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26 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, March 26, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 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 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Sunday, March 26, 2023 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Certain Women Film Sunday, March 26, 2023 5 PM Certain Women 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. Series Kelly Reichardt in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27	28	29 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, March 29, 2023 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 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 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, March 31, 2023 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 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. Tickets go on sale February 9. Series Kelly Reichardt in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, April 1, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 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
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2 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, April 2, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 12:30 PM The Magic Flute Film Free Sunday, April 2, 2023 12:30 PM The Magic Flute 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. Series Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Animation Crafts Activity In-Person Workshop Sunday, April 2, 2023 1 PM Animation Crafts 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 Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Sunday, April 2, 2023 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives Film In-Person Sunday, April 2, 2023 4:30 PM Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives 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 Mariposa Film Group Members Series Pioneers of Queer Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3	4	5 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, April 5, 2023 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 12:30 PM In White Supremacy, Black Trauma and Healing Justice as a Liberatory Practice Free Wednesday, April 5, 2023 12:30 PM In White Supremacy, Black Trauma and Healing Justice as a Liberatory Practice 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 Series Black Studies Open University Register Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Eami Film In-Person Wednesday, April 5, 2023 7 PM Eami 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. Paz Encina In Person Series Documentary Voices Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Full: Radical Divination In-Person Performance Wednesday, April 5, 2023 7:30 PM Full: Radical Divination Programmed by Sean Carson Composer and visual artist Gino Robair presents Radical Divination, his “opera of augury through papermaking.” During this event, papermakers create—using performative, game-based structures—a score for an operatic work. That score then serves as a platform for interpretation by an ensemble of musicians and dancers. Space for Full performance is limited. Series Full Google Calendar ICS	6 4 - 7 PM Five Tables of Time Art In-Person Thursday, April 6, 2023 4 - 7 PM Five Tables of Time 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 Series Five Tables Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Thursday, April 6, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 12 PM Lynn Hershman Leeson: Video Art and Social Intervention: The Identities, Avatars, and Algorithms of Lynn Hershman Leeson Free Thursday, April 6, 2023 12 PM Lynn Hershman Leeson: Video Art and Social Intervention: The Identities, Avatars, and Algorithms of Lynn Hershman Leeson 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 Claudia Schmuckli Claudia Schmuckli is the inaugural Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Series Video Art in Context Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Thursday, April 6, 2023 1:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Memoria Film In-Person Thursday, April 6, 2023 7 PM Memoria 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. Apichatpong Weerasethakul In Person Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	7 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, April 7, 2023 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 3 PM Apichatpong Weerasethakul Masterclass Film In-Person Friday, April 7, 2023 3 PM Apichatpong Weerasethakul Masterclass (150 mins) Apichatpong Weerasethakul addresses his approach to making moving images for both the cinema and installations and alternative screening spaces. In Conversation Apichatpong Weerasethakul Leila Weefur Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland and a lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM BAMPFA Student Committee FilmFest Film Free In-Person Friday, April 7, 2023 7 PM BAMPFA Student Committee FilmFest Free Admission Join the BAMPFA Student Committee for their annual festival showcasing short films made by students in Berkeley and the wider Bay Area. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 5 PM. Student Filmmakers In Person Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings Google Calendar ICS	8 1–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, April 8, 2023 1–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 11:30 AM Gallery+Studio: Torn Paper Portraits Activity Art Families In-Person Workshop Saturday, April 8, 2023 11:30 AM Gallery+Studio: Torn Paper Portraits 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 Raphael Noz Workshop led by Raphael Noz holds an MS in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Syndromes and a Century Film In-Person Saturday, April 8, 2023 7 PM Syndromes and a Century 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). In Conversation Apichatpong Weerasethakul Arnika Fuhrmann Arnika Fuhrmann is a professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at Cornell University and the author of Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai C Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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9 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, April 9, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 12 PM Curator’s Talk: Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo on Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World Art In-Person Tours 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 Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Perfume Workshop II: Inquiry and Composition Activity In-Person Workshop Sunday, April 9, 2023 1 PM Perfume Workshop II: Inquiry and Composition Space is limited, RSVP HERE 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. Space is limited Series Workshops RSVP Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Sunday, April 9, 2023 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 3 PM Blissfully Yours Film In-Person Sunday, April 9, 2023 3 PM Blissfully Yours 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). In Conversation Apichatpong Weerasethakul Jean Ma Jean Ma is the author of At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators. Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Long Farewell Film Sunday, April 9, 2023 7 PM The Long Farewell 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) Series Odessa’s Uncompromising Eccentric: The Films of Kira Muratova Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10	11 5:10 PM Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Una’s Lecture Film Free In-Person Tuesday, April 11, 2023 5:10 PM Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Una’s Lecture 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 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Hilton Als Hilton Als is a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and the author of The Women, White Girls, and My Pinup. Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Google Calendar ICS	12 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, April 12, 2023 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 12:30 PM Black Deaf in Arts Free Wednesday, April 12, 2023 12:30 PM Black Deaf in Arts 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 Series Black Studies Open University Register Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby on Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century Reading Wednesday, April 12, 2023 4 PM Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby on Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century 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 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM A Night of Knowing Nothing Film Wednesday, April 12, 2023 7 PM A Night of Knowing Nothing 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 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13 12 PM Danielle Dean: Video Art in Circulation: Implicating the Viewer Free Thursday, April 13, 2023 12 PM Danielle Dean: Video Art in Circulation: Implicating the Viewer 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 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend Film In-Person Thursday, April 13, 2023 7 PM Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend 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. Mimi (Kim) Klausner In Person Series Pioneers of Queer Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, April 14, 2023 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS	15 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, April 15, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM American Sign Language Guided Tour of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Saturday, April 15, 2023 1:30 PM American Sign Language Guided Tour of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Patricia Lessard offers American Sign Language interpretation for a graduate student–led tour of the exhibition. All visitors are welcome. Included with admission Series Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS
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16 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, April 16, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Sunday, April 16, 2023 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 3 PM Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Vanessa Jackson on Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again Art Sunday, April 16, 2023 3 PM Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Vanessa Jackson on Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again 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 Google Calendar ICS	17	18	19 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, April 19, 2023 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 12:30 PM Sacred Larder: Uplifting the Histories and Memories of Traditional Food Preservation Techniques in the Black Community Free Wednesday, April 19, 2023 12:30 PM Sacred Larder: Uplifting the Histories and Memories of Traditional Food Preservation Techniques in the Black Community 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 Series Black Studies Open University Register Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Hide and Seek Film In-Person Wednesday, April 19, 2023 7 PM Hide and Seek 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). Jenni Olson In Person 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 LGB Series Pioneers of Queer Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20 12 PM Rudolf Frieling: Video Art in Circulation: Documentation, Access, and the Role of Media Art Platforms Free Thursday, April 20, 2023 12 PM Rudolf Frieling: Video Art in Circulation: Documentation, Access, and the Role of Media Art Platforms 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 Google Calendar ICS	21 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, April 21, 2023 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS	22 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, April 22, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS
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23 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, April 23, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Sunday, April 23, 2023 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS	24	25	26 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, April 26, 2023 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Film Wednesday, April 26, 2023 7 PM Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 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. Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27 12 PM Shannon Jackson and Greg Niemeyer: Video Art in (Re)Circulation: Recalling our Conversation across the Disciplines Free Thursday, April 27, 2023 12 PM Shannon Jackson and Greg Niemeyer: Video Art in (Re)Circulation: Recalling our Conversation across the Disciplines 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 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Paris Is Burning Film In-Person Thursday, April 27, 2023 7 PM Paris Is Burning 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). 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 LGB Susan Stryker Susan Stryker, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, codirector of Screaming Queens: Series Pioneers of Queer Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, April 28, 2023 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Asthenic Syndrome Film Friday, April 28, 2023 7 PM The Asthenic Syndrome 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). Series Odessa’s Uncompromising Eccentric: The Films of Kira Muratova Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 2 - 5 PM BAMFest 2023 Art In-Person Performance Saturday, April 29, 2023 2 - 5 PM BAMFest 2023 BAMPFA Student Committee event Free admission West Crescent Lawn Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, April 29, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Black Life: Circling the Archive with Filmmakers Dwayne LeBlanc and Tayler Montague Film In-Person Saturday, April 29, 2023 4 PM Black Life: Circling the Archive with Filmmakers Dwayne LeBlanc and Tayler Montague (71 mins) Filmmakers LeBlanc and Montague join Black Life cocurator ruth gebreyesus in person to share their films and discuss influences on their approach to filmmaking. The program also features a 35mm restored print of Charles Burnett’s first film, Several Friends. In Conversation Dwayne LeBlanc Tayler Montague 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 PM The Adventure of Iron Pussy Film Saturday, April 29, 2023 7 PM The Adventure of Iron Pussy 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, whichfollows the exploits of a glamorous transvestite secret agent. Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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30 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, April 30, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 12 PM Lijin Lecture: Tsherin Sherpa on Art from the Himalayas: Past into Present, followed by Above and Below, a documentary about the artist Art In-Person Sunday, April 30, 2023 12 PM Lijin Lecture: Tsherin Sherpa on Art from the Himalayas: Past into Present, followed by Above and Below, a documentary about the artist 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 about Sherpa's life and career. Included with admission Series Talks & Conversations Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Sunday, April 30, 2023 2 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 5 PM The Times of Harvey Milk Film In-Person Sunday, April 30, 2023 5 PM The Times of Harvey Milk 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). Jenni Olson Introduction Queer historian, writer, and filmmaker Jenni Olson is codirector of The Bressan Project, which worked with UCLA on the restoration of Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s Coming Out. Series Pioneers of Queer Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1	2	3 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Wednesday, May 3, 2023 12:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Tongues Untied Film Wednesday, May 3, 2023 7 PM Tongues Untied 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 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 4 - 7 PM Five Tables of Reading Art In-Person Thursday, May 4, 2023 4 - 7 PM Five Tables of Reading 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 Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Thursday, May 4, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Art In-Person Tours Thursday, May 4, 2023 1:15 PM Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory 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 Guided Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Tuner Film Thursday, May 4, 2023 7 PM The Tuner 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). Series Odessa’s Uncompromising Eccentric: The Films of Kira Muratova Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	5 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, May 5, 2023 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Memoria Film Friday, May 5, 2023 7 PM Memoria 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. Series Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	6 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, May 6, 2023 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS