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Luddy not only played a big role in the legacy of BAMPFA, but also made an impact on the film industry as a whole. He showcased cinema year-round for UC Berkeley and the Bay Area for people to enjoy, said BAMPFA Director of Film and senior film curator Susan Oxtoby.

Mesa-Bains’ self-proclaimed feminist art is a rich archive of heritage, memory, family, ancestry and the self.

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, is located just across the street from Crescent Lawn, but just a few miles north in Richmond, the museum owns a massive and little-known vault.

In an interview with The Daily Californian at BAMPFA, McDormand talked about what "Women Talking" accomplishes, both on- and off-screen, as well as the reasons herself, producer Dede Gardner and director Sarah Polley have sought out discussions with students.

On Jan. 22, with an asphalt pomp heretofore unseen on the West Coast, Joel Coen took to the stage at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) to discuss two films, the first John Huston’s 1987 "The Dead", and the second him and his brother Ethan’s 2013 “Inside Llewyn Davis.”

“I have had some experiences where I’ve actually used my voice and screamed, and it has actually saved me,” Whitney Bradshaw said in an interview with The Daily Californian.

From pottery to unique light fixtures, Berkeley’s small businesses are coming together to celebrate Bay Area Manufacturing Week, opening their workspaces to the public.

Taking a break from classes and stepping outside the campus bubble to explore the surrounding city can be a fun and rewarding experience. Here are a few suggestions for your future weekend plans.

A reflexive, tactile quality characterizes all of Knowles’ work, carrying back to her earliest ventures as an abstract expressionist painter and experimental screen printer in the late ’50s.

“Lines of Thought: Gestural Abstraction in the BAMPFA Collection,” on display at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive through July 3, set itself up with a noble task: Expand the artistic narrative of abstract expressionism to include artists who aren’t old white men.