Jem Cohen Movies

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

"In films shot on 16mm and Super 8 over many years, now edited digitally, I reflect on my many visits to the homes of Robert and June in a...

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...

"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...

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

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...

"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...

Jem Cohen directs a music video for the post-rock song “Aerie” by drummer Jim White (of Dirty Three) and guitarist Marisa Anderson.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

A portrait of Sparklehorse and Mark Linkous