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Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA (2026)

07/30/2026

Stanley Kubrick’s THE KILLING screens at BAMPFA August 5 🏇

Stanley Kubrick’s high-voltage 1956 thriller stars Sterling Hayden as an ex-con masterminding a racetrack holdup with a crew of desperate, compromised men. Taut, cool, and intricately structured, the film helped establish Kubrick as a major director and remains one of the great heist movies. 🎬

See THE KILLING as part of “A Complete Stanley Kubrick” next Wednesday. Tickets and details are at bampfa.org/kubrick or the link in bio. 🎟️

07/29/2026

Opening August 5: “Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection”

This yearlong exhibition invites visitors to think about utopia not as an escape from the world, but as an ongoing project shaped by spiritual, social, environmental, and political possibility. Drawing from BAMPFA’s collection across cultures and centuries, the exhibition considers how artists have imagined better realities, rethought inherited narratives of progress, and claimed spaces of liberation. "Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection" is curated by Tausif Noor, Curatorial Associate, and Elaine Yau, Associate Curator and Academic Liaison.

1. Francisco Goya, Por qué? (Why?), from Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War), 1819-1823. Etching, reinforced with aquatint; 6 x 8 in. (plate). Gift of Mrs. Louise Mendelsohn, 1970.103.32.
2. Mark Rothko, Number 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray), 1961. Oil on canvas; 92 3/4 x 81 1/8 in. Museum purchase, 1965.33.
3. AMBOS, Con Nuestros Manos Construimos Deidades (With Our Hands We Build Deities), 2023. Woven rope and fabric, embroidery, ceramics; 48 x 48 x 120 in. Contributing artists: Karla Aguiñiga, Tanya Aguiñiga, Natalie M. Godinez, Annie Alarcon, Juan Villavicencio, Sergio Soberanes, Katie Mejia, AMBOS Ceramics students at Jardin de las Mariposas (TJ, MX) and Casa Arcoiris (TJ, MX); Public workshop participants in Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana. Courtesy of AMBOS and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: Joshua White.

Learn more at the link in bio.

07/28/2026

We are deeply saddened by the passing of pioneering artist Betye Saar, who died at the age of ninety-nine.

BAMPFA has been honored to care for Saar’s landmark 1972 assemblage “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima” since the year it was created. Transforming a racist stereotype into a forceful image of resistance and self-determination, the work became an icon of the Black Arts Movement and has remained one of the most beloved and frequently requested artworks in BAMPFA’s collection.

Saar’s extraordinary practice transformed found objects and charged historical imagery into profound meditations on race, memory, family, spirituality, and liberation. Her influence reaches across generations, and her vision will continue to inspire artists and audiences around the world.

Slide 1: Jori Finkel for The New York Times
Slide 2: Betye Saar, “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima” (assemblage, 11 3/4 x 8 x 2 3/4 in), 1972.

07/28/2026

L’AVVENTURA screens July 30 at BAMPFA. 🎬

Michelangelo Antonioni’s modernist landmark begins with a mystery and then does something much stranger: it lets the mystery drift away, leaving behind a world of restless desire, alienation, and startling visual beauty. Monica Vitti’s performance helped usher in a new kind of screen presence—cool, searching, enigmatic, and impossible to forget.

Part of “Summer with Monica Vitti,” L’AVVENTURA screens in a 4K digital restoration next Thursday. Tickets and details are at bampfa.org/monicavitti or the link in bio. 🎟️

07/27/2026

Final month to see Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: “Life on the CAPS” 🐊

On view through August 23, this exhibition marks the California debut of Bennani’s complete “Life on the CAPS” trilogy. Set on a fictional island where migrants are interned after teleporting across borders, the videos combine live action, vivid animation, documentary textures, and sharp humor to imagine a future that feels playful, unsettling, and very close to our own. Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: "Life on the CAPS" is curated by Omar Jason Farah, Curatorial Assistant. 🎥

Don’t miss your chance to spend time with Bennani’s layered world this summer. Learn more at bampfa.org/bennani 🌊

07/26/2026

There’s still time to catch a french noir this summer at BAMPFA 🕶️

“French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light” continues through August 28, tracing the French films that helped define and complicate the language of noir—from poetic realism and classic crime cinema to the Nouvelle Vague and beyond. Still ahead are shadowy streets, fatal choices, poison pen letters, doomed romances, criminal schemes, and some of the sharpest style in cinema history. 🎬

