Early Music Film Festival

May 26-June 15, 2016

BAMPFA partners with the Berkeley Festival to celebrate Baroque music with concerts and films.

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Mark Morris Dance Group: L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato
Le roi danse
Tous les matins du monde

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Past Events

Sunday, June 5, 12 PM
Junior Recorder Society & Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra

BAMPFA

Free Admission
Sunday, June 5, 4 PM
¡Sacabuche! Intimate Voices—Seventeenth-Century Italian Motets With Trombones

BAMPFA

Past Films

Admeto
- Wednesday, June 15 7 PM
Agnes Méth
Germany, 2009
Bay Area Premiere!
Live to be a Hundred: A Year in the Life of Ton Koopman
- Friday, June 10 1 PM
Paul Hegeman
Netherlands, 2012
Bay Area Premiere!
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
- Friday, June 10 2:30 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Italy/West Germany, 1967
Imported Print!
Tous les matins du monde
- Thursday, June 9 2 PM
Alain Corneau
France, 1991
Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
- Thursday, May 26 7 PM
- Wednesday, June 8 2 PM
Vincent Bataillon
United States, 2014
Free Admission
Le roi danse
- Sunday, May 29 7:30 PM
Gérard Corbiau
France, 2000
Imported Print!

Early Music Film Festival

May 26-June 15, 2016

Every second year, Bay Area music lovers are treated to the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, a celebration of music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods that features local and international performers and attracts visitors from around the world. This year, BAMPFA partners with the Berkeley Festival to host concerts in BAMPFA’s Crane Forum on June 5 as well as a special series of films related to the Baroque music.

Our film series includes two distinctive interpretations of Handel’s theatrical music: His oratorio L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato, brilliantly reimagined and choreographed by Mark Morris, and his opera Admeto, re di Tessaglia, transposed to a Japanese samurai and Butoh dance setting by Doris Dörrie. Also featured are three fictionalized accounts of the lives of composers Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, and J. S. Bach. Each narrative treatment is radically different from the next—from the lavish excess of Gérard Corbiau’s Le roi danse to the detailed naturalism of Alain Corbeau’s Tous les matins du monde, to the perfect austerity of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach. This thematic series offers filmgoers and Baroque music aficionados alike a fine selection of cinema that exalts and reflects upon great composers and their works.

For a complete listing of concerts and events, visit the Berkeley Festival website, berkeleyfestival.org. The festival runs from June 5 to 12.

Susan Oxtoby, Senior Film Curator

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Copresented with Voices of Music and the Berkeley Festival. Thanks to David Tayler and Hanneke van Proosdij, Voices of Music, for assisting with the curation of this series, and to Robert Cole, Berkeley Festival, and Harvey Malloy, San Francisco Early Music Society, for their support of this project.