Back to paintings soon for the Choose 20 series. Here are two lovely textile art pieces (Joining, left, and Resurrection, right) by Lee ShinJa, seen today at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)
January 19, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Back to paintings soon for the Choose 20 series. Here are two lovely textile art pieces (Joining, left, and Resurrection, right) by Lee ShinJa, seen today at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)
BAMPFA opens largest-ever retrospective of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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The 1960s and 1970s were heady years on the UC Berkeley campus: The university and its environs were…
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The 1960s and 1970s were heady years on the UC Berkeley campus: The university and its environs were…
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The 1960s and 1970s were heady years on the UC Berkeley campus: The university and its environs were roiled by fierce demonstrations against the Vietnam War
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January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
BAMPFA opens largest-ever retrospective of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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The 1960s and 1970s were heady years on the UC Berkeley campus: The university and its environs were…
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The 1960s and 1970s were heady years on the UC Berkeley campus: The university and its environs were…
Laura Truffaut relocated from Paris to Berkeley after attending the Pacific Film Archive in 1978 and will present nine of Francois Truffaut's films at BAMPFA.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Laura Truffaut relocated from Paris to Berkeley after attending the Pacific Film Archive in 1978 and will present nine of Francois Truffaut's films at BAMPFA.
Laura Truffaut will introduce nine of the French New Wave filmmaker's movies during a series at BAMPFA in Berkeley.
François Truffaut’s daughter, a Berkeley resident since 1978, will introduce 9 of his films at BAMPFA
Laura Truffaut will introduce nine of the French New Wave filmmaker's movies during a series at BAMPFA in Berkeley.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Laura Truffaut will introduce nine of the French New Wave filmmaker's movies during a series at BAMPFA in Berkeley.
And the weekly round-up, featuring Ethan Iverson introing Elevator to the Gallows at the Vogue, Peter Watkins' Evening Land at Bathers Library, Jennifer Reeves at Shapehisfters and SFCinematheque, essential Wiseman at BAMPFA, Noir City at the Grand lake, and more:
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JANUARY 12, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY
Monday, Ethan Iverson introduces Elevator to the Gallows at the Vogue, the Smith Rafael's series of International Oscar nominees continues, The First Wives Club is at the Alamo Drafthouse Mountain Vie...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
And the weekly round-up, featuring Ethan Iverson introing Elevator to the Gallows at the Vogue, Peter Watkins' Evening Land at Bathers Library, Jennifer Reeves at Shapehisfters and SFCinematheque, essential Wiseman at BAMPFA, Noir City at the Grand lake, and more:
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Also: Tours of the exhibition “Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design” at BAMPFA and music on Fourth Street.
Around Berkeley: Tamales karaoke; bike part swap meet; new youth poet laureate
Also: Tours of the exhibition “Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design” at BAMPFA and music on Fourth Street.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Also: Tours of the exhibition “Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design” at BAMPFA and music on Fourth Street.
godDAMMIT they have perfectly scheduled Wiseman's Blind at BAMPFA (4pm) and Humoresque on 35mm at Noir City (1:15 and 6) so that it is not possible to make both screenings
a woman in a white dress is playing a piano in a cave
ALT: a woman in a white dress is playing a piano in a cave
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January 2, 2026 at 7:26 PM
godDAMMIT they have perfectly scheduled Wiseman's Blind at BAMPFA (4pm) and Humoresque on 35mm at Noir City (1:15 and 6) so that it is not possible to make both screenings
Tuesday @ 9am: UC Berkeley Professor Hany Farid joins California Magazine Editor-in-Chief Pat Joseph onstage at BAMPFA buff.ly/dMolCzl
December 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Tuesday @ 9am: UC Berkeley Professor Hany Farid joins California Magazine Editor-in-Chief Pat Joseph onstage at BAMPFA buff.ly/dMolCzl
@bampfa.bsky.social reading this like
December 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
@bampfa.bsky.social reading this like
There's a great exhibition here at BAMPFA on quilts made by African American women in California. This was one of my favorites
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
There's a great exhibition here at BAMPFA on quilts made by African American women in California. This was one of my favorites
Yo, you can get lunch at BAMPFA again, for the first time in five years, and they have Hainanese chicken rice.
Why are they calling this "bar and bakery" they ought to hang out the "chicken rice here now" sign instead
Why are they calling this "bar and bakery" they ought to hang out the "chicken rice here now" sign instead
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Yo, you can get lunch at BAMPFA again, for the first time in five years, and they have Hainanese chicken rice.
Why are they calling this "bar and bakery" they ought to hang out the "chicken rice here now" sign instead
Why are they calling this "bar and bakery" they ought to hang out the "chicken rice here now" sign instead
New East Bay restaurant openings include Dough Zone, Kopi Bar at BAMPFA, Mediterranean cafe Uqbar, and HL Peninsula’s large Castro Valley dim sum location.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
New East Bay restaurant openings include Dough Zone, Kopi Bar at BAMPFA, Mediterranean cafe Uqbar, and HL Peninsula’s large Castro Valley dim sum location.
Stalker was looooong but the scan Berkeley showed was unreal. So lyrical, existential, ponderous. So influential!
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time | BAMPFA share.google/u7TgsRRD0wBG...