[SOLD OUT] Fri / Jul 24 @ 7 PM — MISSISSIPPI MERMAID by François Truffaut, France, 1969
Sun / Jul 26 @ 7 PM — LE CORBEAU by Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1943
Wed / Jul 29 @ 7 PM — PANIQUE by Julien Duvivier, France, 1946
Sun / Aug 2 @ 4:30 PM — THE CLOCKMAKER OF ST. PAUL by Bertrand Tavernier, France, 1974
Thu / Aug 6 @ 7 PM — LE TROU by Jacques Becker, France, 1960
Sun / Aug 9 @ 7 PM — THE SEVENTH JUROR by Georges Lautner, France, 1962
Wed / Aug 19 @ 7 PM — BOB LE FLAMBEUR by Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1956
Thu / Aug 27 @ 7 PM — PURPLE NOON by René Clément, France, 1960
Fri / Aug 28 @ 7 PM — ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS by Louis Malle, France, 1958

Browse the remaining lineup and plan your next noir at bampfa.org/frenchnoir or the link in bio. 🚬

07/25/2026

Cathy Park Hong, author and UC Berkeley professor, recalls the pivotal moment when she discovered the poetry of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and realizing that she was part of a Korean American lineage of writers and poets that included Cha and her professor Myung Mi Kim.

This clip was part of a conversation with writers Cathy Park Hong, Brandon Shimoda, and Divya Victor as part of our exhibition "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings."

📺 Watch the full recording of the talk at the link in bio.

07/24/2026

Still ahead in “A Complete Stanley Kubrick” at BAMPFA. 🎬

The summer retrospective continues through August 30, with major works still to come on the big screen.

[SOLD OUT] Sun / Jul 26 @ 3 PM — THE SHINING by Stanley Kubrick, US/UK, 1980
Fri / Jul 31 @ 7 PM — THE SHINING by Stanley Kubrick, US/UK, 1980
Wed / Aug 5 @ 7 PM — THE KILLING by Stanley Kubrick, US, 1956
Sat / Aug 8 @ 2:30 PM — SPARTACUS by Stanley Kubrick, US, 1960
Wed / Aug 12 @ 7 PM — FULL METAL JACKET by Stanley Kubrick, US/UK, 1987
Sat / Aug 15 @ 6:30 PM — DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB by Stanley Kubrick, US/UK, 1964
[SOLD OUT] Sun / Aug 16 @ 5 PM — 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY by Stanley Kubrick, US/UK, 1968
Thu / Aug 20 @ 7 PM — A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by Steven Spielberg, US/UK, 2001
[SOLD OUT] Sat / Aug 22 @ 6:30 PM — BARRY LYNDON by Stanley Kubrick, US/UK, 1975
Sun / Aug 23 @ 7 PM — 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY by Stanley Kubrick, US/UK, 1968
Sun / Aug 30 @ 7 PM — EYES WIDE SHUT by Stanley Kubrick, US/UK, 1999

Across noir, horror, war, science fiction, satire, and historical epic, Kubrick’s films remain exacting, unsettling, and built for the theater. 🪐

Browse the remaining screenings and make your plan at bampfa.org/kubrick or the link in bio. 🎟️

07/23/2026

It is the final week to see “Countermyths: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition” 🎓

On view through July 26, this year’s exhibition features work by Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Eleni Maria Berg, Itzli OCIEL, Kristiana Chan 薧礼醑, Swaleha Masude, and Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán, marking the culmination of two years of rigorous research, experimentation, and collaborative study in UC Berkeley’s MFA program. 🖼️

Make time to see the show before it closes this Sunday. Link in bio. 📚

07/22/2026

A rare screening of THE STORY OF YANAGAWA WATERWAYS is at BAMPFA on July 25 🌊

Part of “Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata”, this contemplative live-action documentary explores the canals, dams, waterways, and ecological history of Yanagawa, Japan. Studio Ghibli’s only live-action film, it is a patient and moving reflection on sustainability, community, and what it means to live with water rather than against it. 🌿

Join us for this big-screen presentation next Saturday, July 25 at 3 PM. Tickets and details are at bampfa.org/takahata or the link in bio. 🎟️

07/21/2026

Experience THE SHINING at BAMPFA 🪓

Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror masterpiece returns to the big screen in a 4K restoration, with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall trapped inside the Overlook Hotel’s impossible spaces. While our special screening and book signing with Lee Unkrich on July 26th at 3 PM is sold out, THE SHINING screens again on July 31st at 7 PM without a guest. 📚

Join us for “A Complete Stanley Kubrick.” Details are at bampfa.org/kubrick the link in bio. 🎬

07/20/2026

We’re excited to be exhibiting at SF Art Book Fair this week! 📖

Join us at Minnesota Street Project Foundation alongside more than 130 independent publishers, artists, and designers for a weekend devoted to art books, editions, zines, and print culture. Find BAMPFA at booth D09, where you can spin our prize wheel for a chance to win complimentary gallery and film passes, plus limited-edition RISO prints while supplies last. 🎡

