3349 - Hidden Gems in Recent Cinema (Robin Bernat)
Course Description
Instructor: Robin Bernat
Hidden Gems in Recent Cinema In this 6-week course, participants will view films produced over the past 20 years that have received critical acclaim but not much commercial exposure. Perhaps pigeon-holed by the term art house cinema, these films deserve a second and third look. Participants will view two films each week on their own, then we will come together for an online discussion of them. Films are very deliberately paired by the instructor. Occasionally, last minute changes to the list of films need to made if something becomes unavailable that had been available. We use Amazon Prime, Criterion.com, Kanopy.com and other streaming services for viewing. Sometimes films are available for free, sometimes a rental fee is required. 1. Michael Haneke: Cache’ (2005) Criterion and Amazon Abderrahmane Sissoko: Bamako (2006) Kanopy 2. Miranda July: Me, You, and Everyone We Know (2005) Criterion Mike Mills: Beginners (2011) Amazon 3. Olivier Assayas: Summer Hours (2008) Kanopy Ira Sachs: Frankie (2019) Amazon 4. Julia Loktev: The Loneliest Planet (2011) Kanopy Rubin Ostlund: Force Majeure (2014) Kanopy 5. Ira Sachs: Forty Shades of Blue (2005) Mubi Mia Hansen-Love, Goodbye First Love (2011) Kanopy 6. Michael Almereyda: Marjorie Prime (2017) Kanopy Lisa Langseth: Euphoria (2018) 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.