BAM/PFA Public Programs
November — December 2009

A listing of tours and conversations with contemporary artists and filmmakers, curators’ talks, musical performances, lectures, and special events coming up at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).


Monthly Events

First Impressions: Free First Thursdays at BAM/PFA
11 a.m.—5 p.m.
Infatuation, discovery, surprise, epiphany — all start with a first impression. Get acquainted with an inspiring world of art on the first Thursday of every month, when admission to the museum galleries is free for everyone.


Events Listed by Calendar Date

November 2009

Sunday, November 1
Screening — Standard Operating Procedure, with Introduction by Laurel Fletcher
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Errol Morris (U.S., 2008). Seeking to understand the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs, Errol Morris looks outside the frame. “As a human document of what people are capable of in wartime, it’s indispensable.”—Christian Science Monitor (117 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Watching the Unwatchable: Films Confront Torture.

Screening — Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
5:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Ken Musen (U.S., 1988). A documentary on the notorious 1971 psychological experiment that transformed college students into “prisoners” and “guards.” With Vinyl, Andy Warhol’s very loose adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. (114 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Watching the Unwatchable: Films Confront Torture.

Monday, November 2
Lecture — T. J. Clark: Picasso and Truth: Lecture 1: Still Life in Front of a Window, with Introduction by Kaja Silverman
7:00 p.m., Museum Theater
These three lectures by renowned art historian, author, and professor T. J. Clark are extracted from a series of six delivered as the Mellon Lectures in Fine Art last spring at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. They treat three notable pictures by Picasso from the 1920s and 1930s: the so-called Guitar and Mandolin on a Table from 1924 (Guggenheim Museum, New York); the Three Dancers painted a year later (Tate Modern, London); and the mural of the bombing of Guernica done for the Spanish Pavilion in 1937 (Reina Sofia, Madrid).

Tuesday, November 3
Lecture — T. J. Clark: Picasso and Truth: Lecture Two: Three Dancers, with Introduction by Judith Butler
7:00 p.m., Museum Theater
These three lectures by renowned art historian, author, and professor T. J. Clark are extracted from a series of six delivered as the Mellon Lectures in Fine Art last spring at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. They treat three notable pictures by Picasso from the 1920s and 1930s: the so-called Guitar and Mandolin on a Table from 1924 (Guggenheim Museum, New York); the Three Dancers painted a year later (Tate Modern, London); and the mural of the bombing of Guernica done for the Spanish Pavilion in 1937 (Reina Sofia, Madrid).

Screening — Brief Recollections: Films by Ute Aurand, with Ute Aurand in person
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
(Germany, 2004–2009). Three personal, poetic works by this German filmmaker explore the sensuous details of daily life and pay homage to family, friends, and mentors. (60 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Alternative Visions.

Wednesday, November 4
New Pathways to Ancient Traditions: Recent Acquisitions to the Asian Art Collection Exhibition Opens
A new exhibition unveils major gifts to the BAM collection, including subtly beautiful Chinese ceramics and fascinating, intricately sculpted seals.

Lecture — T. J. Clark: Picasso and Truth: Lecture Three: Guernica, with Introduction by Anthony Cascardi
7:00 p.m., Museum Theater; reception to follow
These three lectures by renowned art historian, author, and professor T. J. Clark are extracted from a series of six delivered as the Mellon Lectures in Fine Art last spring at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. They treat three notable pictures by Picasso from the 1920s and 1930s: the so-called Guitar and Mandolin on a Table from 1924 (Guggenheim Museum, New York); the Three Dancers painted a year later (Tate Modern, London); and the mural of the bombing of Guernica done for the Spanish Pavilion in 1937 (Reina Sofia, Madrid).

Screening — Ingrid Bergman Rarities, with Illustrated lecture by Jon Wengström
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
(Sweden/Italy/U.S., 1940s–1978). Rare films from the archives of the Swedish Film Institute offer behind-the-scenes glimpses of Bergman at work and in private life. (78 mins plus lecture)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Thursday, November 5
Free First Thursday!
Gallery Admission Free All Day!

Screening — Amateurs
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Gabriel Velázquez (Spain, 2008). Two loners—a runaway teenage orphan and the lonely man she thinks is her father—come together, or try to. An involving portrait of loneliness on the margins, from the codirector of festival favorite Sud Express. (84 mins)
Part of the PFA Series New Spanish Cinema.

