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@bampfa.bsky.social · yesterday

Coming up August 9: THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING 🎬 Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel screens as part of “Made in Berkeley: The House That Zaentz Built,” with film editor Vivien Hillgrove in person. Link in bio. 🕰️

Promotional graphic for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, United States, 1988) featuring a shirtless man in a bowler hat beside a woman lying in bed.Film still from The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, United States, 1988) showing a man gently holding a woman's face as she raises one arm.Film still from The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, United States, 1988) showing a woman and man standing side by side in a crowd, looking offscreen.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 2d ago

This Thursday is Free First Thursday at BAMPFA. 🗓️ Gallery admission is free all day on August 6, with a Curators' Tour at 12 PM about our newest show, “Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection.” Plan your visit at the link in bio. 🎨

Entrance to Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing with exhibition title on walls and sculptures visible beyond.Five colorful carpenter's levels are arranged horizontally against a white background, each with visible bubble vials.Dark gallery with beanbag seating facing a large video projection of a green animated character speaking in Life on the CAPS.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spend August with “Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata” 🎬 Still ahead: MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS, POM POKO, MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, and THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA. Learn more at bampfa.org/takahata or the link in bio. 🍃

Illustrated child holding a bamboo pole and umbrella outside a weathered building. Promotional graphic for an Isao Takahata film series.Animated tanuki gather outdoors, smiling as one plays guitar and another harmonica, surrounded by fruit beneath autumn leaves.Animated girl crawls through a lush green forest tunnel with a creature peeking in the foreground.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 5d ago

Coming up August 7: WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN with Steven Okazaki in person. 🎥 The Berkeley-based, Academy Award–winning filmmaker’s documentary centers testimonies from hibakusha and survivors’ memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Link in bio. 🕯️

Promotional graphic for White Light/Black Rain (Steven Okazaki, United States, 2007) featuring a painted portrait with closed eyes and white hair blowing sideways.Film still from White Light/Black Rain (Steven Okazaki, United States, 2007) showing a woman holding a childhood photograph while standing in a busy indoor walkway.Film still from White Light/Black Rain (Steven Okazaki, United States, 2007) showing an illustrated scene of people fleeing collapsing buildings beneath a red-and-black sky.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 6d ago

Coming up August 5: THE KILLING 🏇 Stanley Kubrick’s taut 1956 heist thriller stars Sterling Hayden as an ex-con masterminding a racetrack holdup. See it on the big screen as part of “A Complete Stanley Kubrick,” learn more at bampfa.org/kubrick. 🎬

Promotional graphic for The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1956) featuring a man offering a drink to a seated woman holding a glass.Film still from The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1956) showing two men seated at a table with bottles and glasses during a tense conversation.Film still from The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1956) showing a masked person in a fedora and striped jacket holding a rifle indoors.
@bampfa.bsky.social · last wk.

Coming up July 30: L’AVVENTURA. 🎬 Part of “Summer with Monica Vitti,” Antonioni’s modernist landmark screens in a 4K digital restoration, with Vitti in one of the performances that helped make her a defining face of postwar cinema. Learn more and get tickets at the link in bio.

Promotional graphic for L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, France, 1960) featuring a blonde woman looking over her shoulder beside wooden shutters.Film still from L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, France, 1960) showing a woman balancing against a large seaside rock above the water.Film still from L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, France, 1960) showing a blonde woman in a polka-dot jacket standing in front of a small crowd outdoors.
@bampfa.bsky.social · last wk.

Final month to see Meriem Bennani: “Life on the CAPS” 🐊 On view through August 23, the exhibition presents the California debut of Bennani’s complete video trilogy, blending live action, animation, documentary textures, and speculative fiction. 🎥

Dark gallery with beanbag seating facing a large video projection of Earth glowing with blue and green light.Dark gallery with beanbag seating facing a large video projection showing a crocodile walking across sandy ground.Dark gallery with beanbag seating facing a large video projection of two people talking in a blue-tiled room.
@bampfa.bsky.social · last wk.

