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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
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5 5 PM Out of the Vault: Dead Birds Film In-Person Sunday, March 5, 2023 5 PM Out of the Vault: Dead Birds Robert Gardner, United States, 1964, (98 mins) One of the most influential ethnographic films of the 1960s, Dead Birds is director Robert Gardner’s interpretation of life among the Dani people of West Papua. With shorts from his Baliem Valley 1961 series. Ernst Karel Introduction Ernst Karel works in the area of reality-based audio, including sound recording, electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound c Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	6	7	8 7 PM Expedition Content Film In-Person Wednesday, March 8, 2023 7 PM Expedition Content Ernst Karel, Veronika Kusumaryati , United States, 2020, (97 mins) This fascinating sonic ethnography, which draws on the audio archive from Robert Gardner’s 1961 expedition to West Papua, is “a mind-expanding inquiry on anthropology” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times). Ernst Karel In Person Ernst Karel works in the area of reality-based audio, including sound recording, electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound c Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9 7 PM William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible Film Thursday, March 9, 2023 7 PM William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible Susan Sollins, Charles Atlas, United States, 2010, (77 mins) The 2010 documentary William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible offers an excellent orientation to the artist’s work. Paired with six short films by William Kentridge, including his early films, collaborations, and Journey to the Moon, a tribute to the seminal French filmmaker Georges Méliès. Series Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10 7 PM Cemetery of Splendor Film Friday, March 10, 2023 7 PM Cemetery of Splendor Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom, 2015, (127 mins) A strange sleeping sickness befalls a group of soldiers in Weerasethakul’s mesmeric treatise on dreams, history, and magical thinking. “Cinema as the stuff dreams are made of” (Slant Magazine). With The Anthem. Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	11 7 PM Drawings for Projection Film Saturday, March 11, 2023 7 PM Drawings for Projection (83 mins) Drawings for Projection is a central project of William Kentridge’s career. The series of eleven animated films, which the artist has been working on for more than thirty years, follows two characters, Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitelbaum, and deals with themes of self-portraiture, memory, loss, cultural displacement, and political oppression. Series Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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12	13	14	15 7 PM Mamá Film Wednesday, March 15, 2023 7 PM Mamá Xun Sero, Mexico, 2022, (80 mins) Mexican Tzotzil filmmaker Xun Sero’s Mamá is “an extraordinarily sensitive first film where both mother and son open a dialogue in an attempt at self-discovery” (HotDocs). In-Theater Livestream Conversation Xun Sero 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. Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 7 PM The Nose Film Free Thursday, March 16, 2023 7 PM The Nose William Kentridge, United States, 2013, (121 mins) Free Admission “Using the Met stage as it is rarely used, [William] Kentridge establishes from the outset a vigorously multidimensional environment, defined in equal measure by verticals and horizontals, by flat graphic surfaces and the deep space of the rear stage. . . . If Kentridge’s Nose was so immensely satisfying it was at least in part because of its deep connection to the inexorable, irrational logic of Gogol’s tale” (Geoffrey O’Brien, New York Review of Books). Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6 PM. Series Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge Google Calendar ICS	17 7 PM Working Girls Film In-Person Friday, March 17, 2023 7 PM Working Girls Lizzie Borden, United States, 1986, (91 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick Sidestepping clichéd approaches to sex work perpetuated by mainstream films—which fetishize, romanticize, and/or pathologize prostitution—Lizzie Borden matter-of-factly documents the details of a day in the life of a sex worker at a Manhattan brothel. Lizzie Borden In Person Series Lizzie Borden’s New York Feminisms Trilogy Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	18 4:30 PM Oriana Film Saturday, March 18, 2023 4:30 PM Oriana Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Puerto Rico, 2022, (101 mins) In Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s most recent film, Monique Wittig’s experimental novel Les Guérillères is transported to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. With shorts by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Mouth to Mouth) and Vivienne Dick (Staten Island). Series Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later / Monique Wittig: Vingt ans après Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Born in Flames Film In-Person Saturday, March 18, 2023 7:30 PM Born in Flames Lizzie Borden, United States, 1983, (80 mins) Restored 35mm Print “This explosive work offers a speculative, feminist polemic set in a potential future that mirrors both the present in which it was made and ours. . . . [Lizzie] Borden’s fevered 1983 film is absolutely one we should be watching