Screening — S-21, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
8:15 p.m., PFA Theater
Rithy Panh (Cambodia, 2002). Victims and perpetrators of state violence in Cambodia together confront the atrocities of the 1970s in Rithy Panh’s moving documentary. “Unforgettable . . . as horrific an exposure to evil as Shoah.”—Village Voice (105 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Watching the Unwatchable: Films Confront Torture.

Friday, November 6
Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.!

Screening — Last Year at Marienbad
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1961). It’s déjà vu all over the place in this elegant, labyrinthine puzzle, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Delphine Seyrig. (94 mins)

Screening — Camino
8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Javier Fesser (Spain, 2009). This controversial critique of religious fanaticism in general and the Opus Dei sect in particular follows the fate of a young girl diagnosed with cancer. Awarded Best Film, Director, and Screenplay at Spain’s Goya Awards. (143 mins)
Part of the PFA Series New Spanish Cinema.

Book Launch — MATRIX/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art
7:00 p.m., Gallery B
Created in collaboration with the award-winning design firm Project Projects, this new book chronicles the thirty-year history of the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art through a collage of archival materials and interviews. The event features MATRIX artists and curators in conversation: Matt Heckert with Lawrence Rinder, Tom Marioni with Constance M. Lewallen, and Allison Smith with Elizabeth Thomas.

Musical Performance — Terry Riley: Pipe Dreams
9:00 p.m., BAM Galleries
Sage, iconoclast, cosmic seer, and musical alchemist Terry Riley returns to the Berkeley Art Museum after some thirty-five years to start our Friday night series on a high note. Tonight, Riley will treat us to a rare solo performance at the piano, his uniquely expansive sound reverberating for hours through the vast architectural space of the museum.
A limited number of chairs will be available. Bring a pillow or blanket and make yourself comfortable on the floor of the gallery.

Saturday, November 7
Screening — Intermezzo
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Gustaf Molander (Sweden, 1936). In the Swedish romantic melodrama that landed her a Hollywood contract, Bergman plays a budding pianist swept off her feet by a renowned violinist. (93 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Screening — The Shame
8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
David Planell (Spain, 2009). A young couple find their relationship changing after they adopt an emotionally dysfunctional Peruvian boy. Winner, Best Film, Malaga Film Festival. With Planell’s prizewinning short films Ponys and Charisma. (127 mins)
Part of the PFA Series New Spanish Cinema.

Sunday, November 8
Conversation —Fred Brathwaite, Keith Hufnagel, Barry McGee, and Ari Marcopoulos in Person  
3:00 p.m., Museum Theater
The vibrant worlds of graffiti art, skateboarding, and hip-hop are vividly chronicled in the photography of Ari Marcopoulos. Three leading personalities from these different but overlapping scenes will converge at BAM for an expanded look at the photographer’s work. Following an illustrated presentation of his photographs, Marcopoulos will join New York–based hip-hop pioneer and historian and former graffiti artist Fred Brathwaite; skateboard legend Keith Hufnagel; and noted painter and graffiti artist Barry McGee in a freewheeling conversation that contextualizes the exhibition while exploring cultural intersections.
Public program for the exhibition Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach.

Screening — The Sound of the Sea
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Miguelanxo Prado (Spain/Portugal, 2007). A drowned sailor journeys through a fantastical underwater realm to find his true love in this breathtaking animated film by an award-winning Spanish graphic novelist. (75 mins)
Part of the PFA Series New Spanish Cinema.

Screening — Silent Country, and Discussion with Maja Oelschlägel
5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Andreas Dresen (Germany, 1992). Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we look back with Andreas Dresen’s droll take on that pivotal moment, centered around a provincial East German production of Waiting for Godot. (98 mins)
Part of the PFA Series After the Wall: Andreas Dresen's Silent Country.

Tuesday, November 10
Screening — Altered States: Recent Experimental Cinema, with Vanessa O’Neill in Person
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Vincent Grenier, Jim Jennings, Vanessa O’Neill, Ben Russell, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Jonathan Schwartz, Fred Worden (U.S., 2007–2009). New works evoke altered states, whether observing phenomena of the physical world or contemplating interior transformations. (60 mins)
Part of the PFA series Alternative Visions.