“French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light” continues through August 28 🕶️ Still ahead: poetic realism, classic crime cinema, Nouvelle Vague reinventions, doomed romances, criminal schemes, and razor-sharp style. Browse the remaining lineup at bampfa.org/frenchnoir. 🎬

Black-and-white promotional graphic for BAMPFA’s French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light series, featuring a still from Elevator to the Gallows (1958) of a man in a suit looking up as someone points a handgun toward his face.Film still from Purple Noon (1960) showing a shirtless young man standing at the helm of a sailboat, gripping the wooden wheel as he looks ahead across the open sea.Black-and-white film still from Panique (1946) showing two figures in silhouette facing one another in a dark interior, with cigarette smoke drifting between them and light from a window outlining their profiles.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Still ahead in A Complete Stanley Kubrick. 🎬 The series continues through August 30 with THE SHINING, THE KILLING, SPARTACUS, FULL METAL JACKET, BARRY LYNDON, EYES WIDE SHUT, and more. Learn more at bampfa.org/kubrick or the link in bio. 🪐

Black-and-white promotional graphic for BAMPFA’s A Complete Stanley Kubrick series, featuring a still from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) of a bespectacled man holding a telephone receiver to his ear while several suited men stand behind him in a military command center.Film still from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) showing an astronaut in a bright red spacesuit walking through a white, hexagonal spacecraft corridor, carrying a silver case and wearing an orange life-support backpack.Film still from The Shining (1980) showing a young child riding a blue tricycle down the patterned carpet of a long hotel hallway, glancing back over one shoulder as identical doors line both sides of the corridor.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Final week to see “Countermyths: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition” 🎓 Featuring work by Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Eleni Maria Berg, Itzli OCIEL, Kristiana Chan 薧礼醑, Swaleha Masude, and Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán. On view through July 26. 🖼️

Wide view of a gallery with mixed-media sculptures on a central platform and installations displayed throughout the surrounding space.Gallery with sculptural works made from ceramic and metal, including one suspended from the ceiling by a chain.Large painting depicting a young woman, a white SUV, and colorful flowers installed on a gallery wall.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us July 25: THE STORY OF YANAGAWA WATERWAYS. 🌊 Studio Ghibli’s only live-action film, Isao Takahata’s documentary explores the ecological and social history of Yanagawa, Japan, through its canals, dams, and waterways. Link in bio. 🌿

Promotional graphic for The Story of Yanagawa Waterways (Isao Takahata, Japan, 1987) featuring a narrow canal lined with trees and traditional houses.Film still from The Story of Yanagawa Waterways (Isao Takahata, Japan, 1987) showing an illustrated aerial view of farmhouses, canals, fields, and a small boat.Film still from The Story of Yanagawa Waterways (Isao Takahata, Japan, 1987) showing a tree-lined canal path with cyclists riding beside the water.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Experience THE SHINING at BAMPFA 🪓 Kubrick’s horror masterpiece screens in a 4K restoration, with an introduction, post-screening discussion, and book signing by Lee Unkrich on July 26th, coauthor and editor of TASCHEN’s "Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining." 📚

Promotional graphic for The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, United States, United Kingdom, 1980) featuring a woman screaming as an axe swings through a doorway.Film still from The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, United States, United Kingdom, 1980) showing a young boy riding a blue tricycle down a long hotel hallway.Film still from The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, United States, United Kingdom, 1980) showing a man in a bathrobe holding a young boy close while looking offscreen.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re excited to be exhibiting at SF Art Book Fair this week. 📖 Find BAMPFA at booth D09 and spin our prize wheel for a chance to win gallery and film passes, plus limited-edition RISO prints while supplies last. July 23–26 at the Minnesota Street Project. Free and open to the public. 🎡

@bampfa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Coming up July 22: TERESA THE THIEF. 🎬 Part of “Summer with Monica Vitti”, Carlo Di Palma’s directorial debut stars Vitti as a war widow and single mother whose life takes a strange turn after she is caught robbing an apartment. Learn more at bampfa.org/monicavitti. 🍿

Promotional graphic for Teresa the Thief (Carlo Di Palma, Italy, 1973) featuring a close-up of a woman with curly red hair behind iron bars.Film still from Teresa the Thief (Carlo Di Palma, Italy, 1973) showing a woman in a knit cap and beige coat standing inside a small shop.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Spend some time in Meriem Bennani’s “Life on the CAPS” 🐊 Meriem Bennani's “Life on the CAPS” brings together the complete video trilogy, blending live action, animation, and documentary language into a vivid world of diasporic life. On view through August 23. 🎥

Installation view of Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS showing a projected animation of a green animated crocodile character in a gallery with black beanbag seating.Installation view of Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS showing a projected video of two people seated on a patterned sofa in a dark gallery with beanbag seating.Installation view of Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS showing a projected animation of a glowing Earth against space in a dark gallery with beanbag seating.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

EYES WIDE SHUT at BAMPFA 👁️ Stanley Kubrick’s final film screens at BAMPFA in an imported uncensored 35mm archival print, as part of our series “A Complete Stanley Kubrick.” Details at the link in bio. 🎞️

Promotional graphic for Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, United States, United Kingdom, 1999) featuring a sleeping woman beside an ornate Venetian mask.Film still from Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, United States, United Kingdom, 1999) showing masked figures in dark robes gathered around a red-carpeted hall.Film still from Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, United States, United Kingdom, 1999) showing a nude man and woman embracing before a mirror in warm lamplight.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congratulations to BAMPFA Chief Curator, Margot Norton, recipient of a 2026 Spring Cycle Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Research Fellowship! This grant will enable international research for a major group exhibition at BAMPFA.

