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29 4 PM A Man Escaped Film In-Person Sunday, January 29, 2023 4 PM A Man Escaped Robert Bresson, France, 1956, (97 mins) From the true account of a Resistance leader who escaped from a Nazi prison just before he was to be executed, Bresson created a film where the drama is all internal. “Essential viewing” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Joel Coen Introduction Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM A Serious Man Film In-Person Sunday, January 29, 2023 7 PM A Serious Man Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, United States, 2009, (106 mins) Via the existential, moral, and romantic crises of physics professor and family man Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), A Serious Man ponders the limits of human agency, reason, faith, and the meaning of life in the face of an impassive, chaotic universe. 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. In Conversation Joel Coen Eric Karpeles Painter and writer Eric Karpeles explores the relationship between visual and verbal culture in such books as Paintings in Proust and Almost Nothing: The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski. Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	30 6:30 PM Women Talking Film In-Person Monday, January 30, 2023 6:30 PM Women Talking Sarah Polley, United States, 2022, (104 mins) Graced with an extraordinary cast, Polley’s thoughtfully executed adaptation of Miriam Toews’s best-selling novel chronicles a radical “act of female imagination” to consider the healing power of language and what is required to escape systematic criminal abuse in an isolated religious community. In Conversation Frances McDormand Frances McDormand is a producer and member of the cast of Women Talking. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is an associate professor of History at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in African American history, women’s and gender history, and the history of American slavery. Naima Karczmar Naima Karczmar is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, where she works on racial epistemologies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	31	1 7 PM One Among Many: Women Documenting Women Film Wednesday, February 1, 2023 7 PM One Among Many: Women Documenting Women (133 mins) In this selection of documentary and ethnographic films, women filmmakers from Lebanon, Senegal, Tanzania, and the United States employ different stylistic approaches and modes of address to depict women’s experience and work. Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 7 PM Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask Film Thursday, February 2, 2023 7 PM Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask Isaac Julien, United Kingdom, 1995, (70 mins) Combining archival footage, interviews with experts, and stark depictions of the Algerian revolution from The Battle of Algiers with dramatized tableaux to extend theorist Frantz Fanon’s challenge to people of all races, director Julien creates an intellectually provocative portrait of Fanon. Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3 6:30 PM Oki’s Movie Film In-Person Friday, February 3, 2023 6:30 PM Oki’s Movie Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2010, (80 mins) A film school provides the appropriate landscape for this caustic look at cinema, relationships, and points of view. A “casually brilliant feat of storytelling, akin to an ingeniously wrought suite of literary short fiction” (New York Times). Dennis Lim Introduction Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8:30 PM Tale of Cinema Film In-Person Friday, February 3, 2023 8:30 PM Tale of Cinema Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2005, (89 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick A film on two impromptu lovers and their suicide pact turns into another film entirely in Hong’s early deconstruction of narrative, reality, and cinema. “One of the filmmaker’s major touchstones” (New Yorker). Dennis Lim Introduction Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 2 PM Free Film Screening: Amalia Mesa-Bains: In Her Own Worlds Film In-Person Saturday, February 4, 2023 2 PM Free Film Screening: Amalia Mesa-Bains: In Her Own Worlds Amalia Mesa-Bains’s work is deeply concerned with memory and with how art serves as a portal into the cultural histories of Indigenous, Mexican, African diasporic, and multiply gendered communities. In this new film directed by Raymond Telles, the artist reflects on how culture, history, and family memories have informed her art. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 1 PM. Raymond Telles Introduction Raymond Telles is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the artist in residence at UC Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center. Google Calendar ICS 5 PM The Day He Arrives Film In-Person Saturday, February 4, 2023 5 PM The Day He Arrives Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2011, (79 mins) Four characters in search of a drink find themselves in the same bar again and again in Hong’s most Buñuelian take on the desire for human connection. “A soju-fueled cross between Last Year at Marienbad and Groundhog Day” (Artforum). Dennis Lim Introduction Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM The Day After Film In-Person Saturday, February 4, 2023 7:30 PM The Day After Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2017, (91 mins) A literary office is the fitting setting as a philandering middle-aged publisher, his pissed-off wife, and a mystified new office assistant wonder if words