Wednesday, November 11
Screening — Black Eyes and Blue Skies, with Ari Marcopoulos in Person
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Ari Marcopoulos (U.S., 1990–2009). Marcopoulos captures rapturous and radical characters including artists Jeff Koons and Dave Muller, snowboarder Chris Brunkhart, and frequent collaborators the Beastie Boys. (95 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Fiercely Freestyle: Ari Marcopoulos.

Thursday, November 12
Screening — The Dybbuk, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Michał Waszyński (Poland, 1937). Jewish mysticism is fused with cinematic Expressionism in this haunting tale based on S. An-ski’s famed folkloric play. “The most ambitious Yiddish movie of its day.”—J. Hoberman (123 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.

Screening — The Man Without a World, with Introduction by Jeffrey Skoller
9:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Eleanor Antin (U.S., 1991). Performance artist and experimental filmmaker Eleanor Antin conjures a lost world of Yiddish literature, cinema, and theater and reengages the debate on popular art, politics, and modernism. (98 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.

Friday, November 13
Galleries Open until 9 p.m.!

Screening — The Count of the Old Town
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Edvin Adolphson, Sigurd Wallén (Sweden, 1935). A freewheeling comedy about a gang of ruffians on an all-day bender in Stockholm’s Old Town, featuring a baby-faced eighteen-year-old Bergman. (83 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Screening — Stavisky
8:45 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France/Italy, 1974). In a 1974 film that seems made for 2009, Resnais depicts the downfall of a grandiose swindler (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and of an even grander swindle, the all’s-well image of prewar Europe as it rotted within. (117 mins)
Part of the PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.

Conversation and Book Signing: — SHOOT: Photography of the Moment, with Ken Miller, Ari Marcopoulos, Paul Schiek
7:30 p.m., Gallery B
The photographers featured in the new book SHOOT (Rizzoli International Publications), from Nan Goldin to Dash Snow, are part of a burgeoning movement in photography that embraces the mundane image, reflecting an era in which ephemeral images increasingly define our lives. Ari Marcopoulos, whose photography is the subject of a current BAM exhibition, and Paul Schiek, featured in the museum’s recent collection-based exhibition Galaxy, will talk with SHOOT editor and author Ken Miller. They will consider questions the book poses, such as what separates a fine art photograph from the photographic overflow of the Internet and mass media. Their discussion will be followed by a book signing and further conversation with the audience.

Saturday, November 14
Screening — The Jester, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski (Poland, 1937). This musical comedy set in a Galician shtetl is “a wistful romance that’s interspersed with songs but rooted in the wisecracks and banter of oral Yiddish culture.”—J. Hoberman (88 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.

Screening — Muriel
8:45 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1963). Delphine Seyrig stars as a widow haunted by a former love, as her son is haunted by memories of the Algerian War. With Night and Fog, an extraordinary reflection on the Holocaust and historical memory. (145 mins)
Part of the PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais/Watching the Unwatchable: Films Confront Torture.

Sunday, November 15
Panel Discussion — Art and Human Rights
3:00 p.m., Museum Theater
What are the ethical and even theological implications of Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib series? Laurel Fletcher, clinical professor of law and director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at UC Berkeley, will introduce and moderate a panel of scholars from the Graduate Theological Union who will consider the artwork from this important perspective. Points of departure include changes and continuities in human rights practice, and representations of abuse across time and place.

Speakers include William O’Neill, associate professor of social ethics, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley; Rebecca Gordon, Ph.D., ethics and social theory, GTU; artist, educator, and curator Pamela Blotner; and Munir Jiwa, director, Center for Islamic Studies, GTU.
Public program for Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series.

Screening — Little Mother, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Joseph Green (Poland, 1938). The inimitable Molly Picon plays mama to her siblings, her father, and the rest of the tenement in Joseph Green’s film, which transposes Meyer Schwartz’s play from the Lower East Side to Lodz. (95 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.

Screening — East and West, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern and Judith Rosenberg on Piano
5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Sidney M. Goldin, Ivan Abramson (Austria, 1923). A thoroughly modern Molly Picon steals the show in Sidney Goldin and Ivan Abramson’s good-natured comedy of worldly American Jews encountering shtetl life. (85 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.

Monday, November 16
Screening — West and East: A Film-Translation, with Performance by the Sala-Manca Group and Live Music by Yarden Erez
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
This performance is both an homage to Goldin and Abramson’s East and West and a study in cultural and linguistic translation. (c. 60 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.

