Jem Cohen Movies
- 1986
At Close Range
At Close Range6.91986HD
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a...
- 1987
Matewan
Matewan7.31987HD
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...
- 2012
Museum Hours
Museum Hours6.92012HD
A security guard working at an art museum in Vienna crosses paths with a Canadian woman in town to visit her ailing cousin.
- 2004
Chain
Chain6.42004HD
In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and circumscribes...
- 1999
Instrument
Instrument6.81999HD
The band Fugazi is documented over a period of more than ten years (1987-1998) through performance footage and interviews with the band and their...
- 2015
Counting
Counting7.72015HD
An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in...
- 2007
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities02007HD
The official trailer of Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2007.
- 2016
World Without End (No Reported Incidents)
World Without End (No Reported Incidents)52016HD
A portrait of Southend-on-Sea, a town along England's Thames estuary, that includes everyday streets, people, birds, water, mud and sky.
- 2009
Chinatown Film Project
Chinatown Film Project02009HD
Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a...
- 2024
Little, Big, and Far
Little, Big, and Far02024HD
Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using...
- 1997
Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait
Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait71997HD
Described as "a cross between a video and a documentary, but actually being neither of the two," singer/songwriter Elliott Smith plays three acoustic...
- 2014
The Film That Buys the Cinema
The Film That Buys the Cinema02014HD
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
- 2018
This Climate
This Climate02018HD
The stock exchange, the sky, customers, and pedestrians. All are observed at a distance, with care, in the newest work by Jem Cohen.
- 2000
Benjamin Smoke
Benjamin Smoke4.22000HD
Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin...
- 2002
The Foxx and Little Vic
The Foxx and Little Vic02002HD
A short musical film
- 1996
Lost Book Found
Lost Book Found61996HD
The result of over five years of Super-8 and 16mm filming on New York City streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary and narrative into a complex...
- 1991
Drink Deep
Drink Deep6.31991HD
Drink Deep is a lyrical vision of friendship, hidden secrets, and desires. Cohen uses several types of film image to add texture to the layered...
- 2007
Spirit (Smells Like Teen Spirit)
Spirit (Smells Like Teen Spirit)02007HD
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...
- 1989
Glueman
Glueman21989HD
Collaboration with Fugazi
- 1992
Black Hole Radio
Black Hole Radio01992HD
Black Hole Radio is an installation that consists of taped confessions of callers of the New York City Phone Confession Line and video images. The...