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This process, of finding the story within the setting and the “100,000 choices” that have gone into any one of his nearly 50 projects, became the focus of Wiseman’s Thursday evening lecture at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA.
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I sat in the Pacific Film Archive Theater, waiting to experience the Frederick Wiseman documentary “At Berkeley.” Though some have decried Wiseman’s examination as uneven and others have commented on the film’s excessive length, nothing could deter me from watching “At Berkeley” at Berkeley. The film began. The audience witnessed Wiseman’s
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For a little more than four hours, director Frederick Wiseman’s camera floats through UC Berkeley’s campus, taking viewers into the magical and mundane corners of the university during the fall of 2010. Students lounge on a knoll covered in autumn leaves. Researchers work diligently on a pair of robotic legs
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