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Out of the Vault: Black Interiors
February 21–April 4, 2019Delve into rarely seen educational, ethnographic, and experimental films from the BAMPFA’s collection with The Black Aesthetic.
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Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction
February 27–July 21, 2019Spanning the entirety of the artist’s career, this exhibition presents a fresh and eye-opening examination of Hans Hofmann’s prolific and innovative artistic practice.
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Afterimage: Ulrike Ottinger
March 1–May 17, 2019The German filmmaker joins us for a weeklong residency. From fantastical feminist fictions to ethnographic explorations, her films reflect a keen and wide-ranging eye for the marvelous.
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March Member Appreciation Month 2019
March 1–31, 2019A full month of members-only events and discounts celebrating you, BAMPFA members!
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Painters Painting
March 1–April 28, 2019Inspired by BAMPFA’s Hans Hofmann retrospective, we screen a selection of exceptional films about painters and painting, from Van Gogh to Basquiat, Giotto to Joan Mitchell.
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African Film Festival 2019
March 2–May 10, 2019This year’s edition of the annual festival highlights the best of both new African cinema and films of the black diaspora, including a two-film tribute to the great Bill Gunn.
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Delphine Seyrig: Resistant Muse
March 8–April 27, 2019A tribute to an actress who contributed her profound intelligence, professional expertise, and sublime beauty to some of the most memorable films of the twentieth century, including Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman and Alain Resnais’s Last Year at Marienbad.
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In Focus: Hirokazu Kore-eda
March 13–April 24, 2019Lecture/Screening Series
This lecture/screening series is a chance to explore the stylistically restrained yet psychologically probing work of one of the most acclaimed directors working today.
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Remembering Nelson Pereira dos Santos
March 15–May 8, 2019A tribute to a founding member of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement, whose fiery but loving dissections of postcolonial society helped put the Global South on the cinematic map.
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GLAS Animation Festival at BAMPFA
March 23–24, 2019Two programs from the GLAS Animation Festival showcase short works by Dennis Tupicoff and Jim Trainor, with the artists in person.
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Art Wall: Carlos Amorales
March 27–October 13, 2019This new commission draws on multiple histories of Mexican muralism, graffiti, and political protest, while reinforcing the importance of social engagement in the present moment.
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Unlimited: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco...
March 27–September 1, 2019Celebrating a major gift of photographs from a pair of local collectors, this exhibition features works by masters of the photographic form, with an emphasis on contemporary work from the Bay Area and around the world.
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Permanent Accusation: Art for Human Rights
April 10–July 14, 2019This presentation of work by Fernando Botero and others asks how art can urge accountability for human rights in ways that the law cannot.
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Looking: The Art of Frederick Hammersley
April 10–June 23, 2019Explore the extraordinary creativity of artist Frederick Hammersley in its full breadth, from painting and photography to computer art, in this exhibition marking a significant recent donation of the artist's work.
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62nd San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
April 11–21, 2019BAMPFA is proud to partner with the San Francisco International Film Festival, an annual global showcase of cinematic discovery and a major cultural event in the Bay Area.
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Boundless: Pema Tseden’s Cinema of Tibet
April 25–May 12, 2019Three films from a leading figure in Tibet’s emergent cinema, whose works have received acclaim worldwide and brought both the cultural vibrancy and the social concerns of contemporary Tibet to a global audience.
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Hirokazu Kore-eda: Reprise Screenings
May 2–18, 2019Missed a screening in our recent In Focus series devoted to Kore-eda, or want to revisit a favorite film? Here’s a second chance to explore the acclaimed Japanese director’s work.
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The 49th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine...
May 17–June 16, 2019BAMPFA showcases work by the latest graduates from the MFA program at Cal.
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About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging
May 17–July 21, 2019Cal Conversations
Featuring creations by Black artists in the collections of BAMPFA and the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, this exhibition organized by UC Berkeley graduate students imagines the liberatory possibilities of celebrating blackness and belonging.
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War and Peace
June 1–15, 2019Sergei Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel, following good-hearted Pierre, battle-scarred Andrei, and tempestuous Natasha through the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, was hailed by Roger Ebert as “the definitive epic of all time”; it demands to... View
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Julio Bracho and Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age
June 7–July 18, 2019From raucous music-hall comedy to tough urban noir, this selection of digitally restored works showcases the range and artistry of a master craftsman of midcentury Mexican cinema.
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Looking Again at Orson Welles
June 9–July 10, 2019An intriguing new documentary on Welles’s multifaceted creative career is the inspiration for this series revisiting several of his landmark films.
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It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll
June 13–August 31, 2019Rock ’n’ roll is the soundtrack to summer at BAMPFA as we celebrate the roots and resonance of rock in cinema. Three free events on our outdoor screen take the music to the streets.
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It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll: Free Outdoor Screenings
June 13–August 8, 2019Three free events on our outdoor screen take the rock 'n' roll music to the streets.
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Cine Manifest: A Radical 1970s Film Collective
June 20–30, 2019Active in the 1970s, the Bay Area–based political film collective Cine Manifest is little known today, but their works still speak to our own troubled times. Former members join us to reminisce and present their works in person.
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Fritz Lang’s America
June 21–August 11, 2019This lineup of Lang’s films made and set in the United States amounts to a noir tour of the psychosocial landscape of twentieth-century America, a land of systemic corruption, thwarted aspiration, and frustrated desire.
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Divine Women, Divine Wisdom
June 26, 2019–December 8, 2020Art from South Asia and the Himalayan region that celebrates the beauty, fecundity, wisdom, power, and compassion of women within the context of Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
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No Horizon: Helen Mirra and Sean Thackrey
July 3–August 25, 2019This exhibition brings together two Bay Area artists whose work embraces the simple act of seeing as an inspiration to deep reflection and understanding.
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Jean-Pierre Léaud at 75
July 4–August 30, 2019This series surveys the career of a French New Wave icon, from his youthful roles as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel to his embodiment of a dying Louis XIV.
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View Finders: Women Cinematographers
July 12–November 21, 2019Showcasing the artistic visions of female cinematographers around the world, this series asks whether there is such a thing as a “female gaze.”
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Meditation in Motion: Zen Calligraphy from the Stuart Katz Collection
July 17–October 20, 2019The first exhibition at BAMPFA to present the unique art form of Japanese Zen-inspired calligraphy, Meditation in Motion features important works by Chinese Ōbaku monks who immigrated to Japan, as well as writings by Japanese monks who expanded on their examples.
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Against Authority: The Cinema of Masaki Kobayashi
July 20–August 18, 2019A rare chance to see 35mm prints of films by a key figure in mid-twentieth-century Japanese cinema, including his masterwork, the three-part antiwar epic The Human Condition.
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