louissaint is a Haitian cultural worker currently based in Oakland, a 2022 graduate of UC Berkeley’s MFA program, and a 2022–24 Gerado Marín Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of San Series Family Events 2024 Google Calendar ICS 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Saturday, February 10, 2024 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Roundtable Reading: The Girl Who Built a Spider by George Brewington Families Reading Saturday, February 10, 2024 2 PM Roundtable Reading: The Girl Who Built a Spider by George Brewington Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s) Three young inventors are offered the chance to work at Dr. Flax’s laboratory, where dazzling science, new friendships, and killer robots await. Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under Adoria Williams Reading led by former librarian, Berkeley Unified School District Series Family Events 2024 Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Afternoon Program: Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism In-Person Saturday, February 10, 2024 2 PM Afternoon Program: Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism The afternoon program of Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times features Amir Aziz, Lisa Armstrong, Ronald Rael, and Luanne Redeye. Morning and afternoon sessions are free and ticketed separately. Tickets are required for each session. Tickets are free, limited to two per person, and must be claimed by 10 minutes before the start of each session. Tickets that are not claimed 10 minutes prior to the start of the event will be released. (Please note: the 7 PM screening of Sorry to Bother You is a separately ticketed film program and is sold out.) Series Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Sorry to Bother You Closed Captioned Film In-Person Saturday, February 10, 2024 7 PM Sorry to Bother You Boots Riley, United States, 2018, (112 mins) Copresented with UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, in conjunction with Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times Closed Captions Surrealism meets satire in Oakland. Boots Riley’s black comedy chronicles a hapless telemarketer whose sudden burgeoning success in the workplace is directly proportional to his alienation from his coworkers, his girlfriend, and himself. 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. In Conversation Boots Riley Darieck Scott Darieck Scott is a professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley. Series Special Screenings 2024 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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11 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Sunday, February 11, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Short Films: Epochal Cultures—Chicago and New Orleans Film In-Person Sunday, February 11, 2024 2 PM Short Films: Epochal Cultures—Chicago and New Orleans (89 mins) Cauleen Smith portrays two vital Black urban cultures, Chicago and New Orleans, through several short fantasy and documentary films that are largely imbued with local music and that focus on creative personalities and locations vital to these great cities. In-Theater Livestream Conversation Cauleen Smith Steve Anker Steve Anker is the guest curator of Cauleen Smith—In Space, In Time. Series Cauleen Smith—In Space, In Time Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Art Tours Sunday, February 11, 2024 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Little Dieter Needs to Fly Film Sunday, February 11, 2024 5 PM Little Dieter Needs to Fly Werner Herzog, France, Germany, United Kingdom, 1997, (80 mins) Little Dieter Needs to Fly also screens Wednesday, February 7 as an In Focus lecture and screening program. Werner Herzog accompanies a Vietnam War POW back to the jungles of Laos to relive his imprisonment and torture in this award-winning documentary. Series Infinite Horizons: The Films of Werner Herzog Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Good Morning Film Sunday, February 11, 2024 7 PM Good Morning Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1959, (93 mins) Yasujiro Ozu’s “bad boys” strike again! This reworking of I Was Born, But . . . is a genial comedy of manners centered around an icon of 1950s domesticity: the television set. Series Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	12	13	14 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Art Tours Wednesday, February 14, 2024 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft Film In-Person Wednesday, February 14, 2024 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft Werner Herzog, France, United Kingdom, United States, 2022, Lecture & Screening Werner Herzog's “requiem” for another pair who followed their passions: the globe-trotting husband and wife volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who filmed hundreds of hours of astonishing footage of volcanoes. “This is a radical filmmaker acknowledging two kindred spirits. . . . Solemn, sparse, and hypnotic” (Film Stage). 