can create reality—or take the edge off it anyway. “A lovely, intricately fractured story” (New York Times). Tickets go on sale November 17. Dennis Lim Introduction Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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5 4 PM Your eyes dance hello Film In-Person Sunday, February 5, 2023 4 PM Your eyes dance hello (67 mins) Your eyes dance hello to films of poetry and the poetry of film. Meet beauty in the ghost, forgotten in the dark. These are lyrical lessons of time passing. Once upon a space and splice, almost imperceptible, fragments free fall. Hold them close. In Conversation Adrianne Finelli Adrianne Finelli is an artist and curator and the media technology specialist in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. Jon Shibata Jon Shibata is BAMPFA’s film archivist. Pamela Vadakan Pamela Vadakan is the director of California Revealed, a California State Library initiative that helps cultural heritage organizations digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials docum Series Out of the Vault: Everything’s Ephemeral Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Four White Shirts Film Sunday, February 5, 2023 7 PM Four White Shirts Rolands Kalniņš, Latvia, USSR, 1967, (112 mins) An idealistic singer in a fledgling Latvian rock band fights censorship and indifference in this inventive musical, which earned comparisons to the French New Wave. With Gyula Gazdag’s The Selection, a Hungarian take on the intersection of socialism and rock and roll. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	6	7	8 7 PM The Karrabing Film Collective Film Wednesday, February 8, 2023 7 PM The Karrabing Film Collective (96 mins) The members of the Australian Indigenous media group the Karrabing Film Collective use cell phones and handheld cameras to record daily life in their rural community as a form of grassroots resistance. Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9 7 PM A Place of Rage Film In-Person Thursday, February 9, 2023 7 PM A Place of Rage Pratibha Parmar, United Kingdom, 1991, (90 mins) A fierce and loving assessment of the social movements of the 1960s from the vantage point of the 1990s culture wars, featuring three influential Black feminist intellectuals: Angela Y. Davis, Alice Walker, and June Jordan. Screening with Sari Red and Khush. In Conversation Pratibha Parmar Paola Bacchetta Paola Bacchetta is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. Series Pratibha Parmar in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10 7 PM October 17, 1961 Film Friday, February 10, 2023 7 PM October 17, 1961 Alain Tasma, France, 2005, (106 mins) Inspired by the fiction/documentary blends of such socially committed British filmmakers as Alan Clarke and Ken Loach, and by the incendiary force of The Battle of Algiers, director Tasma reimagines an event that has been shamefully ignored in France’s textbooks, but whose scars still linger. Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	11 5 PM The Power of Kangwon Province Film Saturday, February 11, 2023 5 PM The Power of Kangwon Province Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 1998, (109 mins) The beauty of Korea’s Kangwon vacation hotspot desperately competes with the vainglory of its visitors in Hong’s philosophical diptych on modern love and loneliness. “A coolly bracing drama of the mysterious bonds of lovers” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Right Now, Wrong Then Film Saturday, February 11, 2023 7:30 PM Right Now, Wrong Then Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2015, (121 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick The fine line between love and missed connection is played then replayed in this story of a traveling film director and the young painter he befriends during one long day’s journey into an inevitably soju-tainted evening. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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12 4 PM In Mansourah, You Separated Us Film Sunday, February 12, 2023 4 PM In Mansourah, You Separated Us Dorothée-Myriam Kellou, Algeria, France, 2019, (123 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick French filmmaker Kellou accompanies her father, Malek, on his return home to the village of Mansourah, Algeria, for the first time since his childhood. Mansourah was one of thousands of communities turned into resettlement camps by the French military. With Drowning by Bullets, which reveals a story that quickly died, suppressed by the French government and a complicit press. Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM What Would Happen If . . . ? Film Sunday, February 12, 2023 7 PM What Would Happen If . . . ? Gerhard Klingenberg, German Democratic Republic, 1960, (112 mins) Released the year before the building of the Berlin Wall, this farce imagines the relocation of a village from East to West Germany. With Vlastimil Venclík’s Czech short The Uninvited Guest about a couple confronting—then growing accustomed to—an intruder. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13	14	15 7 PM Yãmĩyhex, The Woman-Spirit Film In-Person Wednesday, February 15, 2023 7 PM Yãmĩyhex, The Woman-Spirit Sueli Maxakali, Isael Maxakali, Brazil, 2019, (97 mins) Yãmĩyhex, The Woman-Spirit is “a film haunted by a myth, inhabited by the careful construction of rituals and celebration, moved by the force of a spiritual bond with every manifestation of life” (Sheffield DocFest). Prerecorded Conversation Sueli Maxakali Isael Maxakali Carolina Canguçu Carolina Canguçu is an assistant director of Yãmĩyhex, The Woman-Spirit. Roberto Romero Roberto Romero is an assistant director of Yãmĩyhex, The Woman-Spirit. Natalia Brizuela Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and a professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. Gustavo Caboco In Person Gustavo Caboco is an artist from the Wapichana people in Brazil. Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 7 PM Play is the work of life Film In-Person Thursday, February 16, 2023 7 PM Play is the work of life (64 mins) Out of the vault and into your heart, we present 16mm projections around the theme of play, featuring junk sculpture, synth jam, ice cream knee, sour face, unsteady cake, sprocket damage, bunny ditty, tree swing, splice pop, and joy. In Conversation Adrianne Finelli Adrianne Finelli is an artist and curator and the media technology specialist in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. Jon Shibata Jon Shibata is BAMPFA’s film archivist. Pamela Vadakan Pamela Vadakan is the director of California Revealed, a California State Library initiative that helps cultural heritage organizations digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials docum Antonella Bonfanti Antonella Bonfanti is the Film Archives Manager at Lucasfilm, and the former BAMPFA Film Collection supervisor. Series Out of the Vault: Everything’s Ephemeral Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17 7 PM Le petit soldat Film Friday, February 17, 2023 7 PM Le petit soldat Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1963, (88 mins) While it deflates the thriller genre with all manner of narrative diversions, Le petit soldat was banned for three years in France for deflating another type of fiction: the myth of French antiterrorist heroism in general, and in particular the idea that antiterrorist groups were “above” using torture. Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	18 5 PM Black Life: An Evening with Paige Taul Film In-Person Saturday, February 18, 2023 5 PM Black Life: An Evening with Paige Taul Black Life is thrilled to welcome Oakland-born filmmaker Paige Taul back to the East Bay for a screening and conversation about her films. Primarily shot on 16 and super 8mm film, her works “engage with and challenge assumptions of Black cultural expression and notions of belonging.” In Conversation Paige Taul ruth gebreyesus ruth gebreyesus, a writer and producer based in the Bay Area, is currently the cocurator of Black Life. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM In Front of Your Face Film Saturday, February 18, 2023 7:30 PM In Front of Your Face Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2021, (85 mins) A former actress returns to Seoul to reconnect with her past. “Intimate and fluid . . . [a] serenely passionate deployment of art as resistance to mortality” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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19 5 PM Algeria, Year Zero Film Sunday, February 19, 2023 5 PM Algeria, Year Zero Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Jean-Pierre Sergent, France, 1962, (68 mins) The groundbreaking documentary Algeria, Year Zero, filmed just months after the end of the war, was initially censored in both Algeria and France. With two rare short films, I Am Eight Years Old, which reveals the effects of the war on refugee children, and Algeria in Flames, wartime footage from the National Liberation Army’s perspective. Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Reenactment Film Sunday, February 19, 2023 7 PM The Reenactment Lucian Pintilie, Romania, 1968, (100 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick The police force two friends to reenact a drunken crime on-screen—with awkward results—in Pintilie’s masterful satire, voted best Romanian film of all time in a poll of Romanian critics. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20	21	22 7 PM Fad’jal Film Wednesday, February 22, 2023 7 PM Fad’jal Safi Faye, Senegal, 1979, (112 mins) In Fad’jal, the groundbreaking Senegalese-French filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye investigates traditions of storytelling through a beautiful portrait of her ancestral farming village. Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23 7 PM My Name Is Andrea Film In-Person Thursday, February 23, 2023 7 PM My Name Is Andrea Pratibha Parmar, United States, 2022, (90 mins) This essential and timely corrective to the understanding and legacy of the late writer and activist Andrea Dworkin, described by John Berger as “perhaps the most misrepresented writer in the Western world,” “traces pivotal moments in the life of a fearless fighter” (Lucy Mukerjee, Tribeca Film Festival). In Conversation Pratibha Parmar Irene Lusztig Irene Lusztig is a filmmaker, archival researcher, amateur seamstress, and professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz. Series Pratibha Parmar in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24 7 PM Caché Film Friday, February 24, 2023 7 PM Caché Michael Haneke, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, 2005, (117 mins) “The mystery behind a series of anonymous videotapes that appear on the doorstep of a middle class Parisian family gradually turns into a metaphor about the First World’s fear of violence it has itself created and then repressed from consciousness” (Deborah Young, Variety). Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	25 12 PM Neutra: Survival Through Design Film In-Person Saturday, February 25, 2023 12 PM Neutra: Survival Through Design PJ Letofsky, United States, 2019, (100 mins) Austrian American architect Richard Neutra (1892–1970) designed 350 buildings around the world and was noted for his vision of environment, ecology, and livability. This information-rich documentary will be of interest to generalists and specialists alike in the areas of twentieth-century architecture and restoration, psychology, and aesthetics. 