UC Berkeley Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
UC Berkeley
- Location: Berkeley, CA
- Phone: (510) 642-1437
- Email: bampfafilmlibrary@berkeley.edu
- Website: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/contact
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s distinguished collections are characterized by artistic excellence and innovation, intellectual exploration, and social commentary. With more than 20,000 works of art and 14,000 films and videos, BAMPFA’s collection is one of the largest and most comprehensive of any American university museum.
Collections at this institution
Art Collection
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s comprehensive collection—more than 19,000 works of art and 16,000 films and videos—is characterized by artistic excellence and innovation, intellectual exploration, and social commentary. Representing a tremendous diversity of global cultures and historical periods, the collection reflects the central role of education in our mission. The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant-garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and …
Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
5,912 Items
California Revealed from University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
191 Items
Theater Guest Recordings Collection
Since the 1970s, the Pacific Film Archive has hosted numerous guest speakers in conjunction with its film and video exhibition program. The speakers include filmmakers from around the world, as well as others involved in filmmaking, film study and criticism, and film preservation. The guest recordings collection documents these speakers' appearances and consists of question and answer sessions, lectures, symposia, and other interactions between PFA guests and audiences.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
343 Items
Top Value Television papers
Correspondence, scripts, budgets, production notes, videotape logs, publications, clippings, artwork, publicity ephemera, scrapbooks. TVTV produced independent television shows that challenged established broadcast media models from1972-1979 in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. The collection consists of materials generated in the production of the group's shows, papers related to the operation of TVTV Inc., original artwork and publicity materials created by and for TVTV, as well as a self-published booklet and articles written by and about TVTV and its members. Finally, the collection includes similar materials created by TVTV members for productions outside of TVTV. Productions are referenced with all capitalized …
Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
116 Items