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time | BAMPFA share.google/u7TgsRRD0wBG...
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time
“Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” —Ingmar BergmanAndrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) d...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Stalker was looooong but the scan Berkeley showed was unreal. So lyrical, existential, ponderous. So influential!
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time | BAMPFA share.google/u7TgsRRD0wBG...
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time | BAMPFA share.google/u7TgsRRD0wBG...
Stalker was looooong but the scan Berkeley showed was unreal. So lyrical, existential, ponderous. So influential!
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time | BAMPFA share.google/u7TgsRRD0wBG...
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time | BAMPFA share.google/u7TgsRRD0wBG...
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time
“Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” —Ingmar BergmanAndrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) d...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Stalker was looooong but the scan Berkeley showed was unreal. So lyrical, existential, ponderous. So influential!
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time | BAMPFA share.google/u7TgsRRD0wBG...
Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time | BAMPFA share.google/u7TgsRRD0wBG...
And Alex Lei on My Undesirable Friends, Part 1: Last Air in Moscoe, Chapters 1-3: Crackdown, screening Saturday at the Roxie (and in February at BAMPFA if you can't make this one-off screening): www.screenslate.com/articles/my-...
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
“Four months before Russia started a full-scale war in Ukraine, I came to Moscow to make a film with my friend Anya,” director Julia Loktev narrates over footage shot of the Russian capital at night. ...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
And Alex Lei on My Undesirable Friends, Part 1: Last Air in Moscoe, Chapters 1-3: Crackdown, screening Saturday at the Roxie (and in February at BAMPFA if you can't make this one-off screening): www.screenslate.com/articles/my-...
Seat 14, row H of the main auditorium at BAMPFA is dedicated to “Everything.”
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Seat 14, row H of the main auditorium at BAMPFA is dedicated to “Everything.”
Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection (Sep 10 - Jul 12, 2026)
Frederick Wiseman: America at Work (Oct 18 - Feb 19, 2026)
Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you (Oct 30 - Jun 6, 2027)
Special Screenings (Dec 4 - 20)
Frederick Wiseman: America at Work (Oct 18 - Feb 19, 2026)
Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you (Oct 30 - Jun 6, 2027)
Special Screenings (Dec 4 - 20)
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection (Sep 10 - Jul 12, 2026)
Frederick Wiseman: America at Work (Oct 18 - Feb 19, 2026)
Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you (Oct 30 - Jun 6, 2027)
Special Screenings (Dec 4 - 20)
Frederick Wiseman: America at Work (Oct 18 - Feb 19, 2026)
Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you (Oct 30 - Jun 6, 2027)
Special Screenings (Dec 4 - 20)
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California | BAMPFA - On view through Sunday, November 30 - bampfa.org/program/rout...
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California
Get Tickets You can also purchase gallery tickets in person at our admissions desk. Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in th...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California | BAMPFA - On view through Sunday, November 30 - bampfa.org/program/rout...
Kopi (the cafe that just opened upstairs at BAMPFA) is very good! Having my second moringa latte in 48 hours.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Kopi (the cafe that just opened upstairs at BAMPFA) is very good! Having my second moringa latte in 48 hours.
Gonna see the BAMPFA quilt show AND Wicked this weekend! I feel so alive!
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Gonna see the BAMPFA quilt show AND Wicked this weekend! I feel so alive!
Went to #BAMPFA and saw this rad exhibit of historical African American quilts from the south to the west coast: bampfa.org/program/rout...
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Went to #BAMPFA and saw this rad exhibit of historical African American quilts from the south to the west coast: bampfa.org/program/rout...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m so grateful to be on this planet at the same time as David Byrne. You should have heard me scream when he said he visited the BAMPFA quilt show today too
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m so grateful to be on this planet at the same time as David Byrne. You should have heard me scream when he said he visited the BAMPFA quilt show today too
First Caroliner show in 13 years! Man I was literally just watching an old video of BAMPFA and missing that building, it was such an amazing spot it’s a tragedy they didn’t save it, seismic deathtrap notwithstanding
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
First Caroliner show in 13 years! Man I was literally just watching an old video of BAMPFA and missing that building, it was such an amazing spot it’s a tragedy they didn’t save it, seismic deathtrap notwithstanding
yoooo! always a pleasure to see them still rockin. i was fortunate enough to catch them at the BAMPFA in Berkeley when it was still in the cool brutalist building. great stuff
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
yoooo! always a pleasure to see them still rockin. i was fortunate enough to catch them at the BAMPFA in Berkeley when it was still in the cool brutalist building. great stuff
BAMPFA will be hosting a series curated by Marta Mateus, whose 2024 film FIRE OF WIND screens tonight. For this week’s review, Aret covers FIRE OF WIND & ANA, a 1982 film directed by António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro that will screen on Sunday Nov 16. inplainsightcinema.substack.com/p/34-anafire...
#34: Ana/Fire of Wind
Two Portuguese films each provide powerful and empathetic portraits of the communities they observe
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November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BAMPFA will be hosting a series curated by Marta Mateus, whose 2024 film FIRE OF WIND screens tonight. For this week’s review, Aret covers FIRE OF WIND & ANA, a 1982 film directed by António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro that will screen on Sunday Nov 16. inplainsightcinema.substack.com/p/34-anafire...