Tuesday, November 17
Screening — Everything’s for You, with Abraham Ravett in Person
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Abraham Ravett (U.S., 1989). Abraham Ravett examines the loss of his father, who had been a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. With Ravett shorts The March and Non-Aryan. (95 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film/Alternative Visions.

Wednesday, November 18
Screening — Loud and Clear, with Ari Marcopoulos in Person
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Ari Marcopoulos (U.S., 1991–2009). Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys, skaters, snowboarders, and others figure in six exhilarating works. (96 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Fiercely Freestyle: Ari Marcopoulos.

Thursday, November 19
Screening — Wristcutters: A Love Story, with Introduction by Reyna Cowan
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Goran Dukic (U.S., 2006). “A lovely-loony picture about an afterlife for suicides. It’s an off-road ‘road movie’ about people who off themselves.”—Baltimore Sun (89 mins)
Part of the PFA Series What’s a Matta U? Considering the College Experience Through Film.

Friday, November 20
Galleries Open until 9 p.m.!

Conversation and Book Signing — Learning Mind: Experience into Art, with Jacquelynn Baas, Walter Hood, Lawrence Rinder
7:30 p.m., BAM Galleries
How is art conceived, created, and experienced? How is it taught? How does the act of viewing an artwork make the viewer part of that work? Starting from such questions, the new publication Learning Mind: Experience into Art explores the contemporary art experience and its expanding presence in society through essays, interviews, and conversations with some of the most influential artists and educators of our time. Jacquelynn Baas, BAM/PFA director emerita and the book’s co-editor with Mary Jane Jacob, will introduce Learning Mind, published in November by UC Press. Three contributors will read excerpts from their essays: Baas, from “The Unknown Child: Art Mediation/Mediation Art”; UC Berkeley landscape architecture professor Walter Hood, from his conversation with Alice Waters, “Coming Back to Our Senses”; and BAM/PFA Director Lawrence Rinder, from “Towards a New Critical Pedagogy.” The audience is invited to participate in the conversation and book signing that follow.

Screening — Walpurgis Night
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Gustaf Edgren (Sweden, 1935). Bergman lusts after her married boss while her father Victor Sjöström bemoans the passionlessness of Swedish youth in this surprising hybrid of erotic satire and anti-abortion tract. (80 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Screening — A Woman’s Face
8:40 p.m., PFA Theater
Gustaf Molander (Sweden, 1938). Bergman is cast very much against type as a disfigured, bitter blackmailer in this darkly atmospheric Swedish drama. (104 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Saturday, November 21
Screening — June Night
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Per Lindberg (Sweden, 1940). In this rare, inventively photographed Swedish film, Bergman beautifully plays a sensitive young woman attempting to rebuild her life in Stockholm after her romance with a sailor comes to a violent end. (90 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Screening — Je t’aime, je t’aime
8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1968). A failed suicide becomes a guinea pig for research on the nature of time: Resnais’s obsession with memory manifests itself as science fiction. (91 mins)
Part of the PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.

Sunday, November 22
Screening — Jolly Paupers, with Introduction by Zehavit Stern
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Leon Jeannot, Zygmund Turkow (Poland, 1937). The famed Warsaw cabaret duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two schlemiels in a poor shtetl who suddenly strike oil. “The closest the screen came to a Yiddish cabaret sensibility: irreverent, mordant, and consciously theatrical.”—J. Hoberman. With short I Want to Be a Boarder. (77 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film.

Screening — Alexander Black: Cinema Pioneer, with Illustrated Lecture by Kaveh Askari and Judith Rosenberg on Piano
5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
(U.S., 1919–46). Discover the work of an unjustly neglected film forefather in this presentation, including several recently preserved films. (c. 100 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Alexander Black: Cinema Pioneer.

Tuesday, November 24
Screening — Urban Peasants, with Introduction by Jeffrey Skoller
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Ken Jacobs (U.S., 1975). Ken Jacobs constructs a picture of Brooklyn in the thirties and forties from fragments of home movies. With Ernie Gehr short Untitled (Part One) 1981. (88 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film/Alternative Visions.

