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The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89
January 12–February 25, 2023A series of stark, scathing, and playful films from the former socialist republics of Eastern Europe, where absurdity was a fact of life under authoritarian rule—and a source of cinematic creativity.
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Out of the Vault: Everything’s Ephemeral
January 14–February 16, 2023Three programs of 16mm ephemeral films from the BAMPFA collection—one of place, one of poetry, and one of play—ask us to pause and listen for quiet rhythms, to look closer at what is in front of us, and to celebrate the moment.
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History
January 18–February 26, 2023Over the course of the six decades since the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), filmmakers have reacted to the history of this revolutionary period with powerful responses and insightful perspectives. This selection of films deal with the backstory and history of the Algerian... View
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Documentary Voices
February 1–April 12, 2023Our annual series features an international array of recent and historical documentaries and nonfiction films.
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Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo
February 3–18, 2023“Hong Sangsoo’s films seize the material of everyday life in the service of exploring psychology and metaphysics in elegant, subtly profound ways” (Lincoln Center) as revealed in three double-bills and a recent film.
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Pratibha Parmar in Person
February 9—23, 2023The completion of Parmar’s new documentary, My Name Is Andrea, an essential and timely corrective to the historical record concerning the late writer and activist Andrea Dworkin, provides a welcome opportunity to invite Parmar to share her work at BAMPFA.
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Art Wall: Luis Camnitzer
November 30, 2022–May 31, 2023In his West Coast solo project debut, Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937) debuts the new work below/here/above/ahead/was as part of BAMPFA’s Art Wall commissioned series.
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Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World
December 14, 2022–May 7, 2023Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World explores how artists and practitioners across two millennia have understood and utilized one of the core tenets of Buddhism—dependent arising, which posits that cycles of existence (saṃsāra) arise from past actions and... View
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Talks & Conversations
OngoingArtists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Black Life
OngoingExperience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this multidisciplinary event series.
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Family Events
OngoingSecond Saturdays: Hands-on activities and participatory readings designed for kids and their families.
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Five Tables
First Thursdays of each monthFive Tables is a monthly event coinciding with First Free Thursdays organized by the BAMPFA staff, and periodically by the Student Committee. Drop by the Florence Helzel Works on Paper Study Center for a curated behind-the-scenes experience.
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Rina Kimche
January 11–March 26, 2023This is the first solo exhibition in the United States of the work of Israeli-based artist Rina Kimche (born 1934). Kimche’s diminutive sculptures are modern in their reductive, abstract simplicity and in their expression of the material essence of their clay medium.
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Video Art in Context
January 19—April 19, 2023Arts + Design Thursdays
How have artists made use of the screen? What are the opportunities and hazards of using the screen as a vehicle for connection? A stunning roster of artists, curators, designers, and critics consider these questions and more.
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Pioneers of Queer Cinema
March 3–May 3, 2023Pioneers of Queer Cinema celebrates the groundbreaking achievements born from visionary queer filmmakers, ranging from landmark to little-known works.
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Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge
March 9–April 2, 2023South African artist William Kentridge’s work in animation and live action film is a central element of his interdisciplinary approach. Featured here are many of his short works, including the film cycle Drawings for Projection (1989–2020) and several filmed versions of his staged... View
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Black Studies Open University
February 1–April 19, 2023Abolition Democracy Fellows Spring 2023 Speaker Series
The Black Studies Collaboratory is a collaborative initiative to address racial inequality through bold and unique humanities-based research projects, housed in the Department of African American Studies and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The ... View
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now
March 10–May 12, 2023Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents several programs and the Townsend Center for the Humanities’s Una’s Lecture during this retrospective of the artist’s haunting, beautiful, and resonant works.
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Frank Moore / MATRIX 280: Theater of Human Melting
January 25–April 23, 2023This exhibition represents a small portion of the vast body of creative work by the late Berkeley-based artist and teacher Frank Moore (1946–2013). Over the course of more than five decades, Moore, who was born with a physical disability, used painting, performance, public access... View
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Lizzie Borden’s New York Feminisms Trilogy
March 17–19, 2023Filmmaker Lizzie Borden presents her New York Feminisms Trilogy: Regrouping, Born in Flames, and Working Girls.
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Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later / Monique Wittig: Vingt ans après
March 18, 2023Filmmakers respond to Les Guérillères, Monique Wittig’s 1969 novel—for Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz sets her film in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, while Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames takes place in New York after a “social-democratic war of liberation.” With shorts by... View
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Out of the Vault: Billy Woodberry in Person
March 22–29, 2023Filmmaker Billy Woodberry presents two nights of his moving-image work and the annual Les Blank Lecture on documentary film.
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Kelly Reichardt in Person
March 24–31, 2023We are delighted to welcome Kelly Reichardt, the very first guest in BAMPFA’s long-running Afterimage series in 2009, back to present her most recent film, Showing Up, and to launch a spotlight series of three more films that she has released in the intervening years.
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Odessa’s Uncompromising Eccentric: The Films of Kira Muratova
April 1–May 14, 2023We are honored to collaborate with the Ukraine’s Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center on this series celebrating “Odessa’s uncompromising eccentric” (Jane Taubman), with guest curator Stanislav Menzelevskyi introducing three screenings.
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Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
February 4–July 23, 2023Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of longtime Bay Area artist Mesa-Bains. Presenting work from the entirety of her career for the first time, this exhibition, which features nearly 60 works in a range of media,... View
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