Course Description

Instructor: Robin Bernat

Like the first iteration of Women on Top, this Part 2 segment will focus on films about women's enlightenment, emancipation, and self-assertion. Many of the films are directed by women about women. Participants will watch the films during the week prior to a Monday afternoon Zoom class in which we all discuss the films. Aspects of filmmaking are a component: the role of the director, cinematographer, sound but primarily the discussions are about the content of the films much like a book club. The two films for each week are deliberately paired by the instructor to yield a more fruitful discussion. 1. Jennie Livingston: Paris is Burning (1991) Steve Loveridge: Matangi Maya M.I. A. (2018) Kanopy 2. Jan Troell: Everlasting Moments (2008) Youtube Cary Joji Fukunaga: Jane Eyre (2011) Amazon 3. Gillian Armstrong: My Brilliant Career (1979) Criterion Martin Provost: Violette (2013) Kanopy 4. Julie Taymor: The Glorias Sarah Polley: Women Talking (2022) Amazon 5. Isabel Coixet: The Bookshop (2017) Kanopy Anne Fontaine: Coco Before Chanel (2009) Amazon 6. Bonus: for Columbus Day, non-meeting. Chantal Ackerman: Jeanne Dielman, quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1978) Amazon

Bio: Robin Bernat is an artist and writer, and, since 2010, the owner and curator of Poem 88 gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has been exhibited locally, regionally, and nationally and has been collected by many important institutions including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kemper Museum of Art, the Library of the Art Institute of Chicago, The High Museum of Art, MOCA-GA, and The Weatherspoon Museum. Working primarily in film and video, Bernat’s work explores the fleeting and the provisional. In her professional life, Bernat has worked as an interior designer and lifestyle consultant, special events planner and fundraiser, personal chef, book designer and publisher, through the aegis of Bernat Creative - a full-service design and media production company. In addition, she has had speaking engagements on art collecting practices, professional practices for emerging artists, on books arts and publishing, and community engagement strategies, in Atlanta and the southeast. She was an ALMA participant through the Atlanta Regional Commission and is considered a thought-leader in the visual arts community. ?