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RECENT RELEASES
Film
So Pretty
Jul 30—Oct 8, 2020
So Pretty
Jul 30—Oct 8, 2020
A group of trans and genderqueer Brooklyn artists and activists attempt to carve out a utopian space for themselves in this luminous, bracingly intimate tale of love, literature, and collective struggle.
Film
RBG
Sep 25—Oct 15, 2020
RBG
Sep 25—Oct 15, 2020
With the news of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, we revisit the revelatory 2018 documentary charting this diminutive warrior’s unique personal journey and exceptional life and career.
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Film
Mr. SOUL!
Sep 11—Oct 8, 2020
Mr. SOUL!
Sep 11—Oct 8, 2020
A documentary about the influential public television variety show SOUL!, which ran from 1968 to 1973 and was among the first to celebrate voices in Black literature, poetry, music, and politics.
Film
Our Time Machine
Sep 11—Oct 15, 2020
Our Time Machine
Sep 11—Oct 15, 2020
A new film that captures the making of Chinese artist Maleonn’s ambitious new theater project in response to learning of his father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Leadership support for the BAM Hamm Archives and BAM Film, Community, and Education programs provided by The Thompson Family Foundation
Leadership support for the Leon Levy BAM Digital Archive provided by the Leon Levy Foundation
Leadership support for BAM Hamm Archives provided by Charles J. & Irene F. Hamm
Film
No Data Plan
Aug 26—Oct 8, 2020
No Data Plan
Aug 26—Oct 8, 2020
Filipino-American filmmaker Miko Revereza sets out on a three-day Amtrak journey from Los Angeles to New York in this quiet, profound meditation on the “modern fugitivism” of the undocumented experience.
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Headcount
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Major support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation
PROGRAMS
Community Resources
Community Resources
A wide-ranging list of resources—from arts education activities to food assistance programs—to help you and your loved ones navigate these difficult times safely.
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REP GEMS
Film
Native Son
Sep 24—Oct 22, 2020
Native Son
Sep 24—Oct 22, 2020
A new, complete restoration of Richard Wright’s bombshell 1940 novel exposing the injustices of urban African-American life brought to the screen.
Film
From the East (D’Est)
Sep 24—Oct 29, 2020
From the East (D’Est)
Sep 24—Oct 29, 2020
A new restoration of Chantal Akerman’s cinematographic elegy, capturing a journey from East Germany to Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, without dialogue or commentary.
Film
Beau Travail
Sep 10—Oct 29, 2020
Beau Travail
Sep 10—Oct 29, 2020
Jealousy and obsession simmer on the sunbaked coast of Djibouti in Denis’ masterpiece, a hypnotically languorous take on Billy Budd which turns the everyday rhythms of military life into a dreamlike erotic ballet.
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BAM Membership Donations
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You make BAM possible—for everyone.
You make BAM possible—for everyone.
BAM is no single art form, artist, or audience. It is a powerful collection of people—including you.
COMPELLING CONVERSATION
LITERARY
Staceyann Chin
Part of Unbound
Staceyann Chin
Part of Unbound
In this clip, the powerhouse poet and spoken word artist performs “Tsunami Rising,” an exploration of the unique weight that Black women have held for centuries. Chin came to BAM late last year to celebrate the launch of her first full-length collection, Crossfire: Litany for Survival.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Min Jin Lee
Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary
Min Jin Lee
Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary
In 2019, the National Book Award finalist and author of Pachinko spoke with New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman about political novels, respecting the reader, and her Korean diaspora trilogy.
+ Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Kevin Young
Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary
Kevin Young
Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary
In 2018, the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and New Yorker poetry editor read from his powerful collection Brown and discussed racism, the complicated notion of representation, and the facts of our feelings.
+ Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation
Love From BAM Reading List
Love From BAM Reading List
Engage directly with the work of some of the authors featured in Love From BAM through this reading list from neighborhood friends Greenlight Bookstore.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele
Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele
In 2018, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and author asha bandele joined Color of Change president Rashad Robinson at BAM to celebrate the launch of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, their poetic recounting of the birth of the movement.
+ Part of Unbound
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
David Lan
David Lan
Former Young Vic artistic director David Lan is joined by director Stephen Daldry for a discussion to celebrate his newly released memoir.
+ Co-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Ilya Kaminsky
Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary
Ilya Kaminsky
Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary
National Book Award finalist Ilya Kaminsky read from his acclaimed poetry collection Deaf Republic, which captures both the complexity and fullness of life in a time of crisis.
+ Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill
In this interdisciplinary evening, artists, writers, and activists paid tribute to poet and activist Essex Hemphill, reflecting on his legacy from the 1980s to the present.
+ Co-presented by BAM and PEN America + Part of PEN World Voices Festival
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TALKS
Discussion: Set and Reset
Discussion: Set and Reset
Choreographer and dancer Stephen Petronio—who performed in the world premiere of Set and Reset at BAM—reflects on the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s 50th anniversary withAaron Mattocks, director of programming at the Joyce Theater.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
N. K. Jemisin and Ijeoma Oluo
N. K. Jemisin and Ijeoma Oluo
The bestselling authors discuss using material from the past, engaging the complexities of our present, and imagining a revolutionary future.
