Cinematography: Jem Cohen

Direction Jem Cohen · Peter Sillen

Plot In life, the late Atlanta musician known as Benjamin (née Robert Dickerson) was a jumble of identities--singer, Patti Smith fan, drag queen, drug addict, and wry raconteur. The story of...

Direction Jem Cohen

Cast Miho Nikaido · Mira Billotte · Tarik O'Regan · Rick Aquino

Plot As regional character disappears and corporate culture homogenizes our surroundings, it's increasingly hard to tell where you are. Actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into...

Direction Jem Cohen

Cast Mary Margaret O'Hara · Bobby Sommer · Ela Piplits · Marcus O'Hara

Plot When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways artworks...

Direction Jem Cohen

Plot Fifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from Russia to New York City to Istanbul. Together, these build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and...

Direction Brent Green

Cast Donna Kozloskie · Michael McGinley

Plot Leonard and Mary meet in a car crash. They fall instantly in love, and live happily ever after…until Mary gets sick. Desperate to save her, Leonard decides that if he...

Direction Jem Cohen

Plot For filmmaker Jem Cohen, virtuoso with 8mm and 16mm celluloid, the commission from Rotterdam provided his first opportunity to get to know about working with digital video. He focused his...

Direction Jem Cohen

Direction Jem Cohen

Cast Vic Chesnutt · Thierry Amar · Eric Craven · T. Griffin

Plot 'Empires of Tin' is a meditation on the decline of empires, juxtaposing the twilight stages of the Habsburg empire with scenes of modern America, using archival imagery, live readings from...

Direction Jem Cohen

Cast Jonas Mekas

Plot A tribute to the life and spirit of Jonas Mekas.

Direction Jem Cohen

Plot 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 simple mysteries. Just Hold Still...

Direction Jem Cohen

Direction Jem Cohen

Plot Jem Cohen, who for more than twenty years has been building a steadily growing archive of various city views, street scenes and portraits, has connected images from his hometown of...

Direction Jem Cohen

Plot A lively, hectic, city pure movement and evolution.

Direction Jem Cohen

Plot Explores New York City's many moods

Direction Jem Cohen

Plot "In the late 1980s I saw ads in New York for a telephone 'Confession Line'. To call in and 'confess' was free; listening in incurred a by-the-minute charge. The soundtrack...