Friday, November 27
Screening — Laura
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1944). Detective Dana Andrews is enthralled by a portrait of elusive Gene Tierney in Preminger’s sleek noir, a study in duplicity that asks not just whodunit, but what “it” is. Featuring Clifton Webb and Vincent Price as preening rivals. (88 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Screening — Fallen Angel
8:50 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1945). This follow-up to Laura trades the earlier film’s gloss for lower-depths grit. Andrews drifts into a small town and into big trouble when his plans to finance a romance with Linda Darnell by marrying rich Alice Faye go awry. (98 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Saturday, November 28
Screening — Stromboli
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1949). Roberto Rossellini sets the interior drama of Bergman’s character, a Lithuanian refugee married to an Italian fisherman, amid the drama of nature on a volcanic island. (107 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Screening — Mon oncle d’Amérique
8:40 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1980). It’s survival of the wittiest in Resnais’s take on behavioral theory. Starring Gérard Depardieu, with guest appearances by Jean Gabin, Jean Marais, and Danielle Darrieux. (125 mins)
Part of the PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.

Sunday, November 29
Screening — Europa ’51
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1952). Bergman plays a bourgeois wife called to an unconventional kind of sainthood in Rossellini’s moving study of postwar society and its ethical rootlessness. (110 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Screening — Daisy Kenyon
5:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1947). Joan Crawford is torn between married lawyer Dana Andrews and tormented army gunner Henry Fonda. “Directed by Preminger with his customary blend of sinuous visual eloquence and analytic intelligence…(it’s) that rarest of Hollywood entities: a realist romance.”—L.A. Times (99 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Monday, November 30
Angelo Plessas
Online Exhibition Closes


December 2009


Tuesday, December 1
Joe McKay: Big Time
Online Exhibition Opens

Screening — In Comparison
7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Harun Farocki (Germany/Austria, 2009). Farocki’s latest film considers the brick, that foundational unit of construction, as object, metaphor, and product of labor. (61 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Alternative Visions.

Wednesday, December 2
Screening — Anatomy of a Murder, with Introduction by Carol Clover
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1959). A backwoods town is the setting for sordid accusations of murder and rape in “one of the most accomplished and ambiguous courtroom dramas ever filmed in America.”—Village Voice. With Jimmy Stewart for the defense, Ben Gazzara as the accused, and Lee Remick as trouble. (161 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Thursday, December 3
Free First Thursday!
Gallery Admission Free All Day!

Screening — Made in U.S.A., with Kaja Silverman and Jonathan Everett Haynes in Conversation
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1966). In glowing color and ’Scope, Godard’s last film with Anna Karina is “beautiful, goofy, and explosive . . . Godard’s ultimate statement about his love/hatred for the aesthetics/politics of American movies/life.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum (90 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Screening and Conversation: Godard’s Made in U.S.A.

Friday, December 4
Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

Musical Performance — Ellen Fullman
7:30 p.m., BAM Galleries
In 1981, composer Ellen Fullman invented the Long Stringed Instrument, an installation of dozens of wires fifty feet or more in length, played with rosined fingers. The instrument explores natural tunings based on the overtone series and the physics of vibrating strings. Fullman will perform recent compositions for solo and ensemble on wires stretched across the gallery, turning the museum itself into a resonating instrument.

Screening — Whirlpool
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1950). “Can a man make a woman do things she doesn’t want to?” Preminger’s most overtly psychological noir finds Gene Tierney married to analyst Richard Conte but under the sway of smarmy hypnotist Jose Ferrer. (97 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Screening — Mélo
8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1986). Resnais adapts an enjoyably trashy 1920s stage melodrama and achieves “the eloquent simplicity of a masterpiece.”—S.F. Chronicle (110 mins)
Part of the PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.

Saturday, December 5
Screening — The Round-Up
6:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1966). A prison on the vast Hungarian plains, and the prisoners and guards that circle therein, are at the crux of this critique of the relations between the powerful and the powerless. “Boldly stylized, a synthesis of Antonioni, Bresson, and Welles.”—J. Hoberman (94 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Four by Hungarian Master Miklós Jancsó/Watching the Unwatchable: Films Confront Torture.

