Sunday, February 26
Sunday, February 26, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2023
1:30 PM
Bertrand Tavernier,
France,
1992,
(247 mins)
Digital Restoration
Assembled from fifty hours of footage, the film focuses on twenty-eight veterans—all conscripts and of every shade of political conviction. The film’s remarkable power and universality lies in the human dimension of these veterans, as they bring the events of the past to life with searing and enlightening honesty.
Presented with a 20-minute intermission
Sunday, February 26, 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
Monday, February 27
Tuesday, February 28
Wednesday, March 1
Wednesday, March 1, 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, March 1, 2023
12:30 PM
Academics, activists, and creatives Peace and Love El Henson, Aria S. Halliday, Kitt (aka Father Venus), and Mireille Miller-Young come together for a lively performance and conversation on Black feminisms, hip-hop, queerness, transness, the erotic, pornography, pleasure, and policing. Join us for an afternoon of creativity, criticality, and celebration.
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
7 PM
Alice Diop,
France,
2016,
(94 mins)
Born in France to Senegalese parents, Alice Diop (Saint Omer) brings a unique perspective to migrant and Black diaspora experience. Influenced by Jean Rouch and Frederick Wiseman, she makes films that bring those on the periphery to the center.
Series
Documentary Voices
Thursday, March 2
Thursday, March 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2023
12 PM
How do Native and queer epistemologies inspire cross-media practice? Using his ten-screen video installation, This Burning World, as point of departure, Jeffrey Gibson considers how his artistic practice has moved across painting, sculpture, textiles, installation, performance, and video to address issues such as climate change, the fluidity of identity, and the erasure of Indigenous art traditions.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
Thursday, March 2, 2023
1:15 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
Thursday, March 2, 2023
4 – 7 PM
Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee.
Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee, this month’s Five Tables offers the opportunity to view Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract compositions from his series Little Worlds, Ando Hiroshige’s Japanese woodblock prints of blooming sakura flowers, Rembrandt’s etchings, and other vibrant works.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Series
Five Tables
Thursday, March 2, 2023
7 PM
Donagh Coleman ,
Estonia, Finland, Ireland,
2022,
(91 mins)
Copresented with the Center for Buddhist Studies and the UC Berkeley Anthropology Department, cosponsored by the Insitute for South Asia Studies and the Himalayan Studies Initiative
In what Tibetans call tukdam, deceased meditators have shown no signs of death for days or weeks. Juxtaposing ground-breaking scientific research and Tibetan perspectives, this creative documentary challenges our notion of life and death—and where we draw the line between them.
In Conversation
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Donagh Coleman
Donagh Coleman is a Finnish-Irish-American filmmaker whose award-winning films have have received wide international festival and television distribution, with shows at museums like the Museum of Mode -
David Perlman
David Perlman, PhD worked ten years in neuroscientist Richie Davidson’s lab, where he designed and managed the first phase of the Tukdam research project. -
Jacob Dalton
Jacob Dalton is a professor of Tibetan Studies in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.
Friday, March 3
Friday, March 3, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 3, 2023
7 PM
Cheryl Dunye,
United States,
1996,
(81 mins)
New Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
A Black lesbian video store clerk and would-be filmmaker becomes obsessed with an early “race film” star in Dunye’s pioneering “funky screwball comedy in the key of queer” (B. Ruby Rich).
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Allegra Madsen
IntroductionAllegra Madsen is the director of programming at Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest and longest-running queer film festival in the world.
Series
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Saturday, March 4
Saturday, March 4, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2023
7 PM
Andy Warhol, Chuck Wein,
United States,
1965,
(126 mins)
Warhol’s brilliantly bitchy masterpiece of voyeurism, desire, and boredom on Fire Island. With shorts by Curt McDowell (Confessions), James Broughton (Testament), and José Rodriguez-Soltero (Jerovi).
Series
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Through March 26
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Through May 31
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Through February 16
Through February 18
Through February 23
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