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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, January 29, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, January 29, 2023
1 PM
Come take inspiration from a selection of works from the Floss Editions archive, and create your own single-page, eight-fold zine to be printed on-site using the Art Lab’s risograph machine.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
Sunday, January 29, 2023
2 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
4 PM
Sunday, January 29, 2023
4 PM
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.
Series
Joel Coen in Person
7 PM
Sunday, January 29, 2023
7 PM
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
Series
Joel Coen in Person
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6:30 PM
Monday, January 30, 2023
6:30 PM
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
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
12:30 PM
Join BSC Elder in Residence Daphne Muse, panelists Cheryl and Wade Hudson, Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs, Dr. Ajuan Mance, and moderators Professor Leigh Raiford and Abigail Simmons for a conversation on the legacy of Black children’s literature and the writers who continue telling stories that tap into the imagination and pay homage to Black futures.
Free and open to the public 7 PM
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
7 PM
(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
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4—7 PM
Thursday, February 2, 2023
4—7 PM
Silkscreen, long the commercial technique used for textile patterns and T-shirt designs, came to the fore in the 1960s with its wide adoption by Pop artists, anti-war activists, and psychedelic poster makers.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Series
Five Tables
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, February 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, February 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
 For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff
BAMPFA members enjoy exclusive preview access to Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Thursday and Friday, February 2 and 3.
Exclusive to BAMPFA member and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff. Thursday, February 2, 2023
12 PM
 Webinar only.
What does a contemporary form such as video art have to say to the classic forms of seventeenth-century Dutch painting? Bart Rutten asked such questions and more in his recent exhibition Double Act by pairing Dutch masters with selected works of video art. Here he discusses his curatorial principles and how he found formal, political, and thematic correspondences amongst artists separated by three centuries.
Webinar only.
Series
Video Art in Context
7 PM
Thursday, February 2, 2023
7 PM
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.
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11 AM–7 PM
Friday, February 3, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff
BAMPFA members enjoy exclusive preview access to Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory Thursday and Friday, February 2 and 3.
Exclusive to BAMPFA member and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff. 2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 3, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
6:30 PM
Friday, February 3, 2023
6:30 PM
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).
8:30 PM
Friday, February 3, 2023
8:30 PM
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).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Celebrate the opening of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory with free admission to the public.
11:30 AM–2 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023
11:30 AM–2 PM
Make art inspired by Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory with local artist Rebeca Flores. / Haz arte inspirado en la exposición, Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, con la artista Rebeca Flores.
Included with admission.
Series
Family Events
2 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023
2 PM
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.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
3 PM
Join cocurators María Esther Fernández and Laura Pérez—who organized this major retrospective exhibition of the work of renowned artist, scholar, and curator Amalia Mesa-Bains—for an insightful talk about the artist’s work in BAMPFA’s galleries.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
5 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023
5 PM
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).
7:30 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023
7:30 PM
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.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 5, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 5, 2023
2 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
4 PM
Sunday, February 5, 2023
4 PM
(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
7 PM
Sunday, February 5, 2023
7 PM
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.
7:30 PM
Sunday, February 5, 2023
7:30 PM
 Programmed by MK Chavez
Coraza performs. Poets Rachelle Escamilla, Lourdes Figueroa, and Leticia Hernández-Linares pay homage to love.
Space for Full performances is limited.
Series
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
12:30 PM
Black people’s care for one another in universities can be life-giving, yet the conditions in which Black people perform this labor can be coercive and detrimental to those who care. Caleb Dawson, Adia Harvey Wingfield, and Bianca C. Williams interrogate the costs that Black people face for caring in the university and imagine freedom from these conditions.
Free and open to the public 7 PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
7 PM
(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
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Thursday, February 9, 2023
12 PM
Where is the stage, and who is watching? NIC Kay re-creates video editing effects like glitches, rewinding, freeze frame, and overlay choreographically across various mediums. These undisciplined performances are inspired by the playfulness and immediacy of sharing video content online. NIC uses these works to explore the troubled relationships between the Black performer, the camera/video, and the audience/viewers.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
7 PM
Thursday, February 9, 2023
7 PM
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
Series
Pratibha Parmar in Person
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 10, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, February 10, 2023
7 PM
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.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 11, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
11:30 AM
Saturday, February 11, 2023
11:30 AM
 For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars, re-create a family story or memory in a miniature altar of your own.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
2 PM
Saturday, February 11, 2023
2 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
The five Vanderbeeker children have eleven days to convince their landlord, Mr. Beiderman, to let them stay in the only home they’ve ever known. All is fair in love and war when it comes to keeping their home!
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
5 PM
Saturday, February 11, 2023
5 PM
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).
7:30 PM
Saturday, February 11, 2023
7:30 PM
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.
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12 PM
Sunday, February 12, 2023
12 PM
Join Karen Moss, guest curator of by Alison Knowles, for a special Curator's Talk marking the closing day of by Alison Knowles. Art historians and catalogue essayists Lucia Fabio, Hannah Higgins and Nicole Woods will also participate.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
1 PM–7 PM
Sunday, February 12, 2023
1 PM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, February 12, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
Sunday, February 12, 2023
3 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
4 PM
Sunday, February 12, 2023
4 PM
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.
7 PM
Sunday, February 12, 2023
7 PM
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.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Guided Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
7 PM
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
Series
Documentary Voices
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Thursday, February 16, 2023
12 PM
Ken Ueno’s somatic films (and secret meridians—a Uenoian term for temporally specific video captures) extend his practice as a musician and performer, a practice that resists the neoliberal surveillance mode that datafies our bodies. Datafication flattens ontologies, whereas Ueno champions the unique experience of each individual life as sacred.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
7 PM
Thursday, February 16, 2023
7 PM
(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
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 17, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, February 17, 2023
7 PM
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.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 18, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Saturday, February 18, 2023
1 PM
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s artworks, spanning a range of formats and media, resonate in contemporary formal terms and in their ties to her Chicana/o community and history. Scholars Jennifer González and Adriana Zavala and artist Sandy Rodriguez join Mesa-Bains for an expanded conversation in response to these themes and other ideas in her work.
Included with admisison
Series
Talks & Conversations
1 PM
Saturday, February 18, 2023
1 PM
Make finger puppets with guest artist Maya Noga Djiji. In this workshop, we will use fabric, yarn, buttons, needles, and thread to create little finger characters that can be simple or intricate depending on the student’s level.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
5 PM
Saturday, February 18, 2023
5 PM
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
7:30 PM
Saturday, February 18, 2023
7:30 PM
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).
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