Jem Cohen

Karl, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer, is at a crossroads in life and work. After a conference in Greece, he decides not to return home and ...

An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting ...

A security guard working at an art museum in Vienna crosses paths with a Canadian woman in town to visit her ailing cousin.

A portrait of Luce Vigo, film critic, educator, and the daughter of pivotal French filmmaker Jean Vigo. Commissioned by the Spanish documentary ...

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 ...

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 ...

An homage to Walter Benjamin and other time-traveling artists and expatriates that have inspired me, especially Chris Marker. Benjamin, fleeing ...

This surreal art-movie/live-performance hybrid is comprised of New York filmmaker Jem Cohen’s original 16mm and DV movie footage combined ...

In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and ...

Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Described as “a cross between a video and a documentary, but actually being neither of the two”, singer/songwriter Elliott Smith ...

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 ...

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

Black Hole Radio is an installation that consists of taped confessions of callers of the New York City Phone Confession Line and video images. ...

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 ...

In his New York City landscape, Cohen finds inspiration in disturbance. Looking to life for rhythm and to architecture for state of mind, he ...

A personal, poetic approach to narrative, originally shot on 8mm film and mastered to ¾” video. Created in collaboration with Gabriel Cohen

The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).

A history of New York City from Prehistoric times through the Space Age, composed entirely from documentary street footage.