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Born in Philadelphia, he earned a BA at Morehouse College and an MFA in Film and Television Production at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. His award-winning short films have played at festivals including American Cinematheque, BlackStar, and Camerimage, and have been supported by Bureau of Creative Works, Issa Rae Presents, NoBudge and Vimeo.

He is currently developing the narrative feature JOY AND PAIN, supported by the San Francisco Film Society (SFFILM) and the Westridge Foundation.

We talk about his transition from working on Wall Street to becoming an Independent Filmmaker, the Great Migration of black people west, and the development of his new narrative feature JOY AND PAIN.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/s.jenksii/

A CRAFTSMAN: https://vimeo.com/320896354

Short Film Review: https://shadowandact.com/shortfilmshoutout-a-craftsman-is-a- sobering-haunting-look-at-grief

Website: http://www.sanfordjenkins.com

Views & Voices is a series of brief and personal responses to works of art and film selected by BAMPFA staff who work in different departments . . . some, by UC Berkeley students as well. At a time of distance, these commentaries are designed to bring you closer both to individual people behind BAMPFA and to individual works in our collections. We hope you'll enjoy hearing these personal views. Here, UC Berkeley PhD candidate Ramón de Santiago leads us through the magnificent late fifteenth-century tapestry, Ecce Homo (Behold the Man).

Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, and Chris Strachwitz on CHULAS FRONTERAS and IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER

Les Blank and Chris Strachwitz, who made CHULAS FRONTERAS, and Blank and Maureen Gosling, who made IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER, take us behind the scenes of the making of these films, drawing out links between Tex-Mex Norteño music and the polka, and relating stories about each film's premiere. They briefly mention DEL MERO CORAZÓN, a tribute to Norteño love songs made by the three of them and Guillermo Hernandez.

archive.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN19617

Views & Voices is a series of brief and personal responses to works of art and film selected by BAMPFA staff who work in different departments . . . some, by UC Berkeley students as well. At a time of distance, these commentaries are designed to bring you closer both to individual people behind BAMPFA and to individual works in our collections. We hope you'll enjoy hearing these personal views. 

Here, Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost takes an intimate look at one of Eva Hesse's diminutive sculptural "Test Pieces", and considers their experimental role in the artist's practice.

Today we talk to writer and thinker Akande X, a Black Life Alum who in 2018 shared their multimedia presentation “That Feeling When” explores the intersection of blackness, comedy, the Internet, and politics. In an moment when white nationalism has a deep foothold in Internet culture, “TFW” provides a theoretical approach to the ethics of the Internet and the substance of memes as comedy and as political message, revealing how memes are one of the most subversive, volatile, and promising black art forms today. In our conversation we cover affect theory, their work as the editor of Maji News, a Afrofuturist community newspaper, and theorist Aria Dean's seminal article on meme culture Poor Meme, Rich Meme. 

Show Notes

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/basedzizek/

Aria Dean Article: https://reallifemag.com/poor-meme-rich-meme/ (Poor Meme, Rich Meme) 

Affect Theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/

Book Recommendation: https://lithub.com/ottessa-moshfeghs-year-of-anything-but-rest-and-relaxation/

Outro Song TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjustnyissa/video/6849116103512247558?lang=en

Photo Credit: Andrea Nieto

Views & Voices is a series of brief and personal responses to works of art and film selected by BAMPFA staff who work in different departments . . . some, by UC Berkeley students as well. At a time of distance, these commentaries are designed to bring you closer both to individual people behind BAMPFA and to individual works in our collections.

We hope you'll enjoy hearing these personal views. Here, AJ Fox, shares his very personal experience encountering the video installation Simulated Marin Tour.

AJ Fox, BAMPFA's Media Relations Manager, shares his very personal experience encountering the video installation Simulated Marin Tour, which evoked his discovery of the Northern California landscape. A lifelong film lover, Fox holds a BA in Film and Media Studies from Dartmouth College; he joined BAMPFA in large part because of its internationally renowned film and video programming.

Click here to see the video version of this podcast to see an excerpt from SIMULATED MARIN TOUR

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Views & Voices is a series of brief and personal responses to works of art and film selected by BAMPFA staff who work in different departments . . . some, by UC Berkeley students as well. At a time of distance, these commentaries are designed to bring you closer both to individual people behind BAMPFA and to individual works in our collections. 

We hope you'll enjoy hearing these personal views. Here, Claire Ittner discusses Romare Bearden’s 1973 work, "Final Study for Berkeley - The City and Its People".

Relocating Romare Bearden’s Berkeley: Capturing Berkeley’s Colorful Diversity

https://boomcalifornia.com/2016/12/26/relocating-romare-beardens-berkeley-capturing-berkeleys-colorful-diversity/

https://bampfa.org/program/about-things-loved-blackness-and-belonging

Views & Voices is a series of brief and personal responses to works of art and film selected by BAMPFA staff who work in different departments . . . some, by UC Berkeley students as well. At a time of distance, these commentaries are designed to bring you closer both to individual people behind BAMPFA and to individual works in our collections. We hope you'll enjoy hearing these personal views.

Rachael Dickson, BAMPFA Associate Director of Administration, shares her responses to the painting "Four Brushtrokes Over Figure" by Hyun-Sook Song. She focuses on the artist's exacting and evocative technique and on the contemplative power the work holds for her.

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https://bampfa.org/program/architecture-life

Views & Voices is a series of brief and personal responses to works of art and film selected by BAMPFA staff who work in different departments . . . some, by UC Berkeley students as well. At a time of distance, these commentaries are designed to bring you closer both to individual people behind BAMPFA and to individual works in our collections.

We hope you'll enjoy hearing these personal views. Listen as Jamie Danis discusses Fred Wilson's Wanderer

https://bampfa.org/views-and-voices-personal-perspectives-collection

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