Magenta graphic announcing BAMPFA as a Spring 2026 Grant Recipient from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.Turquoise graphic announcing Curatorial Research Fellowships with text describing support for research and development of visual arts projects.Portrait of BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton wearing black glasses, gold hoop earrings, and a black blazer against a light background.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Join us for THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA 🌸 Takahata’s final film brings a classic Japanese folktale to life through breathtaking watercolor and charcoal animation. Screening July 18 at 3:30 PM and August 28 at 4 PM. Link in bio. 🎬

A watercolor-style illustration shows Princess Kaguya in profile with long black hair, wearing a pink floral kimono as she reaches upward with a joyful expression. Large white text at the top reads "THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA." Smaller text lists director Isao Takahata, Japan, 2013, with screening dates of July 18, 2026, at 3:30 PM and August 28, 2026, at 4 PM.A watercolor-style scene from The Tale of the Princess Kaguya shows Princess Kaguya seated in elaborate white and crimson court robes while attendants gather around her in colorful layered kimonos. One attendant kneels before her, adjusting her robes, as Kaguya gazes ahead with a solemn expression.A watercolor-style scene from The Tale of the Princess Kaguya shows a young child crawling through a lush meadow toward three small wild boars. Blue wildflowers and tall yellow blossoms fill the foreground, while soft green trees fade into the background, creating a peaceful woodland setting.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Coming up August 2 at 1:30 PM: “A Language of Stitches: The Radical Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins” with Constance Moore. 🧵 Moore will read from her new book then sign copies after the program. Included with gallery admission, children under 13 get a free adult chaperone!

Book cover for A Language of Stitches: The Radical Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins by Constance Moore. The illustrated cover features a woman in a long pink dress and patterned headscarf gently pulling back a vibrant patchwork quilt made of colorful geometric fabric pieces.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Artist spotlight: Swaleha Masude ✨ In “Countermyths: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition”, Swaleha Masude's multimedia installation "A Young Woman's Guide to Attaining Sainthood" explores how architecture, society, and place shape spiritual practice. On view through July 26. 🖼️

@bampfa.bsky.social · 4w ago

Step inside “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing”. 🌿 Take a look at BAMPFA’s major retrospective of Hassinger’s work across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. On view through November 29. 📸

Large-scale installation of thick natural-fiber ropes suspended from the ceiling in looping forms that hang toward the floor, creating an immersive sculptural environment against white gallery walls.Two suspended, translucent fabric sculptures in warm orange tones hang above white circular platforms, their organic, pod-like forms appearing to float within the open gallery space.Gallery installation featuring long strands of bright pink plastic bags tied together and suspended overhead like a sweeping canopy. Beneath them, a video monitor with headphones, archival photographs, and display cases present additional works and materials.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Summer with Monica Vitti” continues through August 13. 🎭 Still ahead: more Vitti on the big screen, from exuberant Italian comedies to iconic collaborations with Michelangelo Antonioni. Browse the remaining screenings at bampfa.org/monicavitti or the link in bio. 🎬

A black-and-white still from L'avventura shows Monica Vitti wearing a polka-dot jacket and pearl necklace, looking off into the distance as a group of people stands blurred behind her. Dates June 11–August 13, 2026. The lower text identifies the image as L'avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, France, 1964. A scene from Teresa the Thief shows Monica Vitti with short curly red hair wearing a light pink floral dress as she speaks animatedly in the middle of a crowded room.A black-and-white scene from La notte shows Monica Vitti lying stretched across a checkered floor in a sleeveless black dress. Reaching one hand toward the camera, she looks ahead with an intent expression while blurred figures and décor recede into the background.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 4w ago

Experience GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES at BAMPFA. 🎬 Part of “Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata”, this 1988 masterpiece follows two children struggling to survive in Japan during the final days of World War II. Screening July 11 at 1:30 PM and August 23 at 4:30 PM. Link in bio. 🕯️

An animated teenage boy in a light-colored military-style uniform sits beside a smiling young girl with a short bob haircut on a wooden bench at night. Large white text lists GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, director Isao Takahata, Japan, 1988, and screening dates: July 11, 2026, at 1:30 PM and August 23, 2026, at 4:30 PM.A frightened teenage boy carries his young sister wrapped in a blue patterned hooded blanket as they look toward flames consuming buildings behind them at night.A young girl with a short black bob stands holding the handle of a large, worn paper umbrella. She gazes ahead with a solemn expression beside tall green grass.
@bampfa.bsky.social · 4w ago