Screening — Psycho, with Introduction and Book Signing by David Thomson
8:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1960). In celebration of his new book The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder, Thomson introduces a special screening of Hitchcock’s film. (109 mins)
Part of the PFA Series Readings on Cinema: Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Sunday, December 6
Musical Performance — Songs of the Fountain: Marian Meditations from the Medieval Era performed by the Women of the UC Chamber Chorus with Director Marika Kuzma
3:00 p.m., Gallery B
The women of the acclaimed University Chamber Chorus will perform Guillaume de Machaut’s Le lai de la fonteinne, a series of short intricate rounds in praise of the Virgin Mary, and Hildegard of Bingen’s O tu illustrata, along with other a cappella chants. Machaut (1300–1377) and Hildegard (1098–1179) were two of the greatest poet-composers of the medieval era. Hear their timeless music in the magnificent acoustic splendor of the museum’s atrium.

Screening — The Underground Orchestra
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Heddy Honigmann (The Netherlands, 1997). A portrait of the buskers of the Paris Métro—a Venezuelan harpist, an Algerian singer, a violinist from Sarajevo—becomes a document of survival in exile. “A splendid example of how illuminating and entertaining a documentary can be.”—L.A. Times (108 mins)
Part of PFA Series Watching the Unwatchable: Films Confront Torture.

Screening — Voyage in Italy
5:15 p.m., PFA Theater
Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1953). Bergman and George Sanders are a quarrelling couple traveling through Italy to Naples in Rossellini’s extraordinary drama, a key link between neorealism and the subjective cinema of the early sixties. (83 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Tuesday, December 8
Screening — The Red and the White
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1967). Central Russia during the 1918 Civil War is the setting of Jancsó’s disquietingly beautiful ballet of war and death, shot in breathtaking black-and-white CinemaScope. (90 mins)
Part of PFA Series Four by Hungarian Master Miklós Jancsó.

Wednesday, December 9
Screening — Advise and Consent
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1962). This decades-old drama of Beltway intrigue reads like a contemporary playbook for political maneuvering, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton among the players. “By far the best political movie ever made in this country.”—Peter Bogdanovich (140 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Thursday, December 10
Screening — Short Films by Alain Resnais
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
(France, 1950–58). Resnais in short, from eloquent essays on art and cultural memory to a surreal “song of styrene.” (108 mins)
Part of PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.

Friday, December 11
Screening — Red Psalm
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1972). Jancsó won Best Director at Cannes for this riveting psalm-song set during an ill-fated Hungarian farmworkers’ revolt. “Perhaps the most ecstatic fusion of political and formal radicalism since Dozvhenko’s Earth.”—J. Hoberman (88 mins)
Part of PFA Series Four by Hungarian Master Miklós Jancsó.

Screening — The Moon Is Blue
8:20 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1953). Condemned by the Legion of Decency for using terms like “virgin” and “pregnant,” Preminger’s indie sex comedy is more surprising in its frothiness than for its alleged prurience. (99 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Saturday, December 12
Screening — Saint Joan
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1957). Jean Seberg was chosen from thousands of applicants to play the Maid of Orléans in Preminger’s version of George Bernard Shaw’s play, adapted for the screen by Graham Greene. (110 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie/Watching the Unwatchable: Films Confront Torture.

Screening — The Man with the Golden Arm
8:40 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1955). Frank Sinatra has a dope addiction that jazz can’t cure in this groundbreaking film, censored for its frank treatment of a tough subject. “Sinatra’s performance is pure gold.”—Pauline Kael (119 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Sunday, December 13
Screening — Exodus
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1960). With sweeping gusto, this epic adaptation of the Leon Uris novel details the events leading to the founding of the state of Israel. Paul Newman leads a stupendous cast. (212 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Tuesday, December 15
Screening — La guerre est finie
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Alain Resnais (France, 1966). Yves Montand is a Spanish revolutionary suspended between the past and the future in Resnais’s political drama. (121 mins)
Part of PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.

Wednesday, December 16
Screening — Cello Suite #3: Falling Down Stairs, with Mark Morris in Person
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Barbara Willis Sweete (Canada, 1995). This lively documentary observes the collaboration between Morris and Yo-Yo Ma as they set a Bach cello suite to dance. With Chaplin short The Rink. (79 mins)
Part of PFA Series An Evening with Mark Morris.

Screening — Cabin in the Sky, with Introduction by Mark Morris
9:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Vincente Minnelli (U.S., 1943). Morality is just another song and dance in this exuberant musical fantasy, featuring great performances from Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, and others, directed with imaginative verve by Minnelli. (99 mins)
Part of PFA Series An Evening with Mark Morris.

