Sunday, February 19
Sunday, February 19, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 19, 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 19, 2023
5 PM
Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Jean-Pierre Sergent,
France,
1962,
(68 mins)
The groundbreaking documentary Algeria, Year Zero, filmed just months after the end of the war, was initially censored in both Algeria and France. With two rare short films, I Am Eight Years Old, which reveals the effects of the war on refugee children, and Algeria in Flames, wartime footage from the National Liberation Army’s perspective.
Sunday, February 19, 2023
7 PM
Lucian Pintilie,
Romania,
1968,
(100 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
The police force two friends to reenact a drunken crime on-screen—with awkward results—in Pintilie’s masterful satire, voted best Romanian film of all time in a poll of Romanian critics.
Monday, February 20
Tuesday, February 21
Wednesday, February 22
Wednesday, February 22, 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 22, 2023
12:30 PM
Join Abolition Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Victoria Grubbs for a documentary screening of Hit2Hit: Battle of Celebrated Rwandan Music Producers Trackslayer and Dr. Nganji and a conversation with The Trackslayer and Dr. Nganji, two of Rwanda’s top music producers. The discussion aims to spark a broader dialogue about the function of popular music in a post-genocide context
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
7 PM
Safi Faye,
Senegal,
1979,
(112 mins)
In Fad’jal, the groundbreaking Senegalese-French filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye investigates traditions of storytelling through a beautiful portrait of her ancestral farming village.
Series
Documentary Voices
Thursday, February 23
Thursday, February 23, 2023
12 PM
Hood Century is one of the Internet’s first deep looks at the relationship between architecture, built space, and Black popular culture. The outfit is bringing its active survey practice to BAMPFA’s Black Life series this winter with a walking and talking tour.
Series
Black Life
Thursday, February 23, 2023
5:30 PM
Co-organized by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs
A conversation with Felwine Sarr and a musical performance by him.
Series
Performances
Thursday, February 23, 2023
7 PM
Pratibha Parmar,
United States,
2022,
(90 mins)
This essential and timely corrective to the understanding and legacy of the late writer and activist Andrea Dworkin, described by John Berger as “perhaps the most misrepresented writer in the Western world,” “traces pivotal moments in the life of a fearless fighter” (Lucy Mukerjee, Tribeca Film Festival).
In Conversation
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Pratibha Parmar
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Irene Lusztig
Irene Lusztig is a filmmaker, archival researcher, amateur seamstress, and professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz.
Series
Pratibha Parmar in Person
Friday, February 24
Friday, February 24, 2023
12 PM
Curator’s Talk: Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo on Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World
Guest curator Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo offers a series of gallery talks highlighting works by contemporary Asian and Asian American artists.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
Friday, February 24, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 24, 2023
7 PM
Michael Haneke,
Austria, France, Germany, Italy,
2005,
(117 mins)
“The mystery behind a series of anonymous videotapes that appear on the doorstep of a middle class Parisian family gradually turns into a metaphor about the First World’s fear of violence it has itself created and then repressed from consciousness” (Deborah Young, Variety).
Saturday, February 25
Saturday, February 25, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 25, 2023
12 PM
PJ Letofsky,
United States,
2019,
(100 mins)
Austrian American architect Richard Neutra (1892–1970) designed 350 buildings around the world and was noted for his vision of environment, ecology, and livability. This information-rich documentary will be of interest to generalists and specialists alike in the areas of twentieth-century architecture and restoration, psychology, and aesthetics.
In Conversation
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Lisa Heschong
Lisa Heschong is an architect and founding principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (HMG), a building science consulting firm, where she led ground-breaking research showing a relationship between dayli -
Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson, MD MPH, is Professor emeritus at the Fielding School of Public Health at the UCLA where he was Department Chair in Environmental Health Sciences. -
Lindsay Baker
As CEO of the International Living Future Institute, Lindsay Baker is the organization’s chief strategist, charged with delivering on its mission to lead the transformation toward a civilization that -
Raymond Richard Neutra
Raymond Richard Neutra, the youngest son of Richard Neutra, will moderate the post-screening panel discussion on the topic of Neutra’s modernist design. -
PJ Letofsky
IntroductionPJ Letofsky is the director of Neutra: Survival Through Design.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
4:30 PM
Assia Djebar,
Algeria,
1982,
(82 mins)
Algerian novelist and filmmaker Djebar’s experimental The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting reinterprets French colonial newsreel footage from the period 1912–42, giving voice to those who were once silenced. With The Women, a testament to the call for women’s emancipation in Algeria.
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Soraya Tlatli
IntroductionSoraya Tlatli is associate professor, Department of French, UC Berkeley, and a specialist on Francophone literature from North Africa, as well as colonial and postcolonial historiography.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1989,
(153 mins)
Legendary director Muratova’s demented chronicle of the absurdities and insults of post-glasnost Soviet life takes its title and cues from a psychological condition that alternates between maniacal aggression and apathetic inaction. “A movie that breaks all the rules” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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