Jem Cohen Movies

"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...

A portrait of artist Anne Truitt made primarily in and around her studio at the Yaddo artists' community.

The scene: the industrial neighborhood of Gowanus, Brooklyn. The players: wind, a flooded road, passersby, and birds... The time: shortly before...

A portrait of Sparklehorse and Mark Linkous

A portrait of an unnamed city in Italy. Sidestepping the tourist attractions that make the city famous, the film/video posits an almost-imaginary...

The stock exchange, the sky, customers, and pedestrians. All are observed at a distance, with care, in the newest work by Jem Cohen.

A meditation on history, memory, and change in Central and Eastern Europe, Buried in Light is a non-narrative journey, a cinematic collage....

Hardcore punk legend Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, Minor Threat) discusses memorable experiences from the many live shows he’s played.

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...

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

A portrait of Catania, Sicily. Includes the ocean at 5 a.m., the fish market, the distributor of pornographic films, the woodworker, the elephant...

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...

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

"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...

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

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

A portrait of Peter Hutton.