Born in Afghanistan, Jem Cohen is an American experimental filmmaker and photographer, especially known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats, and collaborations with musicians.
Cohen has worked extensively with musicians including Patti Smith, Fugazi, Terry Riley, R.E.M., Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Xylouris White, DJ Rupture, the Ex, Elliott Smith, Vic Chesnutt, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Matana Roberts, Jessica Moss, Jonathan Richman, T.Griffin/Catherine McRae, White Magic, and the Orpheus Orchestra with Gil Shaham, and has collaborated with writers Luc Sante and Sam Stephenson, and graphic artist Ben Katchor.
Directing
100
Male
1962-01-01
Kabul, Afghanistan
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4:44 (from her house home)
Instrument
Benjamin Smoke
Museum Hours
Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait
Little Flags
Amber City
Ballad of Philip Guston
Or Nothing (The Double)
Chain
Lost Book Found
Drink Deep
Anne Truitt, Working
Museum
This Is a History of New York
Buried in Light
Building a Broken Mousetrap
Blessed are the Dreams of Men
Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin
Black Hole Radio
Just Hold Still
The Film That Buys the Cinema
Counting
Blood Orange Sky
NYC Weights and Measures
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Le bled (Buildings in a Field)
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street
Helianthus Corner Blues
Spirit (Smells Like Teen Spirit)
20 Little Films
World Without End (No Reported Incidents)
Crossing Paths with Luce Vigo
Bury Me Not
Birth of a Nation
The Foxx and Little Vic
Peter Hutton
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
R.E.M. - This Film Is On
Night Scene New York
Sketches for Late City Final
This Climate
Light Years
On Essex Road
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
Little, Big, and Far
Glueman
Makeshift (for Mekas)
free
Nightswimming
Half The Battle
Chinatown Film Project
Robert and June (Cape Breton and NYC)
June Leaf
We Have an Anchor
Gravity Hill Newsreels-Bella ciao
MARC RIBOT FEAT. TOM WAITS – Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
Nice Evening, Transmission Down
Vox Populi
Opened Ending
Tree Song
Aerie
Real Birds
Robert and June (and All the Time in the World)