Coming August 14–29: “Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler: Film Offerings” 🎞️ Bay Area filmmakers Dorsky and Hiler join us in person for four programs of luminous, attentive, deeply personal filmmaking. Browse the lineup at the link in bio. 🌾

Promotional graphic for BAMPFA’s Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler Film Offerings series. A person in a white baseball cap and brown jacket sits on a wooden bench in a sunlit field of tall golden grass, facing a distant body of water and low hills. Large white text announces the series dates, August 14–29, 2026.Words of Mercury (Jerome Hiler, United States, 2011). An abstract, softly focused close-up of grasses and plants illuminated by warm golden light, with bright circular lens flares and glowing bokeh scattered across the image.August and After (Nathaniel Dorsky, United States, 2012). A close-up of a white flower beside a reflective silver teardrop-shaped ornament suspended from a delicate chain, rendered with soft focus and luminous natural light.Epilogue (Nathaniel Dorsky, United States, 2017). A dense tangle of thin, pale branches fills the frame against a dark wooded background, creating an intricate web-like pattern.
@bampfa.bsky.social · last mo.

Coming July 9–11: “Film Preservationist Ross Lipman in Person”. 🎞️ Lipman introduces films he helped preserve, including WANDA, THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK, THE EXILES, and a program featuring Bruce Conner’s CROSSROADS. Link in bio. 🎬

Promotional graphic for “Film Preservationist Ross Lipman in Person,” featuring a still from Wanda of a woman in a floral robe and hair rollers standing in a doorway. Text includes dates July 9–11, 2026, and BAMPFA branding.Black-and-white close-up of a man in a cowboy hat, his face partially shadowed as he looks downward.Harvey Milk smiles while wearing a flower lei during a public celebration, with a crowd gathered behind him.Black-and-white archival footage of a mushroom cloud rising from a nuclear test over the ocean.
@bampfa.bsky.social · last mo.

Coming July 5: THE GIRL WITH A PISTOL. Part of “Summer with Monica Vitti”, Mario Monicelli’s proto-feminist comedy stars Vitti as a Sicilian woman whose revenge quest turns into a sharp, funny journey toward self-discovery. New 4K restoration. 🍿

Promotional graphic for The Girl with a Pistol (Mario Monicelli, 1968) showing a red-haired woman in an orange jacket holding a green notebook. Text includes the film title, date and time, and BAMPFA branding.Close-up of a young woman with dark hair and dramatic eye makeup, a tear visible on her cheek.Several people dressed in black pull and struggle around a pole on a beach lined with rows of lounge chairs beside the water.
@bampfa.bsky.social · last mo.

Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing is featured in New York Times. 🌿 Jori Finkel highlights the artist's largest exhibition to date, spanning more than five decades of sculpture, performance, photography, and installation. On view at BAMPFA through Nov. 29. Link in bio. ✨

Artist Maren Hassinger stands outdoors beneath leafy trees with their arms outstretched toward the sky, wearing glasses, a textured olive-green wrap, a white shirt, and a yellow scarf. Large text from a New York Times feature reads, “Maren Hassinger Likes Her Art With a Twist.”
@bampfa.bsky.social · last mo.

Coming up: ONLY YESTERDAY 🌾 A luminous Studio Ghibli classic, ONLY YESTERDAY follows Taeko as memories of childhood surface during a journey to the countryside. See it July 2 & 5 at BAMPFA as part of "Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata". ✨

Promotional graphic for Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, Japan, 1991) showing a young woman in a striped shirt and straw hat seated on a train while a smiling girl with pigtails leans over the seat behind her. Text includes screening dates and BAMPFA branding.Two figures wearing striped shirts and wide-brimmed hats work among rows of bright yellow flowers in a field, with forested hills and sunlit clouds in the background.Animated image of a young girl in a yellow plaid dress striking a playful pose with one leg lifted, set against a radiant pastel background.
@bampfa.bsky.social · last mo.

BAMPFA is hiring! We're seeking a Project Processing Archivist to support access to the Eli Leon Papers and African American Quilt Collection, and a Director of Individual Giving to help grow support for BAMPFA's exhibitions, collections, and programs. ➡️ bampfa.org/careers

Graphic with the text “Join the BAMPFA Team!” on a black background with a blue-to-purple gradient bar along the left side. Listed positions are “Project Processing Archivist” and “Director of Individual Giving,” with “bampfa.org/careers” at the bottom.