📽️ This Week in Film:
Jul 30 @ 7 PM – Él
Jul 31 @ 7 PM – Untamed
Aug 1 @ 7 PM – Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer
Aug 2 @ 4 PM – Gosford Park
Aug 2 @ 7 PM – Summer with Monika
Aug 3 @ 4 PM – Ivan’s Childhood
Aug 3 @ 6:30 PM – 3 Women

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📽️ This Week in Film:
Jul 23 @ 7 PM – The Long Goodbye (sold out!)
Jul 24 @ 7 PM – The Phenix City Story
Jul 25 @ 7 PM – A Wife’s Heart
Jul 26 @ 5 PM – Elvira Madigan
Jul 27 @ 7 PM – Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

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📽️This Week in Film:
Jul 16 @ 7 PM – Floating Clouds
Jul 17 @ 7 PM – Nostalghia
Jul 18 @ 7 PM – Nightmare Alley
Jul 19 @ 5 PM – The Count of the Old Town
Jul 19 @ 7 PM – Flowing
Jul 20 @ 4:30 PM – A Photographic Memory
Jul 20 @ 6:30 PM – The Sacrifice

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Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman One of the descriptions that seems to follow wherever the name of Mikio Naruse is mentioned is that, after Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, and Kenji Mizoguchi, he is the “fourth great” master of Japanes...

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on @bampfa.bsky.social's sprawling Mikio Naruse retrospective, The Auteur as Salaryman, which opens Thursday, July 3 with his best-known film, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, on 35mm: www.screenslate.com/articles/mik...

Check out what is happening @bampfa.bsky.social (2155 Center Street)! 🖼️ 📽️

More Info: bampfa.org

To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection (August 14, 2024 - July 6, 2025)

Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga: Border Fall Height (January 18 - July 13)

📽️This Week in Film:
Jul 9 @ 7 PM – Stalker
Jul 10 @ 7 PM – Hideko the Bus Conductor
Jul 11 @ 7 PM – Miss Julie
Jul 12 @ 4:30 PM – Lightning
Jul 12 @ 7 PM – Touch of Evil
Jul 13 @ 4 PM – Intermezzo
Jul 13 @ 7 PM – Images

Get tickets at bampfa.org/film

Intermezzo Gustaf Molander can’t be credited with discovering Ingrid Bergman, but he may be most responsible for shaping her star image. Across their six films together, she moved from supporting player (Swedenh...

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on Gustaf Molander's Intermezzo, the movie that convinced David O. Selznick to bring Ingrid Bergman to Hollywood and which was remade for her first American film, screening Sunday, July 13, at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/int...

📽️This Week in Film:
Jul 2 @ 7 PM – They Live by Night
Jul 3 @ 7 PM – When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Jul 4 @ 5 PM – Nashville
Jul 5 @ 4:30 PM – Leave Her to Heaven
Jul 5 @ 7 PM – Mirror
Jul 6 @ 4:30 PM – Vermiglio
Jul 6 @ 7 PM – That Cold Day in the Park
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📽️This Week in Film:
Jun 25 @ 7 PM – Detour
Jun 26 @ 7 PM – Andrei Rublev
Jun 27 @ 7 PM – Films by Bruce Conner: Program 2
Jun 28 @ 4 PM – A Photographic Memory
Jun 28 @ 6 PM – Short Cuts
Jun 29 @ 5 PM – Él
Jun 29 @ 7 PM – Solaris

🎟️https://wfly.co/Gx12J

Got to see this fantastic exhibit at @bampfa.bsky.social #art #textiles #quilt

This #juneteenth morning on @kqednews.kqed.org RADIO… (8:22AM)
We’re talking about this new quilts exhibition at @bampfa.bsky.social …and a little about the quilts my Grandma Evelyn made for me.

Quilt Documentation Day Preserve your African American family history with the African American Quilt Documentation Study Group. Quilt documentation creates a permanent record for historians and researchers to analyze a quil...

And finally, #GenHour (I've been saving up) in the context of #Juneteenth, #FamilyHistory, #Genealogy, — and #Storytelling for anyone in the #SFBay area, there's an extraordinary talk planned for a week from Saturday:
bampfa.org/event/quilt-...

Thank you, @bampfa.bsky.social

📽️This Week in Film:
Jun 18 @ 7 PM—Vermiglio
Jun 19 @ 7 PM—McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Jun 20 @ 7 PM—Ivan’s Childhood
Jun 21 @ 4 PM—Vivien’s Wild Ride
Jun 21 @ 7 PM—The Reckless Moment
Jun 22 @ 4:30 PM—The Steamroller and the Violin
Jun 22 @ 7 PM—3 Women

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Bay Area museum defies federal funding cuts with powerful African American quilt show “Routed West” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives showcases African American quilts and history, thriving in the face of a funding setback.

SF Chronicle review of the @bampfa.bsky.social Routed West quilt show in Berkeley. Prepare to be wonderstruck.

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California
@bampfa.bsky.social

Kaleidoscopic overwhelming room installation. Silver metallic wall paper. Double ring quilt on bed, mats on floor, curtains around vanity. Movement and color everywhere. More is more joy.

