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Dennis Feldman: Photographs
July 31–October 13, 2019Photographs from two series, Hollywood Boulevard, 1969–1972 and American Images, demonstrate the artist’s achievements as an affecting social documentarian and explorer of what he calls “a world contained in a frame.”
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Abbas Kiarostami: Life as Art
August 2–December 21, 2019Iran’s most influential director, Kiarostami made films that blended fiction and documentary, minimalism and spontaneity, poetic vision and humanist spirit. We present a near-complete retrospective of his work.
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The San Quentin Project: Nigel Poor and the Men of San Quentin State...
August 21–November 17, 2019Following the evolution of artist Nigel Poor’s collaboration with men incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, this exhibition features visual documents, photographs from the prison’s archive, and episodes of the award-winning podcast Ear Hustle.
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In Focus: Abbas Kiarostami
August 28–September 25, 2019Lecture/Screening Series
Complementing our Abbas Kiarostami retrospective, special guest lecturers offer varied perspectives on the great Iranian director’s work.
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Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA: Responsible Design from Bits to...
August 29–November 21, 2019This lecture series examines the role of the designer in articulating new methods connecting the conceptual knowledge for asking why with technical skills for asking how.
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War and Peace
September 1–27, 2019Back by popular demand! Sergei Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel was hailed by Roger Ebert as “the definitive epic of all time”; it demands to be seen on the big screen.
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Alternative Visions 2019
September 4–November 13, 2019Our annual series of avant-garde and artist-made films returns with a stellar roster of in-person guests, as well as programs of strange and wonderful surrealist works from around the world.
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Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA: Equity and Democracy
September 9, 2019–April 13, 2020Join Berkeley Arts + Design and dozens of UC Berkeley campus organizations every Monday as we explore the connections among creative practice, social movements, and the strategic research of our public university.
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Berkeley Film Foundation: Celebrating Ten Years of Local Filmmaking
September 12–October 27, 2019The Berkeley Film Foundation is an essential lifeline for East Bay filmmakers. We celebrate BFF’s tenth anniversary with a diverse selection of films—many with makers in person—including two free screenings on BAMPFA’s outdoor screen.
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Out of the Vault: Native American Reelism
September 12–November 14, 2019Drawn from the BAMPFA collection, three programs of films by and about Native Americans explore geographical belonging and dislocation, political and social action, and questions of representation.
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Kader Attia / MATRIX 274
September 18–November 17, 2019Part of French-Algerian artist Kader Attia’s ongoing investigation of the concept of repair and healing from the trauma of war, this exhibition presents his seminal installation J’accuse.
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No Regrets: A Celebration of Marlon Riggs
September 19–November 25, 2019In his lucid and provocative video essays, Marlon Riggs grappled with African American culture, representation, and identity. This retrospective presents all of his films, in dialogue with works by other filmmakers.
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Looking Back at the British New Wave
September 21–November 30, 2019Look back at 1950s and ’60s British cinema and rediscover the England of Angry Young Men and working-class heroes, boundary-crossing writing and innovative direction, and electrifying acting by the likes of Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, and Julie Christie.
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Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting
October 2, 2019–February 2, 2020The first US exhibition focused on Sakaki Hyakusen, the founding father of the Nanga school of painting in Japan, this presentation reveals his pivotal role in the history of eighteenth-century Japanese art and highlights the conservation of his masterpiece Mountain Landscape.
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In Focus: The British New Wave
October 2–23, 2019Lecture/Screening Series
Film historian David Thomson expands on our British New Wave retrospective with a series of four illuminating presentations on the writers, directors, and actors of sixties Britain.
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Terry Fox: Resonance
October 2–December 15, 2019Two of Terry Fox’s video and audio works are being presented at BAMPFA in conjunction with Terry Fox: Resonance, a multivenue celebration organized by Dena Beard and Constance Lewallen.
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Zheng Junli: From Shanghai’s Golden Age to the Cultural Revolution
October 3–November 16, 2019Anchored by new restorations from the China Film Archive, this series explores the extraordinary career of Zheng Junli, an actor, director, film theorist, and victim of the Cultural Revolution.
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42nd Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFA
October 5–12, 2019BAMPFA is pleased to partner with the Mill Valley Film Festival to present selected screenings from MVFF42 in the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Dennis Feldman: Photographs
October 16–December 15, 2019Photographs by an affecting social documentarian and explorer of what he calls “a world contained in a frame.”
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BAMPFA AR—Augmented Time
October 23–December 15, 2019A Project by Luisa Caldas
Using augmented reality as a medium, BAMPFA AR—Augmented Time tells the story behind the new BAMPFA building by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
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Jacques Tati: Comedy as Choreography
October 25–November 30, 2019Revel in the modernist comedy of Jacques Tati—both his slapstick exploits as Monsieur Hulot and his astonishing talent behind the camera.
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Strange: Surrealist Tendencies in Cinema
November 6–10, 2019Encounter uncanny landscapes, enigmatic characters, and other mysteries and wonders in these screenings presented in conjunction with the exhibition Strange.
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Soviet Silent Cinema: Peter Bagrov on Treasures from the BAMPFA...
November 6–10, 2019Lecture/Screening Series
Film archivist Peter Bagrov joins us to share his deep expertise on Soviet cinema with this series of silent classics and rarities from the BAMPFA collection.
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Sylvia Fein / MATRIX 275
November 13, 2019–March 1, 2020This career-spanning centenary tribute of Sylvia Fein showcases a wide array of works drawing on both the personal and the fantastical.
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Art Wall: Edie Fake
November 20, 2019–June 27, 2021Edie Fake’s mural envisions affordable housing for transgender elders, using architecture to celebrate the uniqueness of trans bodies and the possibilities of queer space.
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Perspectives on History: Romanian Cinema Since 1989
December 6, 2019–February 27, 2020Thirty years after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, this series samples the best in Romanian cinema from the last three decades.
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Afterimage: J. Hoberman on Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
December 11–12, 2019Film critic and historian J. Hoberman presents two films and offers his insights on the intersection between politics and pop culture in Ronald Reagan’s America.
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Lands of Promise and Peril: Geographies of California
December 11, 2019–August 23, 2020Cal Conversations
This student-curated exhibition maps California’s many contradictions as a place of beauty and brutality, prosperity and inequality, sanctuary and exclusion.
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Agnès Varda: An Irresistible Force
December 20, 2019–February 28, 2020Vive la Varda! We pay tribute to a founding mother of the French New Wave, who died at age ninety in 2019—an inspiring and vital artist to the end.
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Film to Table Dinners at Babette 2020
OngoingDelectable dinners following screenings of the films that inspired them
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Talks & Conversations 2021
OngoingArtists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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