Jem Cohen Movies

Moving towards an unknown destination, a group of anonymous passengers float through an unidentified landscape

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

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

Cohen, who witnessed the New York occupation from day one, borrowed a digital camera and started gathering footage in subsequent weeks. Initially...

A portrait of Peter Hutton.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

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

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...