Thursday, December 17
Omer Fast: Nostalgia/MATRIX 230
Exhibition Closes

Screening — Autumn Sonata
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1978). A Chopin prelude triggers a long-delayed confrontation between concert pianist Bergman and her aggrieved daughter Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman’s intense and penetrating chamber piece. (93 mins)
Part of PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

Friday, December 18
Screening — Carmen Jones
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1955). Dorothy Dandridge is the titular temptress, applying her wiles to G.I. Harry Belafonte, in a sizzling black-cast update of the Bizet opera. (107 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Screening — Silence and Cry
8:40 p.m., PFA Theater
Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1967). A former Red soldier hides from a ruthless crackdown in this hypnotic black-and-white epic. “Totally unlike anything else in the cinema.”—John Russell Taylor (73 mins)
Part of PFA Series Four by Hungarian Master Miklós Jancsó.

Saturday, December 19
Screening — Bonjour Tristesse
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1958). Pampered teen Jean Seberg looks back at a summer of Technicolor heartbreak on the French Riviera in this gorgeous adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s novel. “Arguably, this is Preminger’s masterpiece.”—Chicago Reader (94 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Screening — Skidoo
8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1968). Set in San Francisco, Preminger’s acid-fueled generational jest pits the hippies against the Mob, as embodied by Jackie Gleason. With Groucho Marx as God. (98 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Sunday, December 20
Material Witness and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Earth
Exhibitions Close

Screening — Bonjour Tristesse
5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1958). Pampered teen Jean Seberg looks back at a summer of Technicolor heartbreak on the French Riviera in this gorgeous adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s novel. “Arguably, this is Preminger’s masterpiece.”—Chicago Reader (94 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Screening — Bunny Lake Is Missing
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1965). A quietly cracked Carol Lynley is the mother of a missing daughter who may or may not exist; Laurence Olivier investigates. Loaded with suspicion and suspense, this late Preminger is “an underrated masterpiece.”—Senses of Cinema (107 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Monday, December 21
BAM Galleries Closed Through January 10
PFA Theater Closed Through January 13


BAM Exhibitions


Angelo Plessas
Through November 30, 2009
The first presentation of the new BAM/PFA NetArt portal (netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu) features whimsical and meditative works that offer a nuanced critique of social spectacle.

Omer Fast / MATRIX 230
Through December 17, 2009
Omer Fast’s video works conflate factual and fictional narratives at the intersection of memory, history, and media. In his project for MATRIX, an interview with a Nigerian refugee is reimagined as science fiction.

Material Witness
Through December 20, 2009
Artists from Francisco Goya to Carrie Mae Weems bear witness to social issues and consider cultural memory in a new selection of works from the Berkeley Art Museum collection.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Earth
Through December 20, 2009
Conceptual art takes on elemental themes in this exhibition of works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, drawn from the artist’s archive at BAM/PFA.

Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach
Through February 7, 2010
Recording New York’s downtown art world or the emerging hip-hop scene, shooting snowboarders hurtling down a vertical mountain face or chronicling the vicissitudes of his own family life, photographer Ari Marcopoulos unerringly captures the zeitgeist. This midcareer retrospective surveys the intimate and compelling work of a key documentarian of contemporary culture.

Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series
Through February 7, 2010
Internationally acclaimed artist Fernando Botero offers a powerful critique of the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib in a series of paintings and drawings recently donated to the Berkeley Art Museum.

New Pathways to Ancient Traditions: Recent Acquisitions to the Asian Art Collection 
Through February 14, 2010
A new exhibition unveils major gifts to the BAM collection, including subtly beautiful Chinese ceramics and fascinating, intricately sculpted seals.

Joe McKay: Big Time
December 1, 2009–February 28, 2010
netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu
This new Internet artwork and iPhone app takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to the notion of “personal time.”

For complete descriptions of the exhibitions listed above, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition.


PFA Film Series


Watching the Unwatchable: Films Confront Torture
November 1–December 12, 2009
Filmmakers take on torture and other atrocities in this thought-provoking program, presented in conjunction with the BAM exhibition Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series.

Alternative Visions
November 3–December 1
The avant-garde in your backyard: PFA’s Tuesday evening showcase brings new works by Ute Aurand, Harun Farocki, and others to Berkeley.

A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe
November 4–December 17
A chance to discover rare works by a beloved actress, this series looks beyond Bergman’s Hollywood fame to consider her work across the Atlantic, from her early years in Sweden to her work with Roberto Rossellini and that other Bergman, Ingmar.

