Jem Cohen Movies
- 1997
Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait
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Described as "a cross between a video and a documentary, but actually being neither of the two," singer/songwriter Elliott Smith plays three acoustic...
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- 2014
The Film That Buys the Cinema
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A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
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- 1989
Just Hold Still
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In his New York City landscape, Cohen finds inspiration in disturbance. Looking to life for rhythm and to architecture for state of mind, he locates...
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- 1995
Nightswimming
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An erotic music video and short film about skinny-dipping.
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- 2016
Peter Hutton
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A portrait of Peter Hutton.
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- 2009
Night Scene New York
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Chance observations of New York's Chinatown, commissioned by the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. “A sleepwalker’s circumnavigation of...
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- 2008
Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin
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This surreal art-movie/live-performance hybrid is comprised of New York filmmaker Jem Cohen's original 16mm and DV movie footage combined with...
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- 2010
Anne Truitt, Working
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A portrait of artist Anne Truitt made primarily in and around her studio at the Yaddo artists' community.
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- 1989
Glueman
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Collaboration with Fugazi
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- 1997
Museum
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Unreleased silent Super 8 film, shot in the mid 1990s; an early precursor to Museum Hours.
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- 2016
On Essex Road
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An observational portrait of London’s Essex Street, and the inhabitants who work the shops and throng the pavement there (Julie Murray).
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- 2017
Birth of a Nation
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In "Birth of a Nation", Jem Cohen takes his camera to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration and to the next day’s protests.
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- 1989
Light Years
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The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).
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- 1987
This Is a History of New York
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A history of New York City from Prehistoric times through the Space Age, composed entirely from documentary street footage.
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- 2002
The Foxx and Little Vic
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A short musical film
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- 1989
4:44 (from her house home)
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A personal, poetic approach to narrative, originally shot on 8mm film and mastered to ¾” video. Created in collaboration with Gabriel...
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- 1999
Amber City
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A portrait of an unnamed city in Italy. Sidestepping the tourist attractions that make the city famous, the film/video posits an almost-imaginary...
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- 1994
Buried in Light
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A meditation on history, memory, and change in Central and Eastern Europe, Buried in Light is a non-narrative journey, a cinematic collage....
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- 2008
Half The Battle
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"I shot this film with a 16mm wind-up Bolex, and the 25th Anniversary tour of Dutch band The Ex, when they embarked on a 'convey tour' with about 25...
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- 2000
Little Flags
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Cohen shot Little Flags in black and white on the streets of lower Manhattan during an early-’90s military ticker-tape parade and edited the...
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