Jem Cohen Movies

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...

Commissioned by Renew Media to celebrate 20th Anniversary of Media Arts Fellowships

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

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

A portrait of Peter Hutton.

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 Catania, Sicily. Includes the ocean at 5 a.m., the fish market, the distributor of pornographic films, the woodworker, the elephant...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Hardcore punk legend Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, Minor Threat) discusses memorable experiences from the many live shows he’s played.

A portrait of Sparklehorse and Mark Linkous

An excerpt from a portrait of Cape Breton shot over 10 years. Last presented in New York as a live show in BAM’s 2013 Next Wave series,...

An erotic music video and short film about skinny-dipping.

Roscoe Holcomb was one of America’s greatest banjo players, a musician whose haunting vocal intonations, Old Regular Baptist in tradition, gave...