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 Lisa Heschong Lisa Heschong is an architect and founding principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (HMG), a building science consulting firm, where she led ground-breaking research showing a relationship between dayli Richard Jackson Richard Jackson, MD MPH, is Professor emeritus at the Fielding School of Public Health at the UCLA where he was Department Chair in Environmental Health Sciences. Lindsay Baker As CEO of the International Living Future Institute, Lindsay Baker is the organization’s chief strategist, charged with delivering on its mission to lead the transformation toward a civilization that Raymond Richard Neutra Raymond Richard Neutra, the youngest son of Richard Neutra, will moderate the post-screening panel discussion on the topic of Neutra’s modernist design. PJ Letofsky Introduction PJ Letofsky is the director of Neutra: Survival Through Design. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting Film In-Person Saturday, February 25, 2023 4:30 PM The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting Assia Djebar, Algeria, 1982, (82 mins) Algerian novelist and filmmaker Djebar’s experimental The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting reinterprets French colonial newsreel footage from the period 1912–42, giving voice to those who were once silenced. With The Women, a testament to the call for women’s emancipation in Algeria. Soraya Tlatli Introduction Soraya Tlatli is associate professor, Department of French, UC Berkeley, and a specialist on Francophone literature from North Africa, as well as colonial and postcolonial historiography. Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Asthenic Syndrome Film Saturday, February 25, 2023 7 PM The Asthenic Syndrome Kira Muratova, Ukraine, USSR, 1989, (153 mins) Legendary director Muratova’s demented chronicle of the absurdities and insults of post-glasnost Soviet life takes its title and cues from a psychological condition that alternates between maniacal aggression and apathetic inaction. “A movie that breaks all the rules” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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26 1:30 PM The Undeclared War Film Sunday, February 26, 2023 1:30 PM The Undeclared War Bertrand Tavernier, France, 1992, (247 mins) Digital Restoration Assembled from fifty hours of footage, the film focuses on twenty-eight veterans—all conscripts and of every shade of political conviction. The film’s remarkable power and universality lies in the human dimension of these veterans, as they bring the events of the past to life with searing and enlightening honesty. Presented with a 20-minute intermission Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27	28	1 7 PM Short Films by Alice Diop: Towards Tenderness Film Wednesday, March 1, 2023 7 PM Short Films by Alice Diop: Towards Tenderness Alice Diop, France, 2016, (94 mins) Born in France to Senegalese parents, Alice Diop (Saint Omer) brings a unique perspective to migrant and Black diaspora experience. Influenced by Jean Rouch and Frederick Wiseman, she makes films that bring those on the periphery to the center. Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 7 PM Tukdam: Between Worlds Film In-Person Thursday, March 2, 2023 7 PM Tukdam: Between Worlds Donagh Coleman , Estonia, Finland, Ireland, 2022, (91 mins) Copresented with the Center for Buddhist Studies and the UC Berkeley Anthropology Department, cosponsored by the Institute for South Asia Studies and the Himalayan Studies Initiative In what Tibetans call tukdam, deceased meditators have shown no signs of death for days or weeks. Juxtaposing ground-breaking scientific research and Tibetan perspectives, this creative documentary challenges our notion of life and death—and where we draw the line between them. 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 Donagh Coleman Donagh Coleman is a Finnish-Irish-American filmmaker whose award-winning films have received wide international festival and television distribution, with shows at museums like the Museum of Modern Ar David Perlman David Perlman, PhD worked ten years in neuroscientist Richie Davidson’s lab, where he designed and managed the first phase of the Tukdam research project. Jacob Dalton Jacob Dalton is a professor of Tibetan Studies in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	3 7 PM The Watermelon Woman Film In-Person Friday, March 3, 2023 7 PM The Watermelon Woman Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1996, (81 mins) New Restoration BAMPFA Student Committee Pick A Black lesbian video store clerk and would-be filmmaker becomes obsessed with an early “race film” star in Dunye’s pioneering “funky screwball comedy in the key of queer” (B. Ruby Rich). Allegra Madsen Introduction Allegra Madsen is the director of programming at Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest and longest-running queer film festival in the world. Series Pioneers of Queer Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 7 PM My Hustler Film Saturday, March 4, 2023 7 PM My Hustler Andy Warhol, Chuck Wein, United States, 1965, (112 mins) Warhol’s brilliantly bitchy masterpiece of voyeurism, desire, and boredom on Fire Island. With shorts by Curt McDowell (Confessions), James Broughton (Testament), and José Rodriguez-Soltero (Jerovi). Series Pioneers of Queer Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS