Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection
Tue Oct 27
Utopian visions across centuries
This event is in the past.It took place on October 23, 2026 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"medicine for the West" (Henry Miller)
🌸"a film of poetic beauty" (Anaïs Nin)
🎞️Co-edited by doc legend Les Blank
A pioneering work of Hong Kong cinema, T'ang Shushuen's 1968 experimental melodrama follows a Ming dynasty widow torn between desire and duty. Shot by Satyajit Ray's cinematographer, it's a ravishing rediscovery.
Experimental cinema
Hong Kong new wave precursor
Ming dynasty setting
Female-directed landmark
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"medicine for the West" (Henry Miller)
🌸"a film of poetic beauty" (Anaïs Nin)
🎞️Co-edited by doc legend Les Blank
A pioneering work of Hong Kong cinema, T'ang Shushuen's 1968 experimental melodrama follows a Ming dynasty widow torn between desire and duty. Shot by Satyajit Ray's cinematographer, it's a ravishing rediscovery.
Experimental cinema
Hong Kong new wave precursor
Ming dynasty setting
Female-directed landmark
Matches these interests
- Experimental cinema
- Hong Kong new wave precursor
- Ming dynasty setting
- Female-directed landmark
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Downtown Berkeley
- Berkeley
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