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Michael Fox Lecture Michael Fox is a film critic and journalist for KQED’s Arts and Culture blog. He is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle and an inductee of SFFILM’s Essential SF. Series In Focus: Werner Herzog and the Documentary Form Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Skip Norman: Collaborations Film In-Person Wednesday, February 14, 2024 7 PM Skip Norman: Collaborations (77 mins) Deeply collaborative, and with a political alignment that extended from the classroom to the streets, the work produced by the inaugural (1966) cohort of the DFFB rallied against the injustices they saw around them. With films by Harun Farocki, Helke Sander, and others. Deniz Göktürk Introduction Deniz Göktürk is Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley. Series Skip Norman Here and There Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15 7 PM Black God, White Devil Film Thursday, February 15, 2024 7 PM Black God, White Devil Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1964, (120 mins) Digital Restoration “Steeped in history, myth, religion, and politics, and suffused with the feverish intensity of the blistering desert, Black God, White Devil is one of the Cinema Novo movement’s most uncompromising statements on current social issues as well as the universal problem of mindless fanaticism” (Janus Films). Series Special Screenings 2024 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 11:30 AM, 2 PM Reclamation Poetry Gathering: Fellows Reading Art Reading Friday, February 16, 2024 11:30 AM, 2 PM Reclamation Poetry Gathering: Fellows Reading This event is presented by the Arts Research Center, generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation, and cosponsored by BAMPFA. A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an ocean-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary, features nineteen poetry fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program. Included with gallery admission Series Readings Google Calendar ICS 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Friday, February 16, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Floating Weeds Film Friday, February 16, 2024 7 PM Floating Weeds Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1959, (119 mins) Digital Restoration Glorious color photography by Kazuo Miyagawa brings new intensity to this remake of Yasujiro Ozu’s 1934 story about a traveling actor encountering his illegitimate son. Series Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Saturday, February 17, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM Reclamation Poetry Gathering: Natalie Diaz, Craig Santos Perez, and Beth Piatote Art Reading Saturday, February 17, 2024 1:30 PM Reclamation Poetry Gathering: Natalie Diaz, Craig Santos Perez, and Beth Piatote This event is presented by the Arts Research Center, generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation, and cosponsored by BAMPFA. Writers who draw upon Indigenous languages and aesthetics—Natalie Diaz (Mojave), Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru), and Beth Piatote (Nez Perce)—gather to read from their work. Included with gallery admission Series Readings Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM The Aggressives Film In-Person Saturday, February 17, 2024 4:30 PM The Aggressives Daniel Peddle, United States, 2005, (72 mins) This vibrant documentary follows an array of butches, studs, and masc folks of color from the New York City ballroom and nightlife scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s. 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. In Conversation Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Fresh “Lev” White Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. Series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Masc—The Shorts Film In-Person Saturday, February 17, 2024 7 PM Masc—The Shorts (81 mins) This celebration of gender nonconforming heroes also showcases a powerful batch of cinematic rarities starring the butch dykes and transmasc pioneers of the early 1990s who blazed the trail for us today (plus a rare 1960s butch home movie treat!). 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. In Conversation Bret Parker Pete Barma Stafford Sophie Constantinou Jude Dry Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG Series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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18 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Sunday, February 18, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 1 PM February: Intro to Risograph with Alayna Tinney Art Workshop Sunday, February 18, 2024 1 PM February: Intro to Risograph with Alayna Tinney Workshop is full. Join local artist and Art Lab facilitator Alayna Tinney for a beginner-friendly dive into risograph printing. Workshop is full. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Late Autumn Film Sunday, February 18, 2024 2 PM Late Autumn Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1960, (128 mins) Coming full circle from Late Spring, Setsuko Hara plays a widowed mother pushing her unwilling daughter to marry. “Exquisite and not to be missed” (New Republic). Series Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Art Tours Sunday, February 18, 2024 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Rescue Dawn Film Sunday, February 18, 2024 4:30 PM Rescue Dawn Werner Herzog, United States, 2006, (126 mins) This big-budget Hollywood retelling of Werner Herzog’s documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly stars Christian Bale as a German immigrant–turned–fighter pilot who overcomes torture and starvation as a POW in Laos during the Vietnam War. “Less so Herzog selling out, than Hollywood buying in” (New Yorker). Series Infinite Horizons: The Films of Werner Herzog Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	19	20	21 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Grizzly Man Film In-Person Wednesday, February 21, 2024 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Grizzly Man Werner Herzog, United States, 2005, Lecture & Screening The film that “turned [Werner] Herzog’s distinctive Bavarian accent into a pop culture phenomenon” (IndieWire), Grizzly Man investigates the life and death of Timothy Treadwell, who lived with—and was killed by—bears. Herzog used and mused over Treadwell’s video footage for this memorable essay on nature, both human and wild. