Jem Cohen Movies
- 2001

Nice Evening, Transmission Down
Nice Evening, Transmission Down02001HD
A portrait of Sparklehorse and Mark Linkous
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- 1994

Buried in Light
Buried in Light61994HD
A meditation on history, memory, and change in Central and Eastern Europe, Buried in Light is a non-narrative journey, a cinematic collage....
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- 2022

Ballad of Philip Guston
Ballad of Philip Guston52022HD
An unorthodox essay film on the renowned but controversial painter, Philip Guston. Ballad interweaves Guston's biography, influences, and...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- 2013

Helianthus Corner Blues
Helianthus Corner Blues02013HD
A sudden rainstorm, 6th Avenue at West Fourth, NYC. That's all.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 1970

Gravity Hill Newsreels-Bella ciao
Gravity Hill Newsreels-Bella ciao01970HD
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- 2022

Or Nothing (The Double)
Or Nothing (The Double)02022HD
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- 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...
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