+ Co-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore
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Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
The Booker Prize-winning author speaks with playwright Eve Ensler about The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a series of intersecting narratives about isolation, solidarity, and hope across the Indian subcontinent.
+ In partnership with Greenlight Bookstore and the Onassis Cultural Center New York
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Eat, Drink & Be Literary: Valeria Luiselli
Eat, Drink & Be Literary: Valeria Luiselli
Luiselli read from her powerful essay Tell Me How It Ends, an exploration of the coldness and isolation of the legal process underlying the child migrant crisis.
+ In partnership with the National Book Foundation
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Coming Out and Of Age
Coming Out and Of Age
A transcript of authors Nicole Dennis-Benn, Casey Gerald, T Kira Madden, and Alexander Chee as they explore and complicate the construct of coming out and coming-of-age narratives.
+ Presented at the Brooklyn Book Festival
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Unbound: Morgan Parker
Unbound: Morgan Parker
Parker launched her collection There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé with a discussion of 21st-century black American womanhood, politics, loneliness, art, and pop culture, captured here in an audio recording.
+ In partnership with Greenlight Bookstore
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PAST PERFORMANCES
STREAM
Sincerely, Erik
Sincerely, Erik
A tender and evocative short film by BAM Member Naz Riahi about a New York City bookseller navigating pandemic isolation as best as he can.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Remains
Remains
Veteran choreographer John Jasperse explores the illusion of ego and the notion of a fluid boundary between the self and one’s environment—what we build through our actions and what we leave behind in our wake—in this piece from Next Wave 2016.
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Almadraba
Almadraba
Oscar Peñas blends jazz and classical composition with flourishes inspired by Cuban and South American folk music in this one hour suite, paying homage to a cherished and endangered Iberian fishing tradition.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Allen Ginsberg's America
Allen Ginsberg's America
This short video captures an impassioned musical performance of Ginsburg’s poem by Stew and Heidi Rodewald (Passing Strange) with the Von Trapped.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
We Set Out Early...: The Works of Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Company
We Set Out Early...: The Works of Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Company
This special collection from the BAM Hamm Archives includes seven performances by the acclaimed company that, more than once, has been in the crosshairs of profound, fractious social conversations: identity, race, sexual politics, rethinking history, and the very place of art in a country still striving to earn its name as a modern democracy.
VIDEO
A PLAGUE ON ALL OUR HOUSES
A PLAGUE ON ALL OUR HOUSES
Bush Moukarzel and Dead Centre, the team behind Hamnet, revisits Shakespeare’s work in light of the plague that ravaged London during his lifetime, reflecting on the impact of a pandemic on artists, audiences, and the theater at large.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Circus: Wandering City
Circus: Wandering City
Acclaimed string quartet ETHEL takes a nuanced view of the modern circus, combining original music with projections of images, films, and interviews.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Sanam Marvi
Sanam Marvi
A brilliant vocal interpreter of South Asia’s spiritual, folk, and classical poetry, Sanam Marvi transforms songs in the ebullient qawwali and other traditions into fierce clarion calls for tolerance and understanding.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Never Records
Never Records
Out of 65 live performances recorded at BAM (Jan 15—Mar 13)as part of Never Records, artist Ted Riederer selected 13 that capture the spirit of his traveling exhibitinstallation. This featured collection includes album covers, photos, and video.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
“Potent” by Dizzy SenZe
“Potent” by Dizzy SenZe
Hip-hop and spoken word artist Dizzy SenZe performs “Potent” as part of the Never Records installation at BAM earlier this year.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Refuse the Hour
Refuse the Hour
Inimitable South African artist William Kentridge delves into a phantasmagoric investigation of temporality in this multimedia chamber opera by composer Phillip Miller.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Songs of Lear
Songs of Lear
King Lear is reimagined as a dramatic nonlinear song cycle in this theatrical production from Song of the Goat Theatre. Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece has been reinterpreted at BAM in every performance genre.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Set and Reset
Set and Reset
Trisha Brown collaborated with Laurie Anderson and Robert Rauschenberg for Set and Reset—now considered a germinal work in the postmodern dance canon—which had its world premiere at BAM in 1983.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Brent Green and Sam Green
Brent Green and Sam Green
This collaborative performance brings together cinema with live musical accompaniment and narration—including an archival audio recording from Louis Armstrong’s collection that captures the solitude at the end of the party.
FROM THE BAM HAMM ARCHIVES
Man to Man
Man to Man
A woman must suppress her own identity in order to survive in this poetic play from Next Wave 2017, starring Margaret Ann Bain..
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A Closer Look: Non Solus (Not Alone)
A Closer Look: Non Solus (Not Alone)
Choreographer Bence Vági, whose mission is to revive the tradition of the great circuses of Europe, narrates a short video describing the unique relationship between dance and circus in Non Solus, an abstract work presented by his company, Recirquel Company, Budapest, at BAM in 2019.
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DIGITAL ART
VISUAL ART
On Solitude
On Solitude
A selection of works from BAM’s visual art collection, including pieces by Carrie Mae Weems, David Byrne, and Louise Lawler, ruminating on varied and circuitous responses to solitude. Photo: East ender by Sam Moyer, courtesy of the artist.
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You make BAM possible—for everyone.
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