Jem Cohen Movies
- 2008
Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin
Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin02008HD
This surreal art-movie/live-performance hybrid is comprised of New York filmmaker Jem Cohen's original 16mm and DV movie footage combined with...
- 2009
Le bled (Buildings in a Field)
Le bled (Buildings in a Field)02009HD
A collaboration between Jem Cohen with writer Luc Sante made in Tangier, Morocco, a city where neither of us had ever been. En route from the airport...
- 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
- 2017
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation02017HD
In "Birth of a Nation", Jem Cohen takes his camera to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration and to the next day’s protests.
- 2009
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)02009HD
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...
- 2016
On Essex Road
On Essex Road02016HD
An observational portrait of London’s Essex Street, and the inhabitants who work the shops and throng the pavement there (Julie Murray).
- 1989
4:44 (from her house home)
4:44 (from her house home)01989HD
A personal, poetic approach to narrative, originally shot on 8mm film and mastered to ¾” video. Created in collaboration with Gabriel...
- 1989
Light Years
Light Years01989HD
The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).
- 2010
Anne Truitt, Working
Anne Truitt, Working52010HD
A portrait of artist Anne Truitt made primarily in and around her studio at the Yaddo artists' community.
- 1994
Buried in Light
Buried in Light01994HD
A meditation on history, memory, and change in Central and Eastern Europe, Buried in Light is a non-narrative journey, a cinematic collage....
- 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...
- 2006
Building a Broken Mousetrap
Building a Broken Mousetrap02006HD
A film by Jem Cohen
- 1987
This Is a History of New York
This Is a History of New York51987HD
A history of New York City from Prehistoric times through the Space Age, composed entirely from documentary street footage.
- 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...
- 2016
Peter Hutton
Peter Hutton02016HD
A portrait of Peter Hutton.
- 1989
Just Hold Still
Just Hold Still5.31989HD
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...
- 2018
NYC Weights and Measures
NYC Weights and Measures02018HD
"Like a floating, drifting piece of ticker tape, the film makes its way across boroughs and time to explore New York City's many moods, from loud and...
- 1999
Amber City
Amber City61999HD
A portrait of an unnamed city in Italy. Sidestepping the tourist attractions that make the city famous, the film/video posits an almost-imaginary...
- 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...
- 2022
Ballad of Philip Guston
Ballad of Philip Guston02022HD