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Michael Fox Lecture Michael Fox is a film critic and journalist for KQED’s Arts and Culture blog. He is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle and an inductee of SFFILM’s Essential SF. Series In Focus: Werner Herzog and the Documentary Form Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM I Heard It Through the Grapevine Film In-Person Wednesday, February 21, 2024 7 PM I Heard It Through the Grapevine Dick Fontaine, Pat Hartley, United States, 1982, (102 mins) New Digital Restoration Dick Fontaine’s record of James Baldwin’s 1980 journey to visit the sites and speak with fellow survivors of the civil rights movement, I Heard It Through the Grapevine remains a timely and layered interrogation of American history. With Sedat Pakay’s portrait of Baldwin in Istanbul. Stephen Best Introduction Stephen Best is Director of The Townsend Center for the Humanities and a professor of English and Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices 2024 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Modest Livelihood with Live Score Art Performance Wednesday, February 21, 2024 7:30 PM Modest Livelihood with Live Score Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Duane Linklater: mymothersside A screening of the silent film Modest Livelihood, by Duane Linklater and Brian Jungen, is accompanied by a new score performed by a trio of local musicians. The score is written by eagles with eyes closed, a musical project consisting of Duane Linklater and Tobias Linklater, exploring the generative experience of watching films together as intergenerational collaborators, father and son, and two Indigenous artists. Space is limited. Tickets required. Series Performances Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 7 PM Skip Norman: On Africa and in DC Film In-Person Thursday, February 22, 2024 7 PM Skip Norman: On Africa and in DC (96 mins) Made after his graduation from film school in Berlin, these three essay films reflect Skip Norman’s rigorous commitment to the analysis of Black disenfranchisement in both the United States and Africa. Alexandra Gessesse Introduction Alexandra Gessesse is a doctoral student in the Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. Series Skip Norman Here and There Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Friday, February 23, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Vishniac Film Friday, February 23, 2024 4 PM Vishniac Laura Bialis, United States, 2023, (93 mins) Copresented with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life Vishniac also screens Sunday, February 4 (with in-person guests). BAMPFA partners with The Magnes to host the East Bay Premiere of Vishniac, Laura Bialis’s new portrait of famed photographer Roman Vishniac’s life and work. Series Special Screenings 2024 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The End of Summer Film Friday, February 23, 2024 7 PM The End of Summer Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1961, (103 mins) Imported 35mm Print This chronicle of a sake-brewing family combines humorous touches with an acute awareness of mortality. “One of [Yasujiro] Ozu’s most beautiful films, it is one of his most disturbing” (Donald Richie). Series Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Saturday, February 24, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 11:30 AM Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros Film Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:30 AM Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros Frederick Wiseman, France, United States, 2023, (240 mins) Esteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest is a food lover’s heaven—a long, behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of France’s venerable restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades. 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 Series Special Screenings 2024 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Queen of the Desert Film Saturday, February 24, 2024 4 PM Queen of the Desert Werner Herzog, United States, 2015, (128 mins) Nicole Kidman, James Franco, and Robert Pattinson star in Werner “Herzog’s feminist version of Lawrence of Arabia” (Independent), which follows the amazing journey of Gertrude Bell from English high society to archeologist and political specialist of the Arab world and advisor to Middle Eastern rulers. Series Infinite Horizons: The Films of Werner Herzog Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Bushman Film Saturday, February 24, 2024 7 PM Bushman David Schickele, United States, 1971, (140 mins) Open Captions Bushman also screens Saturday, February 3 (with in-person guests). BAMPFA presents the recently completed restoration of Bushman, directed by Bay Area independent filmmaker David Schickele. Paired with Schickele’s earlier film Give Me a Riddle. Series Preservation Spotlight: David Schickele’s Bushman Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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25 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Sunday, February 25, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 2 PM An Autumn Afternoon Film Sunday, February 25, 2024 2 PM An Autumn Afternoon Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1962, (113 mins) Chishu Ryu once again plays a widowed father planning to marry off his daughter in Yasujiro Ozu’s beautiful, bittersweet last film. “Quietly tears your heart to pieces” (Terence Davies). Series Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Art Tours Sunday, February 25, 2024 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Duane Linklater: mymothersside Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Shinjuku Boys Film In-Person Sunday, February 25, 2024 5 PM Shinjuku Boys Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams, United Kingdom, 1995, (53 mins) Shinjuku Boys, an amazing mid-1990s snapshot of AFAB gender identity in Japan, spotlights three onabe who pass as men and work as hosts at a Tokyo club. 