Todd Haynes
Beginning with four films chosen and presented by the director himself, this extensive retrospective at BAMPFA includes all of Todd Haynes’s feature films and a selection of early works.
Visionary computer scientist and author Jaron Lanier is known for his critical perspective on the digital world. He discusses the impact of A.I. on writing and the intellectual skills that inform it.
Exploring the ways in which visual conceptions of vowels have inflected the arts and sciences of modernity, Liesl Yamaguchi asks how discourses of the 19th and 20th centuries crafted the enigma we now readily recognize as “synesthesia.”
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals talks with Malaika Parker, executive director of the Black Organizing Project.
Winner of the American Book Award and other major prizes, Fae Myenne Ng's memoir tells the story of the author's family in San Francisco’s Chinatown and her father’s struggles to secure citizenship.
In The Entanglement, Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.