Pina Bausch on Screen

April 22–May 9, 2020

In conjunction with a Cal Performances appearance by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, we feature films about, by, and influenced by Bausch, whose work transformed the visual and emotional vocabulary of dance.

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  • Pina

  • One Day Pina Asked . . .

  • The Complaint of an Empress

  • Dancing Dreams

  • Talk to Her

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Past Films

  • CANCELED: Dancing Dreams

    • Saturday, May 9 5 PM
    Anne Tinsel, Rainer Hoffmann
    Germany, 2010

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    This documentary follows a group of teenagers with no previous dance experience as they learn to perform Pina Bausch’s iconic dance Kontakthof (Contact Zone). This would be Bausch’s last appearance on screen.

  • CANCELED: Off-Site Screening: Pina

    • Tuesday, May 5 7 PM
    Wim Wenders
    Germany, 2011

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Special 3-D screening at the California Theatre, 2113 Kittredge Street, Berkeley

    Filmed shortly after Bausch’s death, Pina was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and is frequently cited as one of the best dance movies—and 3-D movies—ever made. The dancing is exuberant and electrifying, especially on the big screen.

  • CANCELED: Talk to Her

    • Sunday, April 26 7 PM
    Pedro Almodóvar
    Spain, 2002

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Pina Bausch’s Café Müller was one of Almodóvar’s inspirations for this Academy Award–winning film about the friendship between two men, each caring for a woman in a coma. “Almodóvar’s most mature and mysterious movie” (Newsweek).

  • CANCELED: The Complaint of an Empress

    • Thursday, April 23 7 PM
    Pina Bausch
    Germany, 1990

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Imported 35mm Print

    This brilliant video notebook offers unfiltered insight into Bausch’s wide-ranging imagination through a series of evocative intersecting scenes set in and around Wuppertal.

    Introduction by Sima Belmar

  • CANCELED: In Focus: One Day Pina Asked . . .

    • Wednesday, April 22 3:10 PM
    Chantal Akerman
    France, 1982

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

    Chantal Akerman follows Pina Bausch and company on a European tour in this film intended as not just a documentary on Bausch but “a journey through her world.” With Bausch’s Café Müller, which “showed me in forty minutes more about men and women than the entire history of cinema” (Wim Wenders).

    Sima Belmar and a Member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Conversation