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Thus, “The Founding of the World” becomes a beacon into themes of masculinity, intimacy and identity, simultaneously permitting speculation into the private with the purpose of demystifying unspoken violence.

Borden appeared at BAMPFA the weekend of March 17-19 for a reverse-chronological showing of each film in the trilogy, beginning with “Working Girls,” followed by “Born in Flames,” and concluding with her first and long “closeted” feature, “Regrouping.”

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.”