Thursday, July 23: 6–10 PM
Friday, July 24: 11 AM–6 PM
Saturday, July 25: 11 AM–6 PM
Sunday, July 26: 11 AM–5 PM

Free and open to the public. Big thanks to Alayna Tinney and the Art Lab for their printing expertise. 🖨️

07/19/2026

Coming up July 22, TERESA THE THIEF at BAMPFA. 🎬

Part of “Summer with Monica Vitti”, Carlo Di Palma’s directorial debut casts Vitti as Teresa, a war widow and single mother whose hard life in Rome takes a strange turn after she is caught robbing an apartment. What follows is a bittersweet mix of melodrama and comic picaresque, with Vitti turning desperation, cool, and comic timing into something unmistakably her own. 👜

See this 4K restoration on the big screen next Wednesday, July 22 at 7 PM. Learn more at bampfa.org/monicavitti or at the link in bio. 🍿

07/19/2026

Spend some time in Meriem Bennani’s “Life on the CAPS" 🐊

This exhibition brings together the complete trilogy of Bennani’s acclaimed video project, blending live action, animation, documentary language, cartoons, social media, and speculative fiction into a vivid world of its own. Set on a fictional island where migrants are interned after teleporting across borders, the trilogy is sharp and deeply attuned to the resilience of diasporic life. Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: "Life on the CAPS" is curated by Omar Jason Farah, Curatorial Assistant. 🎥

See the California debut of “Life on the CAPS” at BAMPFA through August 23. Learn more and get tickets at bampfa.org/bennani or the link in bio. 🌊

07/18/2026

EYES WIDE SHUT at BAMPFA 👁️

Stanley Kubrick’s film follows a married couple, played by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, through a psychological landscape of desire, fantasy, secrecy, and social performance. Screening as part of “A Complete Stanley Kubrick", this presentation on an imported uncensored 35mm archival print is not one to miss. 🎞️

While the screening on July 23 at 7 PM is sold out, there are still tickets for the screening on August 30 at 7 PM! Details are at bampfa.org/kubrick or the link in bio. 🌙

07/16/2026

Congratulations to BAMPFA Chief Curator, Margot Norton, recipient of a 2026 Spring Cycle Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Research Fellowship!

Following Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The foundation manages an innovative and dynamic grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the foundation has given $350 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations around the country and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.

This grant will enable international research for a major group exhibition at BAMPFA.

📸: Argenis Apolinario

07/14/2026

Join us for THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA at BAMPFA 🌸

Isao Takahata’s 2013 film adapts a classic Japanese folktale about a mysterious princess discovered inside a stalk of bamboo. With its breathtaking watercolor and charcoal animation, the film moves between wonder, humor, beauty, and heartbreak with a freedom that feels handmade in every frame. 🎬

Part of “Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata”, THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA is a luminous big-screen experience. Screening July 18 at 3:30 PM and August 28 at 4 PM.

Tickets and details are at bampfa.org/takahata the link in bio. 🎟️

07/13/2026

Coming up August 2 at 1:30 PM: Reading and Book Signing: “A Language of Stitches: The Radical Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins” with Constance Moore. 🧵

Artist, educator, and illustrator Constance Moore joins us at BAMPFA to read from her newly released picture-book biography of Rosie Lee Tompkins, the groundbreaking quilt artist whose work is deeply connected to BAMPFA’s collection. Moore will also sign copies of the book after the program. 📚

This event is included with gallery admission, children under 13 bring in an adult chaperone for free. Families who purchase the book at the event will receive 10% off the cover price. Details are at the link in bio. 🖼️

07/12/2026

Artist spotlight: Swaleha Masude ✨

In “Countermyths: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition," Swaleha Masude presents “A Young Woman's Guide to Attaining Sainthood”, a multimedia installation that brings together textiles, tilework, and video to explore the relationship between spirituality, place, and ritual. Masude invites viewers to consider how the spaces we inhabit, both architectural and societal, shape our spiritual and meditative practices.

For emerging artists, Masude emphasizes the importance of staying rooted in the heart of your practice: remembering why you're making the work, even as it grows in complexity.

