Sunday, February 5
Sunday, February 5, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 5, 2023
2 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 5, 2023
4 PM
(67 mins)
Your eyes dance hello to films of poetry and the poetry of film. Meet beauty in the ghost, forgotten in the dark. These are lyrical lessons of time passing. Once upon a space and splice, almost imperceptible, fragments free fall. Hold them close.
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
Sunday, February 5, 2023
7 PM
Rolands Kalniņš,
Latvia, USSR,
1967,
(112 mins)
An idealistic singer in a fledgling Latvian rock band fights censorship and indifference in this inventive musical, which earned comparisons to the French New Wave. With Gyula Gazdag’s The Selection, a Hungarian take on the intersection of socialism and rock and roll.
Sunday, February 5, 2023
7:30 PM
Programmed by MK Chavez
Coraza performs. Poets Rachelle Escamilla, Lourdes Figueroa, and Leticia Hernández-Linares pay homage to love.
Space for Full performances is limited.
| $14 | General Admission |
| $12 | Seniors / Students / Patrons with Disability |
| FREE | BAMPFA Members / UCB Staff and Students / Youth |
Series
Full
Monday, February 6
Tuesday, February 7
Wednesday, February 8
Wednesday, February 8, 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 8, 2023
12:30 PM
Black people’s care for one another in universities can be life-giving, yet the conditions in which Black people perform this labor can be coercive and detrimental to those who care. Caleb Dawson, Adia Harvey Wingfield, and Bianca C. Williams interrogate the costs that Black people face for caring in the university and imagine freedom from these conditions.
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
7 PM
(96 mins)
The members of the Australian Indigenous media group the Karrabing Film Collective use cell phones and handheld cameras to record daily life in their rural community as a form of grassroots resistance.
Series
Documentary Voices
Thursday, February 9
Thursday, February 9, 2023
12 PM
Where is the stage, and who is watching? NIC Kay re-creates video editing effects like glitches, rewinding, freeze frame, and overlay choreographically across various mediums. These undisciplined performances are inspired by the playfulness and immediacy of sharing video content online. NIC uses these works to explore the troubled relationships between the Black performer, the camera/video, and the audience/viewers.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
Thursday, February 9, 2023
7 PM
Pratibha Parmar,
United Kingdom,
1991,
(90 mins)
A fierce and loving assessment of the social movements of the 1960s from the vantage point of the 1990s culture wars, featuring three influential Black feminist intellectuals: Angela Y. Davis, Alice Walker, and June Jordan. Screening with Sari Red and Khush.
In Conversation
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Pratibha Parmar
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Paola Bacchetta
Paola Bacchetta is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley.
Series
Pratibha Parmar in Person
Friday, February 10
Friday, February 10, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 10, 2023
7 PM
Alain Tasma,
France,
2005,
(106 mins)
Inspired by the fiction/documentary blends of such socially committed British filmmakers as Alan Clarke and Ken Loach, and by the incendiary force of The Battle of Algiers, director Tasma reimagines an event that has been shamefully ignored in France’s textbooks, but whose scars still linger.
Saturday, February 11
Saturday, February 11, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 11, 2023
11:30 AM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars, re-create a family story or memory in a miniature altar of your own.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Blanca Estela Rodriguez
Workshop led byBlanca Estela Rodríguez is a Mexican artist living in San Francisco. Her (im)migration experience informs her interest in exploring themes of identity and the site specificity of perception.
Series
Family Events
Saturday, February 11, 2023
2 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
The five Vanderbeeker children have eleven days to convince their landlord, Mr. Beiderman, to let them stay in the only home they’ve ever known. All is fair in love and war when it comes to keeping their home!
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Mardawn Wendt
Reading led byMardawn Wendt, librarian, Berkeley Arts Magnet Elementary School
Series
Family Events
Saturday, February 11, 2023
5 PM
Hong Sangsoo,
South Korea,
1998,
(109 mins)
The beauty of Korea’s Kangwon vacation hotspot desperately competes with the vainglory of its visitors in Hong’s philosophical diptych on modern love and loneliness. “A coolly bracing drama of the mysterious bonds of lovers” (Richard Brody, New Yorker).
Saturday, February 11, 2023
7:30 PM
Hong Sangsoo,
South Korea,
2015,
(121 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
The fine line between love and missed connection is played then replayed in this story of a traveling film director and the young painter he befriends during one long day’s journey into an inevitably soju-tainted evening.
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