Movies
- 2019
Makeshift (for Mekas)
Makeshift (for Mekas)62019HD
Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery...
- 2002
The Foxx and Little Vic
The Foxx and Little Vic02002HD
A short musical film
- 2016
Bury Me Not
Bury Me Not02016HD
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...
- 2008
Half The Battle
Half The Battle102008HD
"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...
- 1989
Light Years
Light Years01989HD
The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).
- 2006
Blessed Are the Dreams of Men
Blessed Are the Dreams of Men02006HD
Moving towards an unknown destination, a group of anonymous passengers float through an unidentified landscape
- 2009
Night Scene New York
Night Scene New York02009HD
Chance observations of New York's Chinatown, commissioned by the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. “A sleepwalker’s circumnavigation of...
- 2013
Helianthus Corner Blues
Helianthus Corner Blues02013HD
A sudden rainstorm, 6th Avenue at West Fourth, NYC. That's all.
- 1997
Museum
Museum01997HD
Unreleased silent Super 8 film, shot in the mid 1990s; an early precursor to Museum Hours.
- 1970
Gravity Hill Newsreels-Bella ciao
Gravity Hill Newsreels-Bella ciao01970HD
- 2011
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street02011HD
Cohen, who witnessed the New York occupation from day one, borrowed a digital camera and started gathering footage in subsequent weeks. Initially...
- 2010
Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, Kentucky
Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, Kentucky02010HD
Roscoe Holcomb was one of America’s greatest banjo players, a musician whose haunting vocal intonations, Old Regular Baptist in tradition, gave...
- 2024
June Leaf
June Leaf02024HD
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...
- 2024
Robert and June (Cape Breton and NYC)
Robert and June (Cape Breton and NYC)02024HD
"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...
- 2015
We Have an Anchor
We Have an Anchor02015HD
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,...
- 1999
Blood Orange Sky
Blood Orange Sky01999HD
A portrait of Catania, Sicily. Includes the ocean at 5 a.m., the fish market, the distributor of pornographic films, the woodworker, the elephant...