Movies
- 1991
Sketches for Late City Final
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Sketches for Late City Final (Jem Cohen, Peter Hutton, Jeff Preiss, Adam Grossman Cohen, co-produced by Fred Riedel, c. 1991)
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 2010
Crossing Paths with Luce Vigo
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A portrait of Luce Vigo, film critic, educator, and the daughter of pivotal French filmmaker Jean Vigo. Commissioned by the Spanish documentary...
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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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- 2022
Ballad of Philip Guston
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- 2016
Peter Hutton
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A portrait of Peter Hutton.
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- 2007
A Tale of Two Cities
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The official trailer of Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2007.
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- 2009
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
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A short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote. We take a walk in her changing...
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- 2007
Spirit (Smells Like Teen Spirit)
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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...
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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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- 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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- 2000
Benjamin Smoke
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Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin...
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- 2006
Building a Broken Mousetrap
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A film by Jem Cohen
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- 2022
Or Nothing (The Double)
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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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- 1989
Glueman
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Collaboration with Fugazi
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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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