Remarkable Double Wedding Ring Room c. 1970 created by Isadora Whitehead. She pieced the quilts during in between moments at her job as a bus driver. Friends donated fabric. She embroidered their names on the quilts. In Routed West at @bampfa.bsky.social

Legacy of Chiura Obata, artist and former UC Berkeley professor, endures on campus - Berkeley News Obata, detained in a World War II internment camp for people of Japanese descent, urged turning to "Great Nature" to transcend differences and difficulty.

Well-known artist Chiura Obata urged turning to "Great Nature" to transcend differences and difficulty. Today, his legacy is shared in local classrooms and at historical societies, libraries, museums and at UC Berkeley, where Obata taught for 20 years. news.berkeley.edu/2025/06/11/l...

Red, white, and blue mostly vertical rectangular pieces moving into an increasingly faster rhythm left to right. A few squares turned horizontally for variation. Real fun. Best seen whole.

Close up of quilted square pieces sewn on diagonal lines adding yet another linear dimension to the rectilinear color patch composition

Compositional brilliance Im this quilt at @bampfa.bsky.social’s Routed West African American quilt exhibit.

Pieced by Cora Lee Hall Brown, 1981. Quilted by Willia Ette Graham.

Quilt Exhibit at Berkeley Museum Chronicles Black Lives in California KQED's Forum · Episode

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@bampfa.bsky.social associate curator Elaine Yau and a contemporary quiltmaker in Oakland Ora Clay, spoke about the new quilt exhibit at the Berkeley Museum.

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Quilt Exhibit at Berkeley Museum Chronicles Black Lives in California | KQED We'll talk to the curator and a contemporary quiltmaker in Oakland about the exhibit.

🧶 TUES at 9AM:

We're speaking with @bampfa.bsky.social associate curator Elaine Yau and a contemporary quiltmaker in Oakland about the new quilt exhibit at the Berkeley Museum.

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Bruce Conner In an age of algorithmic feeds and ragebait, the multidisciplinary artist Bruce Conner’s films feel less like artifacts and more like prophecies. American culture has always commodified dissent. Long ...

This week, Cat Beckstrand surveys @bampfa.bsky.social's two-part survey of Bruce Conner's era-defining short films, with Part 1 screening this Sunday, June 15, and Part 2 on Friday, June 27: www.screenslate.com/articles/bru...

At BAMPFA, the African American Quilt Show We’ve Been Waiting For A group show of 100 quilts by African American artists absolutely dazzles.

TLDR; I love this show, which opens June 7 at @bampfa.bsky.social:

www.kqed.org/arts/1397711...

Dive Into Noir and Drama: BAMPFA’s Summer 2025 Film Highlights The Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive is celebrating Robert Altman's 100th birthday with a film series featuring his classics, while also offering a documentary about Vivien Hillgrove, a Swedis...

If you can get to Berkeley's famed @bampfa.bsky.social this summer, you can catch everything from a celebration of Altman's centenary to the amazing films of Mikio Naruse. #Filmsky #films tinyurl.com/y3d3hm8k

In happier news: Was energized and inspired yesterday at opening reception of @bampfa.bsky.social’s new exhibit, “Routing West: 20thC African-American Quilts in California.” My cousin, @prosperodream.bsky.social, is a Contributor! Here is her installment: it depicts our maternal Grandma….

📽️This Week in Film:
Jun 6 @ 7 PM – The Breaking Point
Jun 7 @ 4:30 PM – The Hitch-Hiker
Jun 7 @ 7 PM – Desert Fury
Jun 8 @ 4 PM – Pursued
Jun 8 @ 7 PM – Vivien’s Wild Ride

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Burt Lancaster in Lewis Allen’s DESERT FURY (1947)

“In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City” opens Friday @bampfa.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Four Generations of Quilts Come Out of the Family ‘Treasure Chest’ The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, will be on view at the Berkeley Art Museum.

What a wonderful treasure to have right here in Berkeley! I hope you plan to spend some time at @bampfa.bsky.social and see the exhibit in person.

FREE Community Day is Sunday, June 8, the first day of the exhibit!

We've got quilts at @bampfa.bsky.social! Pao Houa Her at @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social (and its environs)! SFAI at SFMOMA! And Rose B. Simpson art cars at @deyoungmuseum.bsky.social! I barely scratched the surface.

This Berkeley MFA exhibition probes how museums and institutions exclude disabled bodies - Berkeley News Priyanka D’Souza's Master of Fine Arts thesis installation, "b. Call in sick," echoes UC Berkeley's long history of free speech and disability activism.

Priyanka D’Souza's Master of Fine Arts thesis installation, "b. Call in sick," echoes UC Berkeley's long history of free speech and disability activism. news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/14/t...

When Ju Ly Ban first arrived at the @bampfa.bsky.social, Theresa’s letters spoke to her most. Her correspondences seemed to breathe, their voices rippling across time.

The letters that follow continue this conversation.
centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...