Radical Visions Cinema Club

Join us at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive when we see French director Robert Bresson's rarely screen film, Four Nights of a Dreamer. NOTE: It is recommended that you purchase tickets in advance.

"A Parisian night on the Pont Neuf: a woman bereft attempts suicide. Fate intervenes as a young man, new to town, stops her. An ordinary love story begins. Yet through Robert Bresson, this well-worn tale is rewoven from the Fyodor Dostoyevsky original into a cinematic meditation on both romanticism and the ultimate subjectivity of love. Intimacy begun in a dramatic moment of life and death continues as Marthe and Jacques pursue dreams, each enmeshed in his or her own romantic reality. Bresson’s lean, austere style deeply etches their interlude: they are heard almost removed from context, and only what they see is seen." — Pacific Film Archive

Pacific Film Archive Tickets, Information, and Directions: https://bampfa.org/event/four-nights-dreamer

4:00 Meet at PFA's Box Office (2155 Center Street) to purchase or pick up tickets.
The film starts at 4:30.
6:00 After the film we will meet at Elaichi cafe on 2161 Allston Way for conversation.

Join us at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive when we see Barbs, Wastelands by Portuguese director Marta Mateus, who will speak at the screening. Also on the program are two short films by celebrated Portuguese directors João César Monteiro and António Reis. NOTE: It is recommended that you purchase tickets in advance.

"Marta Mateus’s first film is a cinematic expression of the power of traditional storytelling—the 'legends, songs and stories of the Alentejo . . . known and said by heart' she heard as a child. Made with children and workers from the region, Barbs, Wastelands reflects the struggle for agrarian reform. It screens with the first film of João César Monteiro, a portrait of the poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Filmed with her children in Portugal’s sunny Algarve, it has the spontaneous quality of a home movie. António Reis’s documentary Jaime tells the story of Jaime Fernandes, who became an artist after being admitted to a mental institution. Discussing the film, Reis told Monteiro in an interview, 'I’d be happy if the film was considered just as a pure work of film archeology, since most of his work has disappeared.'" — Pacific Film Archive

Pacific Film Archive Tickets, Information, and Directions: https://bampfa.org/event/marta-mateus-poetry-portraiture-and-place

6:30 Meet at PFA's Box Office (2155 Center Street) to purchase or pick up tickets.
The film starts at 7:00.
8:30 After the film we will stay for the post-screening Q&A with director Marta Mateus, then meet at Elaichi cafe on 2161 Allston Way for conversation.

Join us at Artists' Television Access for "AVANT TO LIVE," a program of new short films that celebrate radical expression and experimental cinema.

“A polymorphous program that honors radical expression and innovative film-form, this evening of New Experimental Works promises a fresh bouquet of more than a dozen cine-initiatives! Tommy Becker personally introduces the world premiere of his single-channel Prefer Not to Say, on the disappearance of privacy amongst intrusive bureaucracies, Alex Mejia is in the house with Canceled Cyanos, on the deep history of plant-chemistry cinema, Kelly Sears bestows on us the West Coast debut of her airy The Call, Mike Plante's The Polaroid Job exposes his fascinating family history with in-store photo-ops in holiday costumes, and Jake Parker Scott blazes up from CalArts to unveil his Javanese gong-smithing piece Transformation by Fire. PLUS Nik Nerburn's exquisite doll-house miniature Bad Weather, Max Oginz' monumental Center Surface Signal, and brief bits of cinema brilliance from Bryan Boyce, James Sansing, Peter Lichter, and John Cannizzaro (in person?)... all leading to the latest mind-melt from that unstoppable SoCal sensation Damon Packard! Free pencils.” – Program notes

7:45 Purchase tickets at ATA
8:00 Film program starts
10:00 Afterwards we will visit Radio Habana Social Club (1109 Valencia at 22nd St.) for refreshments and conversation.