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Coming up June 28: Swap Circle at BAMPFA: Clothing Swap 👚

Bring clothing or accessories to exchange, meet fellow swappers, and rethink consumption. Participation is free, RSVP is required, and registered participants get 50% off gallery admission that day. ✨

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Coming up June 10: THE RULES OF THE GAME with film historian David Thomson. 🎬

Jean Renoir’s 1939 classic screens as part of “French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light”, followed by a discussion with Thomson. Tickets and details at the link in bio. ✨

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Tomorrow, Saturday, June 6, BAMPFA will open late at 1 PM. 🕐

The galleries, store, and Fisher Family Art Lab will be open from 1 to 7 PM. Please plan your weekend visit accordingly. Link in bio. ✨

[Nathaniel Dorsky @ndorsky]

Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler will have a total of four film shows this coming August at the The Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, California @bampfa https://t.co/cCotWaWMl3 #analogfilm #dorskyfilmscreening

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Opening weekend is here for "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing"!

Preview Day for BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff is June 5. The exhibition opens June 6 at 1 PM, followed by Free Community Day all day on June 7 with free gallery admission! 🌿

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Summer films start this week at BAMPFA. 🎬

French Noir opens June 4 with BOB LE FLAMBEUR, followed by ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS and BREATHLESS this weekend. Also coming up: Sergei Loznitsa’s TWO PROSECUTORS on June 5. Link in bio. 🕶️

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BAMPFA is hiring!

✨ Curatorial Fellow, Chinese Cinema

Join our team and help shape film programming and connect audiences with art, film, and cultural history.

➡️ https://t.co/yF8pvY26iF

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This Thursday is Free First Thursday at BAMPFA. ✨

Gallery admission is free all day on June 4, and the Fisher Family Art Lab is open from 11 AM to 7 PM for drop-in art making. Plan your visit at the link in bio. 🎨

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Summer at BAMPFA is here. ✨

Coming up: “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing”, French Noir, “Summer with Monica Vitti”, “A Complete Stanley Kubrick”, Frameline50 at BAMPFA, and more art, film, and public programs all season long. Link in bio. 🎬

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Coming soon: “Summer with Monica Vitti”. 🎬

Opening June 11, the series brings Vitti’s iconic performances and exuberant Italian comedies to the big screen, with recent restorations from @Cinecitta and support from the Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco. Link in bio. ✨

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Opening next weekend: “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing.”

The exhibition opens June 6, with a Free Community Day on June 7, art-making, and a curator’s tour. Link in bio. 🌿

📸 Maren Hassinger, Tree Duet, 1977. Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. Photo: Adam Avila

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June 5 at 7 PM: TWO PROSECUTORS. 🎬

Sergei Loznitsa’s latest is a chilling, Kafka-esque thriller about power, fascism, and the Soviet purges of 1937. The June 5 screening will be introduced by UC Berkeley’s Polina Barskova. Link in bio. 🎟️

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Coming to BAMPFA’s Art Wall this summer: Marcel Pardo Ariza: “Las Frutas del Labor”. ✨

The site-specific installation pays homage to art handlers and the essential labor behind museum exhibitions and collection care. Learn more at the link in bio. 🖼️

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Now on view: Teaching Gallery / “The Politics of the Poster”. 📣

Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee with museum curators, the exhibition explores the poster as a site of artistic expression and a tool for collective action. On view through August 23. Link in bio. ✨

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Coming up June 6: Maren Hassinger Tributes and Wrenching News Workshop. ✨

Celebrate the opening of “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” with tributes from major artists and scholars, followed by a workshop led by Hassinger herself. Tickets required. Link in bio. 🗞️

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Just announced: Frameline50 at BAMPFA. 🎬

From June 19–26, BAMPFA hosts the Bay Area’s venerable LGBTQ+ film festival with GUGU’S WORLD, ACTING LIKE WOMEN, VIRGINA, and MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD, plus in-person guests and introductions. Link in bio. 🌈

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Coming soon: "French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light". 🕶️

Opening June 4, this series traces French noir from poetic realism and classic crime films to the Nouvelle Vague, with Melville, Godard, Truffaut, and more. Tickets at https://t.co/8F3JJmTPcF or link in bio. 🎬

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We are delighted to receive a $250,00 grant from @gettyfoundation through the Black Visual Art Archives initiative. Grants increase access to archival collections across the U.S. that hold important historical records related to works created by Black artists.

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On May 22: Black Life: Bloom as Miracle. ✨

Two performance artists—unknown to each other and to the audience until the day of the show—meet in an improvisational performance shaped by movement, healing, and collective blossoming. Included with admission. Link in bio. 🌱

[48 Hills @48hills]

Few movies have been discussed so much and seen so little as 'Hitler, A Film From Germany', the seven-hour 1977 magnum opus. The curious might not want to put off attending its one-off Sat/16 projection at @BAMPFA #ScreenGrabs

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