Sunday, February 12
Sunday, February 12, 2023
1 PM–7 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
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
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.
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.
Monday, February 13
Tuesday, February 14
Wednesday, February 15
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
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
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Sueli Maxakali
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Isael Maxakali
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Carolina Canguçu
Carolina Canguçu is an assistant director of Yãmĩyhex, The Woman-Spirit. -
Roberto Romero
Roberto Romero is an assistant director of Yãmĩyhex, The Woman-Spirit. -
Natalia Brizuela
Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and a professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. -
Gustavo Caboco
In PersonGustavo Caboco is an artist from the Wapichana people in Brazil.
Series
Documentary Voices
Thursday, February 16
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
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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Adrianne Finelli
Adrianne Finelli is an artist and curator and the media technology specialist in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. -
Jon Shibata
Jon Shibata is BAMPFA’s film archivist. -
Pamela Vadakan
Pamela Vadakan is the director of California Revealed, a California State Library initiative that helps cultural heritage organizations digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials docum -
Antonella Bonfanti
Antonella Bonfanti is the Film Archives Manager at Lucasfilm, and the former BAMPFA Film Collection supervisor.
Friday, February 17
Friday, February 17, 2023
2 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.
Saturday, February 18
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
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
Saturday, February 18, 2023
11 AM–7 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
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Paige Taul
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ruth gebreyesus
ruth gebreyesus, a writer and producer based in the Bay Area, is currently the cocurator of Black Life.
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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