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‘Day of Rage,’ film coproduced by Berkeley alumna, on Oscar shortlist
The 40-minute short documentary on the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot is the first Oscar-honored film from the New York Times' newsroom, where Willis, a 2019 grad, is on the visual investigations...
View ArticleProfessor and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha honored with Persistence of Vision...
Minh-ha, a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley, will receive the award and screen her latest film What About China? at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on...
View ArticleFilmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha on the beauty of receiving the world
"Working on the politics of the everyday means that everything happening in front of me, with and within me is interesting," said the longtime Berkeley professor The post Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha on...
View ArticleLearning about Latinx culture, experiences through film
"I’m trying to expose students to not only films, but to the context in which these films were made," says lecturer Raymond Telles The post Learning about Latinx culture, experiences through film...
View ArticleCampuswide residency with South African artist William Kentridge announced
The world-renowned, multidisciplinary artist's yearlong residency is produced and presented by Cal Performances, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Townsend Center for the Humanities...
View ArticleVisit to the vault: UC Berkeley’s film collection is vast and rare
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive's film vault contains one of the Bay Area's largest and most extensive film collections The post Visit to the vault: UC Berkeley’s film collection is...
View ArticleFormer Pacific Film Archive director Tom Luddy dies at 79
"Tom's vision to connect our audiences with the greatest filmmakers of our time is one that we enthusiastically continue," said BAMPFA’s executive director Julie Rodrigues Widholm The post Former...
View ArticleFunky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution
Incoming UC Berkeley students watched Crip Camp, a documentary about a summer camp in New York's Catskill Mountains, as part of the program On the Same Page. The post Funky and free-spirited: How a...
View ArticleNew season of longtime avant-garde film series opens at BAMPFA
Alternative Visions, started two decades ago by film curator Kathy Geritz and professor Jeffrey Skoller, will screen at BAMPFA on Wednesdays from Sept. 6 through Nov. 15 The post New season of longtime...
View ArticleOff-script at Berkeley: How one graduate made a home on campus apart from her...
Bianca D’Ambrosio, who’s graduating with a double major in film and English, has been an actor in L.A. with her identical twin sister since she was 3. The post Off-script at Berkeley: How one graduate...
View ArticleFilm changed the way people saw sexuality. Now, social media does.
Film’s strong influence on society’s ideas about gender in the 20th century shifted attitudes about who could express their sexuality in public, and how. Today, similar shifts are happening with the...
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