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Arts & culture

Film changed the way people saw sexuality. Now, social media does.

Film’s strong influence on society’s ideas about gender in the 20th century shifted attitudes about who could express their sexuality in public, and how. Today, similar shifts are happening with the dominant cultural medium of our age: social media.

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Off-script at Berkeley: How one graduate made a home on campus apart from her twin

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Arts & culture

New season of longtime avant-garde film series opens at BAMPFA

a black-and-white photo of people at Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people in the 1970s. A young man carries another young man while they laugh and as the shirtless director of the program looks on and campers in wheelchairs chat in the background.

Arts & culture

Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution

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Former Pacific Film Archive director Tom Luddy dies at 79

Jon Shibata stands at BAMPFA's Richmond Field Station film vault with rows of colorful film cans on either side of him. He is looking straight at the camera.

Visit to the vault: UC Berkeley’s film collection is vast and rare

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Campuswide residency with South African artist William Kentridge announced

a girl stands on rocks in front of a volcano

Learning about Latinx culture, experiences through film

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Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha on the beauty of receiving the world

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Professor and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha honored with Persistence of Vision Award

One of the militants who broke into the US Capitol gestures toward police officer

‘Day of Rage,’ film coproduced by Berkeley alumna, on Oscar shortlist

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Berkeley Talks: Filmmaker Steve McQueen to Berkeley students: ‘Take a chance’

Jennifer Redfearn smiles at the camera

Meet our new faculty: Jennifer Redfearn, journalism

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Berkeley Talks: Late filmmaker Marlon Riggs on making ‘Tongues Untied’

Portrait of Julie Rodrigues Widholm

I’m a Berkeleyan: BAMPFA director Julie Rodrigues Widholm: ‘Art is life’

Jennifer Doudna in her lab

Tonight on PBS Nova: The story of CRISPR