Sunday, March 19
Sunday, March 19, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017
1:30 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
Germany, Italy,
1969,
(98 mins)
Contemporary Rome is never far away in Straub-Huillet’s self-aware adaptation of a Corneille play about the Roman Empire. With short Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice.
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Erik Ulman
IntroductionErik Ulman, a composer and lecturer in music at Stanford University, writes on music, poetry, and film; he co-directs, with Marcia Scott, the arts organization Poto.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
2 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Sunday, March 19, 2017
2–4 PM
Join artist Hart for a talk and clothing customization workshop inspired by her 1974 book Native Funk and Flash: An Emerging Folk Art.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2017
Sunday, March 19, 2017
3-6:25 PM
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Sunday, March 19, 2017
4:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1966,
(95 mins)
Bresson found the perfect protagonist for this film in a donkey, “born, like all beings, to suffer and die needlessly and mysteriously. . . . A morbidly beautiful flower of cinematic art” (Andrew Sarris).
Sunday, March 19, 2017
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
United States,
1970,
(107 mins)
Antonioni filmed the sixties war between radical and straight cultures in LA and Death Valley. “A sorrowing, stranger’s-eye view of modern America” (Time).
Monday, March 20
Monday, March 20, 2017
6:30 PM
Andrew and Deborah Rappaport founded the Minnesota Street Project to offer affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists, and related nonprofits.
Free admission
Tuesday, March 21
Wednesday, March 22
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
12 PM
Pérez, an associate professor of ethnic studies and core faculty in performance studies at UC Berkeley, delves into the issues raised by Mendieta’s work and life.
Free
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Laura Pérez
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
12-2 & 5-6:20
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
1:30 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
3:10 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1977,
(170 mins)
In this portrait of a young Parisian whose personal crisis mirrors the ecological, political, and social disasters of his time, Bresson’s morally probing compassion meets the cynicism of the 1970s.
Special admission prices: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50. UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $10.50
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Jeffrey Skoller
Lecture
Series
In Focus: Robert Bresson
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
7 PM
Pedro Costa,
France, Portugal,
2001,
(104 mins)
Pedro Costa witnesses Straub and Huillet at work in the editing room in this “revelatory study of the moviemaking process” (The New Yorker).
Thursday, March 23
Thursday, March 23, 2017
12–2 & 5–6:20
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Thursday, March 23, 2017
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 23, 2017
7 PM
Howard Alk, Mike Gray,
United States,
1971,
(88 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
This impassioned political documentary investigates the killing of Black Panther Fred Hampton, and is an indictment of the Chicago police force.
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Waldo E. Martin
IntroductionMartin is the Alexander F. & May T. Morrison Professor of American History & Citizenship at UC Berkeley.
Friday, March 24
Friday, March 24, 2017
12–2 & 5–8:15
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Friday, March 24, 2017
4 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1940,
(127 mins)
Chaplin takes on that other famous guy with a small black moustache. “A time capsule, a timeless document and a profound work of conscience. . . . See it with a crowd” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Friday, March 24, 2017
4–9 PM
Friday, March 24, 2017
6:30–7:30 PM
Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Walking Tree’s workshop #SoundPOWAH introduces us to traditional and contemporary drum rhythms, dance, and songs from the African diaspora.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
7:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1966,
(95 mins)
Bresson found the perfect protagonist for this film in a donkey, “born, like all beings, to suffer and die needlessly and mysteriously. . . . A morbidly beautiful flower of cinematic art” (Andrew Sarris).
Saturday, March 25
Saturday, March 25, 2017
1 PM
Screening weekly in Theater Two, this award-winning documentary is the story of Tibetan refugee lama Tarthang Tulku and his efforts to preserve the sacred texts of his tradition.
Included with admission
Saturday, March 25, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2017
3-7:30 PM
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Saturday, March 25, 2017
4 PM
Corinna Belz,
Germany,
2011,
(97 mins)
This strikingly visual document of artist Gerhard Richter’s creative process is “a must-see for followers of contemporary painting” (Hollywood Reporter).
Saturday, March 25, 2017
6:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1967,
(80 mins)
Bresson’s portrayal of the life and death of a despised country girl is gritty yet lyrical and ultimately sublime. “In Mouchette, the world itself is a mystical stage” (J. Hoberman).
Saturday, March 25, 2017
8:15 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1969,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
Dominique Sanda stars in Bresson’s first color film, the simple, mysteriously resonant story of a young woman’s marriage and her suicide. Adapted from a Dostoyevsky short story.
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