Elizabeth Ai: New Wave, 2024
Film Series
Documentary Voices
Through April 30
Tickets for all spring films are now on sale, including new entries in BAMPFA's annual selection of compelling nonfiction films, Documentary Voices. Upcoming special guests include Rick Prelinger, Jenni Olson, Elizabeth Ai, Pinar Öğrenci, and Sylvain George!
Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, 2024
Introduction: Ussama Makdisi
Made over five years by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, No Other Land chronicles the attempts of the inhabitants of Palestinian villages in the West Bank to resist the destruction of their homes and expropriation of their land by the Israeli military.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.
Series: Documentary Voices
The Threepenny Opera
Directed by G. W. Pabst, 1931
A classic adaptation of the Weimar-era theatrical sensation set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London with Kurt Weill’s irresistible score, The Threepenny Opera remains a benchmark of early sound cinema.
No Other Land
Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, 2024
Made over five years by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, No Other Land chronicles the attempts of the inhabitants of Palestinian villages in the West Bank to resist the destruction of their homes and expropriation of their land by the Israeli military.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.
Series: Documentary Voices
Summer Vacation 1999
Directed by Shusuke Kaneko, 1988
In Conversation: Jenni Olson, Karen Nakamura
35mm Archival Print
An ethereal Japanese melodrama with cult status about the shifting attractions between four boys (played by girls) at an isolated country school. Long unavailable, it is shown in a rare 35mm print.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.
Series: Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas
Directed by Marco Bellocchio, 1984
Marcello Mastroianni brings his heart to this powerful and haunting film, Marco Bellocchio’s adaptation of a Luigi Pirandello play. The score is by Astor Piazzolla.
Series: Marcello Mastroianni at 100
Directed by Kelly Reichardt, 2010
Introduction: Leila Weefur
BAMPFA Collection
Three strong women and an assortment of men head west on the Oregon Trail in Kelly Reichardt’s feminist Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan. Screening with Charles Burnett’s The Horse.
Directed by Béla Tarr, 1994
BAMPFA Collection
Béla Tarr’s extraordinary seven-and-a-half-hour epic Sátántangó. “Set on an entropic collective farm during the last years of Hungarian Communism, it’s a mordant, characteristically Eastern European tale of hapless peasants and charismatic swindlers. . . . Despair has never been more voluptuously precise” (Village Voice).
Shown with two intermissions, 20 mins and 40 mins.
Special admission: General: $30; BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $20
Series: Special Screenings
Directed by Dana Claxton, 2023
Introduction: Dmitri Brown
Drawing from and expanding on James Luna’s ISHI: The Archive Performance, Dana Claxton and members of the Ishi Collective interrogate the legacy of colonial museum practices through the tragic story of the last known survivor of the Yahi people.
Series: Documentary Voices
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