From the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, this is Off the Shelves. Highlighting some of the rare treasures of BAMPFA’s Film Library & Study Center. 

Through the project “Saving Film Exhibition History: Digitizing Recordings of Guest Speakers at the Pacific Film Archive, 1976 to 1986”, BAMPFA is digitizing a decade’s worth of guest-speaker recordings, filmmaker presentations, panel discussions, and Q&A’s from the early years of the Pacific Film Archive, making them available online for the first time.

This episode features David Lynch introducing Eraserhead in March of 1978.

This project is supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. 

The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Lynne Kimura looks at a 13th century Chinese painting of the Bodhisattva Manjusri.

https://bampfa.org

https://bampfa.org/program/buddhist-art-roof-world

https://bampfa.org/program/deities-demons-and-teachers-tibet-nepal-and-india

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A View of Ad Reinhard's Abstract Painting 

Sherry Goodman, BAMPFA Director of Education

Sherry provides a personal view of the museum's monumental all-black painting by Ad Reinhardt (1913-67), including her experience looking at it together with UC Berkeley students and its relevance for the current time.

Ad Reinhardt

Abstract Painting, 1960-1965

60 x 60 1/4 in.

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of Ad Reinhardt

From the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive this is Black Life, a podcast that explores the vitality of contemporary Black art and culture in the Bay Area and beyond. As you stay in place, we reached out to creatives to ask about the pressing themes that shape their work. I’m your host, Ryanaustin Dennis.

Today we will be talking with Oakland-based musician, night-life organizer, producer, and DJ MahaWam, whose experimental sound is a percussive mix of hip-hop and modern electronic music. 

For more about MahaWam: 

HOPING NO ONE NOTICE (Official Video):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI

Website: https://mahawam.com

Music: https://mahawam.bandcamp.com/album/is-an-island

Instagram: mahawam.exe

Cover Art: Dancing, West Oakland, CA

Photo by Joanne Leonard, 1967