right now” (Yasmina Price, Vulture). In Conversation Lizzie Borden Mel Y. Chen Mel Y. Chen is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley and Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. Series Lizzie Borden’s New York Feminisms Trilogy Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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19 4 PM Regrouping Film In-Person Sunday, March 19, 2023 4 PM Regrouping Lizzie Borden, United States, 1976, (80 mins) New Restoration “Combative, entropic, mesmerizing, Lizzie Borden’s first film, the shape-shifting documentary Regrouping, is a chronicle of a women’s collective” (Melissa Anderson, 4Columns). Lizzie Borden In Person Series Lizzie Borden’s New York Feminisms Trilogy Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Parting Glances Film Sunday, March 19, 2023 7 PM Parting Glances Bill Sherwood, United States, 1986, (129 mins) New Restoration BAMPFA Student Committee Pick Several friends and lovers navigate friendship and romance in this joyful, independent look at gay life and love. A snapshot of a funky, proud, defiantly gay 1986 New York City. With shorts by Jim Hubbard (Memento Mori) and Peggy Rajski (Trevor). Series Pioneers of Queer Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20	21	22 7 PM And when I die, I won’t stay dead Film In-Person Wednesday, March 22, 2023 7 PM And when I die, I won’t stay dead Billy Woodberry, Portugal, United States, 2015, (110 mins) Billy Woodberry’s “daring and accomplished documentary” (New Yorker) of Bob Kaufman, one of the most overlooked of the Beat Generation artists, is lovingly assembled from archival footage, documents, and interviews. With an homage to Ousmane Sembène’s Black Docker. Billy Woodberry In Person Les Blank Lecturer Series Out of the Vault: Billy Woodberry in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23 7 PM Mysterious Object at Noon Film Thursday, March 23, 2023 7 PM Mysterious Object at Noon Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2000, (132 mins) A film crew heads from Bangkok to the hinterlands of Thailand, asking people to continue improvising a story in this bewitching relocation of the surrealist exquisite corpse game. “Rarely has a first feature been more aptly titled” (Dennis Lim). With Worldly Desires. Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24 7 PM Showing Up Audio Description Closed Captioned Film In-Person Friday, March 24, 2023 7 PM Showing Up Kelly Reichardt, United States, 2022, (108 mins) Closed captioned Audio description Michelle Williams stars as a grad student/sculptor balancing work, life, and art making at a small liberal arts college in Portland. Costarring André “3000” Benjamin and Hong Chau. “Beautifully crafted” (Screen International). 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. Kelly Reichardt In Person Series Kelly Reichardt in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	25 4:30 PM Short Films by William Kentridge: Variations Film Saturday, March 25, 2023 4:30 PM Short Films by William Kentridge: Variations (79 mins) This eclectic set of short films relates in part to William Kentridge’s work for theater, opera, and gallery installation, while displaying the importance of variations in his artistic practice and themes related to South African and world history, language, science, and the arts. Series Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM First Cow Audio Description Closed Captioned Film In-Person Saturday, March 25, 2023 7 PM First Cow Kelly Reichardt, United States, 2019, (121 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick Closed captioned Audio description An itinerant cook and a Chinese immigrant in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest embark on an unlikely bovine-related business venture in this reinvention of Old West mythos, populated by those too often written out of its history. “A fable of land and freedom” (Observer UK). 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 Kelly Reichardt Nicolás Pereda Nicolás Pereda is a filmmaker and assistant professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Kelly Reichardt in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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26 12:30 PM Lulu Film Free Sunday, March 26, 2023 12:30 PM Lulu 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 Series Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Certain Women Closed Captioned Film Sunday, March 26, 2023 5 PM Certain Women Kelly Reichardt, United States, 2016, (107 mins) Closed captioned 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. Series Kelly Reichardt in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27	28	29 7 PM Bless Their Little Hearts Film In-Person Wednesday, March 29, 2023 7 PM Bless Their Little Hearts 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. Billy Woodberry In Person Series Out of the Vault: Billy Woodberry in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30 7 PM Tropical Malady Film Thursday, March 30, 2023 7 PM Tropical Malady 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). Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	31 7 PM Meek’s Cutoff Film Friday, March 31, 2023 7 PM Meek’s Cutoff 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. Series Kelly Reichardt in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 7 PM Brief Encounters Film Saturday, April 1, 2023 7 PM Brief Encounters 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. Series Odessa’s Uncompromising Eccentric: The Films of Kira Muratova Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS