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A listing of tours and conversations with contemporary artists and filmmakers, curators’ talks, musical performances, lectures, and special events coming up at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).
September – October 2008
Monthly Events
First Impressions: Free First Thursdays at BAM/PFA
Infatuation, discovery, surprise, epiphany — all start with a first impression. Get acquainted with an inspiring world of art on the first Thursday of every month, when admission to the museum galleries is free for everyone.
Guided Tours of Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection
Tours led by UC graduate students will be offered on selected Thursdays and Sundays (see below).
Events Listed by Calendar Date
Tuesday, September 2
Screening — Mock Up on Mu, with Filmmaker Craig Baldwin in Person
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Notorious Bay Area kino-renegade Baldwin presents his rapid-fire pulp serial–cum–political tract on postwar California’s biggest hits: the military, Disney, and Scientology. Part of the PFA Series Alternative Visions.
Tuesday, September 9
Screening — History Stutters: Found Footage Films, with Filmmaker Sylvia Schedelbauer in Person
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
A program of found-footage films pays tribute to the late Bruce Conner. Works by Conner, John Baldessari, Ken Jacobs, Walid Ra’ad, and Sylvia Schedelbauer. Part of the PFA Series Alternative Visions.
Wednesday, September 10
Exhibition Opens: Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection.
Screening — Non, or the Vain Glory of Command, with Introduction and Book Signing by Scholar Randal Johnson
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Portuguese soldiers in 1973 Angola discuss the history of combat in Oliveira’s theoretical treatise on war, destiny, and colonialism. An Apocalypse Now of philosophical ideals. Part of the PFA Series Manoel de Oliveira: Talking Pictures.
Thursday, September 11
Mahjong Guided Tour
12:15 p.m., BAM galleries
Sunday, September 14
Exhibition Closes: Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky
Mahjong Guided Tour
2:00 p.m., BAM galleries
Conversation — Orville Schell and Uli Sigg
3:00 p.m., Museum Theater
China authority Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations, in New York, and former dean of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, converses with Uli Sigg, former Swiss ambassador to China and one of the world’s leading collectors of contemporary Chinese art. They examine what contemporary Chinese art can tell us about the country’s recent development. Part of the BAM exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection.
Thursday, September 18
Mahjong Guided Tour
12:15 p.m., BAM galleries
Sunday, September 21
Mahjong Guided Tour
2:00 p.m., BAM galleries
Conversation — with Hou Hanru, Jane DeBevoise, Ou Ning
3:00 p.m., Museum Theater.
This conversation features internationally renowned curator and critic Hou Hanru, director of exhibitions and public programs at the San Francisco Art Institute; art historian Jane DeBevoise, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Hong Kong-based nonprofit Asia Art Archives; and leading Chinese multimedia artist Ou Ning. Topics include new media and transdisciplinary collaboration, the social role of the artist at a time when art is a major force on the Chinese market, and creating ”memory” through documentation. Part of the BAM exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection.
Thursday, September 25
Gallery Talk — with Ai Weiwei and Uli Sigg
12:00 p.m., Berkeley Art Museum.
As they walk through the exhibition, artist-in-residence Ai Weiwei and Uli Sigg—longtime friends and associates—engage in a spirited exchange on art and contemporary China. Part of the BAM exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection.
Friday, September 26
Screening — U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, with Actor Pauline Malefane and Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Person
8:10 p.m., PFA Theater
This rousing musical relocates Bizet’s Carmen to Cape Town. “One of the most accomplished, original, and entertaining film operas ever made.”—Vancouver Film Festival. Part of the PFA Series Campus Connections.
Sunday, September 28
Exhibition Opens: Bending the Word
Mahjong Guided Tour
2:00 p.m., BAM galleries
Opening Day Performance — Tris Vonna-Michell
3:00 p.m., Museum Theater
British artist Tris Vonna-Michell opens the MATRIX exhibition Bending the Word, which features the work of four contemporary artists who actively re-interpret larger shared narratives. Vonna-Michell's performances are a form of live storytelling that incorporate numerous audio and visual elements.
Tuesday, September 30
Conversation — with Ai Weiwei and Jeff Kelley
4:00 p.m., Museum Theater
Ai Weiwei, together with critic and independent curator Jeff Kelley, discusses a range of issues pertaining to Chinese contemporary art, including the history and present state of artistic freedom in China. Kelley, who taught theory and criticism in UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice, organized the exhibition Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through October 5. Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Institute of East Asian Studies. Part of the BAM Exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection.
Thursday, October 2
FREE FIRST THURSDAY!
Mahjong Guided Tour
12:15 p.m., BAM galleries
Saturday, October 4
Mahjong Guided Tour
2:00 p.m., BAM galleries
Sunday, October 5
Mahjong Guided Tour
2:00 p.m., BAM galleries
Thursday, October 9
Mahjong Guided Tour
12:15 p.m., BAM galleries
Friday, October 10
Screening — The Battleship Potemkin, with Judith Rosenberg on Piano
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Sergei Eisenstein’s classic can be appreciated for “not only the perfection of its form, but the humanitarianism and enthusiasm that impregnated its revolutionary subject.”—Georges Sadoul. Part of the PFA Series Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking.
Sunday, October 12
Mahjong Guided Tour
2:00 p.m., BAM galleries
Thursday, October 16
Mahjong Guided Tour
12:15 p.m., BAM galleries
Friday, October 17
Keynote Address — China Transformed: Artscape/Cityscape
4:00 p.m., Museum Theater
Wu Hung, an international authority on classical and contemporary Chinese art, delivers a keynote address that opens a symposium on China's rapid urbanization. Part of the BAM Exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection.
Saturday, October 18
Symposium — China Transformed: Artscape/Cityscape
9:30 a.m.—5:30 p.m., Museum Theater
The dizzying pace of urbanization in contemporary China provokes varied responses from artists and filmmakers, ranging from optimistic expansiveness to a sense of radical dislocation. In this two-day international symposium, leading curators, critics, and scholars look at artists working in different media as they respond to the new Chinese megacity. Part of the BAM Exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection.
Home Movie Clinic and Screening — Admission Free!
12:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Archivists inspect, repair, and project your treasured films. Part of the PFA Series Home Movie Day.
Sunday, October 19
Mahjong Guided Tour
2:00 p.m., BAM galleries
Conversation — with Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder
3:00 p.m., Museum Theater.
Lawrence Rinder, MATRIX curator from 1988 to 1998 and current director of BAM/PFA, joins artist Nayland Blake in conversation. Throughout his career, Nayland Blake’s work has explored the complexities of identity, race, relationships, and representation, and has revealed a diverse set of interests and concerns—from popular culture and Camp to the queer body in the age of AIDS and the legacy of racism in America. His early work was twice exhibited in MATRIX, in his psychoanalytically inspired solo installation The Schreber Suite and as part of the artist collective Group Material’s project The AIDS Timeline. In 1995, Blake and Rinder co-curated In a Different Light, a landmark BAM exhibition that considered the cultural resonances of gay, lesbian, and queer experience in a cross-generational context. Part of the MATRIX 30th Anniversary celebration.
Screening — Jewish Luck, with Judith Rosenberg on Piano
1:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Sholem Aleichem’s classic is brought to the screen in an extraordinary meeting of Russian-Jewish talent. Part of the PFA Series Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking.
Wednesday, October 22
Exhibition opens: Gas Zappers
Screening — Bed and Sofa, with Judith Rosenberg on Piano
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
With its humor and naturalism, Avram Room’s intimate drama dealing with a ménage à trois brought about by a housing shortage appears modern even t oday. Part of the PFA Series Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking.
Thursday, October 23
Mahjong Guided Tour
12:15 p.m., BAM galleries
Screening — For Fun, with Filmmaker Ning Ying in Person
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
In the Beijing Trilogy’s first installment, a meddlesome retiree finds an outlet in an amateur Peking Opera troupe. “Beautifully observed and splendidly acted.”—Tony Rayns. Part of the PFA Series I Love Beijing: The Films of Ning Ying.
Friday, October 24
Screening — On the Beat, with Filmmaker Ning Ying in Person
8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
The centerpiece of the Beijing Trilogy is a sharply observed portrait of the city’s police and a sly, deadpan study of bureaucratic futility. Part of the PFA Series I Love Beijing: The Films of Ning Ying.
Saturday, October 25
Screening — I Love Beijing, with Filmmaker Ning Ying in Person
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
The Beijing Trilogy accelerates to its conclusion: a cab driver navigates the new social terrain of a city under constant construction. Part of the PFA Series I Love Beijing: The Films of Ning Ying.
Sunday, October 26
Screening — Railroad of Hope, with Filmmaker Ning Ying in Person
1:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Ning’s sensitive, eye-opening documentary on internal migration. With shorts In Our Own Words and Looking for a Job in the City. Part of the PFA Series I Love Beijing: The Films of Ning Ying.
Mahjong Guided Tour
2:00 p.m., BAM galleries
Screening — Perpetual Motion, with Filmmaker Ning Ying in Person
4:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Sex and the City, Beijing-style: Ning’s latest feature views China’s recent transformations through the eyes of four successful, sexual, trash-talking women. Part of the PFA Series I Love Beijing: The Films of Ning Ying.
Screening and Special Event — Ghost World, with Book signing by Screenwriter Daniel Clowes and Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Two Bay Area originals present their great tribute to teen disaffection.
Monday, October 27
Master Class with Filmmaker Ning Ying
4:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Audience members join Ning Ying for a lively discussion about her work. This event is designed for students, but open to the general public. Part of the PFA Series I Love Beijing: The Films of Ning Ying.
Wednesday, October 28
Screening — Happiness, with Judith Rosenberg on Piano
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
What happens when a slacker is invited to join a farming collective? “A dark and funny assault on peasant-class pieties.”—N.Y. Sun. Part of the PFA Series Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking.
Friday, October 30
Mahjong Guided Tour
12:15 p.m., BAM galleries
BAM Exhibitions
Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky
MATRIX 225
Through September 14
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection
September 10, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Bending the Word
MATRIX 226
September 28, 2008 – February 8, 2009
Gas Zappers
October 22, 2008 – February 8, 2009
For complete descriptions of the exhibitions listed above, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu.
PFA Film Series
Manoel de Oliveira: Talking Pictures
August 3 – September 28
Campus Connections
September 25, 26
Movie Matinees for All Ages
September 20, October 4, 11
Before Big: The Early Films of David Lean
September 19 – October 11
Unknown Pleasures: The Films of Jia Zhangke
September 12 – October 17
I Love Beijing: The Films of Ning Ying
October 23 – 27
Jean-Luc Godard: Movie Love in the Sixties
September 5 – October 17
No Wave: The Cinema of Jean Eustache
October 4 – 22
Alternative Visions
September 2 – October 28
Home Movie Day
October 18
Special Event: Ghost World
October 26
Halloween Screening: The Werewolf of Washington
October 31
Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking
October 10 – 30
Czeching Out: The Early Films of Milos Forman
September 4 – 13
For complete descriptions of the film series listed above, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu.
Support
Education programs are made possible by the generous support of The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation and the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley.
Ai Weiwei's artist residency is supported in part by Cheryl Haines Gallery.
The Jia Zhangke and Ning Ying Film Retrospectives are presented in conjunction with the Center for Asian American Media, with the generous support of the Consortium for the Arts and the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley.
Programs at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Packard Humanities Institute, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Henry Luce Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Columbia Foundation, The Christensen Fund, and other private foundations, corporations, government agencies, and individuals, including the BAM/PFA membership. Major endowment support has been provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and by George Gund III.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum Galleries and Museum Theater
Location:
2626 Bancroft Way, just below College Avenue near the UC Berkeley campus
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Gallery Admission Prices:
Free BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty; and children under 12
$8 Adults (18 – 64)
$5 Seniors, disabled persons, non–UC Berkeley students, and young adults (13 – 17)
Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month.
Admission to education programs is included in museum admission unless otherwise indicated.
Special Admission during Mahjong:
$12 General Admission
Free UC Berkeley students, faculty, and BAM/PFA members
$7 Non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 and over), disabled persons, young adults (13 – 17)
$5 Per person for group tours (to arrange a group tour, call (510) 642-1002)
Free For all, First Thursday of each month. Admission to the MATRIX Gallery will be free during the run of Mahjong.
Recorded Information (24-hour): (510) 642-0808
TTY: (510) 642-8734
Website: bampfa.berkeley.edu
Pacific Film Archive Theater
Location:
2575 Bancroft Way, between College and Telegraph on the UC Berkeley campus.
Theater Admission Prices:
Single Feature
$5.50 BAM/PFA members, UC Berkeley students
$9.50 Adults (18 – 64)
$6.50 UC Berkeley staff and faculty, non–UC Berkeley students, seniors, disabled persons, youth (17 & under)
Additional Feature
$4 All patrons
Box Office Hours: The box opens office one hour before the first showtime of the day.
Purchase PFA tickets online at: bampfa.berkeley.edu
Charge-by-Phone: (510) 642-5249
Recorded Information (24-hour): (510) 642-1124
TTY: (510) 642-8734
Website: bampfa.berkeley.edu
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