New Spanish Cinema
November 5–8
This sampling of recent cinema from Spain includes soulful family drama, hard-hitting social critique, and exquisite animation. Award-winning director David Planell presents his work in person.

In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais
November 6–December 15
Exploring the structures of time and memory, Resnais created a cinema of ideas that transformed the idea of cinema. This series revisits the unforgettable work of a true modernist master, including the groundbreaking Night and Fog and Last Year at Marienbad.

After the Wall: Andreas Dresen’s Silent Country
November 8
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we look back with a screening of Andreas Dresen’s droll take on that pivotal moment.

Fiercely Freestyle: Ari Marcopoulos
November 11, 18
In conjunction with the exhibition of the photographer’s work in the BAM galleries, two evenings of films featuring musicians, skaters, snowboarders, and other denizens of the subcultural sublime.

Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avant-Garde Film
November 12–24
This journey into the world of Yiddish cinema showcases spectacular film performances and celebrates the varieties of Eastern European Jewish culture with an abundance of music, humor, irony, and self-awareness.

What’s a Matta U? Considering the College Experience Through Film
November 19
Film critic and psychotherapist Reyna Cowan will be on hand to discuss Wristcutters: A Love Story, a quirky tale of personhood lost and found.

Alexander Black: Cinema Pioneer
November 22
Discover the work of an unjustly neglected film forefather—including shorts recently preserved by PFA—in an illustrated presentation by scholar Kaveh Askari.

Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie
November 27–December 20
“Otto Preminger must hold some sort of record for one of the longest stretches of provocative and intelligent mainstream filmmaking in American cinema” (Village Voice). We survey the director’s work from noir classics like Laura through the feisty indies of the fifties and sixties.

Screening and Conversation: Godard’s Made in U.S.A.
December 3
“Godard’s ultimate statement about his love/hatred for the aesthetics/politics of American movies/life” (Jonathan Rosenbaum) is the subject of a conversation between Kaja Silverman and Jonathan Everett Haynes.

Four by Hungarian Master Miklós Jancsó
December 5–18
Visual ballet meets political analysis in the films of this Hungarian artist. “An essential director whose work cannot be seen, should not be seen, anywhere other than on the big screen” (Cinematheque Ontario).

Readings on Cinema: Hitchcock’s Psycho
December 5
To mark the publication of his new book The Moment of Psycho, critic David Thomson introduces a special screening of Hitchcock’s film.

An Evening with Mark Morris
December 16
The celebrated choreographer presents films that illuminate his own work and spotlight classic performances, from Charlie Chaplin to the great black musical artists of the forties.

For complete descriptions of the film series listed above, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries.


Support

  

The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Additional support is provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, Packard Humanities Institute, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Columbia Foundation, the Christensen Fund, and other private foundations and corporations, and our individual donors and members. Major endowment support has been provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and by George Gund III.


BAM/PFA Information
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Location: 2626 Bancroft Way, between College and Telegraph Avenues, near the UC Berkeley campus.

Gallery and Museum Store Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 11 to 5; extended hours most Fridays: see Calendar. Closed Monday and Tuesday.

PFA Theater: 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch

Museum Admission:
General admission is $8; admission for seniors, disabled persons, non-UC Berkeley students, and young adults (13 - 17) is $5; admission for BAM/PFA members, UC Berkeley students, staff and faculty, and children under 12 is free. Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month.

After 5 p.m., admission is $5; admission after 5 p.m. is free with a ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit.

Reservations are required for group visits. For information, rates, and schedule, please e-mail sgvisits@berkeley.edu.

Admission to public programs is included in museum admission unless otherwise indicated.

PFA Theater Admission:
General admission is $9.50; admission for seniors, disabled persons, UC Berkeley staff and faculty, non-UC Berkeley students, and youth (17 and under) is $6.50; admission for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students is $5.50. Additional features are $4 for all patrons.

PFA ticket sales: Daily 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the museum's Bancroft lobby admissions desk, and one hour before the first showtime of the day at the PFA Theater box office.

Advance tickets: Online at bampfa.berkeley.edu, or charge-by-phone:
(510) 642-5249

24-hour recorded message (510) 642-0808; fax (510) 642-4889; TDD (510) 642-8734

Website: bampfa.berkeley.edu

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