See Swaleha Masude's work in “Countermyths: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition," now on view at BAMPFA through July 26. Learn more at the link in bio. 🖼️

07/11/2026

Step inside “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing." 🌿

Take a look at BAMPFA’s major retrospective of Hassinger’s work, which brings together sculpture, performance, video, and installation from the early 1970s to the present. Across the exhibition, everyday materials become gestures of care, movement, memory, and connection. 🖼️

See “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” at BAMPFA through November 29. Learn more at bampfa.org/hassinger or the link in bio. 📸

07/10/2026

There’s still plenty of summer left with Monica Vitti. 🎭

Our series “Summer with Monica Vitti” continues through August 13, bringing together a wide-ranging selection of Vitti’s work on the big screen, from her iconic performances in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni to the exuberant comedies that show off her brilliance as a physical performer, comic presence, and fearless screen personality. 🎬

Thu / Jul 16 @ 7 PM — HELP ME, MY LOVE by Alberto Sordi, Italy, 1969
Wed / Jul 22 @ 7 PM — TERESA THE THIEF by Carlo Di Palma, Italy, 1973
Sat / Jul 25 @ 6:30 PM — I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW by Alberto Sordi, Italy, 1982
Thu / Jul 30 @ 7 PM — L’AVVENTURA by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, France, 1960
Sun / Aug 2 @ 7 PM — LA NOTTE by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, France, 1961
Sat / Aug 8 @ 7 PM — L’ECLISSE by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, France, 1962
Thu / Aug 13 @ 7 PM — RED DESERT by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, France, 1964

Still ahead are many films that celebrate Vitti’s wit, mystery, and singular magnetism. Browse the remaining screenings at bampfa.org/monicavitti or the link in bio. 🍿

07/09/2026

Experience GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES at BAMPFA. 🎬

Part of “Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata," this devastating 1988 film follows two children struggling to survive in Japan during the final days of World War II. It remains one of animation’s most powerful achievements: intimate, unsparing, and unforgettable in its vision of wartime loss. 🕯️

See Isao Takahata’s masterpiece on the big screen July 11 at 1:30 PM, or August 23 at 4:30 PM. Get tickets at bampfa.org/takahata or at the link in bio. 🎟️

07/08/2026

Coming to BAMPFA this August: Campus Collaborations / “Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces”. ✨

Opening August 12, this exhibition is the first US retrospective of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld. Through printmaking, collage, video, and site-specific installation, Rosenfeld used deceptively simple gestures to challenge the militarization of public space—and to insist on imagination as a form of resistance. 🖼️ The exhibition is cocurated by Natalia Brizuela, Professor of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley, and Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, with support from Teiger Foundation and the collaboration of the Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld. The presentation at BAMPFA is organized by Anthony Graham, Senior Curator.

Learn more about this major upcoming exhibition at the link in bio. 📣

Images 📸
1. Photo documentation of Lotty Rosenfeld, Una Milla de Cruces Sobre el Pavimento (One mile of crosses on the pavement), 1979. Art action in front of the Moneda Palace, Santiago de Chile, 1979. Courtesy Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld
2. Lotty Rosenfeld, La Ultima Cena (The last supper), etching on paper, 1973. Courtesy Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld
3. No+ Porque Somos + (No more because we are more), advertisement for International Women’s Day, Chile, 1986. © Copyright C.A.D.A. (Colectivo Acciones de Arte). Courtesy Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos
4. Lotty Rosenfeld, Ché from the series El Obstinado Ritual de La Memoria (The stubborn ritual of memory), print on paper with thread, 2007. Courtesy Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld

07/08/2026

“In my family, I think we have guarded our passports more than we have guarded each other.” Divya Victor’s first experience with English literature was as “documentary detritus” flying around her childhood home, which influenced her engagement with all text—including bureaucratic documents: immigration paperwork, green card applications, passport applications.

This clip was part of a conversation with writers Cathy Park Hong, Brandon Shimoda, and Divya Victor as part of our exhibition "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings."

📺 Watch the full recording of the talk at the link in bio.

07/07/2026

Coming this August: “Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler: Film Offerings” 🎞️

BAMPFA welcomes Bay Area filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler for four programs of their work, including Dorsky’s HOURS FOR JEROME, PARTS 1 & 2, ALAYA, and ARBORETUM CYCLE, as well as Hiler’s WORDS OF MERCURY and his latest film, CARELESS PASSAGE.

“Both Dorsky and Hiler are articulate about their approach to filmmaking, sharing what motivates each project and, in turn, how their view of life and the world have grown” – Susan Oxtoby, Director of Film and Senior Film Curator. 🌾

Fri / Aug 14 @ 7 PM — HOURS FOR JEROME, PARTS 1 & 2
Sun / Aug 16 @ 1:30 PM — FIVE FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY
Fri / Aug 21 @ 7 PM — FOUR FILMS BY JEROME HILER
Sat / Aug 29 @ 3 PM — ARBORETUM CYCLE

The series runs August 14–29. Browse the lineup and start planning at bampfa.org/dorskyhiler or the link in bio. 🎬

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