Week of January 26, 2025

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Sunday, January 26

Sunday, January 26, 2025
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, January 26, 2025
1:00 PM
Oakland artist Anjelica Colliard (Jellicore) shares a wide range of their favorite techniques for mixed media drawing using materials like soft and oil pastel, gouache and watercolor, and ink and crayon to create dynamic, vibrant, fantastical scenes.

Included with admission

Series Workshops
Sunday, January 26, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Sunday, January 26, 2025
3:00 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)
Novelist Marcello Mastroianni and his wife, Jeanne Moreau, play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Michelangelo Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
6:00 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1953,
(147 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Four desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand. 

Monday, January 27

Tuesday, January 28

Wednesday, January 29

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
7:00 PM
Sérgio Toledo,
Brazil,
1986,
(88 mins)
One of the earliest portrayals in world cinema of a transmasculine character, a rarely seen Brazilian drama based on the life of the Brazilian trans poet Anderson Bigode Herzer.
In Conversation
  • Jenni Olson
    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
  • Julian Carter
    Julian Carter is the author of Dances of Time and Tenderness and The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America. He teaches at California College of the Arts.
  • João Federici
    João Federici is a Brazilian-American producer and curator. He works at CAFILM as Mill Valley Film Festival’s Senior Programmer and curator for special series, such as CAFILM Pride.

Thursday, January 30

Thursday, January 30, 2025
7:00 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
France, Netherlands,
2024,
(145 mins)

Bay Area Premiere

Working with a crew of cinematographers positioned in different regions of Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa created a film that recounts the actions of the people who have resisted oppression on a daily basis since the Russian invasion began.
  • Sergei Loznitsa
    In Person

Friday, January 31

Friday, January 31, 2025
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Friday, January 31, 2025
2:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Netherlands, Ukraine,
2021,
(121 mins)
Based entirely on archival footage (official documentation mixed with private footage shot by soldiers and civilians), Sergei Loznitsa’s film recounts the massacre of 33,771 Jews in the Babi Yar Ravine in Kyiv.
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Nicholas Baer
    Nicholas Baer is an Assistant Professor of German at UC Berkeley.
Friday, January 31, 2025
7:00 PM
Quentin Tarantino,
United States,
2015,
(168 mins)
Quentin Tarantino’s post–Civil War whodunit entangles a group of strangers in a tense, claustrophobic racial standoff in a snowbound stagecoach lodge in Wyoming.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.

Saturday, February 1

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Sign up by February 1, 2025, to receive a copy of the print mailing (limited edition; first come, first served)

Occasioned by the presentation of Elizabeth Murray’s monumental work Joanne in the Canyon (1991) in the exhibition Making Their Mark, BAMPFA’s Art Lab collaborates with the Estate of Elizabeth Murray to create a special edition risograph print mailing. Sign up online to receive a copy of this limited edition print while supplies last!

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Saturday, February 1, 2025
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Saturday, February 1, 2025
2:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Germany,
2022,
(109 mins)
An intense work of archival documentary filmmaking inspired by W. G. Sebold’s essay on the devastation of World War II urban bombing campaigns.
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Deniz Göktürk
    Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
6:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Lithuania, Netherlands,
2019,
(135 mins)
Archival imagery of the news and state funeral for Joseph Stalin. “This expertly constructed rearranging of archival and propaganda footage is the rare film to merit immediate status as a canonical work” (Jay Weissberg, Variety).
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Anne Nesbet
    Anne Nesbet is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.