Jem Cohen Filmes

The film is a domestic portrait of Patti and her son, Jackson. William Blake was invited in the form of a plaster cast of his death mask. Kurt...

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...

Cohen, who witnessed the New York occupation from day one, borrowed a digital camera and started gathering footage in subsequent weeks. Initially...

The official trailer of Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2007.

A film by Jem Cohen

An excerpt from a portrait of Cape Breton shot over 10 years. Last presented in New York as a live show in BAM’s 2013 Next Wave series,...

A sudden rainstorm, 6th Avenue at West Fourth, NYC. That's all.

"In films shot on 16mm and Super 8 over many years, now edited digitally, I reflect on my many visits to the homes of Robert and June in a...

An erotic music video and short film about skinny-dipping.

An intimate glimpse of June Leaf in her studio at the Bleecker Street home she shared with her husband Robert Frank. June, who worked fiercely...

The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).

This film is closely related to my last featurelength project, COUNTING. I take the temperature of a neighborhood. In this case, the place is my New...

An observational portrait of London’s Essex Street, and the inhabitants who work the shops and throng the pavement there (Julie Murray).

Commissioned by Renew Media to celebrate 20th Anniversary of Media Arts Fellowships

Roscoe Holcomb was one of America’s greatest banjo players, a musician whose haunting vocal intonations, Old Regular Baptist in tradition, gave...

A history of New York City from Prehistoric times through the Space Age, composed entirely from documentary street footage.

Chance observations of New York's Chinatown, commissioned by the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. “A sleepwalker’s circumnavigation of...

Unreleased silent Super 8 film, shot in the mid 1990s; an early precursor to Museum Hours.