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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.

Just as Kenneth Tam explores adolescent spaces, his art could be considered in a similar pubertic realm. The artist is at a liminal threshold — finding his voice and fine-tuning his craft by way of a playful curiosity through varying mediums.

From Oct. 19 to Oct. 28, five musicals including “The Love Eterne” and “Third Sister Liu” will be screened.

The exhibit, “Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again,” at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, grapples with the issue of identity and the mixed race experience through the historical depiction of Alexandre Dumas and his family.

When I can’t order my ideas, when they’re bumbling around like the balls in a wire bingo tumbler, I pull on my shoes and go for a run.

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.”

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.