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. In Conversation Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG TT Takemoto TT Takemoto is an artist, filmmaker, and scholar exploring hidden dimensions of same sex intimacy and trauma in Asian and Asian American history. Amy Sueyoshi Amy Sueyoshi is currently serving as provost at San Francisco State University. They are a historian by training with expertise at the intersection of queer studies and Asian American studies. Series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic Film In-Person Sunday, February 25, 2024 7 PM Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic Lisa Udelson, United States, 2001, (57 mins) Award-winning Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic follows Jewish butch lesbian folk singer Phranc navigating life as a Tupperware lady. Lisa Udelson In Person Series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26	27	28 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Art Tours Wednesday, February 28, 2024 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM Series Exhibition Tours 2024 Google Calendar ICS 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Into the Abyss Film In-Person Wednesday, February 28, 2024 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Into the Abyss Werner Herzog, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, 2011, (107 mins) Lecture & Screening Werner Herzog’s very first film concept centered on a prison. Decades later, he reflects on a triple murder in a small Texas town through interviews with two men convicted of the killings. As he so often has, Herzog “probes the contradictions of the human heart, in which nobility and savagery are so entwined as to be almost indistinguishable” (A. O. Scott, New York Times). 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Michael Fox Lecture Michael Fox is a film critic and journalist for KQED’s Arts and Culture blog. He is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle and an inductee of SFFILM’s Essential SF. Series In Focus: Werner Herzog and the Documentary Form Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM three sparks Film Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7 PM three sparks Naomi Uman, Albania, Mexico, 2023, (95 mins) Continuing her focus on rural agricultural communities, traditions, and histories, Naomi Uman’s three sparks is a cinematic triptych showing the struggle and beauty of village life in the Albanian highlands. “A quicksilver vision of collective being” (Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer, Screen Slate). Series Documentary Voices 2024 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 7 PM Wilmington 10—U.S.A. 10,000 Film Thursday, February 29, 2024 7 PM Wilmington 10—U.S.A. 10,000 Haile Gerima, United States, 1979, (120 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Centered on the wrongful 1972 imprisonment of nine men and one woman from the North Carolina city of Wilmington—still incarcerated when it was made—Wilmington 10 — U.S.A. 10,000 traces both the background of the accusations and the groundswell of support calling for the release of the accused. Series Skip Norman Here and There Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Friday, March 1, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM That Day, on the Beach Film In-Person Friday, March 1, 2024 7 PM That Day, on the Beach Edward Yang, Taiwan, 1983, (166 mins) New Digital Restoration That Day, on the Beach also screens Saturday, May 3 (without an introduction). Two successful career women meet by chance and flash back to their pasts and paths—and those of Taiwan in the 1980s—in Edward Yang’s first feature, which also marked the debut of legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Sylvia Chang stars. 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. Weihong Bao Introduction Weihong Bao is associate professor in the Department of Film and Media and the Chinese Program of the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley. Series Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	2 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Activity Art Families Saturday, March 2, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 2024 Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops 2024 Google Calendar ICS 11:30 AM Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros Film Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:30 AM Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros Frederick Wiseman, France, United States, 2023, (240 mins) Esteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest is a food lover’s heaven—a long, behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of France’s venerable restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades. 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 Series Special Screenings 2024 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM 48 Film Saturday, March 2, 2024 4 PM 48 Susana de Sousa Dias, Portugal, 2009, (134 mins) Susana de Sousa Dias’s hypnotic film is composed of photographs taken upon the arrest of political prisoners during the forty-eight years of the Portuguese dictatorial regime. With A Story from Africa (Billy Woodberry) and Soldier Playing with Dead Lizard (Daniel Barroca), which also examine historic photographs. Series Tell No Lies: Decolonizing Cinema in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS